MOVIES
Critical Response - IMDb
Highest-Rated Documentary Movies
This list features movies that are included in IMDB’s list of the top ranked documentary movies.
RANK | FILMS | RATING | REVIEWS | YEAR |
1 | O.J. Made in America | 8.9 | 23,000 | 2016 |
2 | Stop Making Sense | 8.7 | 23,000 | 1984 |
3 | Earthlings | 8.6 | 20,000 | 2005 |
4 | Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father | 8.5 | 43,000 | 2008 |
5 | Senna | 8.5 | 81,000 | 2010 |
6 | Baraka | 8.5 | 42,000 | 1992 |
7 | Home | 8.5 | 23,000 | 2009 |
8 | Samsara | 8.4 | 39,000 | 2011 |
9 | The Salt of the Earth | 8.4 | 25,000 | 2014 |
10 | The Cove | 8.4 | 52,000 | 2009 |
11 | The Rescue | 8.3 | 22,000 | 2021 |
12 | Hoop Dreams | 8.3 | 29,000 | 1994 |
13 | Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom | 8.3 | 21,000 | 2015 |
14 | Won’t You Be My Neighbour? | 8.3 | 28,000 | 2018 |
15 | Inside Job | 8.2 | 81,000 | 2010 |
16 | The Act of Killing | 8.2 | 43,000 | 2012 |
17 | Paris Is Burning | 8.2 | 20,000 | 1990 |
18 | Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills | 8.2 | 19,000 | 1996 |
19 | Koyaanisqatsi | 8.2 | 43,000 | 1982 |
20 | They Shall Not Grow Old | 8.2 | 40,000 | 2018 |
21 | 13th | 8.2 | 39,000 | 2016 |
22 | Before the Flood | 8.2 | 29,000 | 2016 |
23 | Blackfish | 8.1 | 75,000 | 2013 |
24 | Free Solo | 8.1 | 82,000 | 2018 |
25 | The Last Waltz | 8.1 | 21,000 | 1978 |
26 | Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse | 8.1 | 25,000 | 1991 |
27 | Seaspiracy | 8.1 | 35,000 | 2021 |
28 | What Is a Woman? | 8.1 | 47,000 | 2022 |
29 | Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie | 8.1 | 17,000 | 2023 |
30 | Woodstock | 8.1 | 19,000 | 1970 |
31 | Apollo 11 | 8.1 | 28,000 | 2019 |
32 | Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret | 8.1 | 27,000 | 2014 |
33 | Zeitgeist: Moving Forward | 8.1 | 19,000 | 2011 |
34 | Citizenfour | 8.0 | 59,000 | 2014 |
35 | Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief | 8.0 | 42,000 | 2015 |
36 | Jodorowsky’s Dune | 8.0 | 29,000 | 2013 |
37 | Bowling for Columbine | 8.0 | 151,000 | 2002 |
38 | Crumb | 8.0 | 22,000 | 1994 |
39 | The Corporation | 8.0 | 22,000 | 2003 |
40 | Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | 8.0 | 24,000 | 2023 |
41 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | 8.1 | 26,000 | 2003 |
42 | The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | 8.0 | 18,000 | 2014 |
43 | The King of Kong | 8.0 | 38,000 | 2007 |
44 | Sicko | 8.0 | 78,000 | 2007 |
45 | Icarus | 7.9 | 57,000 | 2017 |
46 | Touching the Void | 7.9 | 39,000 | 2003 |
47 | Exit Through the Gift Shop | 7.9 | 70,000 | 2010 |
48 | The Alpinist | 7.9 | 16,000 | 2021 |
49 | I Am Not Your Negro | 7.9 | 24,000 | 2016 |
50 | The Thin Blue Line | 7.9 | 27,000 | 1988 |
51 | When We Were Kings | 7.9 | 20,000 | 1996 |
52 | The Greatest Night in Pop | 7.9 | 15,000 | 2024 |
53 | Anvil: The Story of Anvil | 7.9 | 17,000 | 2008 |
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