Top Documentary Movies


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

411. Active Measures

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jack Bryan
Actors: John McCain, Hillary Cinton, Michael McFaul, John Podesta
Plot: A documentary that connects Russian President Vladamir Putin with the 2016 US election and the Trump Campaign.

412. Jasper Mall

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bradford Thomason, Brett Whitcomb
Actors: Mike McClelland
Plot: A documentary of a dying mall in Jasper Alabama.

413. Becoming

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nadia Hallgren
Actors: Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Phoebe Robinson

414. The Dissident

Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Arabic
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Bryan Fogel
Actors: Jamal Khashoggi, Hatice Cengiz, Mohammad Bin Salman, Donald Trump, Agnès Callamard, Omar Abdulaziz

415. The Rescue

Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Actors: Jim Warny, John Volanthen, Thanet Natisri, Mikko Paasi, Derek Anderson, Josh Morris

416. The Menendez Brothers

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alejandro Hartmann
Actors: Erik Menendez, Lyle Menendez, Jose Menendez, Kitty Menendez, Robert Rand, Pamela Bozanich
Plot: Documentary following the murder trials of the Menendez Brothers.

417. Music by John Williams

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Laurent Bouzereau
Actors: John Williams, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ron Howard, Chris Columbus, Itzhak Perlman

418. Paragraph 175

Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Actors: Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel, Heinz F., Annette Eick
Plot: Paragraph 175 tells of a gap in the historical record and reveals the lasting consequences, as told through personal stories of gay men and women who lived through it, including: Karl Gorath; Gad Beck, the half-Jewish resistance fighter who spent the war helping refugees escape Berlin; Annette Eick, the Jewish lesbian who escaped to England with the help of a woman she loved; Albrecht Becker, German Christian photographer, who was arrested and imprisoned for homosexuality, then joined the army on his release because he "wanted to be with men"; and Pierre Seel, the French Alsatian teenager, who watched as his lover was eaten alive by dogs in the camps.

419. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, Caroline Leuchter, James Roth, Shelly Shapiro

420. Chasing Ice

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jeff Orlowski
Actors: James Balog, Svavar Jonatansson, Adam LeWinter, Louie Psihoyos, Jeff Orlowski, Kitty Boone
Plot: James Balog was once a climate change skeptic, until his Extreme Ice Survey provided undeniable evidence of the changing planet. Using time-lapse photography, a multi-year record of the changing glaciers is presented in minutes and Balog takes a cross-continent journey, and risks his career, to show this change.

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