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4 Little Girls (1997)

Summary: A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.

Release Date: July 09, 1997

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Spike Lee

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Home Box Office (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 130,146

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
24 votes

Night Will Fall (2014)

Summary: Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.

Release Date: December 05, 2014

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: André Singer

Writer: Lynette Singer

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Angel TV, Final Cut for Real, RatPac Entertainment, Spring Films

Distributor: RatPac Documentary Films, Cinephil, Home Box Office (HBO), Warner Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

98 - Rotten Tomatoes
101 votes

One Child Nation (2019)

Summary: After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

Release Date: August 09, 2019

Genres: Documentary, History

Directors: Nanfu Wang

, Jialing Zhang

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Chicago Media Project, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

Distributor: Amazon Studios, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 270,128

International: $ 1,713

97 - Rotten Tomatoes
31 votes

One Day in September (1999)

Summary: The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Release Date: July 12, 2001

Genres: Documentary, History, Sport

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Passion Pictures, Arthur Cohn Productions, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), European Co-production Fund, Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Movement

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Flicksium, Home Box Office (HBO), Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 156,818

97 - Rotten Tomatoes
29 votes

Oklahoma City (2017)

Summary: Documents the beliefs and experiences of Timothy McVeigh in the lead-up to his bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which claimed 168 lives.

Release Date: January 21, 2017

Genres: Documentary, Crime, History

Director: Barak Goodman

Writer: Barak Goodman

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: American Experience Films, Ark Media, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

Country: United States

Language: English

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
141 votes

The Fog of War (2003)

Summary: The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.

Release Date: March 05, 2004

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Errol Morris

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Sony Pictures Classics, RadicalMedia, SenArt Films

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Television International, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,198,566

International: $ 840,275

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
138 votes

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

Summary: Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity.

Release Date: August 31, 2011

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Werner Herzog

Writers: Werner Herzog

, Judith Thurman

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: G

Production: Creative Differences, History Films, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Creative Differences, ARTE, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, More4

Distributor: Sundance Selects, IFC Films

Countries: Canada, United States, France, Germany, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,304,920

International: $ 2,878,427

96 - Rotten Tomatoes
26 votes

The War Room (1993)

Summary: A documentary of the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign and the organization who ran it.

Genres: Documentary, History

Directors: Chris Hegedus

, D.A. Pennebaker

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Cyclone Films, McEttinger Films, Pennebaker Associates

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection, Trimark Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Vidmark Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 901,668

94 - Rotten Tomatoes
16 votes

Harry & Snowman (2015)

Summary: The story of immigrant Harry DeLeyer and the plow horse he rescued from slaughter.

Release Date: September 30, 2016

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama

Director: Ron Davis

Writer: Ron Davis

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Docutainment Films, For Good, Graceful Light Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 561,460

International: $ 17,360

93 - Rotten Tomatoes
14 votes

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

Summary: German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.

Release Date: October 02, 1998

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama

Director: Werner Herzog

Writer: Werner Herzog

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ZDF Enterprises, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), ARTE, Media Ventures, Outpost Studios

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Shout! Factory

Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, France

Language: English

91 - Rotten Tomatoes
43 votes

Our Nixon (2013)

Summary: Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.

Release Date: March 09, 2013

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Crime

Director: Penny Lane

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: CoPilot Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 20,584

88 - Rotten Tomatoes
25 votes

State Funeral (2019)

Summary: The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Joseph Stalin's funeral.

Release Date: May 21, 2021

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Sergey Loznitsa

Writer: Sergey Loznitsa

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

Production: Atoms & Void, Studio Uljana Kim, Nutprdukce

Countries: Netherlands, Lithuania

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 11,342

International: $ 36,661

86 - Rotten Tomatoes
78 votes

Meeting Gorbachev (2018)

Summary: The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.

Release Date: May 03, 2019

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Directors: Werner Herzog

, André Singer

Writer: Werner Herzog

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Spring Films, Werner Herzog Filmproduktion

Distributor: The Orchard, A&E Library, 1091 Pictures

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 251,837

International: $ 67,393

83 - Rotten Tomatoes
72 votes

Dirty Wars (2013)

Summary: Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill is pulled into an unexpected journey as he chases down the hidden truth behind America's expanding covert wars.

Release Date: October 18, 2013

Genres: Documentary, Crime, History

Director: Rick Rowley

Writers: David Riker

, Jeremy Scahill

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Big Noise Films, Civic Bakery

Distributor: IFC Films, Sundance Selects

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 384,473

International: $ 32,380

82 - Rotten Tomatoes
106 votes

The Unknown Known (2013)

Summary: Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Release Date: January 16, 2014

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Errol Morris

Writer: Errol Morris

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: History Films, Moxie Pictures, Participant

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 276,497

International: $ 25,107

82 - Rotten Tomatoes
17 votes

Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel (2022)

Summary: The end of an long upmarket renovation of the legendary Chelsea Hotel is partly longed for and partly dreaded by the artists who still live there. The film grants us access to their apartments and interweaves the past with the pre...

Release Date: August 12, 2022

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Maya Duverdier

, Amélie van Elmbt

Writers: Maya Duverdier

, Amélie van Elmbt

Runtime: 1 h 17 min

Production: Clin d'oeil Films, Basalt Film, Hard Working Movies, Les Films de l'oeil sauvage, Momento Film

Distributor: Dogwoof Sales, Magnolia Pictures

Countries: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Sweden, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 22,534

International: $ 23,385

81 - Rotten Tomatoes
85 votes

Chicago 10 (2007)

Summary: Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Release Date: January 18, 2007

Genres: Documentary, Animation, History

Director: Brett Morgen

Writer: Brett Morgen

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Consolidated Documentaries, Participant, Public Road Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 177,490

78 - Rotten Tomatoes
115 votes

Why We Fight (2005)

Summary: Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these que...

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Eugene Jarecki

Writer: Eugene Jarecki

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: ARTE, BBC Storyville, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Television, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Charlotte Street Films, TV2 Danmark

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Canada, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,439,972

72 - Rotten Tomatoes
18 votes

The Hornet's Nest (2014)

Summary: Armed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U.S. history.

Release Date: May 09, 2014

Genres: Documentary, Action, History

Directors: David Salzberg

, Christian Tureaud

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: HighRoad Entertainment, BASE Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 312,706

8 - Rotten Tomatoes
24 votes

America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

Summary: A story that questions the shaming of the US through revisionist history, lies and omissions by educational institutions, political organizations, Alinsky, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other progressives to destroy America.

Release Date: July 02, 2014

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Dinesh D'Souza

, John Sullivan

Writers: Dinesh D'Souza

, John Sullivan

, Bruce Schooley

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG-13

Distributor: Lionsgate

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,444,502

4 Little Girls (1997)

Night Will Fall (2014)

One Child Nation (2019)

One Day in September (1999)

Oklahoma City (2017)

The Fog of War (2003)

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

The War Room (1993)

Harry & Snowman (2015)

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

Our Nixon (2013)

State Funeral (2019)

Meeting Gorbachev (2018)

Dirty Wars (2013)

The Unknown Known (2013)

Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel (2022)

Chicago 10 (2007)

Why We Fight (2005)

The Hornet's Nest (2014)

America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)

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