Letterboxd's Official Top 250 Documentary Films
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A companion piece to Dave Vis' list of Letterboxd's official top 250 films of all-time, which excludes documentaries from consideration.
Ranked by average user rating. This list was extracted from here. Updated once a month. This is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron users. Expanded from a top 100 to a top 250 on June 27th, 2021, on the list's 3-year anniversary.
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ELIGIBILITY RULES:
• Documentaries must be feature-length (45+ minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release in its entirety.
• TV series, miniseries, and episodes are excluded but docs listed as 'TV movie' on IMDb are eligible. Exceptions made for series and episodes that also had a limited theatrical release.
• No featurettes unless theatrically distributed, even if feature-length (featurettes are marked as 'Video' on IMDb, such as 'making of' docs).
• In an attempt to combat unintentional fan manipulation, all music-adjacent films must have screened at a film festival to qualify.
• No standup comedy marked as a documentary, nor any stage shows. Exceptions may be made for borderline exceptions.
• Skateboarding compilations are excluded.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold.
NOT ON IMDB:
#115 Disintegration Loop 1.1 (2024, Basinski)
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Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
61 +3
Le chagrin et la pitié
1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check -
71 -3
Woodstock
1970, in 13 top lists Check -
83 -
American Masters: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005, in 0 top lists Check -
98 -4
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
107 -1
For All Mankind
1989, in 2 top lists Check -
108 +3
When We Were Kings
1996, in 7 top lists Check -
113 -3
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2003, in 5 top lists Check -
114 +1
Monterey Pop
1968, in 2 top lists Check -
125 -
102 Minutes That Changed America
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
128 +3
Om våld
2014 — a.k.a. Concerning Violence, in 1 top list Check -
141 +6
Obyknovennyy fashizm
1965 — a.k.a. Triumph Over Violence, in 6 top lists Check -
180 -5
Let the Fire Burn
2013, in 0 top lists Check -
208 -1
How to Survive a Plague
2012, in 0 top lists Check -
213 -2
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...
2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check -
215 -1
Night Will Fall
2014, in 0 top lists Check -
228 -5
4 Little Girls
1997, in 1 top list Check -
244 -8
Shakedown
2018, in 0 top lists Check -
247 -1
Pearl Jam Twenty
2011, in 1 top list Check
Last updated on Mar 28, 2024 by Chilton; source