The Propaganda Game
2015 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 151 votes
North Korea. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
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Documentary Movies
Discover popular and highly rated documentary movies. This page focuses on useful, popular choices for viewers in the United States.
Updated 2026-08-04 · Ratings from TMDB
How we chose these titles
Eligible titles are ranked using TMDB popularity, audience rating, and vote count. Streaming availability and ratings can change over time.
Generation Wealth
2018 · TMDB 6.5/10 · 103 votes
Over the past 25 years, Lauren Greenfield's documentary photography and film projects have explored youth culture, gender, body image, and affluence. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Return
2018 · TMDB 6.5/10 · 571 votes
This is a documentary linking ecological and political problems. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story
2020 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 111 votes
After 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown is sentenced to life in prison, questions about her past, physiology and the law itself call her guilt into question. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Waiting for "Superman"
2010 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 147 votes
Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Holy Hell
2016 · TMDB 6.6/10 · 131 votes
An inside look at a West Hollywood cult formed by a charismatic teacher in the 1980s that eventually imploded. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
My Name Is Francesco Totti
2020 · TMDB 7.4/10 · 214 votes
Francesco Totti retraces his entire life while watching it on the silver screen together with the audience. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Mommy Dead and Dearest
2017 · TMDB 7.4/10 · 256 votes
Child abuse, mental illness, and forbidden love converge in this mystery involving a mother and daughter who were thought to be living a fairy tale life that turned out to be a living nightmare. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Minimalists: Less Is Now
2021 · TMDB 6.2/10 · 149 votes
They've built a movement out of minimalism. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Bully
2011 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 163 votes
This year, over 5 million American kids will be bullied at school, online, on the bus, at home, through their cell phones and on the streets of their towns, making it the most common form of violence young people in this country experience. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Dirty Wars
2013 · TMDB 7.0/10 · 155 votes
Investigative journalist, Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars, and examines how the US government has responded to international terrorist threats in ways that seem to go against the established laws of the land. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge
1888 · TMDB 6.1/10 · 136 votes
A film by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, shot in late October 1888, showing pedestrians and carriages crossing Leeds Bridge. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
One of Us
2017 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 142 votes
Penetrating the insular world of New York's Hasidic community, focusing on three individuals driven to break away despite threats of retaliation. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
This Is Not a Film
2011 · TMDB 6.9/10 · 111 votes
Renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi received a 6-year prison sentence and a 20-year ban from filmmaking and conducting interviews with foreign press due to his open support for the opposition party in Iran's 2009 election. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Particle Fever
2013 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 248 votes
As the Large Hadron Collider is about to be launched for the first time, physicists are on the cusp of the greatest scientific discovery of all time - or perhaps their greatest failure. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Fear of 13
2015 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 143 votes
After 23 years on Death Row a convicted murderer petitions the court asking to be executed, but as his story unfolds, it becomes clear that nothing is what it seems. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Anthony Jeselnik: Fire in the Maternity Ward
2019 · TMDB 7.0/10 · 110 votes
Forging his own comedic boundaries, Anthony Jeselnik revels in getting away with saying things others can't in this stand-up special shot in New York. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
2017 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 104 votes
Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Mia Martini - I Am Mia
2019 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 181 votes
The movie is a biopic about Mia Martini, an italian singer who died in 1995. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Day of the Fight
1951 · TMDB 5.8/10 · 174 votes
Stanley Kubrick’s debut documentary, following Irish-American middleweight boxer Walter Cartier on April 17, 1950—the day of his bout with Bobby James. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.