Top Documentary Movies


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351. 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.

352. 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

353. 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.

354. The Contestant

Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Clair Titley
Actors: Tomoaki Hamatsu, Toshio Tsuchiya, Jason Her

355. American Hardcore

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Paul Rachman
Actors: Lucky Lehrer, Vic Bondi, Joe Keithley, Keith Morris, Angie Sciarappa, Nancy Barile

356. I Know That Voice

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lawrence Shapiro
Actors: John DiMaggio, Kevin Conroy, Jim Cummings, Grey DeLisle, Phil LaMarr, Stephen Root
Plot: Movie, television and video game voice actors explain why being anonymous in Hollywood is a rewarding career choice.

357. The Celluloid Closet

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Actors: Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Armistead Maupin, Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Gore Vidal

358. The Big One

Year of Release: 1998
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Michael Moore
Actors: Michael Moore, Dan Burns, Kevin Keane, Jim Czarnecki, Brian Danitz, Garrison Keillor

359. Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: C.B. Harding
Actors: Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Larry The Cable Guy, Ron White, Heidi Klum, David Alan Grier
Plot: Concert film featuring the four most popular 'redneck' comedians sharing the stage.

360. Stevie

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steve James
Actors: Steve James, Stephen Fielding, Tonya Gregory, Bernice Hagler, Verna Hagler, Brenda Hickam

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