Top Documentary Movies


The Top Documentary Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Documentary List". Lists are calculated daily.

101. Gates of Heaven

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Lucille Billingsley, Zella Graham, Cal Harberts, Dan Harberts, Mike Koewler, Floyd McClure
Plot: A documentary about pet cemeteries (successful and not) and the people who both run the business and those who have their pets buried within.

102. Tupac: Resurrection

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lauren Lazin
Actors: Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, Omar Epps, Ice-T, Gene Simmons, Rappin' 4-Tay
Plot: The true story of the life and death of Tupac Shakur, from growing him until his murder.

103. Capturing the Friedmans

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrew Jarecki
Actors: Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman, Jesse Friedman, John McDermott

104. Miss Representation

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Actors: Margaret Cho, Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Condoleezza Rice, Rosario Dawson, Katie Couric
Plot: Jennifer Siebel Newsom's documentary explores how women of power and influence are often overlooked, ignored or debased by mainstream media and what this accepted practice means for the average woman in American society.

105. The Look of Silence

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Other
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer

106. Religulous

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Larry Charles
Actors: Bill Maher, Aki Nawaz, John Westcott, Reginald Foster, George Coyne, Mark Pryor
Plot: A look at the strange, humorous yet completely serious world of religion as only Bill Maher can show.

107. Who is Henry Jaglom?

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Alex Rubin, Jeremy Workman
Actors: Candice Bergen, Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper, Ron Silver, John Landis
Plot: A documentary on legendary indie filmmaker Henry Jaglom. Interviews with some of the actors he's worked with including Candice Bergen, Andrea Marcovicci, Victoria Foyt, Karen Black, Peter Bogdanovich, Michael Emil, Sally Kellerman, Zack Norman, Dennis Hopper and Orson Welles.

108. Deliver Us from Evil

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Amy Berg
Actors: Jeff Anderson, Case Degroot, Jane Degroot, Thomas Doyle, Oliver O'Grady, Bill Hodgman
Plot: A documentary about the history and causes of the Catholic sex abuse scandal.

109. It's All True

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Bill Krohn, Myron Meisel, Orson Welles, Richard Wilson, Norman Foster
Actors: Miguel Ferrer, Manuel 'Jacare' Olimpio Meira, Jeronimo André De Souza, Raimundo 'Tata' Correia Lima, Manuel 'Preto' Pereira Da Silva, Jose Sobrinho

110. The Wolfpack

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Crystal Moselle
Actors: Bhagavan Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Krsna Angulo, Mukunda Angulo, Narayana Angulo
Plot: In Lower East Side Manhattan, the Angulo are kept locked away from society, learning everything they know about the world around them through the films they watch. This "Wolfpack" spend their childhood reenacting their favorite scenes using elaborate props and set-ups. But their world is changed when one of the brothers escapes.

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