Top Documentary Movies of the Past Year
Ranked by 1-Year Attention Score, Television Stats' measure of online audience engagement across the last 365 days, for the year ending July 20, 2026.
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Movie
1-Year Attention Score1-Yr Attention
1
The Perfect Neighbor
5.7
2
Melania
4.7
3
Being Eddie
1.6
4
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
1.3
5
Jackass: Best and Last
1.3
6
John Candy: I Like Me
1.2
7
Free Solo
1.1
8
Super Size Me
1.0
9
Jackass Forever
0.9
10
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
0.9
11
The Smashing Machine
0.8
12
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
0.6
13
Bowling for Columbine
0.6
14
Stop Making Sense
0.6
15
Jackass: The Movie
0.6
16
Fahrenheit 9/11
0.5
17
The Secret
0.4
18
Jackass 3D
0.4
19
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
0.4
20
An Inconvenient Truth
0.4
21
Jackass Number Two
0.4
22
Encounters at the End of the World
0.4
23
The Thin Blue Line
0.4
24
Inside Job
0.4
25
The Queen of Versailles
0.4
26
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
0.3
27
Searching for Sugar Man
0.3
28
The Imposter
0.3
29
This Is It
0.3
30
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
0.3
31
Exit Through the Gift Shop
0.3
32
Hoop Dreams
0.3
33
Navalny
0.3
34
Pumping Iron
0.3
35
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
0.3
36
Jodorowsky's Dune
0.3
37
The Fog of War
0.2
38
Waltz with Bashir
0.2
39
March of the Penguins
0.2
40
Catfish
0.2
41
Lorne
0.2
42
American Movie
0.2
43
Crumb
0.2
44
Let It Be
0.2
45
The Original Kings of Comedy
0.2
46
This Is Me…Now
0.2
47
Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
0.2
48
The Cove
0.2
49
Restrepo
0.2
50
Woodstock
0.2
51
Senna
0.2
52
Roger & Me
0.2
53
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
0.2
54
I Am Not Your Negro
0.2
55
Ocean with David Attenborough
0.2
56
Streetwise
0.2
57
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
0.2
58
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
0.2
59
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
0.2
60
Food, Inc.
0.2
61
When We Were Kings
0.1
62
Dogtown and Z-Boys
0.1
63
Powaqqatsi
0.1
64
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
0.1
65
Sicko
0.1
66
One to One: John & Yoko
0.1
67
Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster
0.1
68
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
0.1
69
We Live in Public
0.1
70
Religulous
0.1
71
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
0.1
72
Madonna: Truth or Dare
0.1
73
Prince: Sign 'o' the Times
0.1
74
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
0.1
75
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie
0.1
76
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
0.1
77
Biggie & Tupac
0.1
78
American Symphony
0.1
79
4 Little Girls
0.1
80
Beyond the Mat
0.1
81
Looking for Richard
0.1
82
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
0.1
83
Terror in the Aisles
0.1
84
It Might Get Loud
0.1
85
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
0.1
86
Renaldo and Clara
0.1
87
Chimpanzee
0.1
88
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
0.1
89
The Celluloid Closet
0.1
90
The September Issue
0.1
91
Capitalism: A Love Story
0.1
92
West of Memphis
0.1
93
Kumaré
0.1
94
Sound City
0.1
95
The Kid Stays in the Picture
0.1
96
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
0.1
97
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
0.1
98
Until the Light Takes Us
0.1
99
The 11th Hour
0.1
100
Sally
0.1
101
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
0.1
102
Wattstax
0.1
103
The Times of Harvey Milk
0.1
104
Tupac: Resurrection
0.1
105
Marley
0.1
106
Winnebago Man
0.1
107
Oceans
0.1
108
Comedian
0.1
109
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
0.1
110
Murder on a Sunday Morning
0.1
111
The Wildest Dream
0.1
112
Shine a Light
0.1
113
Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones
0.1
114
Valentino: The Last Emperor
0.1
115
When You're Strange
0.1
116
Glee: The Concert Movie
0.1
117
Lost in La Mancha
0.1
118
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
0.1
119
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
0.1
120
12th & Delaware
0.1
121
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
0.1
122
Marc by Sofia
0.1
123
Life Itself
0.1
124
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
0.1
125
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special
0.1
126
Good Hair
0.1
127
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
0.0
128
Imagine: John Lennon
0.0
129
Waking Sleeping Beauty
0.0
130
America's Heart & Soul
0.0
131
The Invisible War
0.0
132
Five Broken Cameras
0.0
133
Mad Hot Ballroom
0.0
134
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
0.0
135
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
0.0
136
That's Entertainment! III
0.0
137
African Cats
0.0
138
The Big One
0.0
139
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
0.0
140
Buck
0.0
141
Unzipped
0.0
142
Manson
0.0
143
Wild Man Blues
0.0
144
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
0.0
145
Hype!
0.0
146
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
0.0
147
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
0.0
148
The Tillman Story
0.0
149
Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
0.0
150
Shut Up and Play the Hits
0.0
151
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
0.0
152
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
0.0
153
Project Nim
0.0
154
Step Into Liquid
0.0
155
That's Entertainment, Part II
0.0
156
It Came from Hollywood
0.0
157
The Endless Summer II
0.0
158
Mansome
0.0
159
Remake
0.0
160
The Age of Stupid
0.0
161
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
0.0
162
Chasing Ice
0.0
163
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
0.0
164
Untold: The Fall of Favre
0.0
165
Everybody to Kenmure Street
0.0
166
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
0.0
167
This Is Elvis
0.0
168
My Voyage to Italy
0.0
169
Love the Beast
0.0
170
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
0.0
171
Tyson
0.0
172
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
0.0
173
Sting - Bring on the Night
0.0
174
The Python Hunt
0.0
175
That's Dancing!
0.0
176
The Real Cancun
0.0
177
Walt & El Grupo
0.0
178
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
0.0
179
Examined Life
0.0
180
In Search of Noah's Ark
0.0
181
The Concert for Bangladesh
0.0
182
The Business of Being Born
0.0
183
Revolution OS
0.0
184
Defamation
0.0
185
Heavy Petting
0.0
186
Gerhard Richter Painting
0.0
187
Divine Madness
0.0
188
U2 3D
0.0
189
Farewell
0.0
190
First Position
0.0
191
Full Tilt Boogie
0.0
192
Sweetgrass
0.0
193
Spielberg
0.0
194
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
0.0
195
Scratch
0.0
196
House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic
0.0
197
Trouble the Water
0.0
198
Chicago 10
0.0
199
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
0.0
200
Countdown to Zero
0.0