All Time Top 100 Documentary Videos

The all time top 100 documentaries list showcases the most popular documentaries as decided by you.

The videos in this section are here because of their far reaching success. These are critically acclaimed documentary films whose message appealed to the masses - They must not go unwatched.

From cutting edge historical documentaries on Nazi Germany to incredible sporting documentaries, the films listed here are certain to expand your mind to the wonders of our World.

National Geographic When Aliens Attack
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01:31:36

At some point of our lives we considered the life on other planets rather than earth. Every person has a different view and theories about their appearance, behaviour or abilities....

  • 19,112
  • 8 years ago
  • 7.3(19)
Travel
The Beauty of Maps
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28:58
Art +1

"The Beauty of Maps (Seeing the Art in Cartography) a BBC television series looks at maps in incredible detail. The purpose behind the film is to highlight the artistic attribution...

  • 19,107
  • 8 years ago
  • 7.7(9)
Sports
Once Brothers
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01:20:59

‘Once brothers’ is a humbling and heart-wrenching story of two friends, Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac, who grew up together and later lifted the Yugoslavian National Basketba...

  • 19,097
  • 8 years ago
  • Not Rated
Strange
nazi temple of doom
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44:29

The Chiemsee Cauldron, discovered in 2001 at the bottom of Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria is the focus of the Nazi Temple of Doom conspiracy. Decorated with figures, and with a dia...

  • 19,095
  • 6 years ago
  • 4.9(14)
Sports
Solo: Lost at Sea
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01:02:52

This documentary chronicles Andrew’s journey Solo: Lost at sea by incorporating video footage which survived in his camera’s memory stick and including interviews eith his team...

  • 18,985
  • 8 years ago
  • 7.9(7)
Health
THIN
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01:41:16

THIN, the 2006 released documentary film directed by Lauren Greenfield and distributed by HBO, explores The Renfrew Center in Coconut Creek, Florida. This center is a 40-bed reside...

  • 18,692
  • 8 years ago
  • 5.4(11)
People
hitler speech
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45:24

We’ve read so much about Hitler. And we’ve heard so much about him. But have we heard it from the source? This National Geographic documentary provides a new insight t...

  • 18,682
  • 6 years ago
  • 4.8(31)
Social
Born Rich Documentary
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01:07:14

Slightly bland and a little boring, this documentary is nonetheless an interesting look into the lives and attitudes of the children of some of the richest people in the world.This...

  • 18,631
  • 8 years ago
  • 9.4(5)
Beauty
Why Beauty Matters
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59:00

"‘Why Beauty Matters’ is a thoughtful film presented by Philosopher Roger Scruton, wherein he laments on the degradation caused in our lives by art, architecture and music bein...

  • 18,540
  • 8 years ago
  • 8.6(11)
Strange
bbc future
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43:43

Back to the Future was first released in 1985. The second installment of the saga was released four years later, in 1989, we got to see a glimpse how the world might look in ...

  • 18,153
  • 5 years ago
  • 5.2(15)

Ears, Open. Eyeballs, Click. is a documentary from 2005 by filmmaker Canaan Brumley, showing the experience of Marine recruits during the early boot camp.The film is unique in that...

  • 18,134
  • 8 years ago
  • 7.1(14)
Health
House of Numbers
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01:29:12

‘House of Numbers: Anatomy of an Epidemic’ is a documentary film that literally re-writes the story of HIV/AIDS.It challenges the very base of HIV/AIDS on which the traditional...

  • 17,995
  • 8 years ago
  • 9.4(36)
Religion
The Case for Christ
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01:11:32

The documentary The Case for Christ follows reporter Lee Strobel as interviewing a number of religious and historical scholars to find out if there is any evidence of the resurrect...

  • 17,652
  • 8 years ago
  • 8.7(9)
History
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
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01:33:32

This documentary fascinating but academically presented uses recently declassified military documents and scenes never seen by the public to provide a detailed chronicle of the his...

  • 17,326
  • 8 years ago
  • 4.9(9)
Social
jeremy scahill dirty wars
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01:26:17
Media +2

Jeremy Scahill is one of the best reporters in the United States. He is the founding editor of The Intercept, an online news publication, and author of some of the best US mi...

  • 17,266
  • 6 years ago
  • 8.8(19)
Crime
The Serial Killers: Ted Bundy
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47:26

This documentary is looking into the life and death of the most notorious and most feared serial killer in America. The name that caused fear and panic, especially in women, was ...

  • 17,233
  • 8 years ago
  • 4(6)
Drugs
Dope Sick Love
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14:02

Dope Sick Love is a really outstanding documentary made for HBO about two pairs of heroin addicted lovers roaming the streets of New York City.But it is quite different from the co...

  • 17,167
  • 8 years ago
  • 8.1(8)
History
Welcome to North Korea
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53:16

This award winning 2001 documentary takes us inside the rogue nation of North Korea and shows images many of us have never seen. This is one of the few times the west was able to g...

  • 16,863
  • 8 years ago
  • 9.7(12)
Science
What is One Degree?
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58:52

Comedian Ben Miller returns to his roots as a physicist to try to answer a seemingly simple question: What is a degree of temperature?His search leads him to the frontiers of moder...

  • 16,761
  • 8 years ago
  • 6.2(17)
Health
masturbation education
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05:09

Betty Dodson is an American sex educator. She an artist by training, she exhibited erotic art in New York, before pioneering the pro-sex feminist movement. It is a separate f...

  • 16,663
  • 3 years ago
  • 3.3(4)
Crime
Arthur Shawcross interview
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44:24

Arthur John Shawcross is commonly known as the Genesee River Killer. He was an American serial killer active in Rochester, New York.His first known murder was in 1972, when he...

  • 16,649
  • 4 years ago
  • 4.2(21)
Disaster
Tsunami: Caught On Camera
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01:12:05

The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004 was the most devastating natural disaster in recorded history – almost 230,000 people were killed. And as the catastrophe unfolded, remarkable amat...

  • 16,586
  • 8 years ago
  • 5(3)
Science
How Long Is A Piece Of String?
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58:45

Alan Davies discovers that to answer that question is much more difficult than originally thought after visiting the mathematician Marcus du Sautoy to help you find an answer. Howe...

  • 16,555
  • 8 years ago
  • 10(4)
Music
Sex Pistols - The Filth And The Fury
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01:47:50

The Filth and the Fury is the second film Julien Temple made about The Sex Pistols. His first exertion was The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, which was screened in British films on...

  • 16,550
  • 8 years ago
  • Not Rated
Top Articles
Prophetess Vanga, or Baba Vanga as she is known on the Balkans, can be easily put in the same sentence as Nostradamus. M...
  • 439,088
  • 7 years ago
Mary, or Virgin Mary, is one of the most controversial woman in the history of religion
  • 247,437
  • 7 years ago
Modern conspiracies suggest that the world, and its most powerful leaders are actually under the control of the Illuminati
  • 197,552
  • 7 years ago
The higher ranks, acquired in the Scottish rite for example, represent “appendant degrees”, as in lateral movement i...
  • 179,944
  • 6 years ago
A person killing more than 10 million people can easily be identified as a dictator, savage and put in the same sentence...
  • 172,299
  • 7 years ago
Phil believed that there are seven benevolent alien species currently living on Earth and four evil species. The theory ...
  • 142,510
  • 8 years ago
Large part of Alexander’s success was his army. No commander can win a battle, let alone a war by himself. Alexander, ...
  • 133,484
  • 7 years ago
In Greek mythology, Zeus is sometimes portrayed as the rain god. Homer believed that the Gods live at Olympus, the highe...
  • 125,164
  • 6 years ago
More than 10 countries around the world punish rape by death
  • 105,781
  • 6 years ago
Finding the story, assembling the team, filming and editing
  • 92,437
  • 8 years ago