Er zijn veel geweldige documentaires beschikbaar, en het bepalen van de 50 meest populaire kan afhankelijk zijn van verschillende factoren. Hieronder vind je echter een lijst van 50 populaire documentaires op basis van beoordelingen, bekroonde werken en populariteit:
- Making a Murderer
- Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness
- Blackfish
- The Social Dilemma
- The Act of Killing
- Grizzly Man
- Paris is Burning
- The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
- Amy
- March of the Penguins
- Hoop Dreams
- Man on Wire
- 13th
- The Fog of War
- Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
- The Last Dance
- The War Room
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Bowling for Columbine
- Supersize Me
- What the Health
- Citizenfour
- Free Solo
- RBG
- Three Identical Strangers
- The Keepers
- Icarus
- The Imposter
- The Cove
- Wild Wild Country
- The Thin Blue Line
- The Crash Reel
- Exit Through the Gift Shop
- My Octopus Teacher
- The Ivory Game
- The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
- One Child Nation
- Wild China
- America: The Story of Us
- Earth from Above
- The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years
- Into the Abyss
- Virunga
- The House I Live In
- Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
- Samsara
- Human Planet
- Happy