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1.
Iconoclasts (2005–2012)
Episode:
Desmond Tutu and Richard Branson
(2008)
TV-14 | 46 min | Documentary
Outspoken human rights activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu of the Anglican Church of South Africa and British entrepreneur and adventurer Richard Branson
Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Richard Branson, Peter Gabriel, Desmond Tutu
Votes: 11
2. Op-Docs (2011– )
Documentary
Op-Docs is The New York Times editorial department's award-winning section for short, opinionated documentaries, produced with wide creative latitude and a range of artistic styles, ... See full summary »
Stars: Mo Rocca, Josiah Thompson, Casey Neistat, Logan Ireland
Votes: 37
3. College Behind Bars (2019– )
TV-14 | 222 min | Documentary
College Behind Bars is the inspiring, emotional, and deeply human story of men and women struggling to earn college degrees while in prison for serious crimes. In four years of study they ... See full summary »
Star: Wesley Caines
Votes: 307
4. Brick City (2009– )
TV-MA | 60 min | Documentary
Against great odds, Newark's citizens and its Mayor, Cory A. Booker, fight to raise the city out of nearly a half century of violence, poverty, and corruption. In the five one-hour episodes... See full summary »
Stars: Garry McCarthy, Cory Booker, Kyla McCarthy, Ras Baraka
Votes: 176
5. Hamilton's America (2016 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Documentary
Hamilton's America delves even deeper into the creation of the Hamilton musical, revealing Lin-Manuel Miranda's process of absorbing and then adapting Hamilton's epic story into groundbreaking musical theater.
Director: Alex Horwitz | Stars: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Paul Ryan
Votes: 1,188
6. Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
PG-13 | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
Director: Malik Bendjelloul | Stars: Rodriguez, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, Dennis Coffey, Mike Theodore
Votes: 72,977 | Gross: $3.97M
7. Independent Lens (1999– )
TV-14 | Documentary
Independent Lens is an award-winning PBS documentary series that streams on the PBS App and airs on public television. Independent Lens documentaries focus on stories of underrepresented ... See full summary »
Stars: America Ferrera, Terrence Howard, Stanley Tucci, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 635
8. Rent: The Final Days on Broadway (2009 Video)
37 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Paul Bozymowski, Jay Heyman | Stars: Will Chase, Luther Creek, Eden Espinosa, Renée Elise Goldsberry
Votes: 20
9. 9-Man (2014)
89 min | Documentary, History, Sport
'9-Man' is an independent feature documentary about an isolated and exceptionally athletic Chinese-American sport that's much more than a pastime. Since the 1930s, young men have played ... See full summary »
Director: Ursula Liang
Votes: 36
10. Looking Back on Love: Making Black and White America (2013)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary
Twenty-two years after he exploded onto the music scene, Lenny Kravitz creates the album he was born to make. The documentary, "Looking Back On Love", follows the journey behind the making ... See full summary »
Director: Mathieu Bitton | Stars: Donna Allen, Alex Alvarez, Jeff Ayeroff, Javier Bardem
Votes: 39
11. Summit on the Summit (2010 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Michael Bonfiglio | Stars: Jessica Biel, Lupe Fiasco, Emile Hirsch, Kenna
Votes: 27
12. P.O.V. (1988– )
60 min | Documentary
POV, a cinema term for "point of view," is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. Since 1988, POV has presented more than 300 of the best, boldest, and ... See full summary »
Stars: Stacey Abrams, Rashida Tlaib, Lucy McBath, Veronica Escobar
Votes: 245
13. Truth and Power (2016– )
30 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
This documentary series focuses on people who expose freedom-crushing practices in private corporations and the government.
Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Olivier Bancoult, David Vine, Richard Gifford
Votes: 99
14. Stand Up Planet (2013– )
The reality of life in some corners of the world seems like no laughing matter. But a new wave of international stand-up comedians is proving that laughing matters now more than ever. The ... See full summary »
Stars: James Adomian, Nate Bargatze, Tanmay Bhat, Michelle Buteau
Votes: 9
15. Dean of Invention (2010– )
28 min | Documentary
Watch Dean Kamen and Joanne Colan investigate some of the most exciting and cutting edge technology being developed. Prosthetics that allow disabled people to become hyper-abled, robots ... See full summary »
Stars: Dean Kamen, Joanne Colan
Votes: 9
16.
College Behind Bars (2019– )
Episode:
No One Ever Taught Me Any of That
(2019)
TV-14 | 58 min | Documentary
Incarcerated men and women are admitted to the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) and discover they are held to the same academic standards as students on the Bard College main campus.
Director: Lynn Novick
Votes: 19
17.
College Behind Bars (2019– )
Episode:
Home is a Work in Progress
(2019)
TV-14 | 57 min | Documentary
The debate team faces Harvard. Most seniors complete thesis projects but Giovannie is sent to SHU and might not finish his. Students at Taconic and Eastern celebrate at graduation.
Director: Lynn Novick
Votes: 19
18. How to Dance in Ohio (2015)
TV-G | 89 min | Documentary, Drama
In Columbus, Ohio, teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum prepare for an iconic American rite of passage -- a Spring Formal. They spend 12 weeks practicing their social skills in preparation for the dance at a local nightclub.
Director: Alexandra Shiva
Votes: 316
19. Iconoclasts (2005–2012)
TV-14 | 55 min | Documentary
Each episode explores the lives of two creative visionaries in an intimate setting and features an unpredictable exchange that reveals their life's work and the alchemy of their different fields.
Stars: James Franco, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Christy Turlington, Marina Abramovic
Votes: 219
20. Chavela (2017)
Unrated | 93 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of pioneering singer Chavela Vargas, from her birth in Costa Rica in 1919 to her death in Mexico in 2012.
Directors: Catherine Gund, Daresha Kyi | Stars: Eugenia León, Jesusa Rodríguez, Tania Libertad, Marcela Rodríguez
Votes: 1,167 | Gross: $0.15M
21.
College Behind Bars (2019– )
Episode:
I'm Trying to Get Home to My Family, Too
(2019)
TV-14 | 57 min | Documentary
Students address the difficult circumstances of their past. The debate team preps to face the University of Vermont. Some make strides academically, while others are accused of breaking prison rules.
Director: Lynn Novick | Star: Wesley Caines
Votes: 18
22. RBG (2018)
PG | 98 min | Documentary, Biography
The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon.
Directors: Julie Cohen, Betsy West | Stars: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Ann Kittner, Harryette Helsel, Nina Totenberg
Votes: 15,078 | Gross: $14.02M
23. I Am Evidence (2017)
TV-MA | 89 min | Documentary
An investigation into the way sexual assault cases are handled by police departments across the United States.
Directors: Trish Adlesic, Geeta Gandbhir | Stars: Gail Abarbanel, Richard Bell, Joe Biden, Carol Blass
Votes: 753
24. Down a Dark Stairwell (2020)
83 min | Documentary
On a fall day in 2014, Peter Liang, a Chinese American police officer, shot and killed an innocent, unarmed black man named Akai Gurley. Unfolding in the dark stairwell of a Brooklyn ... See full summary »
Director: Ursula Liang | Star: Lesley Steele
Votes: 70
25. Tough Love (I) (2014)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary, Drama, Family
Two parents fight through the tangled web of the United States foster care system to get custody of their children back.
Director: Stephanie Wang-Breal | Star: Gracie Garnet
Votes: 19
26. Love the Sinner (2017)
15 min | Documentary, Short
Love the Sinner is a short documentary exploring the connection between Christianity and homophobia in the wake of the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Directors: Jess Devaney, Geeta Gandbhir
Votes: 11
27.
College Behind Bars (2019– )
Episode:
Every Single Word Matters
(2019)
TV-14 | 58 min | Documentary
The debate team faces West Point. Seniors embark on their thesis projects. Rodney and Dyjuan's families visit, while Shawta reckons with her path to prison. Jule struggles to find work in New York.
Director: Lynn Novick
Votes: 17
28. Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
R | 122 min | Documentary, Drama, War
Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11 and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder
Votes: 132,446 | Gross: $119.19M
29. Britney: For the Record (2008 TV Movie)
68 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary that follows Britney Spears as she gears to release her sixth studio album and sets the record straight about the last few years of her life.
Director: Phil Griffin | Stars: Britney Spears, Jamie Spears, Larry Rudolph, Adam Leber
Votes: 1,097
30. Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
PG-13 | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.
Director: Kirsten Johnson | Stars: Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson
Votes: 7,244
31. Cameraperson (2016)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Exposing her role behind the camera, Kirsten Johnson reaches into the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. What emerges is a visually bold memoir and a revelatory interrogation of the power of the camera.
Director: Kirsten Johnson | Stars: Kirsten Johnson, Aisha Bukar, Eric W. Davis, Jacques Derrida
Votes: 3,257 | Gross: $0.10M
32. The Hunting Ground (2015)
PG-13 | 103 min | Documentary
An exposé of rape crimes on U.S. college campuses, their institutional cover-ups, and the devastating toll they take on students and their families.
Director: Kirby Dick | Stars: Andrea Pino, Annie Clark, Claire Potter, Melinda Manning
Votes: 6,488 | Gross: $0.41M
33. Love & Stuff (2020)
80 min | Documentary
Seven months after helping her terminally ill mother during the end of her life in home-hospice, filmmaker Judith Helfand becomes a "new old" single mother at 50. Overnight, she's pushed to... See full summary »
Directors: Judith Helfand, David Cohen | Star: Judith Helfand
Votes: 52
34. Crossings (2021)
94 min | Documentary
A group of international women peacemakers sets out on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people.
Director: Deann Borshay | Stars: Christine Ahn, Gloria Steinem, Mairead Maguire, Leymah Gbowee
Votes: 9
35.
Independent Lens (1999– )
Episode:
Trapped
(2016)
TV-14 | Documentary
Healthcare providers and others in Texas, Mississippi and Alabama fight new Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws designed to restrict abortion access.
Director: Dawn Porter | Stars: June Ayers, Kate Bernyk, Napoleon Bracy Jr., Callie Chatman
Votes: 12
36. Trouble the Water (2008)
Unrated | 93 min | Documentary
A redemptive tale of an aspiring rap artist surviving failed levees and her own troubled past and seizing a chance for a new beginning.
Directors: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin | Stars: Michael Brown, George W. Bush, Julie Chen Moonves, Ray Nagin
Votes: 2,073 | Gross: $0.52M
37. War Don Don (2010)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary
In Sierra Leone WAR DON DON puts international justice on trial for the world to see -- finding that in some cases the past is not just painful, it is also opaque.
Director: Rebecca Richman Cohen
Votes: 159
38.
Black and Missing (2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2021)
TV-MA | Documentary, Crime
Derrica and Natalie explore the emotional toll of missing persons cases on the families of those left behind.
Directors: Geeta Gandbhir, Nadia Hallgren, Samantha M. Knowles, Yoruba Richen | Stars: Derrica Wilson, Natalie Wilson
Votes: 21
39. The Show (II) (2021)
93 min | Documentary
The behind-the-scenes documentary chronicles the making of the 12-minute February 2021 performance, which was led by The Weeknd, helmed by 11-year Halftime director Hamish Hamilton and ... See full summary »
Director: Nadia Hallgren | Stars: Chris Borrero, Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, Charm La'Donna
Votes: 40
40. Motherland (I) (2017)
94 min | Documentary
Taking us into the heart of the planet's busiest maternity hospital, the viewer is dropped like an unseen outsider into the hospital's stream of activity. At first, the people are strangers... See full summary »
Director: Ramona S. Diaz
Votes: 247
41. Trapped (IV) (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
From 2011 to 2013, hundreds of regulations were passed restricting access to abortion in America. Reproductive rights advocates refer to these as "TRAP" laws, or Targeted Regulation of ... See full summary »
Director: Dawn Porter | Stars: June Ayers, Andrea Ferrigno, Gloria Gray, Dalton Johnson
Votes: 268
42. Lemon (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Drama
Ex-con turned poet/performer Lemon Andersen fights for an exit from generations of poverty by bringing his life's secrets to the New York stage. But revisiting his troubled past has more in... See full summary »
Directors: Laura Brownson, Beth Levison | Stars: Lemon Andersen, Claire Danes
Votes: 73
43. Becoming (II) (2020)
PG | 89 min | Documentary, Biography
Join former first lady Michelle Obama in an intimate documentary looking at her life, hopes and connection with others during her 2019 book tour for 'Becoming.'
Director: Nadia Hallgren | Stars: Elizabeth Alexander, Adrian K. Collins, Valerie Jarrett, Gayle King
Votes: 6,699
44. Untouchable (I) (2016)
105 min | Documentary
After discovering his daughter has been sexually abused, the most powerful lobbyist in Florida pushes the toughest sex offender laws in the county, with surprising and troublesome consequences.
Director: David Feige
Votes: 121
45. Cooked: Survival by Zip Code (2019)
76 min | Documentary
A life and death story about extreme heat, the politics of "disaster" and survival by zip code.
Director: Judith Helfand | Stars: Valerie Brown, Richard M. Daley, Michelle Landis Dauber, Edmund Donoghue
Votes: 91
46. Side by Side by Susan Blackwell (2009– )
Talk-Show
Stars: Susan Blackwell, Sutton Foster, Jonathan Groff, Heidi Blickenstaff
Votes: 53
47. Conscience Point (2019)
75 min | Documentary
Exposing a painful, quintessentially American geography, CONSCIENCE POINT unearths a deep clash of values between the Native American Shinnecock and their elite Hamptons neighbors, who have made sacred land their playground.
Director: Treva Wurmfeld
Votes: 58
48. Black and Missing (2021)
TV-MA | 214 min | Documentary, Crime
Follows Black and Missing Foundation founders, Derrica and Natalie Wilson, as they dive into specific cases and break down how systemic behaviors and attitudes stem from centuries of deeply rooted racism.
Stars: Natalie Wilson, Derrica Wilson, CeCe Moore
Votes: 278
49. King Georges (2015)
Unrated | 77 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary about Philadelphia restaurateur Georges Perrier and the closing of his iconic restaurant, Le Bec-Fin.
Director: Erika Frankel | Stars: Nicholas Elmi, Georges Perrier
Votes: 350 | Gross: $0.04M
50. The New Black (2013)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Drama, News
The New Black is an award-winning documentary that tells the story of how the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights.
Director: Yoruba Richen
Votes: 101