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Best Documentary Movies of the 2000s
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Score
MPAA
Rating
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1

3.5026
157
reviews
PG-13
Adaptation, Biopic, Documentary, Foreign
$10.97
August 7, 1974. A young French man named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire suspended between the ... more about Man on Wire (2008) starring Philippe Petit and Jim Moore (II)
2

3.3683
266
reviews
R
Drama, Documentary, Sports
$11.10
Joe is injured in a fall while mountain climbing. Unable to climb down on his own Simon attaches ... more about Touching the Void (2003) starring Brendan Mackey
3

3.3572
86
reviews
Not Rated
Documentary
$1.79
This disturbing documentary explores the pedophilic activities of father Oliver O'Grady as he was ... more about Deliver Us From Evil (2006) starring Thomas Doyle and Oliver O'Grady
4

3.3458
220
reviews
G
Documentary
$5.18
This documentary examines the migratory patterns of birds through forty countries and all seven ... more about Winged Migration (2003)
5

3.3322
131
reviews
PG-13
War, Biography, Documentary
$8.50
Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations tells his ... more about Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The (2003) starring Robert McNamara and Fidel Castro
6

3.2534
118
reviews
Not Rated
Crime, Documentary, Foreign
$4.90
In the summer of 2000, a man hijacked a Rio de Janeiro bus and threatened to kill all its ... more about Bus 174 (2003) starring Yvonne Bezerra de Mello and Sandro do Nascimento
7

3.2418
263
reviews
R
Documentary, Sports
$2.75
Quad rugby as played by the US team, between 2002 games in Sweden and the 2004 Paralympics in ... more about Murderball (2005) starring Joe Soares and Mark Zupan
8

3.2326
312
reviews
Not Rated
Documentary
$1.78
The Friedmans are a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly ... more about Capturing the Friedmans (2003) starring Arnold Friedman and Elaine Friedman
9

3.2154
225
reviews
G
Documentary, Foreign
$1.72
Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain ... more about March of the Penguins (2005)
10

3.2107
134
reviews
Not Rated
Documentary
$3.74
Admist the apparent growing prosperity of India, there is a dark underbelly of poverty of another ... more about Born Into Brothels (2004)