| 8.6 |  | Koyaanisqatsi | 1982 | Documentary Music | Godfrey Reggio | Lou Dobbs, Ted Koppel | * 3.7/5 |
| 8.4 | | The Look of Silence | 2014 | Documentary Biography History | Joshua Oppenheimer | Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan | * 3.7/5 |
| 8.4 | | The Act of Killing | 2012 | Documentary Crime UK | Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous (co-director) | Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin | * 3.9/5 |
| 8.2 | | Pina | 2011 | Documentary Germany | Wim Wenders | Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo | * 3.7/5 |
| 8.2 | | Exit Through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Documentary Comedy Crime History UK | Banksy | Banksy, Mr. Brainwash, Space Invader | * 3.9/5 |
| 8.2 | | Dear Pyongyang | 2005 | Documentary Japan | Yong-hi Yang | | |
| 8.0 | | Where to Invade Next | 2015 | Documentary Comedy | Michael Moore | Michael Moore, Johnny Fancelli, Christina Fancelli | * 4.0/5 |
| 8.0 | | The Road to Guantanamo | 2006 | Documentary Drama War UK | Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom | Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui | * 3.5/5 |
| 8.0 | | Powerless | 2013 | Documentary Drama | Deepti Kakkar (co-director), Fahad Mustafa (co-director) | Ritu Maheshwari, Loha Singh, Irfan Solanki | |
| 7.9 | | Zero Days | 2016 | Documentary | Alex Gibney | David Sanger, Emad Kiyaei, Eric Chien | * 3.4/5 |
| 7.9 | | The Pearl Button | 2015 | Documentary France | Patricio Guzmán | Patricio Guzman, Ral Zurita | * 2.9/5 |
| 7.9 | | The Music of Strangers Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble | 2015 | Documentary Music | Morgan Neville | Yo-Yo Ma, Kinan Azmeh, Kayhan Kalhor | |
| 7.8 | | The Living Desert | 1953 | Family Documentary | James Algar | Winston Hibler | * * |
| 7.8 | | The Human Dutch | 1964 | Documentary Netherlands | Bert Haanstra | Simon Carmiggelt, Bert Haanstra, Peter Ustinov | |
| 7.8 | | Standard Operating Procedure | 2008 | Documentary Crime War | Errol Morris | Megan Ambuhl Graner, Javal Davis, Ken Davis | * 3.5/5 |
| 7.5 | | Shine a Light | 2008 | Documentary Biography Music | Martin Scorsese | Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts | * 3.1/5 |
| 7.5 | | Nevinost bez zastite | 1968 | Documentary Comedy Drama Yugoslavia | Dusan Makavejev | Dragoljub Aleksic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic, Vera Jovanovic | |
| 7.5 | | Germany in Autumn | 1978 | Documentary Drama West Germany | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Alf Brustellin | Wolfgang Bachler, Heinz Bennent, Wolf Biermann | |
| 7.4 | | Strike a Pose | 2016 | Documentary Music Netherlands | Ester Gould, Reijer Zwaan | Madonna, Luis Camacho, Jose Guitierez | |
| 7.4 | | Afternoon of a Champion | 1972 | Documentary UK | Frank Simon, Roman Polanski (uncredited) | Jackie Stewart, Roman Polanski, Grace Kelly | |
| 7.2 | | Le sabotier du Val de Loire | 1956 | Documentary Short Drama France | Jacques Demy | Yves Demy, Georges Rouquier | |
| 7.1 | | Politics Instructions Manual | 2016 | Documentary Spain | Fernando León de Aranoa | Carolina Bescansa, Manuela Carmena, Ada Colau | |
| 7.1 | | National Bird | 2016 | Documentary | Sonia Kennebeck | Jesselyn Radack | |
| 7.1 | | Garrincha Hero of the Jungle | 1963 | Documentary Sport Brazil | Joaquim Pedro de Andrade | Heron Domingues, Garrincha | |
| 7.1 | | Fire at Sea | 2016 | Documentary Italy | Gianfranco Rosi | Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina, Samuele Caruana | * * |
| 7.0 | | The Vanishing Prairie | 1954 | Documentary Family | James Algar | Winston Hibler | * * |
| 7.0 | | The African Lion | 1955 | Family Documentary | James Algar | Winston Hibler | * * |
| 7.0 | | Secrets of Life | 1956 | Documentary Family | James Algar | Winston Hibler | |
| 7.0 | | Mapplethorpe Look at the Pictures | 2016 | Documentary Biography | Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato | Nancy Rooney, Harry Mapplethorpe, George Stack | |
| 7.0 | | In Cold Blood | 2015 | Documentary History | Matthew Thomason | Tony Robinson | * 3.6/5 |
| 7.0 | | In Beaver Valley | 1950 | Documentary Short Family | James Algar | Winston Hibler, Mogens Lind | |
| 7.0 | | Devils Freedom | 2017 | Documentary Mexico | Everardo González | | |
| 7.0 | | Beuys | 2017 | Documentary Germany | Andres Veiel | Joseph Beuys, Caroline Tisdall, Rhea Thonges-Stringaris | |
| 6.7 | | Europe She Loves | 2016 | Documentary Switzerland | Jan Gassmann | | |
| 6.5 | | The Lovers and the Despot | 2016 | Documentary Thriller UK | Ross Adam, Robert Cannan | Eun-hie Choi, Paul Courtenay Hyu, Sang-ok Shin | |
| 6.2 | | Casting JonBenet | 2017 | Documentary | Kitty Green | Hannah Cagwin, Aeona Cruz, Liv Bagley | * 3.0/5 |
| 6.1 | | Whos Gonna Love Me Now | 2016 | Documentary Israel | Barak Heymann, Tomer Heymann | Saar Maoz, Alon, London Gay Mens Chorus Band | |
| 6.0 | | Weekends | 2016 | Documentary South Korea | Dong-ha Lee | | |
| 6.0 | | Uncle Howard | 2016 | Documentary Biography | Aaron Brookner, Aaron Brookner | Aaron Brookner, John Giorno, Jim Jarmusch | |
| 6.0 | | The Seventh Fire | 2015 | Documentary Drama Family | Jack Pettibone Riccobono | | * 2.7/5 |
| 6.0 | | The Seasons in Quincy Four Portraits of John Berger | 2016 | Documentary Biography UK | Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe | John Berger, Tilda Swinton | |
| 6.0 | | The Garden of Stones | 1976 | Documentary Iran | Parviz Kimiavi | Darvish Khan Esfandiarpoor | |
| 6.0 | | The 727 Days Without Karamo | 2013 | Documentary Drama Austria | Anja Salomonowitz | | |
| 6.0 | | Stemple Pass | 2012 | Documentary | James Benning | | |
| 6.0 | | No Place for Wild Animals | 1956 | Documentary West Germany | Bernhard Grzimek, Michael Grzimek | Viktor de Kowa, Svend Methling, Carleton Young | |
| 6.0 | | My Way | 2012 | Documentary Adventure Drama Music | Dominique Mollee, Vinny Sisson | Jamie Adler, Steven Adler, Annika Alliksoo | * 4.2/5 |
| 6.0 | | In the Intense Now | 2017 | Documentary History Brazil | João Moreira Salles | | |
| 6.0 | | Hotel Dallas | 2016 | Documentary Drama Fantasy | Sherng-Lee Huang, Livia Ungur | Maria Croitoru, Patrick Duffy, Larry Hagman | |
| 6.0 | | Dont Blink Robert Frank | 2015 | Documentary Biography History | Laura Israel | Robert Frank, June Leaf, Yichi Hibi | |
| 6.0 | | Curumim | 2016 | Documentary Drama Brazil | Marcos Prado | | |
| 6.0 | | Challenge in the Snow | 1968 | Documentary Sport France | Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach | Peggy Fleming, Jean-Claude Killy, Dalida | |
| 6.0 | | Adrianas Pact | 2017 | Documentary Chile | Lissette Orozco | Adriana Rivas, Lissette Orozco | |
| 6.0 | | 7th Heaven | 2003 | Documentary Norway | Steffan Strandberg | David Boyd, Tatjana Lars Kristian Guldbrandsen | * 3.5/5 |
| 5.5 | | Indignados | 2012 | Documentary France | Tony Gatlif | Mamebetty Honore Diallo | |
| 5.0 | | Tough Love | 2014 | Documentary Drama Family | Stephanie Wang-Breal | Erin Verlander | * 2.2/5 |
| 5.0 | | To the Wolf | 2013 | Documentary Drama Greece | Aran Hughes, Christina Koutsospyrou | Giorgos Katsaros, Ilias Katsaros, Spiridoula Katsarou | |
| 5.0 | | The Undefeated | 1949 | Documentary Short UK | Paul Dickson | Gerald Pearson, Leo Genn, Noel Coleman | |
| 5.0 | | The Trial the State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov | 2017 | Documentary Estonia | Askold Kurov | Oleg Sentsov, Vladimir Putin, Victor Yanukovich | |
| 5.0 | | The Story of Time | 1951 | Documentary Animation Short UK | Michael Stainer-Hutchins (story) | | |
| 5.0 | | My Wonderful West Berlin | 2017 | Documentary Biography History Germany | Jochen Hick | Mabel Aschenneller, Wolfgang Cihlarz, Rolf Eden | |
| 5.0 | | Mozart Aufzeichnungen einer Jugend | 1976 | Documentary Biography Drama West Germany | Klaus Kirschner | Pavlos Bekiaris, Diego Crovetti, Marianne Lowitz | |
| 5.0 | | Inside the Chinese Closet | 2015 | Documentary Netherlands | Sophia Luvara | Andy, Cherry | |
| 5.0 | | India 67 | 1968 | Documentary India | S. Sukhdev | | |
| 5.0 | | If I Think of Germany at Night | 2017 | Documentary Germany | Romuald Karmakar | Ata, Roman Flugel, Sonja Moonear | |
| 5.0 | | Helio Oiticica | 2012 | Documentary Brazil | Cesar Oiticica Filho | | |
| 5.0 | | Green Magic | 1953 | Documentary Italy | Gian Gaspare Napolitano | Carlos Montalban, Bret Morrison, Leonardo Bonzi | |
| 5.0 | | Ghost Hunting | 2017 | Documentary Palestine | Raed Andoni | Ramzi Maqdisi, Mohammed Khattab, Raed Andoni | |
| 5.0 | | Fearless | 1994 | Documentary | | Fearless Nadia | * 3.1/5 |
| 5.0 | | Erase and Forget | 2017 | Documentary UK | Andrea Luka Zimmerman | Bo Gritz, Ted Kotcheff, Gagik | |
| 5.0 | | Boundary | 2013 | Documentary Thailand | Nontawat Numbenchapol | | |
| 4.0 | | The GDR Complex | 2016 | Documentary | Jochen Hick | Kurt Biedenkopf, Mario Rollig, Sahra Wagenknecht | |
| 4.0 | | Stars at Noon | 1959 | Documentary Adventure Drama France | Jacques Ertaud, Marcel Ichac | Roger Blin, Pierre Danny, Pierre Rousseau | |
| 4.0 | | Revolution of Sound Tangerine Dream | 2017 | Documentary Biography Music Germany | Margarete Kreuzer | | |
| 4.0 | | Men Against the Arctic | 1955 | Family Documentary Short | Winston Hibler | Winston Hibler | |
| 4.0 | | Mariupolis | 2016 | Documentary Lithuania | Mantas Kvedaravicius | | |
| 4.0 | | Investigating Paradise | 2017 | Documentary France | Merzak Allouache | Salima Abada | |
| 4.0 | | Fighting Through the Night | 2016 | Documentary Canada | Sylvain LEspérance | | |
| 4.0 | | Destination Moon | 1984 | Documentary | Paul Sammon | Percy Rodrigues, Frank Herbert, David Lynch | |
| 4.0 | | Brothers of the Night | 2016 | Documentary Austria | Patric Chiha | Stefan, Yonko, Asen | |
| 3.0 | | White Night | 2012 | Documentary News War Israel | Irit Gal | | |
| 3.0 | | Traumland der Sehnsucht | 1961 | Documentary Greece | Wolfgang Müller-Sehn | Will-Jo Bach, Nana Mouskouri | |
| 3.0 | | Tania Libre | 2017 | Documentary | Lynn Hershman-Leeson | Tania Bruguera, Frank Ochberg, Tilda Swinton | |
| 3.0 | | Siam | 1954 | Documentary Short | Ralph Wright | | * 3.0/5 |
| 3.0 | | Goya | 1951 | Documentary Short Italy | Luciano Emmer | | * 2.6/5 |
| 3.0 | | Belinda | 2017 | Documentary France | Marie Dumora | Belinda Baudein, Thierry Baudein, Sabrina Bensmail-Muller | |
| 2.0 | | Cantata | 2003 | Documentary Argentina | Willi Behnisch | | |
| 1.0 | | Lost Continent | 1955 | Documentary Italy | Enrico Gras, Giorgio Moser | | |
| * | | Zona Norte | 2016 | Documentary Germany | Monika Treut | Yvonne Bezerra de Mello | |
| * | | Zimmerleute des Waldes | 1955 | Documentary Short West Germany | Heinz Sielmann | | |
| * | | Zeami | 1974 | Documentary Japan | Susumu Harada | | |
| * | | Zauber der Natur | 1956 | Documentary West Germany | Richard Mostler | Peter Hofer | |
| * | | You Must Choose Life | 1963 | Documentary Switzerland | Erwin Leiser | | |
| * | | We Were Kings | 2017 | Documentary Music Germany | Timo Großpietsch, Christian von Brockhausen | Maze Exler, Michael Borwitzky | |
| * | | Torn Curtain | 1989 | Documentary News | | Sam Donaldson, Friedrich Wilhelm Moog, Eric Rose | |
| * | | Things to Come | 1982 | Documentary | Frank Ash, Matt Boney | Chris Serle, Ian McNaught-Davis, Gill Nevill | |
| * | | The War is Over | 2002 | Documentary South Africa | François Verster | | |
| * | | The Reenactment | 2002 | Documentary | | | |
| * | | The Quiet Man | 1985 | Documentary Biography UK | Barrie Gavin | Lyndon Brook, Julio Gonzalez | |
| * | | The Iron Curtain | 1989 | Documentary News | | | |
| * | | The Great Dictator | 2007 | Documentary Talk-Show | | Robert Osborne, Carrie Fisher | |
| * | | The Golden Age of Flemish Painting | 1953 | Documentary Belgium | Paul Haesaerts | Jean Davy, Johan Gemmeke, Jozef Kadijk | |
| * | | The Felons | 2017 | Documentary News | | Deborah Norville, Jeremy Meeks, Melissa Meeks | |
| * | | Red Planet Mars | 1991 | Documentary | | Patrick Moore | |
| * | | Ramona | 1987 | Documentary Short Mexico | Francisco Outon | Amparo Ochoa | * 3.8/5 |
| * | | Polish Passion | 1964 | Documentary Poland | Janusz Piekalkiewicz | | |
| * | | Performance | 2001 | Documentary India | Rahul Roy | | |
| * | | Paradies und Feuerofen | 1959 | Documentary West Germany | Herbert Viktor | Herbert Viktor | |
| * | | Olympia Olympia | 1972 | Documentary West Germany | Jochen Bauer | | |
| * | | Les tres riches heures de lAfrique romaine | 1956 | Documentary Short France | Jean Lehérissey | | |
| * | | Kleine Nachtgespenster | 1950 | Documentary Short West Germany | Eugen Schuhmacher | | |
| * | | Johnny Guitar | 1988 | Documentary | | Alex Cox | * 3.4/5 |
| * | | Ironhead | 2017 | Documentary Sport Germany | Tian Dong | | |
| * | | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | 1988 | Documentary | | Alex Cox | |
| * | | Im Namen des Volkes | 1974 | Documentary West Germany | Ottokar Runze | Gerd Siekmann, Heinz-Dietrich Stark, Hajo Wandschneider | |
| * | | Galapagos Trauminsel im Pazifik | 1962 | Documentary West Germany | Heinz Sielmann | | |
| * | | Expropriation | 1976 | Documentary Drama Venezuela | Mario Robles | | |
| * | | Early Spring | 2001 | Documentary | | Bill Oddie | |
| * | | Der gelbe Dom | 1951 | Documentary Short West Germany | Eugen Schuhmacher | Ernst Fritz Furbringer | |
| * | | Der Film entdeckte Kunstwerke indianischer Vorzeit | 1952 | Documentary Short West Germany | Hans Cürlis | | |
| * | | Coming Home | 2012 | Documentary | Michael Garcia | Michael Garcia, Eric Narciandi | * 3.0/5 |
| * | | Bosch | 1951 | Documentary West Germany | | | |
| * | | Blick ins Paradies | 1951 | Documentary Short West Germany | Hans Fischerkoesen | | |
| * | | Before Stonewall | 2016 | Documentary History | Orlando Bedolla | | * 3.6/5 |
| * | | Ashamed | 2011 | Documentary Drama Music Western | Maribeth Moy | | |
| * | | 2001 a Space Odyssey | 2001 | Documentary | | Alexandra Barnett, David Whitehouse | * 3.7/5 |
