IMDb's Documentary Top 50
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Strictly speaking, documentary films are non-fictional, factual works of art. Originally, the earliest documentaries were either short newsreels, instructional pictures, or travelogues (termed actualities) without any creative story-telling or staging. But they have branched out and taken many forms, and have sometimes become propagandistic and non-objective. Mockumentaries are comedic parodies of documentaries. Some documentaries have been considered propagandistic.
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Planet Earth II
2016, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Godfather: A Novel for Television
1977 — a.k.a. The Godfather Saga, in 2 top lists Check -
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Band of Brothers
2001, in 5 top lists Check -
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Planet Earth
2006, in 3 top lists Check -
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Chernobyl
2019, in 4 top lists -
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Our Planet
2019, in 2 top lists -
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Cosmos
1980, in 3 top lists Check -
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Blue Planet II
2017, in 2 top lists -
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Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
2014, in 3 top lists Check -
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The World at War
1973, in 3 top lists Check -
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Baseball
1994, in 4 top lists Check -
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O Auto da Compadecida
1999 — a.k.a. A Dog's Will, in 5 top lists Check -
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Kurtulus
1994, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Last Dance
2020, in 2 top lists -
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The Vietnam War
2017, in 3 top lists Check -
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Life
2009, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Beatles Anthology
1995, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Civil War
1990, in 4 top lists Check -
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Apocalypse: La 2ème guerre mondiale
2009 — a.k.a. Apocalypse: The Second World War, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Blue Planet
2001, in 2 top lists Check -
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Frozen Planet
2011, in 2 top lists Check -
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Human Planet
2011, in 2 top lists Check -
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The War
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
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Fanny och Alexander
1983 — a.k.a. Fanny and Alexander, in 3 top lists -
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The Beatles: Get Back
2021, in 2 top lists -
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Dekalog
1989, in 12 top lists Check -
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O.J.: Made in America
2016, in 8 top lists Check -
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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
2020, in 3 top lists -
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Africa
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
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Pride and Prejudice
1995, in 4 top lists Check -
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When They See Us
2019, in 2 top lists -
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Over the Garden Wall
2014, in 3 top lists Check -
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I, Claudius
1976, in 5 top lists Check -
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Das Boot
1985, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Storyteller
1987, in 2 top lists Check -
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The Century of the Self
2002, in 3 top lists Check -
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Semnadtsat mgnoveniy vesny
1973 — a.k.a. Seventeen Moments of Spring, in 3 top lists Check -
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Wonders of the Solar System
2010, in 2 top lists Check -
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Shôgun
2024 — a.k.a. Shōgun, in 2 top lists -
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Lonesome Dove
1989, in 3 top lists Check -
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Stop Making Sense
1984, in 10 top lists Check -
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Shoah
1985, in 19 top lists Check -
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The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the...
2004 — a.k.a. The Power of Nightmares, in 5 top lists Check -
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Mesto vstrechi izmenit nelzya
1979 — a.k.a. The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
2015, in 2 top lists Check -
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Dopesick
2021, in 2 top lists -
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North & South
2004, in 3 top lists Check -
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Brideshead Revisited
1981, in 3 top lists Check -
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Alone in the Wilderness
2004, in 3 top lists Check -
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From the Earth to the Moon
1998, in 1 top list Check
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