Top Documentary Movies


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

181. Waking Sleeping Beauty

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Don Hahn
Actors: Tim Burton, Michael Eisner, John Lasseter, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Don Bluth, Roy Edward Disney
Plot: After a string of critical and commercial failures at the box office, the Disney animated studio was nearly closed down until a group of people decided to reinvigorate their industry beginning with a film called The Little Mermaid.

182. 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

183. 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, Guy Clark, Ed Wolf
Plot: A documentary that explores the arrival of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco and how the city dealt with the unprecedented calamity.

184. 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

185. 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.

186. 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

187. 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, Jim Boyd, Phyllis Diller

188. Deliver Us from Evil

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 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.

189. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Jessica Joy Wise
Actors: Alice Cooper, Ronnie James Dio, Geddy Lee, Lemmy, Tom Morello, Rob Zombie

190. For All Mankind

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Al Reinert
Actors: Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon
Plot: A nice documentary about the U.S. Apollo program told by the astronauts themselves. Only video footage from the era is used, and the astronauts do voice-over work detailing what happened and how they felt during the missions.

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