Top Documentary Movies of the Past Year
Ranked by 1-Year Buzz Score, Television Stats' measure of online audience engagement across the last 365 days, for the year ending June 29, 2026.
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Movie
1-Year Buzz Score
1
The Perfect Neighbor
5.7Good
2
Melania
4.6Good
3
Being Eddie
1.6Quiet
4
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
1.2Quiet
5
John Candy: I Like Me
1.2Quiet
6
Free Solo
1.1Quiet
7
Super Size Me
1.0Quiet
8
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere
0.8Quiet
9
Jackass Forever
0.8Quiet
10
Jackass: Best and Last
0.8Quiet
11
The Smashing Machine
0.8Quiet
12
Bowling for Columbine
0.6Quiet
13
Stop Making Sense
0.6Quiet
14
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist
0.6Quiet
15
Fahrenheit 9/11
0.5Quiet
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16
Jackass: The Movie
0.5Quiet
17
The Secret
0.5Quiet
18
An Inconvenient Truth
0.4Quiet
19
Encounters at the End of the World
0.4Quiet
20
The Thin Blue Line
0.4Quiet
21
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
0.3Quiet
22
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
0.3Quiet
23
Searching for Sugar Man
0.3Quiet
24
Inside Job
0.3Quiet
25
The Queen of Versailles
0.3Quiet
26
Jackass 3D
0.3Quiet
27
The Imposter
0.3Quiet
28
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
0.3Quiet
29
Jackass Number Two
0.3Quiet
30
Exit Through the Gift Shop
0.3Quiet
31
Hoop Dreams
0.3Quiet
32
This Is It
0.3Quiet
33
Pumping Iron
0.3Quiet
34
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
0.3Quiet
35
Jodorowsky's Dune
0.3Quiet
36
The Fog of War
0.2Quiet
37
Waltz with Bashir
0.2Quiet
38
Crumb
0.2Quiet
39
March of the Penguins
0.2Quiet
40
American Movie
0.2Quiet
41
Catfish
0.2Quiet
42
Navalny
0.2Quiet
43
Let It Be
0.2Quiet
44
The Original Kings of Comedy
0.2Quiet
45
Restrepo
0.2Quiet
46
This Is Me…Now
0.2Quiet
47
The Cove
0.2Quiet
48
Senna
0.2Quiet
49
Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
0.2Quiet
50
Woodstock
0.2Quiet
51
Lorne
0.2Quiet
52
Roger & Me
0.2Quiet
53
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
0.2Quiet
54
I Am Not Your Negro
0.2Quiet
55
Streetwise
0.2Quiet
56
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
0.2Quiet
57
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
0.2Quiet
58
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
0.2Quiet
59
Ocean with David Attenborough
0.2Quiet
60
Food, Inc.
0.2Quiet
61
Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster
0.1Quiet
62
When We Were Kings
0.1Quiet
63
Dogtown and Z-Boys
0.1Quiet
64
One to One: John & Yoko
0.1Quiet
65
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé
0.1Quiet
66
Powaqqatsi
0.1Quiet
67
Sicko
0.1Quiet
68
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
0.1Quiet
69
Religulous
0.1Quiet
70
We Live in Public
0.1Quiet
71
Justin Bieber: Never Say Never
0.1Quiet
72
Prince: Sign 'o' the Times
0.1Quiet
73
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
0.1Quiet
74
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie
0.1Quiet
75
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
0.1Quiet
76
Madonna: Truth or Dare
0.1Quiet
77
Biggie & Tupac
0.1Quiet
78
4 Little Girls
0.1Quiet
79
American Symphony
0.1Quiet
80
Beyond the Mat
0.1Quiet
81
Looking for Richard
0.1Quiet
82
Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry
0.1Quiet
83
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
0.1Quiet
84
It Might Get Loud
0.1Quiet
85
Terror in the Aisles
0.1Quiet
86
Renaldo and Clara
0.1Quiet
87
The September Issue
0.1Quiet
88
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
0.1Quiet
89
The Celluloid Closet
0.1Quiet
90
Kumaré
0.1Quiet
91
Chimpanzee
0.1Quiet
92
West of Memphis
0.1Quiet
93
Capitalism: A Love Story
0.1Quiet
94
Sound City
0.1Quiet
95
The Kid Stays in the Picture
0.1Quiet
96
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
0.1Quiet
97
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert
0.1Quiet
98
Sally
0.1Quiet
99
Until the Light Takes Us
0.1Quiet
100
The 11th Hour
0.1Quiet
101
Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa
0.1Quiet
102
Wattstax
0.1Quiet
103
The Times of Harvey Milk
0.1Quiet
104
Tupac: Resurrection
0.1Quiet
105
Marley
0.1Quiet
106
Winnebago Man
0.1Quiet
107
Murder on a Sunday Morning
0.1Quiet
108
Oceans
0.1Quiet
109
Shine a Light
0.1Quiet
110
Comedian
0.1Quiet
111
Valentino: The Last Emperor
0.1Quiet
112
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
0.1Quiet
113
Glee: The Concert Movie
0.1Quiet
114
When You're Strange
0.1Quiet
115
Ladies & Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones
0.1Quiet
116
The Wildest Dream
0.1Quiet
117
Lost in La Mancha
0.1Quiet
118
Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience
0.1Quiet
119
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
0.1Quiet
120
Good Hair
0.1Quiet
121
Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie
0.1Quiet
122
Life Itself
0.1Quiet
123
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
0.0Quiet
124
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
0.0Quiet
125
Waking Sleeping Beauty
0.0Quiet
126
12th & Delaware
0.0Quiet
127
Five Broken Cameras
0.0Quiet
128
America's Heart & Soul
0.0Quiet
129
The Invisible War
0.0Quiet
130
Imagine: John Lennon
0.0Quiet
131
Mad Hot Ballroom
0.0Quiet
132
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
0.0Quiet
133
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
0.0Quiet
134
African Cats
0.0Quiet
135
The Big One
0.0Quiet
136
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain
0.0Quiet
137
Unzipped
0.0Quiet
138
Manson
0.0Quiet
139
Marc by Sofia
0.0Quiet
140
Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special
0.0Quiet
141
Wild Man Blues
0.0Quiet
142
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
0.0Quiet
143
Buck
0.0Quiet
144
That's Entertainment! III
0.0Quiet
145
Hype!
0.0Quiet
146
The Tillman Story
0.0Quiet
147
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
0.0Quiet
148
Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
0.0Quiet
149
Shut Up and Play the Hits
0.0Quiet
150
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
0.0Quiet
151
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
0.0Quiet
152
It Came from Hollywood
0.0Quiet
153
The Endless Summer II
0.0Quiet
154
The Age of Stupid
0.0Quiet
155
Project Nim
0.0Quiet
156
Chasing Ice
0.0Quiet
157
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
0.0Quiet
158
Step Into Liquid
0.0Quiet
159
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
0.0Quiet
160
Mansome
0.0Quiet
161
That's Entertainment, Part II
0.0Quiet
162
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
0.0Quiet
163
This Is Elvis
0.0Quiet
164
My Voyage to Italy
0.0Quiet
165
Untold: The Fall of Favre
0.0Quiet
166
Love the Beast
0.0Quiet
167
Tyson
0.0Quiet
168
Sting - Bring on the Night
0.0Quiet
169
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
0.0Quiet
170
That's Dancing!
0.0Quiet
171
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
0.0Quiet
172
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
0.0Quiet
173
The Real Cancun
0.0Quiet
174
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
0.0Quiet
175
Examined Life
0.0Quiet
176
In Search of Noah's Ark
0.0Quiet
177
Walt & El Grupo
0.0Quiet
178
The Concert for Bangladesh
0.0Quiet
179
The Business of Being Born
0.0Quiet
180
Revolution OS
0.0Quiet
181
Defamation
0.0Quiet
182
Full Tilt Boogie
0.0Quiet
183
U2 3D
0.0Quiet
184
Divine Madness
0.0Quiet
185
Farewell
0.0Quiet
186
Heavy Petting
0.0Quiet
187
Gerhard Richter Painting
0.0Quiet
188
First Position
0.0Quiet
189
Chicago 10
0.0Quiet
190
Everybody to Kenmure Street
0.0Quiet
191
Sweetgrass
0.0Quiet
192
The Python Hunt
0.0Quiet
193
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
0.0Quiet
194
House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic
0.0Quiet
195
Scratch
0.0Quiet
196
Trouble the Water
0.0Quiet
197
Soul Power
0.0Quiet
198
Every Little Step
0.0Quiet
199
Sing Your Song
0.0Quiet
200
South of the Border
0.0Quiet