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Best Documentary Movies of the 2000s
#1 Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) · ★ 8.1 · 602 votes · 1h 34m · crime, documentaryIn 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close fri…
#2 The Cove (2009) · ★ 8.0 · 698 votes · 1h 32m · documentaryThe Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free divers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate the hidden cove in Japan, shining…
#3 Home (2009) · ★ 7.8 · 574 votes · 1h 35m · drama, family, documentaryIn 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangere…
#4 Waltz with Bashir (2008) · ★ 7.7 · 1,089 votes · 1h 30m · drama, animation, warA film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.…
#5 Bowling for Columbine (2002) · ★ 7.5 · 1,751 votes · 2h 0m · drama, documentaryThis is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitu…
#6 Grizzly Man (2005) · ★ 7.5 · 993 votes · 1h 43m · documentaryFollows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is f…
#7 This Is It (2009) · ★ 7.4 · 1,108 votes · 1h 51m · music, documentaryA compilation of interviews, rehearsals and backstage footage of Michael Jackson as he prepared for his series of sold-out shows in London.…
#8 Man on Wire (2008) · ★ 7.4 · 999 votes · 1h 34m · documentaryOn August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest…
#9 Sicko (2007) · ★ 7.4 · 812 votes · 2h 3m · comedy, drama, documentaryA documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States whose main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health i…
#10 Food, Inc. (2008) · ★ 7.4 · 684 votes · 1h 34m · documentaryDocumentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is grown to…
#11 Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) · ★ 7.1 · 1,571 votes · 2h 3m · documentaryMichael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.…
#12 Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) · ★ 7.1 · 573 votes · 2h 8m · history, documentaryMichael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, th…
#13 Religulous (2008) · ★ 7.0 · 675 votes · 1h 41m · comedy, documentaryCommentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about their faith. Traveling around the world, Maher examines the tenets of Christianity,…
#14 Zeitgeist: The Movie (2007) · ★ 7.0 · 555 votes · 1h 58m · history, documentaryA documentary examining possible historical and modern conspiracies surrounding Christianity, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and the Federal Reserve bank.…
#15 An Inconvenient Truth (2006) · ★ 6.9 · 1,007 votes · 1h 40m · documentaryA documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwide.…
#16 Super Size Me (2004) · ★ 6.7 · 1,836 votes · 1h 40m · documentaryMorgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or…
#17 Jackass Number Two (2006) · ★ 6.6 · 1,335 votes · 1h 33m · action, comedy, documentaryJackass Number Two is a compilation of various stunts, pranks and skits, and essentially has no plot. Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew retu…
#18 Jackass: The Movie (2002) · ★ 6.3 · 1,830 votes · 1h 25m · action, comedy, documentaryJohnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc…
#19 Jackass 2.5 (2007) · ★ 6.1 · 646 votes · 1h 4m · comedy, documentaryThe crew have now set off to finish what as left over from Jackass 2.0, and in this version they have Wee Man use a 'pee' gun on themselves, having a mini motor bike fracas in the…