Top 100 Documentary Movies of 2024

1Fantastic Fungi reviews, watch and download

Fantastic Fungi

October 11, 2019

When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world. Fantastic Fungi...

2Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse reviews, watch and download

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

November 20, 2007

The award-winning documentary about the fascinating and harrowing making of Apocalypse Now, one of the most celebrated films in American cinema.

3Catfish (2010) reviews, watch and download

Catfish (2010)

September 17, 2010

In late 2007, filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost sensed a story unfolding as they began to film the life of Ariel’s brother, Nev. They had no idea that...

4Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four reviews, watch and download

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four

December 20, 2016

DOOMED! explores the circumstances surrounding the legendary cult classic Roger Corman film, THE FANTASTIC FOUR. In 1994, Mr. Corman was asked to produce this c...

5March of the Penguins reviews, watch and download

March of the Penguins

January 21, 2005

In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long j...

6Promises reviews, watch and download

Promises

November 13, 2012

This Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary is a compelling, refreshing, and insightful vision of the Middle East conflict through the eyes of seven childre...

7Dave Not Coming Back reviews, watch and download

Dave Not Coming Back

November 10, 2020

In October 2004, two cave divers and long-time friends, Don and Dave, dive in Boesmansgat, a mythical cave in South Africa. Dave was breaking a world record for...

8Kokomo City reviews, watch and download

Kokomo City

August 15, 2023

In her directorial debut KOKOMO CITY, two-time Grammy-nominated producer, singer, and songwriter D. Smith puts forth a wildly entertaining and refreshingly unfi...

9The Eternal Memory reviews, watch and download

The Eternal Memory

August 10, 2023

THE ETERNAL MEMORY tells a profound and moving love story that balances vibrant individual and collective remembrance with the longevity of an unbreakable human...

10Blackfish reviews, watch and download

Blackfish

July 19, 2013

Killer whales are beloved, majestic, friendly giants, yet infamous for their capacity to kill viciously. Blackfish unravels the complexities of this dichotomy, ...

11Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers reviews, watch and download

Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers

December 4, 2018

Narrated by Oscar Nominee MICKEY ROURKE - Former Government physicist Bob Lazar made headlines world-wide in 1989 when he came forward with his account of rever...

12American Experience: The Pilgrims reviews, watch and download

American Experience: The Pilgrims

November 24, 2015

Filmmaker Ric Burns explores the converging forces, circumstances, personalities and events that propelled a group of English men and women west across the Atla...

13Inside Job reviews, watch and download

Inside Job

October 8, 2010

Academy Award® Winner for Best Documentary Feature "INSIDE JOB" from Academy Award®-winning filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (No End In Sight), comes Inside Job, t...

14Dear Rodeo: The Cody Johnson Story reviews, watch and download

Dear Rodeo: The Cody Johnson Story

September 3, 2021

Dear Rodeo recounts country music singer Cody Johnson's real-life journey from the dusty rodeo arenas of rural Texas to some of the biggest musical stages in Am...

15The Other Shore: The Diana Nyad Story reviews, watch and download

The Other Shore: The Diana Nyad Story

October 20, 2023

This epic sports documentary follows 60-year-old legendary athlete Diana Nyad as she emerges from a three-decade retirement attempting to become the first perso...

16The Essential Church reviews, watch and download

The Essential Church

July 28, 2023

When governments use Covid emergency act edicts to restrict the gathering and worship of the Church, three pastors facing the risk of imprisonment, unlimited fi...

17Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche reviews, watch and download

Buried: The 1982 Alpine Meadows Avalanche

September 23, 2022

In 1982, a massive avalanche descended on Alpine Meadows Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, California, triggering a desperate five day search for eight missing people. ...

18Hotshot reviews, watch and download

Hotshot

October 2, 2023

Wildfire is the most powerful force of nature on earth. It takes a certain kind of crazy to walk into the fire and put it out by hand, and that’s exactly what...

19Combat Obscura reviews, watch and download

Combat Obscura

March 15, 2019

Just out of high school, at the age of 18, Miles Lagoze enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as Combat Camera — his un...

20A Compassionate Spy reviews, watch and download

A Compassionate Spy

August 4, 2023

Recruited in 1944 to help create the world's first atomic bomb, Ted Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project. Concerned that a U.S. post-war mon...

21Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb reviews, watch and download

Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

December 30, 2022

Two literary legends - writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor, Robert Gottlieb - have worked together to create some of the greatest non-fiction books in hi...

22Radical Wolfe reviews, watch and download

Radical Wolfe

September 15, 2023

From a beat reporter at the Washington Post to an overnight sensation as the leader of the New Journalism movement, Tom Wolfe was at the forefront of reshaping ...

23The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time reviews, watch and download

The Greatest Adult Stars of All-Time

April 27, 2018

They’ve entertained us, enthralled us, aroused us and amazed us. Who are the 30 greatest stars in the history of the adult film business? This documentary, a ...

24American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System reviews, watch and download

American Hospitals: Healing a Broken System

November 14, 2023

A provocative look at the costs, closures, and inequities plaguing American hospitals, which today are more about money and power than serving the health needs ...

25Legend Has It reviews, watch and download

Legend Has It

January 1, 2023

Ski lore is riddled with stories, sometimes of unknown origin, describing plausible but extraordinary past events.

26Father Michael McGivney: An American Blessed reviews, watch and download

Father Michael McGivney: An American Blessed

February 1, 2021

In May 2020, Pope Francis approved a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Father Michael McGivney, paving the way for his beatificatio...

27Pencils vs Pixels reviews, watch and download

Pencils vs Pixels

November 7, 2023

Pencils vs Pixels is a celebration of 2D hand-drawn animation and an exploration of how the Disney Renaissance of the late 1980s and early 1990s led to an anima...

28Neither Confirm Nor Deny reviews, watch and download

Neither Confirm Nor Deny

September 22, 2023

During the Cold War, the CIA secretly raised a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. The six-year operation included an intricat...

29Score: A Film Music Documentary reviews, watch and download

Score: A Film Music Documentary

June 16, 2017

What makes a film score unforgettable? Featuring Hans Zimmer, James Cameron, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Quincy Jones, Trent Reznor, Howard Shore, Rachel Portm...

30Oppenheimer: The Real Story reviews, watch and download

Oppenheimer: The Real Story

July 11, 2023

From his early years as a professor at the University of California to his leadership of the Los Alamos Laboratory, this documentary explores Oppenheimer's pivo...

31The Fog of War reviews, watch and download

The Fog of War

December 19, 2003

The Fog of War is a 20th century fable, a story of an American dreamer who rose from humble origins to the heights of political power. Robert S. McNamara was bo...

32The Lost Leonardo reviews, watch and download

The Lost Leonardo

August 13, 2021

The Lost Leonardo tells the inside story behind the Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting ever sold at $450 million, claimed to be a long-lost masterpiece...

33Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same reviews, watch and download

Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same

October 26, 1976

This unique rock concert film experience captures the essence of Led Zeppelin, one of the most exciting and durable rock bands of all time. Filmed during the gr...

34Tea With the Dames reviews, watch and download

Tea With the Dames

September 21, 2018

What happens when four legends of British stage and screen get together? Dame Maggie Smith, Dame Judi Dench, Dame Eileen Atkins, and Dame Joan Plowright are amo...

35Metallica Through The Never reviews, watch and download

Metallica Through The Never

September 27, 2013

Metallica Through the Never is a groundbreaking music-driven motion picture event. The film combines a spectacular never-before-seen live-performance by Metall...

36All the Beauty and the Bloodshed reviews, watch and download

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

November 23, 2023

Directed by Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about international...

37JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass reviews, watch and download

JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

March 8, 2022

Thirty years after acclaimed director Oliver Stone’s first examination of the JFK assasination, Stone reassess the horrific event that shaped a generation and...

38Door to Door (2002) reviews, watch and download

Door to Door (2002)

July 1, 2002

William H. Macy plays Bill who, despite crippling cerebral palsy, uses humor, initiative and warmth to make his way as a salesman and to make a difference in th...

39Mommy Dead and Dearest reviews, watch and download

Mommy Dead and Dearest

May 15, 2017

Things are not always as they appear, especially in the case of Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard. In this true-crime documentary that follows a bizarre case inv...

40The Disruptors reviews, watch and download

The Disruptors

May 11, 2022

ADHD is one of the most commonly diagnosed-and widely misunderstood-neurological conditions in the world today, affecting nearly 10% of kids and a rising number...

41The Lost Weekend: A Love Story reviews, watch and download

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

April 13, 2023

"The Lost Weekend: A Love Story" explores the 18-month relationship (1973-1975) that John Lennon spent with May Pang, his Chinese American assistant turned love...

42Little Richard: I Am Everything reviews, watch and download

Little Richard: I Am Everything

April 21, 2023

Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock n’ roll, exploding the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal th...

43The Alpinist reviews, watch and download

The Alpinist

November 2, 2021

As the sport of climbing turns from a niche pursuit to mainstream media event, Marc-André Leclerc climbs alone, far from the limelight. On remote alpine faces,...

44Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini reviews, watch and download

Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini

October 19, 2021

The definitive documentary on one of the most iconic and sought after special effects artists in horror film history, whose genre-defining creations earned him ...

45Tantura reviews, watch and download

Tantura

June 22, 2022

Hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated in 1948. To Israelis, it was the War of Independence, to Palestinians it was 'Al Nakba' - the Catastrophe. Dir...

46Free Solo reviews, watch and download

Free Solo

September 28, 2018

A stunning, intimate and unflinching portrait of free solo climber Alex Honnold, as he prepares to achieve his lifelong dream:scaling the face of the world’s ...

47Ascension reviews, watch and download

Ascension

October 8, 2021

Ascension examines the contemporary "Chinese Dream" through staggering observations of labor, consumerism and wealth. In cinematically exploring the aspiration ...

48Becoming the Beckhams reviews, watch and download

Becoming the Beckhams

December 6, 2022

Becoming The Beckhams is an in-depth look at the life and career of David and Victoria Beckham. From soccer schools and Spice Girls, to world-wide recognition a...

49The Gatekeepers reviews, watch and download

The Gatekeepers

February 1, 2013

Six former heads of Israel’s Shin Bet domestic secret service agency share insights on their actions and decisions as they set internal security policy for Is...

50Lakota Nation vs. United States reviews, watch and download

Lakota Nation vs. United States

July 14, 2023

A provocative, visually stunning testament to a land and a people who have survived removal, exploitation and genocide – and whose best days are yet to come.

51Another Body reviews, watch and download

Another Body

October 20, 2023

A college student searches for answers and justice after discovering deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.

52The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It reviews, watch and download

The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It

June 6, 2023

A century of illegal UFO secrecy has cost humanity hundreds of years of spiritual, cultural and technological development. Dr. Steven Greer presents "The Lost C...

53Missing 411: The UFO Connection reviews, watch and download

Missing 411: The UFO Connection

December 13, 2022

In Missing 411: The UFO Connection, David Paulides continues the story of people who vanish in the wild without a trace. In his third documentary, David reveals...

54The Salt of the Earth reviews, watch and download

The Salt of the Earth

March 27, 2015

For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been traveling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witn...

55Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) reviews, watch and download

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

June 7, 2023

Celebrated photographer, creative director and filmmaker Anton Corbijn’s first feature documentary SQUARING THE CIRCLE (THE STORY OF HIPGNOSIS) tells the stor...

56The Biggest Little Farm reviews, watch and download

The Biggest Little Farm

May 10, 2019

The Biggest Little Farm chronicles the eight-year quest of John and Molly Chester as they trade city living for 200 acres of barren farmland and a dream to harv...

57Apollo 11 (2019) reviews, watch and download

Apollo 11 (2019)

March 1, 2019

From director Todd Douglas Miller (Dinosaur 13) comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more ...

58Downwind reviews, watch and download

Downwind

August 18, 2023

Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this h...

59One Direction: This Is Us reviews, watch and download

One Direction: This Is Us

August 30, 2013

Follows the UK boy band One Direction for a year as they embark on a world tour.

60Nostradamus: Future Revelations and Prophecy reviews, watch and download

Nostradamus: Future Revelations and Prophecy

May 16, 2023

Nostradamus possessed a remarkable, unique insight into events set in motion by mankind. Now with startling clarity they may tell us of our near future.

61Restrepo reviews, watch and download

Restrepo

June 27, 2010

Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for documentary, RESTREPO chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Ko...

62Michael Jackson's This Is It reviews, watch and download

Michael Jackson's This Is It

October 28, 2009

Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT is a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the performer as he developed, created and rehearsed for his sold-out concerts at London’s...

63The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia reviews, watch and download

The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

April 1, 2009

From Executive Producer Johnny Knoxville, this edgy and often hilarious look at a dying breed of American outcasts exposes the corruption, poverty, and West Vir...

64Strokes of Genius reviews, watch and download

Strokes of Genius

July 1, 2018

Strokes of Genius is a world-class documentary capturing the historic 13-year rivalry between tennis icons Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. It is timed for relea...

65The Subtle Art of Not Giving A #*%! reviews, watch and download

The Subtle Art of Not Giving A #*%!

January 4, 2023

A feature documentary based on the bestselling book by author Mark Manson.

66American Experience: The Gilded Age reviews, watch and download

American Experience: The Gilded Age

February 6, 2018

The Gilded Age presents a compelling and complex story of one of the most convulsive and transformative eras in American history.

67Hitler: A Career reviews, watch and download

Hitler: A Career

July 8, 1977

“Hitler: A Career” is Joachim Fest's controversial German documentary film about the inevitability of Hitler and Fascism within Germany. Narrated by Stephen...

68Triumph of the Will reviews, watch and download

Triumph of the Will

March 28, 1935

The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.

69Three Identical Strangers reviews, watch and download

Three Identical Strangers

June 29, 2018

Three Identical Strangers tells the astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of 19, that they are identical triplets, separ...

70Sex Down Under reviews, watch and download

Sex Down Under

October 22, 2019

Sex is a huge part of our lives, our very existence depends on it. Yet it’s treated and practiced differently in every society. Explore sexuality down under, ...

71The Last Rider reviews, watch and download

The Last Rider

August 8, 2023

The heroic true story of legendary cyclist Greg LeMond comes to life in this stirring documentary. With captivating footage and interviews with LeMond, his wife...

72Loose Change 9/11 reviews, watch and download

Loose Change 9/11

September 22, 2009

September 11th, 2001. An event and a day many will never forget. However, for a growing population this event did not occur during their lifetime, but is merely...

73The Elephant 6 Recording Co. reviews, watch and download

The Elephant 6 Recording Co.

August 25, 2023

An inside look at The Elephant 6 Recording Co., the ’90s rock collective that launched Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo, an...

74Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts reviews, watch and download

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts

April 11, 2022

Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson join filmmaker Chris Columbus and other esteemed cast members across all eight Harry Potter films as they travel ...

75It Ain't Over reviews, watch and download

It Ain't Over

May 12, 2023

Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra is one of baseball's greatest. He amassed ten World Series rings, 3 MVP awards and 18 All-Star Game appearances. He caught the only ...

76Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos reviews, watch and download

Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos

July 7, 2006

When the world's most celebrated soccer star, the Brazilian champion Pele, signed with the N.Y. Cosmos in 1975, the once ignored North American Soccer League be...

77USS Indianapolis: The Legacy reviews, watch and download

USS Indianapolis: The Legacy

November 8, 2016

Experience this groundbreaking film, the story of the greatest sea disaster in U.S. Navy History, told for the first time by only the men who lived it.In the mo...

78Sexology reviews, watch and download

Sexology

February 14, 2017

In a post sexual revolution world, where you can purchase a vibrator just as easily as a pair of shoes, roughly one-third of all women have never experienced an...

79The Real Taylor Swift: Wild Dreams reviews, watch and download

The Real Taylor Swift: Wild Dreams

March 1, 2022

The amazingly talented Taylor Swift is more than her catchy pop, country, and rock songs. A life story filled with love and loss, all Taylor-made. Music was her...

80The Mostly Serious History of Wine reviews, watch and download

The Mostly Serious History of Wine

November 14, 2023

How did wine become something that's grown and sold just about everywhere yet is also kind of pretentious? Let's find out together. Though early people might ha...

81The Last Waltz (1978) reviews, watch and download

The Last Waltz (1978)

April 26, 1978

On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, The Band gave its farewell concert at Winterland in San Francisco. On hand to help say goodbye to this influential rock group were so...

82Gnarnia reviews, watch and download

Gnarnia

October 17, 2023

From the makers of the On the Pipe series, Powerband Films collaborated with 10 time X Games Medalist Colby Raha to bring you "Gnarnia". Follow Raha on his que...

83Echo in the Canyon reviews, watch and download

Echo in the Canyon

May 24, 2019

Echo In The Canyon celebrates the explosion of popular music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-60s as folk went electric and The Byrds, The Beach...

84Korengal reviews, watch and download

Korengal

September 9, 2014

Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men, the same valley, the same commanders, but a very different look at the experience of war. Korengal expl...

85SPITFIRE: The Plane That Saved the World reviews, watch and download

SPITFIRE: The Plane That Saved the World

July 17, 2018

They say she was beautiful. A dream. But for all her good looks, she was also a killer. Spitfire is an epic, sweeping tale of determination, vision and courage....

86Whitney reviews, watch and download

Whitney

July 6, 2018

Whitney Houston broke more music industry records than any other female singer in history. With over 200 million album sales worldwide, she was the only artist ...

87The Unbinding reviews, watch and download

The Unbinding

September 8, 2023

A viral tale on Reddit. A haunted artifact. An ancient entity. The team behind the award-winning documentary series Hellier now brings you the story of the Cats...

88Ferrari: Race to Immortality reviews, watch and download

Ferrari: Race to Immortality

July 24, 2018

The 1950s. Emergence of the iconic Scuderia Ferrari in the Formula One World Championship and deadliest decade in motor racing history. As cars pushed the limit...

89MIC Drop: The Culture of Christian Hip Hop reviews, watch and download

MIC Drop: The Culture of Christian Hip Hop

November 14, 2023

MIC DROP: THE CULTURE OF CHRISTIAN HIP HOP takes an in-depth look into the grassroots movement of CHH during its genesis in the early 1980's, and its influence ...

90Oxyana reviews, watch and download

Oxyana

January 1, 2013

Tucked in the Appalachian mountains of Southern West Virginia, Oceana, is a small, once thriving coal-mining town that has fallen victim to the fast spreading s...

91Jackass Forever reviews, watch and download

Jackass Forever

February 4, 2022

Older but not wiser, Johnny Knoxville and the crew are back for the most unbelievably outrageous jackass yet. Brace yourself as they reach new levels of immatur...

92Come Out in Jesus Name reviews, watch and download

Come Out in Jesus Name

March 13, 2023

Following a startling chain of events, the most controversial pastor in America, Greg Locke, took a 180-degree turn from his mainstream religious traditions and...

93The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years reviews, watch and download

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years

November 17, 2016

In 1962 four young men - John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - came together to form the 20th century musical phenomenon known as 'The ...

94Lil Peep: Everybody's Everything reviews, watch and download

Lil Peep: Everybody's Everything

November 15, 2019

Musician Lil Peep was on the verge of mainstream success when he died of a drug overdose at 21 years old. Dubbed the future of emo by Pitchfork, Peep managed to...

95Eagles: History of the Eagles reviews, watch and download

Eagles: History of the Eagles

January 1, 2013

The History of the Eagles is a 2-part documentary about one of the biggest rock bands in history. Following them from their earliest musical memories to rock s...

96Invisible Beauty reviews, watch and download

Invisible Beauty

September 15, 2023

An essential memoir of fashion pioneer Bethann Hardison, INVISIBLE BEAUTY shines a spotlight on the singular and unapologetic Hardison, one of the fashion indus...

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