iCM Forum's Top 250 Highest Rated Documentaries
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Our highest rated documentaries with 5+ votes from IMDb vote histories provided by 56 members. Ties are sorted by highest number of votes.
Includes movies, TV movies, shorts, TV shorts and video.
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Black Is... Black Ain't
1994, in 2 top lists Check -
2 new
Mix-Up ou Meli-melo
1986, in 2 top lists Check -
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Dying at Grace
2003, in 5 top lists Check -
4 +13
Domestic Violence
2001, in 1 top list Check -
5 +13
From the Journals of Jean Seberg
1995, in 1 top list Check -
6 +1
O.J.: Made in America
2016, in 7 top lists Check -
7 +26
Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
2008 — a.k.a. Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, in 1 top list Check -
8 -4
My Kid Could Paint That
2007, in 0 top lists Check -
9 +15
Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
10 -2
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
11 -2
Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges
1989 — a.k.a. Images of the World and the Inscription of War, in 4 top lists Check -
12 -7
En forårsdag i Helvede
1977 — a.k.a. A Sunday in Hell, in 1 top list Check -
13 -1
Winter Soldier
1972, in 3 top lists Check -
14 -3
An Evening with Kevin Smith
2002, in 0 top lists Check -
15 -13
Vesnoy
1929 — a.k.a. In Spring, in 2 top lists Check -
16 -1
Bergman och filmen, Bergman och teatern,...
2004 — a.k.a. Bergman Island, in 1 top list Check -
17 -4
Landscape (for Manon)
1987, in 0 top lists Check -
18 new
Bitter Lake
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
19 new
For the Bible Tells Me So
2007, in 0 top lists Check -
20 -1
Marjoe
1972, in 3 top lists Check -
21 -1
Nazi Concentration Camps
1945 — a.k.a. Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, in 0 top lists Check -
22 new
The Central Park Five
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
23 -2
The Dawn Wall
2017, in 0 top lists -
24 +6
Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
25 -2
Exit Through the Gift Shop
2010, in 1 top list Check -
26 -1
Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen
2020 — a.k.a. Disclosure, in 1 top list -
27 -21
Petite fille
2020 — a.k.a. Little Girl, in 1 top list -
28 -18
Whores' Glory
2011, in 1 top list Check -
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Human
2015, in 2 top lists Check -
30 -16
Juvenile Court
1973, in 1 top list Check -
31 new
The Open Road
1926, in 2 top lists Check -
32 -1
For All Mankind
1989, in 2 top lists Check -
33 +17
Samsara
2011, in 3 top lists Check -
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La deuxième nuit
2016, in 1 top list Check -
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Path of Cessation
1974, in 0 top lists -
36 +51
Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements
1931, in 1 top list Check -
37 +1
American Dream
1990, in 2 top lists Check -
38 new
Let the Fire Burn
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
39 new
Liyana
2017, in 0 top lists -
40 -3
Pour le Mistral
1966, in 0 top lists Check -
41 new
Rabindranath Tagore
1961, in 1 top list Check -
42 new
Trouble the Water
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
43 new
Tyson
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
44 -22
The King of Kong
2007 — a.k.a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in 1 top list Check -
45 +33
Il mio viaggio in Italia
1999 — a.k.a. My Voyage to Italy, in 2 top lists Check -
46 +3
Grizzly Man
2005, in 9 top lists Check -
47 +8
Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
48 -6
LA 92
2017, in 2 top lists -
49 -8
The Look of Silence
2014, in 4 top lists Check -
50 -7
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2003, in 5 top lists Check
Last updated on Jan 1, 2024 by mightysparks; source