All Oscar Best Documentary Features on streaming services

No Other Land

8.2 · 2024 · Movie · 92min

Genres: Documentary

Directors: Basel Adra • Hamdan Ballal • Yuval Abraham

Stars: Basel Adra • Yuval Abraham • Farisa Abu Aram

20 Days in Mariupol

8.6 · 2023 · Movie · 97min

Genres: Documentary • War

Director: Mstyslav Chernov

Stars: Mstyslav Chernov • Evgeniy Maloletka • Liudmyla Amelkina

Navalny

7.8 · 2022 · Movie · 99min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Daniel Roher

Stars: Alexei Navalny • Yulia Navalnaya • Daria Navalnaya

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

8.0 · 2021 · Movie · 118min

Genres: Music • Documentary • History

Director: Questlove

Stars: Stevie Wonder • Lin-Manuel Miranda • Chris Rock

My Octopus Teacher

8.1 · 2020 · Movie · 85min

Genres: Documentary

Directors: Pippa Ehrlich • James Reed

Stars: Craig Foster • Tom Foster

American Factory

7.4 · 2019 · Movie · 110min

Genres: Documentary

Directors: Steven Bognar • Julia Reichert

Stars: Junming 'Jimmy' Wang • Sherrod Brown • Dave Burrows

Free Solo

8.1 · 2018 · Movie · 100min

Genres: Documentary • Adventure

Directors: Jimmy Chin • Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Stars: Alex Honnold • Tommy Caldwell • Jimmy Chin

Icarus

7.9 · 2017 · Movie · 120min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Bryan Fogel

Stars: Bryan Fogel • Dave Zabriskie • Don Catlin

O.J.: Made in America

8.9 · 2016 · Movie · 467min

Genres: Documentary • Crime • History

Director: Ezra Edelman

Stars: O. J. Simpson • Nicole Brown Simpson • Marcia Clark

Amy

7.8 · 2015 · Movie · 128min

Genres: Documentary • Music

Director: Asif Kapadia

Stars: Amy Winehouse • Mark Ronson • Tony Bennett

Citizenfour

8.0 · 2014 · Movie · 114min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Laura Poitras

Stars: Edward Snowden • Glenn Greenwald • Laura Poitras

20 Feet from Stardom

7.4 · 2013 · Movie · 91min

Genres: Documentary • Music

Director: Morgan Neville

Stars: Darlene Love • Lisa Fischer • Merry Clayton

Searching for Sugar Man

8.2 · 2012 · Movie · 86min

Genres: Music • Documentary

Director: Malik Bendjelloul

Stars: Stephen Segerman • Rodriguez • Regan Rodriguez

Undefeated

7.7 · 2011 · Movie · 113min

Genres: Documentary

Directors: Daniel Lindsay • T.J. Martin

Stars: O.C. Brown • Bill Courtney • Chavis Daniels

Inside Job

8.2 · 2010 · Movie · 109min

Genres: Documentary • Crime

Director: Charles Ferguson

Stars: Matt Damon • Bill Ackman • Jonathan Alpert

The Cove

8.4 · 2009 · Movie · 92min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Louie Psihoyos

Stars: Hayden Panettiere • Joe Chisholm • Mandy-Rae Cruikshank

Man on Wire

7.7 · 2008 · Movie · 94min

Genres: Documentary

Director: James Marsh

Stars: Philippe Petit • Jean François Heckel • Jean-Louis Blondeau

Taxi to the Dark Side

7.4 · 2007 · Movie · 106min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Alex Gibney

Stars: Alex Gibney • Brian Keith Allen • Moazzam Begg

An Inconvenient Truth

7.4 · 2006 · Movie · 96min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Davis Guggenheim

Stars: Al Gore • Billy West • Ronald Reagan

March of the Penguins

7.5 · 2005 · Movie · 80min

Genres: Documentary • Family

Director: Luc Jacquet

Stars: Charles Berling • Romane Bohringer • Jules Sitruk

Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

7.1 · 2004 · Movie · 85min

Genres: Documentary

Directors: Zana Briski • Ross Kauffman

Stars: Zana Briski • Avijit • Geeta Masi

The Fog of War

8.0 · 2003 · Movie · 107min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Errol Morris

Stars: Robert McNamara • Errol Morris • Fidel Castro

Bowling for Columbine

7.9 · 2002 · Movie · 120min

Genres: Documentary • Drama

Director: Michael Moore

Stars: Michael Moore • George H. W. Bush • George W. Bush

Murder on a Sunday Morning

7.9 · 2001 · Movie · 111min

Genres: Crime • Documentary

Director: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade

Stars: Ann Finnell • Patrick McGuinness • James Williams

One Day in September

7.8 · 1999 · Movie · 94min

Genres: Documentary • History

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Stars: Michael Douglas • Ankie Spitzer • Jamal Al Gashey

The Last Days

7.9 · 1998 · Movie · 87min

Genres: Documentary • History

Director: James Moll

Stars: Bill Basch • Martin Basch • Randolph Braham

The Long Way Home

7.6 · 1997 · Movie · 120min

Genres: Documentary • History • War

Director: Mark Jonathan Harris

Stars: Morgan Freeman • Ed Asner • Sean Astin

When We Were Kings

7.9 · 1996 · Movie · 88min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Leon Gast

Stars: Muhammad Ali • George Foreman • Don King

Anne Frank Remembered

8.1 · 1995 · Movie · 117min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Jon Blair

Stars: Kenneth Branagh • Glenn Close • Anne Frank

American Dream

7.7 · 1990 · Movie · 98min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Barbara Kopple

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

8.1 · 1989 · Movie · 79min

Genres: History • Documentary

Directors: Jeffrey Friedman • Rob Epstein

Stars: Dustin Hoffman • Sara Lewinstein • David Mandell

Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie

7.6 · 1988 · Movie · 267min

Genres: War • Documentary

Director: Marcel Ophüls

Stars: Klaus Barbie • Marcel Ophüls • Serge Klarsfeld

Down and Out in America

7.2 · 1985 · Movie · 57min

Genres: Documentary • History

Director: Lee Grant

Stars: Lee Grant

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got

7.0 · 1985 · Movie · 114min

Genres: Documentary • Music

Director: Brigitte Berman

Stars: Artie Shaw • John Best • Lee Castle

The Times of Harvey Milk

8.2 · 1984 · Movie · 90min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Rob Epstein

Stars: Harvey Milk • Harvey Fierstein • Anne Kronenberg

Genocide

7.4 · 1982 · Movie · 90min

Genres: Documentary • History • War

Director: Arnold Schwartzman

Stars: Elizabeth Taylor • Orson Welles • Simon Wiesenthal

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

7.4 · 1979 · Movie · 84min

Genres: Documentary • Music • Family

Director: Murray Lerner

Stars: Isaac Stern

Best Boy

7.8 · 1979 · Movie · 111min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Ira Wohl

Stars: Philly Wohl • Pearl Wohl • Max Wohl

Harlan County U.S.A.

8.2 · 1976 · Movie · 103min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Barbara Kopple

Stars: Norman Yarborough • Houston Elmore • Phil Sparks

The Man Who Skied Down Everest

7.2 · 1975 · Movie · 86min

Genres: Documentary • Adventure

Directors: Lawrence Schiller • Bruce Nyznik

Stars: Yūichirō Miura • Douglas Rain • Edmund Hillary

Hearts and Minds

8.2 · 1974 · Movie · 112min

Genres: Documentary • War

Director: Peter Davis

Stars: Clark Clifford • John Foster Dulles • Georges Bidault

Marjoe

7.4 · 1972 · Movie · 88min

Genres: Documentary

Directors: Howard Smith • Sarah Kernochan

Stars: Marjoe Gortner • Vernon Gortner • Agnes Benjamin

The War Game

7.9 · 1966 · Movie · 45min

Genres: War • TV Movie

Director: Peter Watkins

Stars: Michael Aspel • Kathy Staff • Peter Watkins

Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World

6.5 · 1963 · Short · 41min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Shirley Clarke

Stars: Robert Frost • John F. Kennedy

Sky Above and Mud Beneath

7.1 · 1961 · Movie · 92min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau

Serengeti Shall Not Die

7.7 · 1959 · Movie · 85min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Bernhard Grzimek

Stars: Hermann Rockmann • Bernhard Grzimek • Holger Hagen

The Unconquered

6.9 · 1954 · Movie · 55min

Genres: Documentary

Director: Nancy Hamilton

Stars: Katharine Cornell • Helen Keller

The Vanishing Prairie

7.1 · 1954 · Movie · 71min

Genres: Documentary

Director: James Algar

Stars: Winston Hibler

The Living Desert

7.3 · 1953 · Movie · 69min

Genres: Documentary

Director: James Algar

Stars: Winston Hibler

I Was a Communist for the FBI

6.1 · 1951 · Movie · 83min

Genres: Drama • Thriller

Director: Gordon Douglas

Stars: Frank Lovejoy • Dorothy Hart • Philip Carey

Kon-Tiki

7.9 · 1950 · Movie · 77min

Genres: Documentary • Adventure

Director: Thor Heyerdahl

Stars: Thor Heyerdahl • Herman Watzinger • Erik Hesselberg

The True Glory

7.0 · 1945 · Movie · 87min

Genres: Documentary • War

Directors: Garson Kanin • Carol Reed

Stars: Leslie Banks • Robert Harris • Sam Levene

The Fighting Lady

7.2 · 1944 · Movie · 61min

Genres: War • Documentary

Directors: Edward Steichen • William Wyler

Stars: Charles Boyer • Robert Taylor • John S. McCain

Desert Victory

6.3 · 1943 · Movie · 62min

Genres: War • Documentary

Directors: David MacDonald • Roy Boulting

Stars: Harold Alexander • Winston Churchill • Adolf Hitler

Why We Fight: Prelude to War

7.0 · 1942 · Movie · 52min

Genres: Documentary • War

Directors: Frank Capra • Anatole Litvak

Stars: Walter Huston • Max Schmeling • Adolf Hitler

The Battle of Midway

6.1 · 1942 · Short · 18min

Genres: Documentary • War

Director: John Ford

Stars: Henry Fonda • Jane Darwell • Donald Crisp