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 October 9, 2026.
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Movie
1-Year Attention Score1-Yr Attention
1
The Perfect Neighbor
5.4
2
Melania
4.8
3
Jackass: Best and Last
2.9
4
You Can See Everything
2.5
5
Being Eddie
1.5
6
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
1.5
7
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
1.1
8
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
1.1
9
Free Solo
1.1
10
Super Size Me
1.1
11
Jackass Forever
1.0
12
John Candy: I Like Me
1.0
13
Jackass: The Movie
0.7
14
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
0.7
15
Fahrenheit 9/11
0.6
16
Bowling for Columbine
0.6
17
Stop Making Sense
0.6
18
This Is It
0.5
19
Jackass 3D
0.5
20
The Imposter
0.5
21
Jackass Number Two
0.4
22
NAZA
0.4
23
The Secret
0.4
24
Inside Job
0.4
25
Searching for Sugar Man
0.4
26
Lorne
0.4
27
Encounters at the End of the World
0.4
28
An Inconvenient Truth
0.4
29
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
0.4
30
The Thin Blue Line
0.4
31
Pumping Iron
0.4
32
The Queen of Versailles
0.4
33
Navalny
0.4
34
Hoop Dreams
0.3
35
The Smashing Machine
0.3
36
Exit Through the Gift Shop
0.3
37
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
0.3
38
Musk
0.3
39
Jodorowsky's Dune
0.3
40
March of the Penguins
0.3
41
The Cove
0.3
42
The Fog of War
0.3
43
Ocean with David Attenborough
0.3
44
The Original Kings of Comedy
0.2
45
Waltz with Bashir
0.2
46
American Movie
0.2
47
Catfish
0.2
48
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
0.2
49
Crumb
0.2
50
This Is Me…Now
0.2
51
Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
0.2
52
#SKYKING
0.2
53
Let It Be
0.2
54
Woodstock
0.2
55
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
0.2
56
The History of Concrete
0.2
57
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
0.2
58
Roger & Me
0.2
59
Senna
0.2
60
Food, Inc.
0.2
61
Streetwise
0.2
62
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
0.2
63
I Am Not Your Negro
0.2
64
Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
0.2
65
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition
0.2
66
Restrepo
0.2
67
Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster
0.2
68
When We Were Kings
0.2
69
Marc by Sofia
0.2
70
Powaqqatsi
0.2
71
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
0.2
72
American Symphony
0.2
73
Dogtown and Z-Boys
0.2
74
Sicko
0.2
75
Religulous
0.1
76
Madonna: Truth or Dare
0.1
77
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie
0.1
78
Remake
0.1
79
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
0.1
80
One to One: John & Yoko
0.1
81
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
0.1
82
Biggie & Tupac
0.1
83
We Live in Public
0.1
84
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special
0.1
85
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
0.1
86
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
0.1
87
Beyond the Mat
0.1
88
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
0.1
89
Chimpanzee
0.1
90
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
0.1
91
Ghost Elephants
0.1
92
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
0.1
93
Looking for Richard
0.1
94
12th & Delaware
0.1
95
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
0.1
96
Sally
0.1
97
The Python Hunt
0.1
98
It Might Get Loud
0.1
99
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
0.1
100
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
0.1
101
Kumaré
0.1
102
Terror in the Aisles
0.1
103
Queen of Chess
0.1
104
Marley
0.1
105
Sound City
0.1
106
Capitalism: A Love Story
0.1
107
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
0.1
108
West of Memphis
0.1
109
Everybody to Kenmure Street
0.1
110
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
0.1
111
The September Issue
0.1
112
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
0.1
113
Tupac: Resurrection
0.1
114
The Kid Stays in the Picture
0.1
115
Until the Light Takes Us
0.1
116
The Celluloid Closet
0.1
117
Renaldo and Clara
0.1
118
4 Little Girls
0.1
119
Wattstax
0.1
120
Prince: Sign 'o' the Times
0.1
121
Winnebago Man
0.1
122
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
0.1
123
Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing
0.1
124
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
0.1
125
Oceans
0.1
126
The Wildest Dream
0.1
127
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
0.1
128
Comedian
0.1
129
Life Itself
0.1
130
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
0.1
131
The 11th Hour
0.1
132
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
0.1
133
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
0.1
134
Glee: The Concert Movie
0.1
135
Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones
0.1
136
The Times of Harvey Milk
0.1
137
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
0.1
138
America's Heart & Soul
0.1
139
Good Hair
0.1
140
When You're Strange
0.1
141
Orangutan
0.1
142
Murder on a Sunday Morning
0.1
143
Shine a Light
0.1
144
Waking Sleeping Beauty
0.1
145
Valentino: The Last Emperor
0.1
146
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
0.1
147
Lost in La Mancha
0.1
148
The Invisible War
0.1
149
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
0.1
150
Mad Hot Ballroom
0.1
151
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
0.1
152
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
0.1
153
Imagine: John Lennon
0.1
154
Mansome
0.1
155
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
0.1
156
Spielberg
0.1
157
Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
0.1
158
That's Entertainment! III
0.1
159
Once Upon a Time in Harlem
0.1
160
Girls State
0.1
161
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
0.1
162
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
0.1
163
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
0.1
164
Shut Up and Play the Hits
0.1
165
Hype!
0.0
166
Buck
0.0
167
Five Broken Cameras
0.0
168
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
0.0
169
Unzipped
0.0
170
African Cats
0.0
171
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
0.0
172
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
0.0
173
Manson
0.0
174
Project Nim
0.0
175
Walt & El Grupo
0.0
176
Step Into Liquid
0.0
177
The Big One
0.0
178
Faye
0.0
179
Tyson
0.0
180
Heavy Petting
0.0
181
That's Entertainment, Part II
0.0
182
Rockshow
0.0
183
Wild Man Blues
0.0
184
The Tillman Story
0.0
185
The Age of Stupid
0.0
186
Chasing Ice
0.0
187
Gerhard Richter Painting
0.0
188
The Endless Summer II
0.0
189
Love the Beast
0.0
190
It Came from Hollywood
0.0
191
Sting - Bring on the Night
0.0
192
Celine: Through the Eyes of the World
0.0
193
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
0.0
194
Sing Your Song
0.0
195
Examined Life
0.0
196
This Is Elvis
0.0
197
First Position
0.0
198
My Voyage to Italy
0.0
199
That's Dancing!
0.0
200
In Search of Noah's Ark
0.0