TOP 50 DOCUMENTARIES (WORLDWIDE)

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.

A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.

Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage.

In search of love, the ghost of a drowned refugee frantically roams the fringes of Europe, the alleged paradise, while witnessing the brutal everyday reality of immigrants stuck in limbo.

Follows events and characters surrounding the January 6th, 2021 insurrection of the U.S. Capital Building in the days preceding the attack.

Tracks the history of Black cinema, focused mainly on the '70s, with archival and new interviews with many of the key players from the era.

A bold documentary in a measured style about the modern-day quest for meaning and personal growth.

In a classroom newly arrived refugees learn a lesson about multifarious Europe. Operating at the intersection of fiction and documentary, Stranger in Paradise reflects on the power relations between Europeans and refugees in a candid fashion.

A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers.

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.

Sad story about newborn country of south Sudan and its efforts to catch up with the rest of the world. Story follows football coach Zoran who is trying to achieve certain success with national team consisted of non professional football players. With many outside and inside obstacles he is managing to get them to the African Cup.

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

While examining the influence of the fast food industry, Morgan Spurlock personally explores the consequences on his health of a diet of solely McDonald's food for one month.

To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully "invades" them to see what they have to offer.

Two mothers and their children must face a new reality and try to live with each other after finding out their fertility doctor, Jan Karbaat, secretly used his own seed instead of donors'.

More than three decades after having lost her mother to a brutal crime in Uganda, director Patricia returns to her native country, Uganda, to confront her dark past in a deeply personal quest for truth and inner peace.

Norwegian Democrazy is a documentary about the organization SIAN (Stop the Islamization of Norway). We see how some of the most heated debates of our time play out at street level.

In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside a busy mall and lived there for four years, filming everything along the way. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved.

Plans to build the largest power plant on the Congo plunge 17 million people into darkness and insecurity.

The journey of 26 plundered royal treasures from the Kingdom of Dahomey exhibited in Paris, now being returned to Benin. Diop artistically voices a new generation's demands.

Unresolved historical injustices and climate change raise the stakes in a generations-old conflict between Indigenous pastoralists and white landowners in Laikipia, Kenya, a wildlife conservation haven.

Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black women in technology.

The human cost of US immigration policy reaches far beyond physical borders.