Top Documentary Movies


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

341. Silly Little Game

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lucas Jansen, Adam Kurland
Actors: Jennifer Appel, Dan Okrent, Lee Eisenberg, Peter Gethers, Glen Waggoner, Valerie Salembier
Plot: The story of the men (and mandatory woman) who began the first Baseball Rotisserie League - the original fantasy sport - which would one day spawn a $2 billion dollar industry.

342. The Unknown Known

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Errol Morris
Actors: Kenn Medeiros, Errol Morris, Donald Rumsfeld, Danny Elfman
Plot: Errol Morris directs this documentary about Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld - from his history as a Congressman in early 60s up to his role in the Iraq invasion in 2003.

343. DamNation

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Adventure
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ben Knight, Travis Rummel

344. I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Biography
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker
Actors: Caroll Spinney, Frank Oz, Jim Henson, Emilio Delgado, Sonia Manzano, Matt Vogel

345. An Open Secret

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Amy Berg
Actors: Todd Bridges, Corey Feldman, Michael Egan III, Joey Coleman, Brian Peck, Michael Harrah

346. De Palma

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow
Actors: Brian De Palma

347. Whitney: Can I Be Me

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nick Broomfield, Rudi Dolezal
Actors: Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston, Robyn Crawford, John Russell Houston Jr.

348. Love Gilda

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lisa Dapolito
Actors: Gilda Radner, Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Amy Poehler, Melissa McCarthy, Laraine Newman
Plot: With newly recovered audiotapes, Gilda Radner reflects on her life and career. Using a combination of interviews, home movies and diary entries read by modern-day comediennes, the documentary celebrates the life story of Radner.

349. The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Actors: Keith Fulton, Terry Gilliam, Lloyd Phillips, Ernie Malik, Mark Egerton, Janet Peoples

350. American Grindhouse

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elijah Drenner
Actors: Herschell Gordon Lewis, Fred Olen Ray, John Landis, Robert Forster, Joe Dante, David Hess
Plot: A documentary that explores the guilty pleasure of the film world: the American exploitation genre. Interviewing directors and actors alike, it delves deep into this fascinating, shameless and often shocking world of grindhouse cinema.

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