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Metacritic’s Top 100 Documentaries of the 2010s

Extracted from here. Documentaries only, fictional films have their own top 250 here. Films are rated between 95 and 83.

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There are 54 films in this list available on Amazon Video US.

  • Weiner

    99

  • On Her Shoulders

    98

  • The Square

    97

  • Heart of a Dog

    96

  • McQueen

    95

  • The Work

    94

  • Watchers of the Sky

    93

  • Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    92

  • The Departure

    89

  • Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    86

  • Rat Film

    84

  • I Am Another You

    80

  • Amy

    79

  • Nothing Like a Dame

    78

  • Black Mother

    70

  • How to Survive a Plague

    67

  • Cameraperson

    62

  • Dawson City: Frozen Time

    61

  • Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

    57

  • Bisbee '17

    56

  • Life Itself

    55

  • Particle Fever

    54

  • Gideon's Army

    53

  • Listen to Me Marlon

    52

  • My Journey Through French Cinema

    51

  • Jane

    50

  • Fire at Sea

    49

  • The Farthest

    48

  • Of Men and War

    47

  • The Missing Picture

    46

  • Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan

    45

  • Jane Fonda in Five Acts

    43

  • Apollo 11

    42

  • Cunningham

    38

  • Citizenfour

    37

  • A Film Unfinished

    36

  • The Arbor

    31

  • Western

    28

  • Uncertain

    26

  • The Act of Killing

    21

  • Paths of the Soul

    17

  • I Called Him Morgan

    16

  • Nostalgia for the Light

    15

  • The Gatekeepers

    14

  • They Shall Not Grow Old

    12

  • Stories We Tell

    10

  • Tower

    9

  • The Look of Silence

    8

  • Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: One More Time with Feeling

    7

  • Sherpa

    6

  • Faces Places

    4

  • We Were Here

    3

  • Amazing Grace

    2

  • I Am Not Your Negro

    1