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Official Top 250 Documentary Films

A companion piece to Dave Vis' list of here. It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron . (See all films that have entered.)

ELIGIBILITY RULES:
• Documentaries must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release in its entirety.
• TV series, miniseries, and episodes are excluded but docs listed as 'TV movie' on IMDb are eligible. Exceptions made for series and episodes that also had a limited theatrical release.
• No behind-the-scenes featurettes unless theatrically distributed, even if feature-length (featurettes are marked…

There are 15 dramatic films in this list.

  • Koyaanisqatsi

    21

  • Blue

    94

  • The Metamorphosis of Birds

    71

  • From Ground Zero

    63

  • Yintah

    64

  • Nathan for You: Finding s

    5

  • 5 Broken Cameras

    48

  • Apollo 11

    136

  • Waltz with Bashir

    234

  • Ashes and Snow

    242

  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

    68

  • Dressed in Blue

    92

  • Life of Crime: 1984-2020

    36

  • How to Save a Dead Friend

    214

  • Not a Pretty Picture

    236