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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O.J.: Made in America
2016, in 7 top lists Check -
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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
2020, in 2 top lists -
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Stop Making Sense
1984, in 9 top lists Check -
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Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
5 +1
Nuit et brouillard
1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check -
6 -1
Earthlings
2005, in 1 top list Check -
7 +1
Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
1972, in 1 top list Check -
8 -1
Alone in the Wilderness
2004, in 2 top lists Check -
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a...
2007, in 1 top list Check -
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Senna
2010, in 4 top lists Check -
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
2008, in 2 top lists Check -
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Baraka
1992, in 5 top lists Check -
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For Sama
2019, in 3 top lists -
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9/11
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
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Home
2009, in 1 top list Check -
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Ilha das Flores
1989 — a.k.a. Isle of Flowers, in 4 top lists Check -
17 +1
The Salt of the Earth
2014, in 5 top lists Check -
18 -1
Samsara
2011, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Cove
2009, in 2 top lists Check -
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Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
2010, in 1 top list Check -
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Sigur Rós: Heima
2007, in 3 top lists Check -
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U2 3D
2007, in 1 top list Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
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Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2018, in 2 top lists -
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The Look of Silence
2014, in 4 top lists Check -
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Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom
2015, in 1 top list Check -
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Iron Maiden: Flight 666
2009, in 1 top list Check -
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Inside Job
2010, in 4 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
31 +1
They Shall Not Grow Old
2018, in 1 top list -
32 -1
Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
33 +1
Searching for Sugar Man
2012, in 6 top lists Check -
34 -1
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood...
1996, in 2 top lists Check -
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Paris Is Burning
1990, in 12 top lists Check -
36 +4
Harlan County U.S.A.
1976, in 11 top lists Check -
37 -1
13th
2016, in 3 top lists Check -
38 -1
Before the Flood
2016, in 1 top list Check -
39 -1
American Utopia
2020 — a.k.a. David Byrne's American Utopia, in 3 top lists -
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HyperNormalisation
2016, in 1 top list Check -
41 +3
Le chagrin et la pitié
1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check -
42 -1
Hearts and Minds
1974, in 7 top lists Check -
43 +2
Pearl Jam Twenty
2011, in 1 top list Check -
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Il mio viaggio in Italia
1999 — a.k.a. My Voyage to Italy, in 2 top lists Check -
45 -2
Lake of Fire
2006, in 1 top list Check -
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The Times of Harvey Milk
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
47 +1
The Art of Flight
2011, in 1 top list Check -
48 +1
Foo Fighters: Back and Forth
2011, in 1 top list Check -
49 +1
28 Up
1984, in 6 top lists Check -
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No End in Sight
2007, in 1 top list Check
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