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 9, 2026.
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Movie
1-Year Attention Score1-Yr Attention
1
The Perfect Neighbor
5.8
2
Melania
4.7
3
Being Eddie
1.6
4
Jackass: Best and Last
1.4
5
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
1.3
6
John Candy: I Like Me
1.2
7
Free Solo
1.1
8
Super Size Me
1.0
9
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
0.9
10
Jackass Forever
0.9
11
The Smashing Machine
0.7
12
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
0.7
13
Bowling for Columbine
0.6
14
Jackass: The Movie
0.6
15
Stop Making Sense
0.6
16
Fahrenheit 9/11
0.5
17
Jackass 3D
0.4
18
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
0.4
19
The Secret
0.4
20
An Inconvenient Truth
0.4
21
Jackass Number Two
0.4
22
The Queen of Versailles
0.4
23
Encounters at the End of the World
0.4
24
The Thin Blue Line
0.4
25
This Is It
0.4
26
Inside Job
0.4
27
Searching for Sugar Man
0.3
28
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
0.3
29
The Imposter
0.3
30
Exit Through the Gift Shop
0.3
31
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
0.3
32
Hoop Dreams
0.3
33
Navalny
0.3
34
Pumping Iron
0.3
35
Jodorowsky's Dune
0.3
36
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
0.2
37
Lorne
0.2
38
The Fog of War
0.2
39
Waltz with Bashir
0.2
40
March of the Penguins
0.2
41
Catfish
0.2
42
Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
0.2
43
American Movie
0.2
44
The Original Kings of Comedy
0.2
45
Let It Be
0.2
46
Crumb
0.2
47
This Is Me…Now
0.2
48
Restrepo
0.2
49
The Cove
0.2
50
Woodstock
0.2
51
Ocean with David Attenborough
0.2
52
Roger & Me
0.2
53
Senna
0.2
54
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
0.2
55
I Am Not Your Negro
0.2
56
Streetwise
0.2
57
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
0.2
58
Food, Inc.
0.2
59
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
0.2
60
When We Were Kings
0.1
61
Dogtown and Z-Boys
0.1
62
Powaqqatsi
0.1
63
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
0.1
64
Sicko
0.1
65
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
0.1
66
One to One: John & Yoko
0.1
67
Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster
0.1
68
Religulous
0.1
69
We Live in Public
0.1
70
Madonna: Truth or Dare
0.1
71
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
0.1
72
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
0.1
73
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
0.1
74
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
0.1
75
Prince: Sign 'o' the Times
0.1
76
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie
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
Chimpanzee
0.1
83
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
0.1
84
Terror in the Aisles
0.1
85
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
0.1
86
It Might Get Loud
0.1
87
Renaldo and Clara
0.1
88
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
0.1
89
The Celluloid Closet
0.1
90
Capitalism: A Love Story
0.1
91
The September Issue
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
Until the Light Takes Us
0.1
98
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
0.1
99
The 11th Hour
0.1
100
Sally
0.1
101
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
0.1
102
Wattstax
0.1
103
The Times of Harvey Milk
0.1
104
Tupac: Resurrection
0.1
105
Winnebago Man
0.1
106
Marc by Sofia
0.1
107
Comedian
0.1
108
Marley
0.1
109
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
0.1
110
Oceans
0.1
111
12th & Delaware
0.1
112
Shine a Light
0.1
113
Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones
0.1
114
Murder on a Sunday Morning
0.1
115
The Wildest Dream
0.1
116
Valentino: The Last Emperor
0.1
117
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special
0.1
118
Glee: The Concert Movie
0.1
119
When You're Strange
0.1
120
Lost in La Mancha
0.1
121
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
0.1
122
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
0.1
123
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
0.1
124
Life Itself
0.1
125
Good Hair
0.1
126
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
0.1
127
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
0.1
128
Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
0.1
129
America's Heart & Soul
0.0
130
Imagine: John Lennon
0.0
131
Remake
0.0
132
The Invisible War
0.0
133
Waking Sleeping Beauty
0.0
134
Mad Hot Ballroom
0.0
135
Five Broken Cameras
0.0
136
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
0.0
137
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
0.0
138
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
0.0
139
That's Entertainment! III
0.0
140
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
0.0
141
African Cats
0.0
142
The Big One
0.0
143
Buck
0.0
144
#SKYKING
0.0
145
Unzipped
0.0
146
Hype!
0.0
147
The Python Hunt
0.0
148
Manson
0.0
149
Wild Man Blues
0.0
150
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
0.0
151
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
0.0
152
Shut Up and Play the Hits
0.0
153
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
0.0
154
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
0.0
155
Everybody to Kenmure Street
0.0
156
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
0.0
157
The Tillman Story
0.0
158
Step Into Liquid
0.0
159
Mansome
0.0
160
That's Entertainment, Part II
0.0
161
Project Nim
0.0
162
The Endless Summer II
0.0
163
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
0.0
164
It Came from Hollywood
0.0
165
The Age of Stupid
0.0
166
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
0.0
167
Chasing Ice
0.0
168
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
0.0
169
This Is Elvis
0.0
170
My Voyage to Italy
0.0
171
Untold: The Fall of Favre
0.0
172
Tyson
0.0
173
Love the Beast
0.0
174
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
0.0
175
Sting - Bring on the Night
0.0
176
Walt & El Grupo
0.0
177
The Real Cancun
0.0
178
That's Dancing!
0.0
179
Examined Life
0.0
180
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
0.0
181
In Search of Noah's Ark
0.0
182
Spielberg
0.0
183
Heavy Petting
0.0
184
The Concert for Bangladesh
0.0
185
The Business of Being Born
0.0
186
Gerhard Richter Painting
0.0
187
Defamation
0.0
188
Revolution OS
0.0
189
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare
0.0
190
Divine Madness
0.0
191
U2 3D
0.0
192
First Position
0.0
193
Farewell
0.0
194
Sweetgrass
0.0
195
Full Tilt Boogie
0.0
196
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
0.0
197
House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic
0.0
198
Scratch
0.0
199
Countdown to Zero
0.0
200
Sing Your Song
0.0