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 August 29, 2026.
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Movie
1-Year Attention Score1-Yr Attention
1
The Perfect Neighbor
5.8
2
Melania
4.7
3
Jackass: Best and Last
1.9
4
Being Eddie
1.6
5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
1.4
6
John Candy: I Like Me
1.3
7
Free Solo
1.1
8
Super Size Me
1.0
9
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
1.0
10
Jackass Forever
1.0
11
The Smashing Machine
0.7
12
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
0.7
13
Jackass: The Movie
0.6
14
Bowling for Columbine
0.6
15
Stop Making Sense
0.6
16
Fahrenheit 9/11
0.5
17
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
0.5
18
Jackass 3D
0.5
19
The Secret
0.4
20
Jackass Number Two
0.4
21
This Is It
0.4
22
An Inconvenient Truth
0.4
23
The Imposter
0.4
24
Inside Job
0.4
25
Encounters at the End of the World
0.4
26
The Queen of Versailles
0.4
27
The Thin Blue Line
0.4
28
Searching for Sugar Man
0.4
29
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
0.4
30
Navalny
0.3
31
Pumping Iron
0.3
32
Exit Through the Gift Shop
0.3
33
Hoop Dreams
0.3
34
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
0.3
35
Lorne
0.3
36
Jodorowsky's Dune
0.3
37
The Cove
0.3
38
The Fog of War
0.3
39
March of the Penguins
0.2
40
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
0.2
41
Waltz with Bashir
0.2
42
Catfish
0.2
43
Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
0.2
44
The Original Kings of Comedy
0.2
45
American Movie
0.2
46
Crumb
0.2
47
This Is Me…Now
0.2
48
Let It Be
0.2
49
Ocean with David Attenborough
0.2
50
Restrepo
0.2
51
Woodstock
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
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
0.2
56
Senna
0.2
57
Food, Inc.
0.2
58
Streetwise
0.2
59
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
0.2
60
Powaqqatsi
0.1
61
When We Were Kings
0.1
62
Dogtown and Z-Boys
0.1
63
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
0.1
64
Sicko
0.1
65
Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster
0.1
66
Religulous
0.1
67
Madonna: Truth or Dare
0.1
68
We Live in Public
0.1
69
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
0.1
70
One to One: John & Yoko
0.1
71
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
0.1
72
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
0.1
73
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie
0.1
74
#SKYKING
0.1
75
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
0.1
76
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
0.1
77
American Symphony
0.1
78
Biggie & Tupac
0.1
79
Beyond the Mat
0.1
80
Chimpanzee
0.1
81
Looking for Richard
0.1
82
Prince: Sign 'o' the Times
0.1
83
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
0.1
84
4 Little Girls
0.1
85
Terror in the Aisles
0.1
86
Marc by Sofia
0.1
87
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
0.1
88
It Might Get Loud
0.1
89
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
0.1
90
Renaldo and Clara
0.1
91
The Celluloid Closet
0.1
92
Capitalism: A Love Story
0.1
93
Kumaré
0.1
94
Sound City
0.1
95
The September Issue
0.1
96
Sally
0.1
97
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
0.1
98
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
0.1
99
The Kid Stays in the Picture
0.1
100
West of Memphis
0.1
101
Until the Light Takes Us
0.1
102
Wattstax
0.1
103
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special
0.1
104
The 11th Hour
0.1
105
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
0.1
106
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
0.1
107
12th & Delaware
0.1
108
Tupac: Resurrection
0.1
109
Comedian
0.1
110
Marley
0.1
111
Winnebago Man
0.1
112
The Times of Harvey Milk
0.1
113
Oceans
0.1
114
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
0.1
115
The Wildest Dream
0.1
116
Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones
0.1
117
Shine a Light
0.1
118
Murder on a Sunday Morning
0.1
119
Glee: The Concert Movie
0.1
120
Valentino: The Last Emperor
0.1
121
When You're Strange
0.1
122
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
0.1
123
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
0.1
124
Life Itself
0.1
125
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
0.1
126
Lost in La Mancha
0.1
127
Remake
0.1
128
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
0.1
129
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition
0.1
130
Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
0.1
131
Good Hair
0.1
132
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
0.1
133
America's Heart & Soul
0.1
134
The Invisible War
0.1
135
Everybody to Kenmure Street
0.1
136
Imagine: John Lennon
0.1
137
Waking Sleeping Beauty
0.1
138
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
0.0
139
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
0.0
140
The Python Hunt
0.0
141
Mad Hot Ballroom
0.0
142
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
0.0
143
That's Entertainment! III
0.0
144
Five Broken Cameras
0.0
145
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
0.0
146
Buck
0.0
147
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
0.0
148
African Cats
0.0
149
Manson
0.0
150
Hype!
0.0
151
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
0.0
152
The Big One
0.0
153
Unzipped
0.0
154
Wild Man Blues
0.0
155
Shut Up and Play the Hits
0.0
156
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
0.0
157
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
0.0
158
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
0.0
159
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
0.0
160
That's Entertainment, Part II
0.0
161
Mansome
0.0
162
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
0.0
163
Project Nim
0.0
164
The Tillman Story
0.0
165
The Age of Stupid
0.0
166
The Endless Summer II
0.0
167
Queen of Chess
0.0
168
It Came from Hollywood
0.0
169
Chasing Ice
0.0
170
Ghost Elephants
0.0
171
Step Into Liquid
0.0
172
Tyson
0.0
173
Spielberg
0.0
174
This Is Elvis
0.0
175
My Voyage to Italy
0.0
176
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
0.0
177
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
0.0
178
Love the Beast
0.0
179
Walt & El Grupo
0.0
180
Untold: The Fall of Favre
0.0
181
Sting - Bring on the Night
0.0
182
Heavy Petting
0.0
183
Gerhard Richter Painting
0.0
184
The Real Cancun
0.0
185
That's Dancing!
0.0
186
Examined Life
0.0
187
In Search of Noah's Ark
0.0
188
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
0.0
189
First Position
0.0
190
Faye
0.0
191
The Concert for Bangladesh
0.0
192
The Business of Being Born
0.0
193
Girls State
0.0
194
Revolution OS
0.0
195
U2 3D
0.0
196
Divine Madness
0.0
197
Defamation
0.0
198
Orangutan
0.0
199
Sing Your Song
0.0
200
Sweetgrass
0.0