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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.

  • The Painter and the Thief

    146

  • America's Forgotten

    147

  • Uncle Tom

    148

  • The Plot Against the President

    149

  • Find Your Groove

    141

  • Kingdom of Silence

    142

  • Spaceship Earth

    143

  • Miss Americana

    144

  • Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

    134

  • Lennox Lewis: The Untold Story

    135

  • The Antidote

    136

  • Finding Yingying

    137

  • Escape from Extinction

    138

  • Strip Down, Rise Up

    139

  • You Cannot Kill David Arquette

    140

  • Dope Is Death

    121

  • This Is Paris

    122

  • The Social Dilemma

    123

  • (In)Visible Portraits

    125

  • We Don't Deserve Dogs

    127

  • Harry Chapin: When in Doubt, Do Something

    128

  • The American Sector

    129

  • A Most Beautiful Thing

    130

  • My Psychedelic Love Story

    131

  • Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words

    132

  • Beautiful Something Left Behind

    64

  • Notturno

    81

  • With Drawn Arms

    82

  • Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds

    84

  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

    85

  • The Way I See It

    86

  • Once Upon a Time in Venezuela

    87

  • The Fight

    88

  • The Mole Agent

    89

  • David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet

    90

  • Disclosure

    91

  • Be Water

    92

  • Rebuilding Paradise

    93

  • Assassins

    94

  • My Darling Vivian

    98

  • Belly of the Beast

    101

  • Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

    102

  • Father Soldier Son

    103

  • The Go-Go's

    106

  • The Phenomenon

    110

  • The Walrus and the Whistleblower

    111

  • #UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

    112

  • Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

    113

  • Zappa

    115

  • The Donut King

    117

  • Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado

    118

  • Athlete A

    119

  • Becoming

    120

  • Time

    34

  • Landfall

    36

  • Rising Phoenix

    37

  • Dear Santa

    39

  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    41

  • Totally Under Control

    44

  • I Am Greta

    45

  • Boys State

    48

  • Beastie Boys Story

    49

  • The Last Blockbuster

    50

  • Acasă, My Home

    53

  • Transhood

    54

  • MLK/FBI

    55

  • The Truffle Hunters

    56

  • Dick Johnson Is Dead

    57

  • Apocalypse '45

    60

  • Mighty Ira

    61

  • The State of Texas vs. Melissa

    62

  • Women in Blue

    65

  • Black Boys

    66

  • White Noise

    67

  • American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

    68

  • Fandango at the Wall

    70

  • Stray

    71

  • CoroNation

    72

  • Kiss the Ground

    75

  • On the Record

    77

  • Down a Dark Stairwell

    80

  • The Reason I Jump

    10

  • Stars and Strife

    12

  • 76 Days

    13

  • Coded Bias

    14

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    16

  • My Octopus Teacher

    17

  • City Hall

    18

  • Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

    19

  • A Thousand Cuts

    20

  • Welcome to Chechnya

    21

  • Giving Voice

    26

  • The Art of Political Murder

    27

  • Some Kind of Heaven

    29

  • The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

    30

  • Childhood 2.0

    31

  • 40 Years a Prisoner

    32

  • 9to5: The Story of a Movement

    35

  • Belushi

    38

  • Feels Good Man

    42