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 September 19, 2026.
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Movie
1-Year Attention Score1-Yr Attention
1
The Perfect Neighbor
5.9
2
Melania
4.8
3
Jackass: Best and Last
2.5
4
Being Eddie
1.5
5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
1.4
6
Free Solo
1.1
7
Super Size Me
1.0
8
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
1.0
9
John Candy: I Like Me
1.0
10
Jackass Forever
1.0
11
You Can See Everything
0.9
12
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
0.9
13
Jackass: The Movie
0.7
14
Bowling for Columbine
0.6
15
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
0.6
16
Fahrenheit 9/11
0.6
17
Stop Making Sense
0.6
18
The Smashing Machine
0.6
19
Jackass 3D
0.5
20
This Is It
0.5
21
The Imposter
0.4
22
The Secret
0.4
23
Jackass Number Two
0.4
24
Inside Job
0.4
25
An Inconvenient Truth
0.4
26
Encounters at the End of the World
0.4
27
Searching for Sugar Man
0.4
28
The Queen of Versailles
0.4
29
The Thin Blue Line
0.4
30
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
0.4
31
Navalny
0.3
32
Lorne
0.3
33
Pumping Iron
0.3
34
Hoop Dreams
0.3
35
Exit Through the Gift Shop
0.3
36
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
0.3
37
Jodorowsky's Dune
0.3
38
The Cove
0.3
39
March of the Penguins
0.3
40
The Fog of War
0.3
41
Waltz with Bashir
0.2
42
Ocean with David Attenborough
0.2
43
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
0.2
44
The Original Kings of Comedy
0.2
45
Catfish
0.2
46
American Movie
0.2
47
Crumb
0.2
48
Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
0.2
49
This Is Me…Now
0.2
50
Let It Be
0.2
51
Woodstock
0.2
52
Roger & Me
0.2
53
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
0.2
54
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
0.2
55
#SKYKING
0.2
56
Food, Inc.
0.2
57
I Am Not Your Negro
0.2
58
Streetwise
0.2
59
Senna
0.2
60
Restrepo
0.2
61
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
0.2
62
When We Were Kings
0.2
63
Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster
0.2
64
Dogtown and Z-Boys
0.2
65
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
0.2
66
Powaqqatsi
0.2
67
Sicko
0.1
68
Religulous
0.1
69
Marc by Sofia
0.1
70
American Symphony
0.1
71
Madonna: Truth or Dare
0.1
72
Musk
0.1
73
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition
0.1
74
Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
0.1
75
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie
0.1
76
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
0.1
77
One to One: John & Yoko
0.1
78
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
0.1
79
We Live in Public
0.1
80
Biggie & Tupac
0.1
81
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
0.1
82
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
0.1
83
Beyond the Mat
0.1
84
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
0.1
85
Chimpanzee
0.1
86
Looking for Richard
0.1
87
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
0.1
88
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special
0.1
89
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
0.1
90
Terror in the Aisles
0.1
91
It Might Get Loud
0.1
92
Kumaré
0.1
93
12th & Delaware
0.1
94
Sally
0.1
95
Remake
0.1
96
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
0.1
97
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
0.1
98
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
0.1
99
Capitalism: A Love Story
0.1
100
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
0.1
101
Sound City
0.1
102
West of Memphis
0.1
103
4 Little Girls
0.1
104
The Celluloid Closet
0.1
105
Renaldo and Clara
0.1
106
The Kid Stays in the Picture
0.1
107
The September Issue
0.1
108
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
0.1
109
Until the Light Takes Us
0.1
110
Marley
0.1
111
Tupac: Resurrection
0.1
112
Wattstax
0.1
113
Prince: Sign 'o' the Times
0.1
114
Ghost Elephants
0.1
115
Winnebago Man
0.1
116
The Python Hunt
0.1
117
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
0.1
118
The 11th Hour
0.1
119
Oceans
0.1
120
Comedian
0.1
121
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
0.1
122
Everybody to Kenmure Street
0.1
123
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
0.1
124
The Wildest Dream
0.1
125
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
0.1
126
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
0.1
127
Life Itself
0.1
128
The Times of Harvey Milk
0.1
129
Queen of Chess
0.1
130
Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones
0.1
131
Glee: The Concert Movie
0.1
132
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
0.1
133
Shine a Light
0.1
134
Murder on a Sunday Morning
0.1
135
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
0.1
136
When You're Strange
0.1
137
Valentino: The Last Emperor
0.1
138
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
0.1
139
Good Hair
0.1
140
America's Heart & Soul
0.1
141
Lost in La Mancha
0.1
142
Waking Sleeping Beauty
0.1
143
Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
0.1
144
The Invisible War
0.1
145
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
0.1
146
Imagine: John Lennon
0.1
147
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
0.1
148
That's Entertainment! III
0.1
149
Mad Hot Ballroom
0.0
150
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
0.0
151
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
0.0
152
Mansome
0.0
153
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
0.0
154
Shut Up and Play the Hits
0.0
155
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
0.0
156
Buck
0.0
157
Five Broken Cameras
0.0
158
Hype!
0.0
159
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
0.0
160
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
0.0
161
African Cats
0.0
162
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
0.0
163
Manson
0.0
164
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
0.0
165
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
0.0
166
The Big One
0.0
167
Unzipped
0.0
168
Spielberg
0.0
169
Orangutan
0.0
170
Rockshow
0.0
171
Project Nim
0.0
172
Wild Man Blues
0.0
173
That's Entertainment, Part II
0.0
174
Step Into Liquid
0.0
175
The Tillman Story
0.0
176
The Age of Stupid
0.0
177
Girls State
0.0
178
Chasing Ice
0.0
179
Tyson
0.0
180
Walt & El Grupo
0.0
181
The Endless Summer II
0.0
182
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
0.0
183
It Came from Hollywood
0.0
184
Heavy Petting
0.0
185
Faye
0.0
186
Gerhard Richter Painting
0.0
187
Love the Beast
0.0
188
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
0.0
189
This Is Elvis
0.0
190
Sting - Bring on the Night
0.0
191
My Voyage to Italy
0.0
192
Examined Life
0.0
193
First Position
0.0
194
Sing Your Song
0.0
195
The Real Cancun
0.0
196
Untold: The Fall of Favre
0.0
197
That's Dancing!
0.0
198
In Search of Noah's Ark
0.0
199
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
0.0
200
Sweetgrass
0.0