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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...And the Pursuit of Happiness
1986, in 1 top list Check -
81 +1
13th
2016, in 3 top lists Check -
210 -8
Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple
1968 — a.k.a. 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, in 3 top lists Check -
219 -7
28 Up
1984, in 5 top lists Check -
68 -6
4 Little Girls
1997, in 1 top list Check -
123 -7
49 Up
2005, in 2 top lists Check -
254 -7
56 Up
2012, in 2 top lists Check -
161 new
8 Flags for 99¢
1970, in 1 top list Check -
47 +1
LA 92
2017, in 2 top lists -
102 -2
9/11
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
104 -6
The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
58 +9
Al midan
2013 — a.k.a. The Square, in 0 top lists Check -
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American Dream
1990, in 2 top lists Check -
178 -4
American Factory
2019, in 1 top list -
122 -7
American Movie
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
108 -5
Andre the Giant
2018, in 0 top lists -
98 new
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
2018, in 0 top lists -
159 -6
Anvil: The Story of Anvil
2008, in 2 top lists Check -
195 -10
Året gjennom Børfjord
1991 — a.k.a. A Year Along the Abandoned Road, in 1 top list Check -
218 -25
The Art of Flying
2015, in 0 top lists -
183 -6
Ascension
2021, in 0 top lists -
223 -8
At Berkeley
2013, in 2 top lists Check -
166 -8
At the Death House Door
2008, in 1 top list Check -
204 -10
Athlete A
2020, in 0 top lists -
151 -4
Attica
2021, in 0 top lists -
60 -2
Baraka
1992, in 5 top lists Check -
207 -9
Bébé(s)
2010 — a.k.a. Babies, in 0 top lists Check -
129 -6
Before Stonewall
1984, in 1 top list Check -
230 +15
Bei xi mo shou
2015 — a.k.a. Behemoth, in 2 top lists Check -
15 +1
Bergman och filmen, Bergman och teatern,...
2004 — a.k.a. Bergman Island, in 1 top list Check -
198 -39
Bezucelná procházka
1930, in 0 top lists Check -
26 -15
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 -
16 +2
Bitter Lake
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
199 -12
Black Harvest
1992, in 4 top lists Check -
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Black Is... Black Ain't
1994, in 2 top lists Check -
251 new
Black Panthers
1968, in 2 top lists Check -
158 -6
Bowling for Columbine
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
211 -8
The Bridge
2006, in 0 top lists Check -
51 +2
Burden of Dreams
1982, in 4 top lists Check -
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Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
2008 — a.k.a. Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, in 1 top list Check -
93 -1
Call Me Lucky
2015, in 0 top lists Check -
227 +15
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
1988, in 3 top lists Check -
155 -10
Capturing the Friedmans
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
244 new
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
2010, in 2 top lists Check -
19 +3
The Central Park Five
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
140 -8
Le chagrin et la pitié
1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check -
44 +3
Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
61 +2
Citizenfour
2014, in 3 top lists Check -
257 -7
City Hall
2020, in 2 top lists -
243 -2
Colectiv
2019 — a.k.a. Collective, in 2 top lists
Last updated on Apr 2, 2024 by mightysparks; source