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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 158 films in this list released in the 2020s.

  • City Hall

    18

  • Lance

    188

  • Ending Disease

    169

  • Zappa

    115

  • 915: Hunting Hispanics

    151

  • Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

    134

  • Totally Under Control

    44

  • Beastie Boys Story

    49

  • Wim Wenders, Desperado

    233

  • Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words

    132

  • CoroNation

    72

  • Spaceship Earth

    143

  • Man In The Arena

    197

  • Strip Down, Rise Up

    139

  • 40 Years a Prisoner

    32

  • Boys State

    48

  • Coming Clean

    161

  • Belushi

    38

  • Epicentro

    170

  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    19

  • Welcome to Chechnya

    21

  • Disclosure

    91

  • My Psychedelic Love Story

    131

  • The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

    30

  • Rising Phoenix

    37

  • Uncle Tom

    148

  • Be Water

    92

  • Athlete A

    119

  • This Is Paris

    122

  • Chicago: America's Hidden War

    158

  • MLK/FBI

    55

  • Apocalypse '45

    60

  • Assassins

    94

  • All In: The Fight for Democracy

    4

  • The State of Texas vs. Melissa

    62

  • The Way I See It

    86

  • The Antidote

    136

  • The Painter and the Thief

    146

  • First We Eat

    175

  • Notturno

    81

  • The Phenomenon

    110

  • Wild Daze

    232

  • A Thousand Cuts

    20

  • Mighty Ira

    61

  • Father Soldier Son

    103

  • Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

    113

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    16

  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

    84

  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

    85

  • Kingdom of Silence

    142

  • Us Kids

    228

  • Stars and Strife

    12

  • I Am Greta

    45

  • The Fight

    88

  • The Go-Go's

    106

  • Finding Yingying

    137

  • Trust Me

    227

  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    41

  • Transhood

    54

  • Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

    87

  • Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

    118

  • Lennox Lewis: The Untold Story

    135

  • Public Trust

    211

  • Black Boys

    66

  • On the Record

    77

  • A Most Beautiful Thing

    130

  • Feels Good Man

    42

  • White Noise

    67

  • The Donut King

    117

  • The Social Dilemma

    123

  • Gunda

    2

  • 76 Days

    13

  • Landfall

    36

  • Fandango at the Wall

    70

  • Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something

    128

  • Lift Like a Girl

    193

  • (In)Visible Portraits

    125

  • My People: The Jews of Greece

    201

  • Softie

    221

  • American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

    68

  • Aggie

    152

  • Colombia in My Arms

    160

  • Nasrin

    204

  • Mayor

    6

  • Giving Voice

    26

  • The Mole Agent

    89

  • Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

    102

  • You Cannot Kill David Arquette

    140

  • The Plot Against the President

    149

  • Downstream to Kinshasa

    166

  • Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

    176

  • Influence

    182

  • Songs of Repression

    222

  • The Art of Political Murder

    27

  • Childhood 2.0

    31

  • 9to5: The Story of a Movement

    35

  • Dick Johnson Is Dead

    57

  • My Darling Vivian

    98

  • Becoming

    120

  • Escape from Extinction

    138