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 57 members. Ties are sorted by highest number of votes.

Includes movies, TV movies, shorts, TV shorts and video.

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Thanks to themagician for creating the original versions of these lists.

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  1. 158 -6

    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  2. 146 -4

    Koyaanisqatsi

    1982, in 12 top lists Check
  3. 46 -

    Grizzly Man

    2005, in 9 top lists Check
  4. 24 +1

    Exit Through the Gift Shop

    2010, in 1 top list Check
  5. 44 +3

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  6. 80 +1

    Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

    2008, in 2 top lists Check
  7. 100 -1

    My Winnipeg

    2007, in 9 top lists Check
  8. 138 -3

    Inside Job

    2010, in 4 top lists Check
  9. 217 -9

    The Corporation

    2003, in 4 top lists Check
  10. 60 -2

    Baraka

    1992, in 5 top lists Check
  11. 118 -4

    Crumb

    1994, in 12 top lists Check
  12. 25 -1

    Hoop Dreams

    1994, in 15 top lists Check
  13. 104 -6

    The Act of Killing

    2012, in 9 top lists Check
  14. 155 -10

    Capturing the Friedmans

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  15. 220 -7

    The Cove

    2009, in 2 top lists Check
  16. 43 +1

    The King of Kong

    2007 — a.k.a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in 1 top list Check
  17. 103 -2

    Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  18. 122 -7

    American Movie

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  19. 236 -3

    Senna

    2010, in 4 top lists Check
  20. 247 -7

    Ilha das Flores

    1989 — a.k.a. Isle of Flowers, in 4 top lists Check
  21. 99 -10

    Nuit et brouillard

    1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check
  22. 88 -

    The Thin Blue Line

    1988, in 12 top lists Check
  23. 81 +1

    13th

    2016, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 241 -9

    Stories We Tell

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  25. 61 +2

    Citizenfour

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  26. 245 -62

    My Octopus Teacher

    2020, in 1 top list
    Check
  27. 9 -

    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
  28. 159 -6

    Anvil: The Story of Anvil

    2008, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 244 new

    Cave of Forgotten Dreams

    2010, in 2 top lists Check
  30. 140 -8

    Le chagrin et la pitié

    1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check
  31. 193 -9

    Touching the Void

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  32. 211 -8

    The Bridge

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
  33. 248 new

    Lektionen in Finsternis

    1992 — a.k.a. Lessons of Darkness, in 6 top lists Check
  34. 59 +2

    Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood...

    1996, in 2 top lists Check
  35. 90 -6

    Visages villages

    2017 — a.k.a. Faces Places, in 4 top lists
    Check
  36. 123 -7

    49 Up

    2005, in 2 top lists Check
  37. 33 -

    Samsara

    2011, in 3 top lists Check
  38. 141 -4

    Free Solo

    2018, in 1 top list
    Check
  39. 209 -9

    GasLand

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
  40. 246 -26

    Salam Cinema

    1995 — a.k.a. Hello Cinema, in 6 top lists Check
  41. 194 +13

    The Times of Harvey Milk

    1984, in 8 top lists Check
  42. 249 -6

    Harlan County U.S.A.

    1976, in 11 top lists Check
  43. 49 -

    The Look of Silence

    2014, in 4 top lists Check
  44. 66 -2

    A Married Couple

    1969, in 7 top lists Check
  45. 6 -

    O.J.: Made in America

    2016, in 7 top lists Check
  46. 188 -7

    Paris Is Burning

    1990, in 12 top lists Check
  47. 202 -11

    Taxi to the Dark Side

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 97 -

    The Union: The Business Behind Getting High

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  49. 207 -9

    Bébé(s)

    2010 — a.k.a. Babies, in 0 top lists Check
  50. 180 -4

    Hearts and Minds

    1974, in 7 top lists Check
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