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The Best Documentary Movies of All Time

Stop Making Sense leads at 91, ahead of Man with a Movie Camera (88) and Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (88). 60 titles made the cut, ordered from highest Balasaur Score to lowest. The typical pick here scores 84, well above the catalog median of 66. The newest addition is Squid Game: Making Season 2, released in January 2025. The score blends IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, and TMDB ratings into one 0 to 100 number.

Scores run 91 down to 78. 31 of the 60 are from the 2010s. 20 of the 60 stream on Tubi.

60 titlesUpdated 2026-08-28Ranked by Balasaur Score

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