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Last film added: January 25, 2021. There are currently 1678 films in the database (since 1996).

Documentaries and "True" Films (1996-2026)

Search returned all documentary/biography films out of 1678 total rated films.

History films, war films and those "Based on a True Story" are also included.

MASTERPIECES

Adaptation. (2002) 10
Apollo 11 (2019) 10
Dance of Reality, The (2014) 10
Endless Poetry (2017) 10
Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) 10
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control (1997) 10
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) 10
Hurt Locker, The (2009) 10
I Am Not Your Negro (2016) 10
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) 10
Inglourious Basterds (2009) 10
Persepolis (2007) 10
Planet Earth (2006) 10
Searching for Sugar Man (2012) 10
Social Network, The (2010) 10
Waltz with Bashir (2008) 10

EXCELLENT

12 Years a Slave (2013) 9
127 Hours (2011) 9
13th (2016) 9
1917 (2019) 9
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) 9
American Hustle (2013) 9
American Movie (1999) 9
American Splendor (2003) 9
Argo (2012) 9
Atonement (2007) 9
Beginners (2011) 9
Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey (2011) 9
Blackfish (2013) 9
Capote (2005) 9
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2011) 9
Citizenfour (2014) 9
Cold War (2018) 9
Cove, The (2009) 9
Cutie and the Boxer (2013) 9
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) 9
Dark Days (2000) 9
Departed, The (2006) 9
Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The (2007) 9
DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010) 9
Dunkirk (2017) 9
Encounters at the End of the World (2008) 9
Faces Places (2017) 9
Fighter, The (2010) 9
Finding Neverland (2004) 9
Food, Inc. (2009) 9
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) 9
Grizzly Man (2005) 9
Helvetica (2007) 9
Hidden Figures (2017) 9
How to Die in Oregon (2011) 9
Hype! (1996) 9
In Pursuit of Panama (2009) 9
Incendies (2011) 9
Inconvenient Truth, An (2006) 9
Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries, The (2013) 9
Inside Job (2010) 9
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) 9
Into the Wild (2007) 9
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) 9
Jodorowsky's Dune (2014) 9
King's Speech, The (2010) 9
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Seasons 1-4 (2017) 9
Meeting People Is Easy (1999) 9
Monster (2003) 9
My Winnipeg (2008) 9
No Man's Land (2001) 9
Pianist, The (2002) 9
Pixar Story, The (2008) 9
Room 237 (2013) 9
Selma (2015) 9
Senna (2011) 9
Shine (1996) 9
Spotlight (2015) 9
Squid and the Whale, The (2005) 9
Steve Jobs (2015) 9
Straight Story, The (1999) 9
Three Kings (1999) 9
Through the Wormhole - Season 1 (2010) 9
Torrey Pines (2016) 9
Turtles Can Fly (2005) 9
Vera Drake (2004) 9
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (2008) 9
Wind Rises, The (2013) 9
Winged Migration (2001) 9
Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) 9
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) 9

VERY GOOD

180° South: Conquerors of the Useless (2010) 8
300 (2007) 8
50/50 (2011) 8
5 Broken Cameras (2012) 8
Abel Raises Cain (2005) 8
Almost Famous (2000) 8
American Gangster (2007) 8
Art & Copy (2009) 8
Bag It (2011) 8
Beautiful Losers (2009) 8
Before Night Falls (2000) 8
Between the Folds (2008) 8
Big Short, The (2015) 8
Blood Into Wine (2010) 8
Boogie Nights (1997) 8
Bowling for Columbine (2002) 8
Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football (2008) 8
Buena Vista Social Club (1999) 8
Catch Me If You Can (2002) 8
Che: Part One (2009) 8
City Dark, The (2012) 8
Clear Cut: The Story of Philomath, Oregon (2006) 8
CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap (2015) 8
Conjuring, The (2013) 8
Constant Gardener, The (2005) 8
Constantly Wrong: The Case Against Conspiracy Theories (2020) 8
Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey - Episodes 1-7 (2014) 8
Dangerous Method, A (2011) 8
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) 8
David Lynch: The Art Life (2017) 8
Everything is a Remix (2012) 8
Experimenter (2015) 8
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) 8
Farewell, The (2019) 8
Fast Food Nation (2006) 8
Finding Vivian Maier (2013) 8
Forks Over Knives (2011) 8
Freedom on the Fence (2005) 8
Frost/Nixon (2008) 8
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee - Seasons 1-2 (2017) 8
Gather (2020) 8
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005) 8
Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman, A (2015) 8
Grandmaster, The (2013) 8
Green Book (2018) 8
Hilary and Jackie (1998) 8
How the Fire Fell (2011) 8
Imitation Game, The (2014) 8
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) 8
In This Corner of the World (2017) 8
Indie Game: The Movie (2012) 8

GOOD

InnSæi: The Sea Within (2016) 7
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 8
Insider, The (1999) 8
Invisible War, The (2012) 8
King Corn (2007) 8
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, The (2007) 8
Kundun (1997) 8
Light Bulb Conspiracy: The Untold Story of Planned Obsole... (2011) 8
Lincoln (2012) 8
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016) 8
Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009) 8
Loving Vincent (2017) 8
Man on the Moon (1999) 8
Messenger, The (2009) 8
Milk (2008) 8
Mindscape of Alan Moore, The (2003) 8
Miss Hokusai (2016) 8
Moneyball (2011) 8
More Tales from the Script (2010) 8
Motorcycle Diaries, The (2004) 8
My Octopus Teacher (2020) 8
Oceans (2010) 8
October Sky (1999) 8
Paragraph 175 (2000) 8
Persuaders, The (2004) 8
Purge (2013) 8
RBG (2018) 8
Reel Injun (2009) 8
Regret to Inform (1998) 8
Rescue Dawn (2007) 8
Road to Roma (2020) 8
Rock-afire Explosion, The (2008) 8
Russian Ark (2002) 8
Séraphine (2009) 8
Social Dilemma, The (2020) 8
Startup.com (2001) 8
Strange Negotiations (2019) 8
Syriana (2005) 8
Tales from the Script (2009) 8
Tangerines (2015) 8
Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009) 8
Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013) 8
These Amazing Shadows: The Movies That Make America (2011) 8
Thin Red Line, The (1998) 8
This is Not a Conspiracy Theory (2020) 8
Theory of Everything, The (2014) 8
Tim's Vermeer (2013) 8
Topsy-Turvy (1999) 8
Trump, QAnon and the Return of Magic (2020) 8
Vanishing of the Bees (2011) 8
Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) 8
Waste Land (2011) 8
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within (2010) 8
Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007) 8
Zodiac (2007) 8
Across the Universe (2007) 7
Agora (2010) 7
Aimée & Jaguar (1999) 7
Amistad (1997) 7
Angela's Ashes (1999) 7
Atom Smashers, The (2008) 7
Beautiful Mind, A (2001) 7
Bernard and Doris (2008) 7
Big River (2010) 7
Big Sur (2013) 7
Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, The (2011) 7
Blank City (2011) 7
Bomb It (2008) 7
Boys Don't Cry (1999) 7
Brief History of Graphics, A (2014) 7
Calles Hablan, Las (2013) 7
Cat's Meow, The (2001) 7
Che: Part Two (2009) 7
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011) 7
Dark Star: H.R. Giger's World (2014) 7
Dolphin Tale (2011) 7
Drakmar: A Vassal's Journey (2008) 7
East/West (1999) 7
FairyTale: A True Story (1997) 7
FL: Unpremeditated Movie (2013) 7
For No Good Reason (2014) 7
From Hell (2001) 7
From One Second to the Next (2013) 7
Gia (1998) 7
Gods and Monsters (1998) 7
Good Shepherd, The (2006) 7
Great Directors (2010) 7
Hello World: Confronting Bias in Software (2020) 7
Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil (2016) 7
Home (2009) 7
Hurricane, The (1999) 7
Ingredients (2009) 7
Into the Inferno (2016) 7
Iris (2002) 7
It Might Get Loud (2009) 7
Jarhead (2005) 7
Journey of the Universe (2011) 7
Just Like Being There (2012) 7
Kill Your Darlings (2013) 7
Knee Deep (2007) 7
Lawless (2012) 7
Last Days of the Arctic (2011) 7
Pearl Jam: Let's Play Two (2017) 7
Live from Baghdad (2002) 7
Malèna (2001) 7
Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2016) 7
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010) 7
My Week with Marilyn (2011) 7
Nowhere Boy (2010) 7
Objectified (2009) 7
Pompeii: The Last Day (2003) 7
Pollock (2000) 7
Quills (2000) 7
Radiant City (2007) 7
Religulous (2008) 7
Rewind This! (2013) 7
Rise and Fall of the Seattle CHOP, The (2020) 7
Rosewater (2014) 7
Rum Diary, The (2011) 7
Saving Capitalism (2017) 7
Saving Private Ryan (1998) 7
Seven Years in Tibet (1997) 7
Shadow of the Vampire (2000) 7
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016) 7
Snowden (2016) 7
Soaked in Bleach (2015) 7
Sons of Perdition (2010) 7
Son of the Congo (2015) 7
Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008) 7
Summer of Sam (1999) 7
Super Size Me (2004) 7
Surviving Picasso (1996) 7
Teach Us All (2017) 7
Unlikely (2019) 7
Vegucated (2011) 7
Vine of the Soul: Encounters with Ayahuasca (2010) 7
Who is Dayani Cristal? (2014) 7
Who Took Johnny (2015) 7
Wild Man Blues (1997) 7
WITH: A Documentary & Concert Film About Sylvan Esso (2020) 7
World's Fastest Indian, The (2005) 7

FAIR

9 Songs (2005) 6
Beat Hotel, The (2012) 6
Blow (2001) 6
Blue Crush (2002) 6
Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary (2009) 6
Civil Action, A (1998) 6
Colony (2010) 6
Enemy at the Gates (2001) 6
Erin Brockovich (2000) 6
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) 6
Girl, Interrupted (1999) 6
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics (2020) 6
Hidalgo (2004) 6
Hot Girls Wanted (2015) 6
How Beer Saved the World (2011) 6
Hyde Park on Hudson (2012) 6
Ingenious (2009) 6
Kingdom, The (2007) 6
Lovelace (2013) 6
Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, The (1999) 6
New World, The (2005) 6
On the Road (2012) 6
Permanent Midnight (1998) 6
Pushing Tin (1999) 6
Salinger (2013) 6
Soloist, The (2009) 6
Student Services (2011) 6
Trekkies (1999) 6
Tulse Luper Suitcases: The Moab Story, The (2003) 6
Veronica Guerin (2003) 6
We Were Soldiers (2002) 6
Wild Blue Yonder, The (2005) 6
Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2008) 6

ADEQUATE

FROM BAD TO WORSE

Statistical ratings distribution of these 324 films

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6.5

CRAP

0

4

7.7

10:

4.9%

9:

21.9%

8:

32.4%

7:

26.9%

6:

10.2%

5:

2.5%

CRAP:

1.2%

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