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IMDB - Top 50 Documentary Movies

The Internet Movie Database’s 50 highest-rated documentaries, as voted by their users. Since these are documentaries, they are not included in IMDb’s Top 250 (see http://www.listsofbests.com/list/1004 for those). Many of these documentaries would rank highly enough to be included in the 200 top-rated movies otherwise.

(Last update: June 4, 2009)

(found at: http://imdb.com/chart/documentary)
1. Heima  
2. Night and Fog - Criterion Collection
by Alain Resnais
  
3. Dear Zachary:A Letter to a Son About His Father
by Kurt Kuenne
  
4. Bob Dylan - No Direction Home  
5.
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 concert for george  
6. The Sorrow and the Pity  
7.
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 Isle of Flowers (Ilha das Flores)
by Jorge Furtado
  
8. The Times of Harvey Milk
by Rob Epstein
  
9. Promises  
10.
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 Iron Maiden: Flight 666  
11.
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 American Zeitgeist
by Rob McGann
  
12. My Flesh and Blood
by Jonathan Karsh
  
13. The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
by Brett Harvey
  
14. Runnin' Down a Dream (2 DVD)
by Peter Bogdanovich
  
15. Hearts and Minds - Criterion Collection
by Peter Davis (II)
  
16.
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 U2 3D  
17. Nirvana "Live ! Tonight ! Sold Out ! "DVD  
18. Harlan County, U.S.A. - Criterion Collection  
19. No End in Sight
by Charles Ferguson (III)
  
20. Lake of Fire (Sub)
by Tony Kaye
  
21.
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 Anvil! The Story of Anvil
by Sacha Gervasi
  
22. Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
by Bruce Sinofsky
  
23.
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 The War Game  
24. Man With the Movie Camera
by Dziga Vertov
  
25. Common Threads - Stories from the Quilt
by Jeffrey Friedman
  
26.
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 Before Flying Back to Earth (Pries parskrendant i zeme)
by Arunas Matelis
  
27.
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 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
by Seth Gordon
  
28. The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara  
29. Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who  
30.
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 Sicko
by Michael Moore (II)
  
31.
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 Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination
by Abraham Zapruder
  
32. EARTHLINGS  
33. My Voyage to Italy  
34. Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut)
by Adrian Maben
  
35. The House Is Black
by Forugh Farrokhzad
  
36.
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 Ordinary Fascism (aka Everyday Fascism; Triumph over Violence; Echo of the Jackboot; A Night of Thoughts)(Obyknovennyi fashizm) (1965)
by Mikhail Romm
  
37.
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 Chernobyl Heart
by Maryann DeLeo
  
38. The Corporation
by Jennifer Abbott
  
39. Lessons of Darkness / Fata Morgana  
40. Occupation 101 - Voices of the Silenced Majority (Documentary)
by Sufyan Omeish
  
41. White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by Steven Okazaki
  
42. Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet  
43. Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
by Ken Burns
  
44. Bowling for Columbine  
45. Please Vote for Me (Sub)
by Chen Weijun
  
46.
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 For All Mankind
by Al Reinert
  
47.
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 Edificio Master  
48. Little Dieter needs to Fly  
49.
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 Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
by Leni Riefenstahl
  
50.
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 Baraka (1992)
by Ron Fricke
  
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Created by Mary Hawkins on Aug 07, 2006.