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. 162 new

    Z punktu widzenia nocnego portiera

    1979 — a.k.a. From a Night Porter's Point of View, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 192 +52

    Yuki yukite, shingun

    1987 — a.k.a. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, in 9 top lists Check
  3. 65 +15

    Ydessa, les ours et etc.

    2004 — a.k.a. Ydessa, the Bears and etc., in 0 top lists Check
  4. 175 -5

    Wunder der Schöpfung

    1920 — a.k.a. Our Heavenly Bodies, in 1 top list Check
  5. 77 -1

    Workingman's Death

    2005, in 2 top lists Check
  6. 134 -3

    Wordplay

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 12 +1

    Winter Soldier

    1972, in 3 top lists Check
  8. 76 -1

    Why We Fight

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
  9. 27 +1

    Whores' Glory

    2011, in 1 top list Check
  10. 252 -6

    Welfare

    1975, in 7 top lists Check
  11. 139 -3

    Virunga

    2014, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 112 -4

    Videogramme einer Revolution

    1992 — a.k.a. Videogram of a Revolution, in 4 top lists Check
  13. 28 -13

    Vesnoy

    1929 — a.k.a. In Spring, in 2 top lists Check
  14. 75 -1

    Unser täglich Brot

    2005 — a.k.a. Our Daily Bread, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 97 -

    The Union: The Business Behind Getting High

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  16. 133 -3

    Undergångens arkitektur

    1989 — a.k.a. The Architecture of Doom, in 1 top list Check
  17. 197 -

    Ulysse

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 42 +1

    Tyson

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 41 +1

    Trouble the Water

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 157 -6

    Tower

    2016, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 101 +8

    Toute la mémoire du monde

    1956, in 4 top lists Check
  22. 193 -9

    Touching the Void

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  23. 179 +3

    Tôkyô orinpikku

    1965 — a.k.a. Tokyo Olympiad, in 6 top lists Check
  24. 235 -4

    Tim's Vermeer

    2013, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 194 +13

    The Times of Harvey Milk

    1984, in 8 top lists Check
  26. 88 -

    The Thin Blue Line

    1988, in 12 top lists Check
  27. 214 -8

    These Amazing Shadows

    2011, in 0 top lists Check
  28. 64 +15

    Terminus

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
  29. 202 -11

    Taxi to the Dark Side

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
  30. 213 -8

    The T.A.M.I. Show

    1964, in 1 top list Check
  31. 145 +11

    Style Wars

    1983, in 0 top lists Check
  32. 181 new

    Streetwise

    1984, in 4 top lists Check
  33. 241 -9

    Stories We Tell

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  34. 96 -

    The Staircase II: The Last Chance

    2013, in 0 top lists Check
  35. 9 -

    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
  36. 189 -14

    An shab ke barun amad

    1967 — a.k.a. The Night It Rained, in 3 top lists Check
  37. 126 -6

    Seventeen

    1983, in 1 top list Check
  38. 236 -3

    Senna

    2010, in 4 top lists Check
  39. 33 -

    Samsara

    2011, in 4 top lists Check
  40. 84 +3

    Salut les Cubains

    1963, in 0 top lists Check
  41. 143 -4

    The Salt of the Earth

    2014, in 5 top lists Check
  42. 246 -26

    Salam Cinema

    1995 — a.k.a. Hello Cinema, in 6 top lists Check
  43. 89 +5

    Le sabotier du Val de Loire

    1956, in 0 top lists Check
  44. 73 -1

    Routine Pleasures

    1986, in 3 top lists Check
  45. 234 -4

    Rivers and Tides

    2001 — a.k.a. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time, in 0 top lists Check
  46. 201 -11

    Richard Pryor: Live in Concert

    1979, in 2 top lists Check
  47. 40 +1

    Rabindranath Tagore

    1961, in 1 top list Check
  48. 153 -4

    Public Housing

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
  49. 83 -23

    Powers of Ten

    1977, in 3 top lists Check
  50. 36 +4

    Pour le Mistral

    1966, in 0 top lists Check
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