Top Documentary Movies


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181. You're Gonna Miss Me

Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keven McAlester
Actors: Evelyn Erickson, Roger Kynard Erickson, Roky Erickson, Sumner Erickson
Plot: Documentary about Roger Kynard whose band 13th Floor Elevators coined psychedelic rock in the 60's.

182. Bag It

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Suzan Beraza
Actors: Jeb Berrier, David Chameides, Anne Reeser
Plot: One, simple resolution to stop using plastic bags at the grocery store leads to a life-altering change in one man's life and shows just how plastic our society has become.

183. Kids for Cash

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Robert May
Plot: In the wake of the Columbine shootings, two judges in Pennsylvania - at first lauded for the efforts of keeping kids in line - are involved in a scandal involving for-profit juvenile detention facilities - netting them a lot of money for these "kids for cash" operations.

184. Soaked in Bleach

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Benjamin Statler
Actors: Kurt Cobain, Sarah Scott, Daniel Roebuck, Tyler Bryan

185. Bus 174 ( Ônibus 174 )

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
Actors: Yvonne Bezerra de Mello, Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares, Sandro do Nascimento

186. We Were Here

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Weissman, Bill Weber
Actors: Eileen Glutzer, Cleve Jones, Paul Boneberg, Daniel Goldstein
Plot: A documentary that explores the arrival of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco and how the city dealt with the unprecedented calamity.

187. Microcosmos ( Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe )

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Actors: Jacques Perrin, Kristin Scott Thomas
Plot: The bizarre and beautiful world of insects and arachnids is explored

188. Amy

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Asif Kapadia
Actors: Amy Winehouse
Plot: Documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, including never-before-seen archive footage of the musician, leading up to her tragic death due to alcohol poisoning at the young age of 27 in 2011.

189. Who Killed the Electric Car?

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Chris Paine
Actors: Martin Sheen, Ed Begley Jr., Mel Gibson, Ralph Nader

190. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - With a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chris Smith
Actors: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Milos Forman, Judd Hirsch

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