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Best Documentaries of the 21st century

1000 top rated Documentaries on Filmaffinity so far this century

- 1
- Human
  
  documentary
  2015
  
  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  
  Documentary
- 8.3
  
  2,007
- 2
- Samsara
  
  documentary
  2011
  
  Ron Fricke
  
  Documentary
- 8.2
  
  3,994
- 3
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  
  documentary
  2000
  
  Jonas Mekas
  
  Documentary
- 8.2
  
  581
- 4
- Life of Crime 1984-2020
  
  documentary
  2021
  
  Jon Alpert
  
  Documentary, Freddie Rodriguez, Deliris Vasquez, Robert Steffey
- 8.2
  
  594
- 5
- The Salt of the Earth
  
  documentary
  2014
  
  Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
  
  Documentary, Self: Sebastião Salgado
- 8.1
  
  10,004
- 6
- La Commune (Paris 1871)
  
  documentary
  2000
  
  Peter Watkins
  
  Documentary
- 8.0
  
  556
- 7
- Heima
  
  documentary
  2007
  
  Dean DeBlois
  
  Documentary, Self: Jon Thor Birgisson, Orri P. Dyrason, Georg Holm, Kjartan Sveinsson
- 8.0
  
  2,097
- 8
- Informe Robinson: Cuando fuimos campeones
  
  episodedocumentary
  2010
  
  Michael Robinson, Román Escoda
  
  Documentary, Self: Michael Robinson, Sergio Busquets, Iker Casillas, Vicente Del Bosque ...
- 8.0
  
  16,496
- 9
- Searching for Sugar Man
  
  documentary
  2012
  
  Malik Bendjelloul
  
  Documentary, Self: Sixto Rodríguez
- 8.0
  
  28,563
- 10
- David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
  
  documentary
  2020
  
  Alastair Fothergill, Jonathan Hughes, Keith Scholey
  
  Documentary, Self: David Attenborough
- 8.0
  
  2,822
- 11
- Oceans
  
  documentary
  2009
  
  Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud
  
  Documentary, Self: Jacques Perrin, Lancelot Perrin
- 8.0
  
  12,832
- 12
- Queen: Days of Our Lives (TV)
  
  documentary
  2011
  
  Matt O'Casey
  
  Documentary, Self: Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon, Jim Beach ...
- 8.0
  
  963
- 13
- Informe Robinson: Michael Robinson - Good, Better, Best
  
  episodedocumentary
  2020
  
  Román Escoda
  
  Documentary, Self: Michael Robinson
- 8.0
  
  1,097
- 14
- Ennio: The Maestro
  
  documentary
  2021
  
  Giuseppe Tornatore
  
  Documentary, Self: Ennio Morricone, Quentin Tarantino, Clint Eastwood, Hans Zimmer ...
- 8.0
  
  2,036
- 15
- Home
  
  documentary
  2009
  
  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  
  Documentary, Narrator: Glenn Close, Jacques Gamblin, Salma Hayek, Zdeněk Svěrák, Zhou Xun
- 7.9
  
  9,484
- 16
- The Cove
  
  documentary
  2009
  
  Louie Psihoyos
  
  Documentary
- 7.9
  
  10,692
- 17
- Earth
  
  documentary
  2007
  
  Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
  
  Documentary
- 7.9
  
  15,410
- 18
- Las alas de la vida (The Wings of Life)
  
  documentary
  2006
  
  Antoni P. Canet
  
  Documentary, Self: Carlos Cristos
- 7.9
  
  3,096
- 19
- Survive and Advance
  
  episodedocumentary
  2013
  
  Jonathan Hock
  
  Documentary
- 7.9
  
  341
- 20
- Promises
  
  documentary
  2001
  
  Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg, Carlos Bolado
  
  Documentary
- 7.9
  
  2,490
- 21
- The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall
  
  documentary
  2011
  
  Nick Morris, Laurence Connor
  
  Documentary, Self: Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess, Hadley Fraser, Wendy Ferguson ...
- 7.9
  
  644
- 22
- Proven Facts
  
  documentary
  2021
  
  Alejo Moreno
  
  Documentary
- 7.8
  
  347
- 23
- Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
  
  documentary
  2010
  
  Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen, Mike Munn
  
  Documentary, Self: Rush, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, Alex Lifeson ...
- 7.8
  
  360
- 24
- Pearl Jam Twenty
  
  documentary
  2011
  
  Cameron Crowe
  
  Documentary
- 7.8
  
  1,674
- 25
- The Look of Silence
  
  documentary
  2014
  
  Joshua Oppenheimer
  
  Documentary, Self: Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Inong Kemat ...
- 7.8
  
  2,382
- 26
- The Children of Leningradsky
  
  mediadocumentary
  2004
  
  Hanna Polak, Andrzej Celinski
  
  Documentary
- 7.8
  
  4,373
- 27
- End of the Century
  
  documentary
  2003
  
  Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia
  
  Documentary
- 7.8
  
  768
- 28
- Senna
  
  documentary
  2010
  
  Asif Kapadia
  
  Documentary, Self: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell, Ron Dennis, Jean-Marie Balestre ...
- 7.8
  
  12,317
- 29
- The Velvet Queen
  
  documentary
  2021
  
  Marie Amiguet
  
  Documentary, Self: Vincent Munier, Sylvain Tesson
- 7.8
  
  1,233
- 30
- The Dawn Wall
  
  documentary
  2017
  
  Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer
  
  Documentary
- 7.8
  
  2,442

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