Best English Documentary Movies of All Time

Each film's score blends whichever of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, and Metacritic we have (falling back to TMDb's rating only once it has a meaningful vote count), then applies a Bayesian adjustment that pulls thin-sample scores toward the genre's average — so a single 9-out-of-10 vote can't outrank a film with tens of thousands of real votes. Films with no usable rating yet are listed separately below, never ranked. See About for more on our data sources.