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The best documentary movies, ranked
Ranked by viewer rating — a thousand-vote minimum, so nothing here is a fluke.
- Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me

- Everybody’s Everything

- Human

- David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

- O.J.: Made in America

- Squid Game: Making Season 2

- Burn the Stage: The Movie

- Ennio

- Stop Making Sense

- Bring the Soul: The Movie

- Night and Fog

- For Sama

- Love Meetings

- Baraka

- One Direction: This Is Us

- Shoah

- BTS World Tour: Love Yourself in Seoul

- Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry

- BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky

- Virunga

- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

- Free Solo

- My Octopus Teacher

- The Greatest Night in Pop

- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

- Searching for Sugar Man

- Koyaanisqatsi

- Honeyland

- Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

- Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

- Apollo 11

- Blackfish

- 13th

- Friends: The Reunion

- Miss Americana

- The Look of Silence

- Jodorowsky's Dune

- Seaspiracy

- Home

- Man with a Movie Camera

- Tomorrow

- STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie

- Period. End of Sentence.

- The Mole Agent

- They Shall Not Grow Old

- Flee

- Citizenfour

- I Am Not Your Negro

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