iCM Forum's Top 250 Highest Rated Documentaries

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Our highest rated documentaries with 5+ votes from IMDb vote histories provided by 57 members. Ties are sorted by highest number of votes.

Includes movies, TV movies, shorts, TV shorts and video.

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Thanks to themagician for creating the original versions of these lists.

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    Black Is... Black Ain't

    1994, in 2 top lists Check
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    Mix-Up ou Meli-melo

    1986, in 2 top lists Check
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    Dying at Grace

    2003, in 5 top lists Check
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    Domestic Violence

    2001, in 1 top list Check
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    From the Journals of Jean Seberg

    1995, in 1 top list Check
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    O.J.: Made in America

    2016, in 7 top lists Check
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    Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land

    2008 — a.k.a. Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, in 1 top list Check
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    My Kid Could Paint That

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
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    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
  10. 10 +7

    Landscape (for Manon)

    1987, in 0 top lists Check
  11. 11 -1

    Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

    2011, in 0 top lists Check
  12. 12 +1

    Winter Soldier

    1972, in 3 top lists Check
  13. 13 -1

    En forårsdag i Helvede

    1977 — a.k.a. A Sunday in Hell, in 1 top list Check
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    An Evening with Kevin Smith

    2002, in 0 top lists Check
  15. 15 +1

    Bergman och filmen, Bergman och teatern,...

    2004 — a.k.a. Bergman Island, in 1 top list Check
  16. 16 +2

    Bitter Lake

    2015, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 17 +2

    For the Bible Tells Me So

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  18. 18 +3

    Nazi Concentration Camps

    1945 — a.k.a. Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps, in 0 top lists Check
  19. 19 +3

    The Central Park Five

    2012, in 0 top lists Check
  20. 20 +3

    The Dawn Wall

    2017, in 0 top lists
    Check
  21. 21 new

    Loin du Vietnam

    1967 — a.k.a. Far from Vietnam, in 3 top lists Check
  22. 22 +4

    Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen

    2020 — a.k.a. Disclosure, in 1 top list
    Check
  23. 23 +4

    Petite fille

    2020 — a.k.a. Little Girl, in 1 top list
    Check
  24. 24 +1

    Exit Through the Gift Shop

    2010, in 1 top list Check
  25. 25 -1

    Hoop Dreams

    1994, in 15 top lists Check
  26. 26 -15

    Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges

    1989 — a.k.a. Images of the World and the Inscription of War, in 4 top lists Check
  27. 27 +1

    Whores' Glory

    2011, in 1 top list Check
  28. 28 -13

    Vesnoy

    1929 — a.k.a. In Spring, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 29 +1

    Juvenile Court

    1973, in 1 top list Check
  30. 30 -1

    Human

    2015, in 2 top lists Check
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    The Open Road

    1926, in 2 top lists Check
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    For All Mankind

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
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    Samsara

    2011, in 3 top lists Check
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    La deuxième nuit

    2016, in 1 top list Check
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    Path of Cessation

    1974, in 0 top lists
    Check
  36. 36 +4

    Pour le Mistral

    1966, in 0 top lists Check
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    American Dream

    1990, in 2 top lists Check
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    Let the Fire Burn

    2013, in 0 top lists Check
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    Liyana

    2017, in 0 top lists
    Check
  40. 40 +1

    Rabindranath Tagore

    1961, in 1 top list Check
  41. 41 +1

    Trouble the Water

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 42 +1

    Tyson

    2008, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 43 +1

    The King of Kong

    2007 — a.k.a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in 1 top list Check
  44. 44 +3

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
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    Il mio viaggio in Italia

    1999 — a.k.a. My Voyage to Italy, in 2 top lists Check
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    Grizzly Man

    2005, in 9 top lists Check
  47. 47 +1

    LA 92

    2017, in 2 top lists
    Check
  48. 48 +2

    Los Angeles Plays Itself

    2003, in 5 top lists Check
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    The Look of Silence

    2014, in 4 top lists Check
  50. 50 +1

    David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

    2020, in 2 top lists
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