| 01 | Man with a Movie Camera | 78.7 |
| 02 | Shoah | 64.6 |
| 03 | Hoop Dreams | 40.3 |
| 04 | Grey Gardens | 30.4 |
| 05 | top 10 ranked list | 30.0 |
| 06 | Night and Fog | 26.5 |
| 07 | O.J.: Made in America | 25.8 |
| 08 | Man on Wire | 25.0 |
| 09 | Paris Is Burning | 24.2 |
| 10 | best documentaries by topic | 23.1 |
| 11 | The Act of Killing | 23.1 |
| 12 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | 21.8 |
| 13 | The Thin Blue Line | 21.6 |
| 14 | best modern documentaries streaming right now | 20.3 |
| 15 | Nanook of the North | 18.7 |
| 16 | When We Were Kings | 15.4 |
| 17 | Crumb | 15.0 |
| 18 | Citizenfour | 14.7 |
| 19 | Amy | 14.4 |
| 20 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | 13.8 |
| 21 | I Am Not Your Negro | 11.2 |
| 22 | The Fog of War | 10.8 |
| 23 | Stop Making Sense | 10.5 |
| 24 | Sans soleil | 10.2 |
| 25 | Grizzly Man (2005) | 9.8 |
| 26 | Minding the Gap | 9.6 |
| 27 | Stories We Tell | 9.5 |