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727

Bowling for Columbine

documentary

2002

7.6

64,537

Michael Moore

Documentary, Self: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Dick Clark, Marilyn Manson, Matt Stone

503

Fahrenheit 9/11 (Fahrenheit 911)

documentary

2004

7.0

70,215

Michael Moore

Documentary, Self: Michael Moore, George W. Bush, George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Al Gore

451

Searching for Sugar Man

documentary

2012

8.0

28,310

Malik Bendjelloul

Documentary, Self: Sixto Rodríguez

310

Zeitgeist: The Movie

documentary

2007

7.4

22,060

Peter Joseph

Documentary

304

Baraka

documentary

1992

8.1

11,474

Ron Fricke

Documentary

289

Apocalypse: The Second World War

miniseriesdocumentary

2009

8.6

14,626

Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke

Documentary, Self: Mathieu Kassovitz

283

Planet Earth

tv seriesdocumentary

2006

8.5

16,026

Alastair Fothergill

Documentary

277

Super Size Me

documentary

2004

6.6

35,867

Morgan Spurlock

Documentary, Self: Morgan Spurlock

266

Inside Job

documentary

2010

7.6

19,375

Charles Ferguson

Documentary, Self: Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnasson, Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Paul Volcker ...

265

Sicko

documentary

2007

7.4

17,299

Michael Moore

Documentary, Self: Michael Moore

264

The Light Bulb Conspiracy

mediadocumentary

2010

7.8

13,821

Cosima Dannoritzer

Documentary

257

The Act of Killing

documentary

2012

7.8

8,106

Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Anonymous

Documentary

249

An Inconvenient Truth

documentary

2006

6.8

30,778

Davis Guggenheim

Documentary, Self: Al Gore

246

Cosmos

tv seriesdocumentary

1980

8.8

13,359

Carl Sagan (Creator), David F. Oyster, Adrian Malone

Documentary, Self: Carl Sagan

240

The Cove

documentary

2009

7.9

10,646

Louie Psihoyos

Documentary

235

March of the Penguins

documentary

2005

7.5

16,351

Luc Jacquet

Documentary

233

Man on Wire

documentary

2008

7.4

11,884

James Marsh

Documentary, Self: Philippe Petit

233

The Salt of the Earth

documentary

2014

8.1

9,878

Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Documentary, Self: Sebastião Salgado

226

Earth

documentary

2007

7.9

15,391

Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield

Documentary

218

Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey

tv seriesdocumentary

2014

8.6

10,725

Ann Druyan (Creator), Steven Soter (Creator) ...

Documentary, Self: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Seth MacFarlane

218

Oceans

documentary

2009

8.0

12,802

Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud

Documentary, Self: Jacques Perrin, Lancelot Perrin

199

Darwin's Nightmare

documentary

2004

7.6

6,990

Hubert Sauper

Documentary

199

Shoah

documentary

1985

8.4

4,096

Claude Lanzmann

Documentary, Self: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl

195

Senna

documentary

2010

7.8

12,072

Asif Kapadia

Documentary, Self: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Ron Dennis, Jean-Marie Balestre ...

195

Exit Through the Gift Shop

documentary

2010

7.6

14,333

Banksy

Documentary, Self: Thierry Guetta, Banksy

189

Grizzly Man

documentary

2005

7.2

9,464

Werner Herzog

Documentary, Self: Timothy Treadwell

179

Capturing the Friedmans

documentary

2003

7.5

7,566

Andrew Jarecki

Documentary

172

Home

documentary

2009

7.9

9,466

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Documentary

164

Night and Fog

mediadocumentary

1956

8.2

5,826

Alain Resnais

Documentary, Voice: Michel Bouquet

157

Zeitgeist: Addendum

documentary

2008

7.3

9,237

Peter Joseph

Documentary

156

The Corporation

documentary

2003

7.8

4,307

Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott, Joel Bakan

Documentary, Self: Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman, Howard Zinn, Vandana Shiva ...

151

The Shock Doctrine

documentary

2009

7.4

5,209

Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross

Documentary

145

Isle of Flowers

short filmdocumentary

1989

8.0

10,136

Jorge Furtado

Documentary

142

Informe Robinson: Cuando fuimos campeones

episodedocumentary

2010

8.0

16,391

Michael Robinson, Román Escoda

Documentary, Self: Michael Robinson

142

Buena Vista Social Club

documentary

1999

7.7

7,349

Wim Wenders

Documentary, Self: Ry Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Elíades Ochoa ...

139

When We Were Kings

documentary

1996

7.7

5,160

Leon Gast

Documentary, Self: Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown ...

138

30 for 30: Once Brothers

documentaryTV

2010

8.0

6,162

Michael Tolajian

Documentary, Self: Vlade Divac

137

Nanook of the North

documentary

1922

7.6

7,448

Robert J. Flaherty

Documentary

136

The Disenchantment

documentary

1976

7.9

6,940

Jaime Chávarri

Documentary, Self: Felicidad Blanc, Juan Luis Panero, Leopoldo María Panero, Michi Panero

136

My Octopus Teacher

documentary

2020

7.3

10,265

Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed

Documentary, Self: Craig Foster

134

The Last Dance

miniseriesdocumentary

2020

8.2

15,572

Jason Hehir

Documentary, Self: Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman ...

129

Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance

documentary

1982

7.8

5,142

Godfrey Reggio

Documentary

129

Samsara

documentary

2011

8.2

3,948

Ron Fricke

Documentary

127

The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone

documentary

2003

6.8

12,734

Julio Medem

Documentary

125

Planet Earth II

miniseriesdocumentary

2016

8.9

4,420

Elizabeth White, Justin Anderson, Ed Charles

Documentary, Self: David Attenborough

125

The Imposter

documentary

2012

7.1

7,574

Bart Layton

Documentary

123

Earthlings

documentary

2005

7.8

4,708

Shaun Monson

Documentary, Self: Joaquin Phoenix

123

Blackfish

documentary

2013

7.3

6,444

Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Documentary

121

The Look of Silence

documentary

2014

7.8

2,333

Joshua Oppenheimer

Documentary, Self: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Inong Kemat ...

120

The Gleaners and I

documentary

2000

7.6

4,652

Agnès Varda

Documentary

117

Amy

documentary

2015

7.3

12,728

Asif Kapadia

Documentary, Self: Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, Salaam Remi, Mos Def ...

116

En construcción

documentary

2001

7.2

7,113

José Luis Guerín

Documentary

114

The Man with the Movie Camera

documentary

1929

8.1

6,301

Dziga Vertov

Documentary

110

Human Planet

miniseriesdocumentary

2011

8.5

2,641

Nicolas Brown, Mark Flowers, Tom Hugh-Jones

Documentary, Self: John Hurt

107

The World at War

tv seriesdocumentary

1974

8.4

5,555

Jeremy Isaacs (Creator), Hugh Raggett ...

Documentary

106

Capitalism: A Love Story

documentary

2009

6.8

6,636

Michael Moore

Documentary, Self: Michael Moore

105

The Children of Leningradsky

mediadocumentary

2004

7.8

4,354

Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski

Documentary

105

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

miniseriesdocumentary

2015

7.9

7,663

Andrew Jarecki

Documentary

104

Wild Wild Country

miniseriesdocumentary

2018

7.4

7,533

Chapman Way, Maclain Way

Documentary, Self: Osho, Ma Anand Sheela, George Meredith, Philip Toelkes ...

104

Winged Migration

documentary

2001

7.5

4,673

Jacques Perrin, Michel Debats, Jacques Cluzaud

Documentary

103

Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music

search result concert

1970

7.8

5,559

Michael Wadleigh

Documentary, Self: Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez ...

103

Citizenfour

documentary

2014

7.2

6,799

Laura Poitras

Documentary, Self: Edward Snowden, Jacob Appelbaum, Julian Assange, Glenn Greenwald ...

102

The Silence of Others (El silencio de otros)

documentary

2018

7.7

6,541

Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar

Documentary

101

El hombre y la Tierra

tv seriesdocumentary

1974

7.8

15,487

Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente (Creator)

Documentary, Self: Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente

101

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

tv seriesdocumentary

2011

8.2

3,612

Mark Cousins

Documentary, Self: Aleksandr Sokúrov, Norman Lloyd, Lars von Trier, Paul Schrader ...

101

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan - A Martin Scorsese Picture

documentary

2005

7.8

5,202

Martin Scorsese

Documentary, Self: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger ...

Land Without Bread

mediadocumentary

1933

7.4

7,877

Luis Buñuel

Documentary

Apocalypse: The First World War

miniseriesdocumentary

2014

8.4

3,854

Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke

Documentary, Self: Mathieu Kassovitz, V.I. Lenin, Raymond Poincaré, Ferdinand Foch

Life

miniseriesdocumentary

2009

8.4

2,905

Simon Blakeney, Stephen Lyle

Documentary, Self: David Attenborough, Oprah Winfrey

To Be and to Have

documentary

2002

7.5

4,648

Nicolas Philibert

Documentary

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

documentary

1991

7.6

4,130

Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola

Documentary, Self: Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Martin Sheen, Sam Bottoms ...

F. for Fake

documentary

1973

7.6

5,484

Orson Welles

Documentary, Self: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten, Jean-Pierre Aumont ...

Touching The Void

documentary

2003

7.5

3,953

Kevin Macdonald

Documentary, Self: Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Joe Simpson

Triumph of the Will

documentary

1935

7.4

5,291

Leni Riefenstahl

Documentary, Self: Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels

Human

documentary

2015

8.3

1,968

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Documentary

Promises

documentary

2001

7.9

2,485

Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolado

Documentary

Making a Murderer

tv seriesdocumentary

2015

7.9

7,500

Moira Demos, Laura Ricciardi

Documentary, Self: Steven Avery

Our Planet

tv seriesdocumentary

2019

8.5

3,165

David Attenborough (Creator), Adam Chapman ...

Documentary, Self: David Attenborough

The Battle of Chile: Part 1: The Bourgeois Insurrection

documentary

1975

8.2

1,652

Patricio Guzmán

Documentary, Self: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández

The Last Waltz

search result concert

1978

7.9

4,734

Martin Scorsese

Documentary, Self: Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell ...

Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle

documentary

2017

7.2

10,381

Gustavo Salmerón

Documentary, Self: Julia Salmerón, Gustavo Salmerón

The Untold History of the United States

miniseriesdocumentary

2012

8.0

2,333

Oliver Stone

Documentary, Self: Oliver Stone, Alan Shearman, Jim Ward, André Sogliuzzo ...

The Social Dilemma

documentary

2020

6.8

8,760

Jeff Orlowski

Documentary, Self: Catalina Garayoa, Barbara Gehring, Skyler Gisondo, Chris Grundy ...

Dream Of Light

documentary

1992

7.4

5,646

Víctor Erice

Documentary, Self: Antonio López

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret

documentary

2014

7.4

2,365

Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn

Documentary, Self: William Potter

The Century of the Self

miniseriesdocumentary

2002

8.1

1,051

Adam Curtis

Documentary

Las alas de la vida (The Wings of Life)

documentary

2006

7.9

3,090

Antoni P. Canet

Documentary, Self: Carlos Cristos

Free Solo

documentary

2018

7.4

5,936

Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Documentary, Self: Alex Honnold

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

documentary

2005

7.7

3,470

Jeff Feuerzeig

Documentary, Self: Daniel Johnston

Cuban Rafters

documentary

2002

7.2

1,916

Carles Bosch, Josep Maria Doménech

Documentary

Ciutat morta (Ciudad muerta)

documentary

2014

7.5

5,133

Xavier Artigas, Xapo Ortega

Documentary

Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler

miniseriesdocumentary

2011

7.9

3,826

Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke

Documentary

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

documentary

1996

7.8

2,202

Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

Documentary

Jesus Camp

documentary

2006

7.3

3,453

Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady

Documentary

When You're Strange

documentary

2009

7.5

4,208

Tom DiCillo

Documentary, Self: The Doors, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore

Food, Inc.

documentary

2008

7.2

3,106

Robert Kenner

Documentary

Microcosmos

documentary

1996

7.6

1,904

Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou

Documentary

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

documentary

2011

7.5

2,623

Peter Joseph

Documentary

Encounters at the End of The World

documentary

2007

7.4

2,476

Werner Herzog

Documentary

100

Africa

miniseriesdocumentary

2013

8.5

1,725

David Attenborough (Creator), Katrina Bartlam, Felicity Egerton

Documentary, Self: Forest Whitaker, David Attenborough, Simon Blakeney

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