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727

Bowling for Columbine

documentary

2002

7.6

64,531

Michael Moore

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

503

Fahrenheit 9/11 (Fahrenheit 911)

documentary

2004

7.0

70,212

Michael Moore

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

450

Searching for Sugar Man

documentary

2012

8.0

28,293

Malik Bendjelloul

Documentary, Self: Sixto Rodríguez

309

Zeitgeist: The Movie

documentary

2007

7.4

22,057

Peter Joseph

Documentary

304

Baraka

documentary

1992

8.1

11,474

Ron Fricke

Documentary

289

Apocalypse: The Second World War

miniseriesdocumentary

2009

8.6

14,619

Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke

Documentary, Self: Mathieu Kassovitz

282

Planet Earth

tv seriesdocumentary

2006

8.5

16,021

Alastair Fothergill

Documentary

277

Super Size Me

documentary

2004

6.6

35,861

Morgan Spurlock

Documentary, Self: Morgan Spurlock

266

Inside Job

documentary

2010

7.6

19,372

Charles Ferguson

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

265

Sicko

documentary

2007

7.4

17,297

Michael Moore

Documentary, Self: Michael Moore

264

The Light Bulb Conspiracy

mediadocumentary

2010

7.8

13,819

Cosima Dannoritzer

Documentary

257

The Act of Killing

documentary

2012

7.8

8,097

Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Anonymous

Documentary

249

An Inconvenient Truth

documentary

2006

6.8

30,778

Davis Guggenheim

Documentary, Self: Al Gore

245

Cosmos

tv seriesdocumentary

1980

8.8

13,348

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

Documentary, Self: Carl Sagan

240

The Cove

documentary

2009

7.9

10,643

Louie Psihoyos

Documentary

235

March of the Penguins

documentary

2005

7.5

16,348

Luc Jacquet

Documentary

233

Man on Wire

documentary

2008

7.4

11,880

James Marsh

Documentary, Self: Philippe Petit

233

The Salt of the Earth

documentary

2014

8.1

9,865

Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado

Documentary, Self: Sebastião Salgado

226

Earth

documentary

2007

7.9

15,391

Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield

Documentary

218

Oceans

documentary

2009

8.0

12,801

Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud

Documentary, Self: Jacques Perrin, Lancelot Perrin

217

Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey

tv seriesdocumentary

2014

8.6

10,718

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

Documentary, Self: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Seth MacFarlane

198

Darwin's Nightmare

documentary

2004

7.6

6,987

Hubert Sauper

Documentary

198

Shoah

documentary

1985

8.4

4,095

Claude Lanzmann

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

196

Senna

documentary

2010

7.8

12,052

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

14,331

Banksy

Documentary, Self: Thierry Guetta, Banksy

189

Grizzly Man

documentary

2005

7.2

9,459

Werner Herzog

Documentary, Self: Timothy Treadwell

179

Capturing the Friedmans

documentary

2003

7.5

7,562

Andrew Jarecki

Documentary

172

Home

documentary

2009

7.9

9,463

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Documentary

165

Night and Fog

mediadocumentary

1956

8.2

5,823

Alain Resnais

Documentary, Voice: Michel Bouquet

157

Zeitgeist: Addendum

documentary

2008

7.3

9,237

Peter Joseph

Documentary

155

The Corporation

documentary

2003

7.8

4,306

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

5,206

Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross

Documentary

145

Isle of Flowers

short filmdocumentary

1989

8.0

10,134

Jorge Furtado

Documentary

142

Informe Robinson: Cuando fuimos campeones

episodedocumentary

2010

8.0

16,389

Michael Robinson, Román Escoda

Documentary, Self: Michael Robinson

142

Buena Vista Social Club

documentary

1999

7.7

7,342

Wim Wenders

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

139

When We Were Kings

documentary

1996

7.7

5,159

Leon Gast

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

137

Nanook of the North

documentary

1922

7.6

7,444

Robert J. Flaherty

Documentary

137

30 for 30: Once Brothers

documentaryTV

2010

8.0

6,159

Michael Tolajian

Documentary, Self: Vlade Divac

136

The Disenchantment

documentary

1976

7.9

6,932

Jaime Chávarri

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

136

My Octopus Teacher

documentary

2020

7.3

10,250

Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed

Documentary, Self: Craig Foster

134

The Last Dance

miniseriesdocumentary

2020

8.2

15,551

Jason Hehir

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

129

Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance

documentary

1982

7.8

5,141

Godfrey Reggio

Documentary

129

Samsara

documentary

2011

8.2

3,945

Ron Fricke

Documentary

127

The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone

documentary

2003

6.8

12,731

Julio Medem

Documentary

125

Planet Earth II

miniseriesdocumentary

2016

8.9

4,414

Elizabeth White, Justin Anderson, Ed Charles

Documentary, Self: David Attenborough

125

The Imposter

documentary

2012

7.1

7,569

Bart Layton

Documentary

123

Blackfish

documentary

2013

7.3

6,436

Gabriela Cowperthwaite

Documentary

122

Earthlings

documentary

2005

7.8

4,706

Shaun Monson

Documentary, Self: Joaquin Phoenix

121

The Look of Silence

documentary

2014

7.8

2,330

Joshua Oppenheimer

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

120

The Gleaners and I

documentary

2000

7.6

4,649

Agnès Varda

Documentary

117

Amy

documentary

2015

7.3

12,713

Asif Kapadia

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

116

En construcción

documentary

2001

7.2

7,112

José Luis Guerín

Documentary

114

The Man with the Movie Camera

documentary

1929

8.1

6,299

Dziga Vertov

Documentary

108

Human Planet

miniseriesdocumentary

2011

8.4

2,639

Nicolas Brown, Mark Flowers, Tom Hugh-Jones

Documentary, Self: John Hurt

106

The World at War

tv seriesdocumentary

1974

8.4

5,551

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

4,352

Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski

Documentary

104

Wild Wild Country

miniseriesdocumentary

2018

7.4

7,523

Chapman Way, Maclain Way

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

104

Winged Migration

documentary

2001

7.5

4,672

Jacques Perrin, Michel Debats, Jacques Cluzaud

Documentary

104

The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst

miniseriesdocumentary

2015

7.9

7,623

Andrew Jarecki

Documentary

103

Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music

search result concert

1970

7.8

5,557

Michael Wadleigh

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

103

Citizenfour

documentary

2014

7.2

6,797

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

6,534

Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar

Documentary

101

El hombre y la Tierra

tv seriesdocumentary

1974

7.8

15,483

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

3,609

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

5,199

Martin Scorsese

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

Land Without Bread

mediadocumentary

1933

7.4

7,874

Luis Buñuel

Documentary

Apocalypse: The First World War

miniseriesdocumentary

2014

8.4

3,850

Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke

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

Life

miniseriesdocumentary

2009

8.4

2,904

Simon Blakeney, Stephen Lyle

Documentary, Self: David Attenborough, Oprah Winfrey

To Be and to Have

documentary

2002

7.5

4,647

Nicolas Philibert

Documentary

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

documentary

1991

7.6

4,128

Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola

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

F. for Fake

documentary

1973

7.6

5,481

Orson Welles

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

Touching The Void

documentary

2003

7.5

3,951

Kevin Macdonald

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

Triumph of the Will

documentary

1935

7.4

5,288

Leni Riefenstahl

Documentary, Self: Adolf Hitler, Josef Goebbels

Human

documentary

2015

8.3

1,965

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Documentary

Promises

documentary

2001

7.9

2,484

Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolado

Documentary

Making a Murderer

tv seriesdocumentary

2015

7.9

7,493

Moira Demos, Laura Ricciardi

Documentary, Self: Steven Avery

Our Planet

tv seriesdocumentary

2019

8.5

3,162

David Attenborough (Creator), Adam Chapman ...

Documentary, Self: David Attenborough

The Battle of Chile: Part 1: The Bourgeois Insurrection

documentary

1975

8.2

1,650

Patricio Guzmán

Documentary, Self: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández

The Last Waltz

search result concert

1978

7.9

4,730

Martin Scorsese

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

Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle

documentary

2017

7.2

10,376

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

8,753

Jeff Orlowski

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

Dream Of Light

documentary

1992

7.4

5,640

Víctor Erice

Documentary, Self: Antonio López

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret

documentary

2014

7.4

2,363

Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn

Documentary, Self: William Potter

The Century of the Self

miniseriesdocumentary

2002

8.1

1,050

Adam Curtis

Documentary

Las alas de la vida (The Wings of Life)

documentary

2006

7.9

3,089

Antoni P. Canet

Documentary, Self: Carlos Cristos

Free Solo

documentary

2018

7.4

5,920

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

1,914

Carles Bosch, Josep Maria Doménech

Documentary

Ciutat morta (Ciudad muerta)

documentary

2014

7.5

5,129

Xavier Artigas, Xapo Ortega

Documentary

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

documentary

1996

7.8

2,199

Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

Documentary

Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler

miniseriesdocumentary

2011

7.9

3,823

Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke

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

3,104

Robert Kenner

Documentary

Microcosmos

documentary

1996

7.6

1,904

Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou

Documentary

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

documentary

2011

7.5

2,622

Peter Joseph

Documentary

Encounters at the End of The World

documentary

2007

7.4

2,475

Werner Herzog

Documentary

100

Africa

miniseriesdocumentary

2013

8.5

1,723

David Attenborough (Creator), Katrina Bartlam, Felicity Egerton

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

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