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The Oscar Documentary Feature Submissions of Film Year 2020 I've Seen, Ranked [Shortlist Completed]

An amazing record of 238 feature-length documentaries made it to the 2020 Oscar long-list. [See here: bit.ly/3atLXNx.]

This is my ongoing personal record, and ranking, of those I've seen.

As of the last update, I have seen all fifteen shortlisted titles.

My Other Documentary Features Lists: [ 2024 ] [ 2023 ] [ 2022 ] [ 2021 ] [ 2020 ]

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There are 75 films in this list released in the 2010s.

  • Collective

    1

  • Slay the Dragon

    3

  • Aswang

    5

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    7

  • Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

    8

  • The Booksellers

    9

  • Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

    11

  • Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint

    15

  • The Human Factor

    22

  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

    23

  • Olympia

    24

  • My Rembrandt

    25

  • Lessons of Love

    28

  • Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

    33

  • Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

    40

  • House of Cardin

    43

  • Mr. SOUL!

    46

  • The Times of Bill Cunningham

    47

  • Rewind

    51

  • Bedlam

    52

  • Soros

    58

  • iHuman

    59

  • Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time

    63

  • Coup 53

    69

  • Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll

    73

  • WBCN and the American Revolution

    74

  • For They Know Not What They Do

    76

  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

    78

  • Flannery

    79

  • The Ghost of Peter Sellers

    83

  • Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

    95

  • The Forbidden Reel

    96

  • Desert One

    97

  • The Pollinators

    99

  • Billie

    100

  • Dads

    104

  • The Dog Doc

    105

  • Ringside

    107

  • Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

    108

  • Red Penguins

    109

  • Planet of the Humans

    114

  • Human Nature

    116

  • Circus of Books

    124

  • 17 Blocks

    126

  • A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem

    133

  • The Infiltrators

    145

  • All I Can Say

    153

  • Born to Be

    156

  • City Dream

    159

  • Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible

    171

  • Everybody Flies

    172

  • F11 and Be There

    173

  • He Dreams of Giants

    177

  • I Am Not Alone

    178

  • I Owe You a Letter About Brazil

    179

  • Indian Space Dreams

    181

  • Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl

    185

  • A Kid from Coney Island

    186

  • Life Is Deadly

    192

  • Lost Course

    194

  • Love Child

    196

  • Mother to Earth

    199

  • My Darling Supermarket

    200

  • Our Time Machine

    206

  • Pahokee

    207

  • Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack

    212

  • River City Drumbeat

    215

  • Runner

    217

  • Searching for Mr. Rugoff

    218

  • System K

    223

  • They Call Me Babu

    224

  • This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth

    225

  • We Are the Radical Monarchs

    229

  • What's Eating Ralphie May?

    230

  • Who Is Gatsby Randolph

    231