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. 1 -

    Black Is... Black Ain't

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 2 -

    Mix-Up ou Meli-melo

    1986, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 4 -

    Domestic Violence

    2001, in 1 top list Check
  4. 5 -

    From the Journals of Jean Seberg

    1995, in 1 top list Check
  5. 7 -

    Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land

    2008 — a.k.a. Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, in 1 top list Check
  6. 8 -

    My Kid Could Paint That

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  7. 9 -

    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
  8. 12 +1

    Winter Soldier

    1972, in 3 top lists Check
  9. 13 -1

    En forårsdag i Helvede

    1977 — a.k.a. A Sunday in Hell, in 1 top list Check
  10. 14 -

    An Evening with Kevin Smith

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 15 +1

    Bergman och filmen, Bergman och teatern,...

    2004 — a.k.a. Bergman Island, in 1 top list Check
  12. 17 +2

    For the Bible Tells Me So

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 18 +3

    Nazi Concentration Camps

    1945 — a.k.a. Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, in 0 top lists Check
  14. 21 new

    Loin du Vietnam

    1967 — a.k.a. Far from Vietnam, in 3 top lists Check
  15. 24 +1

    Exit Through the Gift Shop

    2010, in 1 top list Check
  16. 25 -1

    Hoop Dreams

    1994, in 15 top lists Check
  17. 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
  18. 29 +1

    Juvenile Court

    1973, in 1 top list Check
  19. 31 -

    The Open Road

    1926, in 2 top lists Check
  20. 32 -

    For All Mankind

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
  21. 33 -

    Samsara

    2011, in 3 top lists Check
  22. 36 +4

    Pour le Mistral

    1966, in 0 top lists Check
  23. 37 -

    American Dream

    1990, in 2 top lists Check
  24. 41 +1

    Trouble the Water

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
  25. 42 +1

    Tyson

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
  26. 43 +1

    The King of Kong

    2007 — a.k.a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in 1 top list Check
  27. 44 +3

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  28. 45 -

    Il mio viaggio in Italia

    1999 — a.k.a. My Voyage to Italy, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 46 -

    Grizzly Man

    2005, in 9 top lists Check
  30. 48 +2

    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    2003, in 5 top lists Check
  31. 49 -

    The Look of Silence

    2014, in 4 top lists Check
  32. 51 +2

    Burden of Dreams

    1982, in 4 top lists Check
  33. 52 +2

    Gui tu lie che

    2009 — a.k.a. Last Train Home, in 0 top lists Check
  34. 54 -18

    Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements

    1931, in 1 top list Check
  35. 55 +1

    Ethnic Notions

    1986, in 1 top list Check
  36. 56 +1

    First Contact

    1982, in 0 top lists Check
  37. 58 +9

    Al midan

    2013 — a.k.a. The Square, in 0 top lists Check
  38. 59 +2

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

    1996, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 60 -2

    Baraka

    1992, in 5 top lists Check
  40. 61 +2

    Citizenfour

    2014, in 3 top lists Check
  41. 63 +7

    Kyanq

    1993 — a.k.a. Life, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 64 +15

    Terminus

    1961, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 66 -2

    A Married Couple

    1969, in 7 top lists Check
  44. 68 -6

    4 Little Girls

    1997, in 1 top list Check
  45. 69 -3

    No End in Sight

    2007, in 1 top list Check
  46. 70 -2

    Dark Days

    2000, in 1 top list Check
  47. 72 -1

    Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende

    1995 — a.k.a. Mother Dao, the Turtlelike, in 1 top list Check
  48. 73 -1

    Routine Pleasures

    1986, in 3 top lists Check
  49. 74 -1

    The Devil and Daniel Johnston

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
  50. 75 -1

    Unser täglich Brot

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