| 8.2 |  | Anvil! the Story of Anvil | 2008 | Documentary Biography Drama Music Canada | Sacha Gervasi | Robb Reiner, Steve Lips Kudlow, Tiziana Arrigoni | * 3.5/5 |
| 8.1 | | Bill Cunningham New York | 2010 | Documentary Biography History | Richard Press | Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, Michael Kors | * 4.2/5 |
| 8.1 | | Be Here to Love Me | 2004 | Documentary Biography Music | Margaret Brown | Joe Ely, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson | * 3.8/5 |
| 8.0 | | Beaches of Agnes | 2008 | Documentary Biography France | Agnès Varda | Agnes Varda, Andre Lubrano, Blaise Fournier | |
| 7.9 | | Sherman s March | 1985 | Documentary Biography Comedy Romance | Ross McElwee | Ross McElwee, Dede McElwee, Ross McElwee Jr. | * 3.4/5 |
| 7.9 | | Bhutto | 2010 | Documentary Biography | Duane Baughman, Johnny OHara | Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, Bakhtawar Bhutto Zardari, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari | * 4.1/5 |
| 7.8 | | Marwencol | 2010 | Documentary Biography Fantasy | Jeff Malmberg | Mark Hogancamp, Emmanuel Nneji, Edda Hogancamp | * 3.8/5 |
| 7.8 | | Brian s Song | 1971 | Biography Drama Sport | Buzz Kulik | James Caan, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Warden | * 3.8/5 |
| 7.8 | | Beauty is Embarrassing | 2012 | Documentary Biography Comedy | Neil Berkeley | Wayne White, Mimi Pond, Paul Reubens | * 4.1/5 |
| 7.7 | | Marlene | 1984 | Documentary Biography West Germany | Maximilian Schell | Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Annie Albers | * 3.2/5 |
| 7.7 | | Amen | 2002 | Biography Crime Drama War France | Costa-Gavras | Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Muhe | * 3.6/5 |
| 7.6 | | Drew the Man Behind the Poster | 2013 | Documentary Biography | Erik Sharkey (as Erik P. Sharkey) | Greg Aronowitz, Timothy Bradstreet, Joanna Cassidy | |
| 7.6 | | Aimee and Jaguar | 1999 | Biography Drama Romance War Germany | Max Färberböck | Maria Schrader, Juliane Kohler, Johanna Wokalek | * 3.4/5 |
| 7.6 | | A Band Called Death | 2012 | Documentary Biography Music | Mark Christopher Covino (as Mark Covino), Jeff Howlett | Bobby Hackney, David Hackney, Dannis Hackney | * 4.2/5 |
| 7.5 | | Huey Long | 1985 | Documentary Biography | Ken Burns | Huey Long, Russell Long, David McCullough | |
| 7.4 | | Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 | 2008 | Documentary Biography Sport War | Kevin Rafferty | Don Gillis, Bruce Freeman, Ted Skowronski | * 3.5/5 |
| 7.4 | | Another Country | 1984 | Biography Drama Romance UK | Marek Kanievska | Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Michael Jenn | * 3.2/5 |
| 7.4 | | Air Guitar Nation | 2006 | Documentary Biography Music | Alexandra Lipsitz | Dan Crane, David S. Jung, Hadia Ackerman | * 3.4/5 |
| 7.4 | | After Tiller | 2013 | Documentary Biography Drama News | Martha Shane, Lana Wilson | George Tiller, Warren Hern, Leroy Carhart | * 4.0/5 |
| 7.3 | | Howl | 2010 | Biography Drama Romance | Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott | * 3.4/5 |
| 7.3 | | Eames the Architect and the Painter | 2011 | Documentary Biography | Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey | Charles Eames, Ray Eames, James Franco | * 4.0/5 |
| 7.2 | | Vision From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen | 2009 | Biography Drama Romance Germany | Margarethe von Trotta | Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung | * 3.5/5 |
| 7.2 | | A Matter of Taste Serving Up Paul Liebrandt | 2011 | Documentary Biography | Sally Rowe | Heston Blumenthal, Daniel Boulud, Frank Bruni | |
| 7.1 | | Biggie and Tupac | 2002 | Documentary Biography Crime Music UK | Nick Broomfield | The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac Shakur, Nick Broomfield | * 3.4/5 |
| 7.0 | | The Galapagos Affair Satan Came to Eden | 2013 | Documentary Biography Crime History Mystery | Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine | Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann | * 3.5/5 |
| 7.0 | | Pussy Riot a Punk Prayer | 2013 | Documentary Biography Crime Music News Russia | Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin | Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Mariya Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich | * 3.6/5 |
| 7.0 | | James Baldwin the Price of the Ticket | 1989 | Documentary Biography | Karen Thorsen | James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka | |
| 7.0 | | Afternoon of a Faun | 2013 | Documentary Biography Drama Music | Nancy Buirski | Tanaquil Le Clerq, Jacques dAmboise, Barbara Horgan | * 3.8/5 |
| 7.0 | | After the Fire | 2014 | Documentary Short Biography | Edgar Sardarian | Qathryn Brehm, Shana Nys Dambrot, Terrell Moore | * * |
| 6.8 | | Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen | 2009 | Biography Drama Romance Germany | Margarethe von Trotta | Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch, Hannah Herzsprung | |
| 6.7 | | Low Down | 2014 | Biography Drama Music | Jeff Preiss | John Hawkes, Elle Fanning, Glenn Close | * 2.7/5 |
| 6.6 | | Compliance | 2012 | Biography Crime Drama Thriller | Craig Zobel | Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy | * 3.2/5 |
| 6.0 | | Waiting for Mamu | 2013 | Documentary Short Biography News | Francois Caillaud, Dan Chen | | |
| 6.0 | | The Seasons in Quincy | 2016 | Documentary Biography UK | Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe | John Berger, Tilda Swinton | |
| 6.0 | | The Past is a Grotesque Animal | 2014 | Documentary Biography Music | Jason Miller | Dottie Alexander, Derek Almstead, David Barnes | |
| 6.0 | | Sweet Honey in the Rock Raise Your Voice | 2005 | Documentary Biography | Stanley Nelson | Arnae, Ysaye M. Barnwell, Nitanju Bolade Casel | |
| 6.0 | | Mumia Long Distance Revolutionary | 2012 | Documentary Biography History | Stephen Vittoria | | |
| 6.0 | | Birth Story Ina May Gaskin and the Farm Midwives | 2012 | Documentary Biography History | Sara Lamm, Mary Wigmore | Ina May Gaskin, Rebecca Brown, Heather Chan | |
| 5.0 | | The Cult of JT Leroy | 2014 | Documentary Biography Crime News Thriller | Marjorie Sturm | Asia Argento, Beth Bachtold, Stephen Beachy | |
| 5.0 | | Skinningrove | 2013 | Documentary Short Biography | Michael Almereyda | | |
| 5.0 | | Run Free the True Story of Caballo Blanco | 2015 | Documentary Biography Drama Sport | Sterling Noren | Micah True, Christopher McDougall, Scott Jurek | |
| 5.0 | | Midnight Return | 2016 | Documentary Biography History News | Sally Sussman Morina | Alan Parker, David Puttnam, Giorgio Moroder | |
| 5.0 | | Bronx Obama | 2014 | Documentary Biography Family History | Ryan Murdock | Louis Ortiz | |
| 4.0 | | Art House | 2016 | Documentary Biography History | Don Freeman | Alastair Gordon | |
| 4.0 | | American Journey | 2009 | Documentary Biography History France | Philippe Séclier (as Philippe Seclier) | | |
| 4.0 | | Abby Singer Songwriter | 2015 | Biography Comedy Music | Onur Tukel | Onur Tukel, Jamie Block, Stephen Gurewitz | |
| 3.0 | | Following | 2010 | Documentary Adventure Biography Papua New Guinea | Steve Ramsden | Steve Ramsden | * 3.8/5 |
