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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 120 films in this list available on Apple TV US.

  • Collective

    1

  • Gunda

    2

  • Slay the Dragon

    3

  • Aswang

    5

  • Mayor

    6

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    7

  • Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy

    8

  • The Booksellers

    9

  • The Reason I Jump

    10

  • Martin Margiela: In His Own Words

    11

  • Stars and Strife

    12

  • 76 Days

    13

  • Beyond The Visible - Hilma af Klint

    15

  • Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

    16

  • A Thousand Cuts

    20

  • Welcome to Chechnya

    21

  • The Human Factor

    22

  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

    23

  • Some Kind of Heaven

    29

  • The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

    30

  • Childhood 2.0

    31

  • 40 Years a Prisoner

    32

  • Dear Santa

    39

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

    40

  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    41

  • Feels Good Man

    42

  • House of Cardin

    43

  • Totally Under Control

    44

  • The Last Blockbuster

    50

  • Rewind

    51

  • Bedlam

    52

  • Acasă, My Home

    53

  • MLK/FBI

    55

  • The Truffle Hunters

    56

  • Soros

    58

  • iHuman

    59

  • Mighty Ira

    61

  • The State of Texas vs. Melissa

    62

  • Black Boys

    66

  • White Noise

    67

  • American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

    68

  • Stray

    71

  • CoroNation

    72

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

    73

  • For They Know Not What They Do

    76

  • Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

    78

  • Notturno

    81

  • The Ghost of Peter Sellers

    83

  • John Lewis: Good Trouble

    85

  • The Way I See It

    86

  • The Fight

    88

  • The Mole Agent

    89

  • Rebuilding Paradise

    93

  • Assassins

    94

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

    95

  • Desert One

    97

  • My Darling Vivian

    98

  • The Pollinators

    99

  • Billie

    100

  • Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

    102

  • The Dog Doc

    105

  • The Go-Go's

    106

  • Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

    108

  • Red Penguins

    109

  • The Phenomenon

    110

  • The Walrus and the Whistleblower

    111

  • #UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

    112

  • Planet of the Humans

    114

  • Zappa

    115

  • Dope Is Death

    121

  • We Don't Deserve Dogs

    127

  • The American Sector

    129

  • A Most Beautiful Thing

    130

  • Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words

    132

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

    133

  • 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

  • You Cannot Kill David Arquette

    140

  • Spaceship Earth

    143

  • The Infiltrators

    145

  • The Painter and the Thief

    146

  • America's Forgotten

    147

  • Uncle Tom

    148

  • The Plot Against the President

    149

  • 915: Hunting Hispanics

    151

  • Aggie

    152

  • All I Can Say

    153

  • The Big Scary “S” Word

    155

  • Born to Be

    156

  • Bulletproof

    157

  • Colombia in My Arms

    160

  • Coming Clean

    161

  • The Curve

    162

  • Downstream to Kinshasa

    166

  • The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

    167

  • Epicentro

    170

  • F11 and Be There

    173