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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 128 films in this list available on Amazon Video US.

  • Elementa

    168

  • The Curve

    162

  • First Vote

    174

  • The American Sector

    129

  • Pray: The Story of Patrick Peyton

    210

  • Stray

    71

  • The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

    167

  • Napoli Eden

    202

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

    95

  • Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles

    205

  • Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack

    212

  • Through the Night

    226

  • Dope Is Death

    121

  • Bulletproof

    157

  • The Power of Movement

    209

  • Red Penguins

    109

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

    133

  • Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

    8

  • The Reason I Jump

    10

  • Dear Santa

    39

  • La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla

    187

  • Some Kind of Heaven

    29

  • He Dreams of Giants

    177

  • The Truffle Hunters

    56

  • We Don't Deserve Dogs

    127

  • F11 and Be There

    173

  • Bedlam

    52

  • Soros

    58

  • America's Forgotten

    147

  • The Big Scary “S” Word

    155

  • The Last Blockbuster

    50

  • Rewind

    51

  • Acasă, My Home

    53

  • Our Time Machine

    206

  • The Right Girls

    214

  • Sky Blossom

    220

  • Rebuilding Paradise

    93

  • Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

    108

  • The Walrus and the Whistleblower

    111

  • Irradiated

    184

  • Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl

    185

  • Runner

    217

  • Childhood 2.0

    31

  • My Darling Vivian

    98

  • Escape from Extinction

    138

  • A Kid from Coney Island

    186

  • Mayor

    6

  • Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

    11

  • The Mole Agent

    89

  • Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

    102

  • You Cannot Kill David Arquette

    140

  • Downstream to Kinshasa

    166

  • I Am Not Alone

    178

  • Who Is Gatsby Randolph

    231

  • American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

    68

  • For They Know Not What They Do

    76

  • Aggie

    152

  • Colombia in My Arms

    160

  • Nasrin

    204

  • Softie

    221

  • 76 Days

    13

  • Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint

    15

  • The Ghost of Peter Sellers

    83

  • The Pollinators

    99

  • Born to Be

    156

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

    40

  • Feels Good Man

    42

  • White Noise

    67

  • Searching for Mr. Rugoff

    218

  • House of Cardin

    43

  • Black Boys

    66

  • A Most Beautiful Thing

    130

  • The Infiltrators

    145

  • River City Drumbeat

    215

  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    41

  • Billie

    100

  • Public Trust

    211

  • Stars and Strife

    12

  • Flannery

    79

  • The Fight

    88

  • The Go-Go's

    106

  • Finding Yingying

    137

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    16

  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

    85

  • Kingdom of Silence

    142

  • Us Kids

    228

  • The Booksellers

    9

  • A Thousand Cuts

    20

  • iHuman

    59

  • Mighty Ira

    61

  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

    78

  • Notturno

    81

  • The Phenomenon

    110

  • Planet of the Humans

    114

  • All I Can Say

    153

  • Wild Daze

    232

  • Slay the Dragon

    3

  • Olympia

    24

  • First We Eat

    175

  • The State of Texas vs. Melissa

    62