Top 100 popular documentaries
The top 100 most popular documentaries of all time on Docur ranked in order by view count.
1 Before the Flood
Before the Flood is a 2016 documentary about the effects of climate change created by award-winning American Actor/produ...
2 Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur: Sir David Attenborough is 89 years old and still as fiercely passionate about natur...
3 My Scientology Movie (preview)
My scientology Movie is a documentary that many people have been waiting eagerly for since it was first announced more t...
4 Restrepo
Restrepo, a 2010 war documentary film directed by renowned journalistic filmmakers, Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger w...
5 Planet Earth 2 (preview)
Planet Earth 2 episode 1 – Islands, exploring the wonderful array of animals that live on b...
6 Gangland: Turf Wars
Gangland Turf Wars is the first episode in a two-part documentary series produced by Channel 5, first released...
7 Catfish
Catfish is a documentary film which was released in 2010 by production companies, Relativity pictures and Rogue pic...
9 Murder Game: The Life and death of Breck Bednar
Documentary telling the story of Breck Bednar a teenage boy who was killed by Lewis Daynes who groomed him online. Breck...
10 Dogtown and Z-Boys
Dogtown and Z-Boys. A documentary which takes us to the origins of skateboarding as we know it today thro...
11 Conor McGregor - The Notorious
A documentary about Conor McGregor (born 14 July 1988) who only a couple of years ago was collecting soci...
12 The Brain with David Eagleman - 1. What Is Reality?
A new documentary series presented by David Eagleman. This is the first episode in the series which explores how the Bra...
13 Our Queen At 90 (preview)
“Our Queen at Ninety” A documentary about Queen Elizabeth The Second of England in celebration of her 9...
14 Great Barrier Reef With David Attenborough
The First episode in the series, The Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough. Back in 1957 David made his first...
15 The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (preview)
The Stone Roses: Made of Stone documentary. The Stone Roses are one of the most iconic Manchester bands of all time...
16 Fed Up
The 2014 Fed Up documentary by American journalist Katie Couric investigates why childhood obesity has dramatically...
17 Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated
Simply Complicated: This feature-length documentary directed by Hannah Lux Davis is about the life of American...
18 Walking With Dinosaurs
Walking With Dinosaurs is a 1999 BBC documentary series narrated by Kenneth Branagh and directed by Tim Haines. ...
19 Serial Killer with Piers Morgan Mark Riebe (preview)
Broadcaster Piers Morgan interviews serial killer Mark Riebe in this candid documentary. Mark Riebe (56)...
20 Andre The Giant - Larger Than Life (preview)
Andre The Giant looks back on the life and career of the world-renowned wrestler André Roussimoff who r...
21 The Act of Killing (preview)
The act of killing, a 2012 documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and produced by award winning producer Signe...
22 The Coronation (preview)
In The Coronation documentary, Alastair Bruce presents a fascinating insight into the Crown Jewels of the...
23 Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (preview)
Documentary filmmaker Marina Zenovich provides an insight into her new documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside...
24 Demi Lovato: Stay Strong
"Demi Lovato: Stay Strong" is the preceding documentary to "Simply Complicated", within which Demi L...
25 The Bully Project
The Bully Project: a 2011 documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America. This year over 13 million...
26 Trump An American Dream (preview)
A three-part series about the rise of Donald Trump during the 1980’s until becoming POTUS. The journey of Don...
27 Louis Theroux, Savile (preview)
WARNING – Contains disturbing themes A couple of years after the huge revelation of Jimi Saviles...
28 Prehistoric Park
Prehistoric Park is a 2006 docu-fiction dinosaur series presented by British wildlife lover Nigel Marven. T...
29 Secrets of quantum physics Ep 1
We are on the dawn of a quantum age in human history. In this documentary, the theoretical physicist Jim...
30 Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: The Universe in a Snowflake
Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 1. The Universe in a Snowflake, the first documentary in a series that looks clo...
31 The Crash Reel
A documentary about two snowboarding halfpipe legends, Shaun White and Kevin Pearce. Directed by Lucy Wal...
32 The Queens Green Planet
The Queens Green Planet, a new 2018 documentary exploring Queen Elizabeth II's endeavours to plant a network of fore...
33 Voyage of Time (preview)
Voyage of Time is a new 2016 science documentary narrated by Hollywood actors Brad Pitt & Cate Blanchett examining t...
34 The Immortalist
BBC Horizon The Immortalist documentary looks into how technology is changing the way in which we perceive the huma...
35 The Imposter
The imposter, a 2012 documentary film about a young Spanish man who made the astonishing claim that he was, in fact...
36 Which Universe Are We In?
This documentary explores the idea of multiple universes, and multiple instances of our own universe which are all runni...
37 Commando: On The Front Line
Commando: On The Front Line, is a 2014 military documentary series directed by Chris Terril for ITV. ...
38 Brian Cox Wonders of the Universe - Destiny
Why are we here and where do we come from? Brian Cox explores this fundamental question in this documentary. F...
39 The Business of Being Born
The 2008 Business of Being Born documentary explores the contemporary experience of childbirth while criticizing the Ame...
40 Hunting Hitler Season 1
Hunting Hilter is a 2015 documentary series which focuses on investigating certain conspiracy theories surroun...
41 Weiner (preview)
Weiner is a 2016 documentary created by directors, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg about the disgraced New Y...
42 This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, a sobering yet inspirational documentary about Canadian internet personality and glam...
43 Mo Farah: No Easy Mile (preview)
No Easy Mile is the biographical story of one of the most recognizable people in British sport today; Mo Farah. Thi...
44 Gimme Danger (preview)
Gimme Danger is a 2016 documentary film directed by Jim Jarmusch about the American punk rock band the Stooges. The...
45 Do You Trust This Computer?
Do You Trust This Computer? This 2018 documentary by American filmmaker Chris Paine (known for Who Killed the Electric C...
46 Who Were the Greeks?
Who were the Greeks? This two-part documentary series presented by Dr Michael Scott investigates the past of this amazin...
47 In the Shadow of the Moon
A documentary about the manned missions to the moon. In the Shadow of the Moon follows the story of these historic...
48 Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On
Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On: Porn is being viewed at an unprecedented level thanks to revolutions in technology. This do...
49 Foo Fighters Back And Forth
Foo Fighters Back And Forth, a documentary about the swift rise to fame of Nirvana in the late 80’s, its demise an...
50 I Am Bolt (preview)
I Am Bolt is a 2016 documentary film created by film makers Benjamin Turner and Gabe Turner who are responsibl...
51 Seven Ages of Starlight
This is the epic story of life and death on the largest cosmic scale. By plotting and analysing stars from across t...
52 Woodstock
Woodstock: A documentary which gives a full chronicle of the highly legends Woodstock music festival in 1969. In the fil...
53 The Mask You Live In
The Mask You Live In follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating Ameri...
54 After Porn Ends 2
After Porn Ends 2 is a 2017 documentary which follows the story where the original 2012 film (After Porn Ends) left-off....
55 R Kelly: Sex, Girls & Videotapes
R. Kelly is one of the most successful R&B artists of all-time, having made popular songs such as "Ignition&quo...
56 Blackfish (preview)
Blackfish documentary (2013). Keeping large animals such as whales and dolphins is dangerous for both humans and th...
57 Sharkwater
Sharkwater "The Truth Will Surface" is a 2006 documentary created to help save sharks by advocating a ban on C...
58 The Secret Life of Prisons
Clip available only. The Secret Life of Prisons is a new 2016 documentary about the world behind bars...
59 Walking with Beasts
Walking with Beasts: A revolutionary series that was a follow up to the landmark BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs. Thes...
60 No Impact Man: The Documentary
No Impact Man, A Documentary film from 2009 that tells the story of author Colin Beavan, who went co...
61 Elizabeth: Our Queen
Elizabeth: Our Queen is a new 2018 eight-part documentary series about Queen Elizabeth II, narrated by James D...
63 TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard
TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard: The story of one of the biggest torrent sites of all time. In this documenta...
64 Attenboroughs Life That Glows
Attenborough's Life That Glows documentary. There are many amazing creatures out there which dazzle and enchant our...
66 The Revelation Of The Pyramids
The Revelation Of The Pyramids: The Pyramids of Giza are a true wonder of the ancient world and indeed the only one to s...
67 Through the Wormhole
Through the Wormhole season one, a landmark 6-part science documentary hosted by actor Morgan Freeman, who of course nee...
68 The Real T-Rex With Chris Packham
Naturalist Chris Packham reveals new evidence about the most iconic dinosaur in the world, the tyrannosaurus rex which w...
69 Forces of Nature with Brian Cox: Somewhere in Spacetime
Somewhere in Spacetime Episode 2, a 2016 Brian Cox documentary as part of the series Forces Of Nature. In...
70 The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeeps is a 2012 documentary film by Israeli director Dror Moreh about the Israel Security Agency Shin Bet (שירות...
71 Side by Side
Side by Side is a documentary film that explores the usage of two filmmaking processes, digital and film developmen...
72 After Porn Ends
The lives of pornstars are documented extensively on camera, but what happens when they are not performing? “After...
73 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (preview)
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week is a 2016 documentary directed by Ron Howard (Apollo 13) and is a film about quite possib...
74 Crumb
Crumb, a 1994 documentary about underground cartoonist Robert Crumb who is notable for creating famous works depicting A...
75 Searching for Sugar Man
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film created by Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul about 2 Afric...
76 Aokigahara: Suicide Forest in Japan
The suicide forest “Aokigahara” is one of the most infamous places in Japan as hundreds of people go there t...
77 The Bulger Killers: Was Justice Done?
A new 2018 documentary which speaks to key individuals who were involved in the James Bulger trial in 1993....
78 The Kon-Tiki Expedition
The Kon-tiki expedition was a journey led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl with the aim to prove that the...
79 Joy Division
A documentary about the famous English Post-punk rock band Joy Division, who formed in Salford in 1976. The fi...
80 The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line, a 1988 biographical crime documentary by Errol Morris about Randall Dale Adams who was wrongfully co...
81 Red Hot Chili Peppers: Funky Monks
When Flea, Anthony and Slovak formed the Red Hot Chill Peppers back in 1983 I don't think they could possibly h...
82 Man on wire
Here we watch the tremendous Man on Wire documentary. A documentation of Philippe Petit's life leading up...
83 The Doors: When Youre Strange
A documentary about the American rock band The Doors constructed in chronological order. The Doors formed...
84 KKK: The Fight For White Supremacy
KKK: The Fight For White Supremacy: Dan Murdoch presents a close-up and personal account of the white supremacist g...
85 Freddie Mercury: Who Wants to Live Forever
No footage is available currently. On Sunday 20th Channel 5 will be launching a new documentary series...
86 Walking with Monsters
Walking with Monsters is a 2005 3-part documentary presented by Irish actor Kenneth Branagh which takes us back to a tim...
87 The Final Year (preview)
Trailer for the new film about the final year in office for the Obama Administration from an “insiders” pers...
88 The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
A humerous and surprisingly compelling documentary following the tale of Steve Weibe, a humble teacher who attempts to b...
89 Destination Titan
A story about four British scientists who have created a probe which will take a seven year long trip to the largest moo...
90 The Virtual Reality Virgin
Looking into the world of virtual reality. In this documentary Tyger Drew-Honey, looks into some of the brand new virtua...
91 Attenborough and the Sea Dragon
Naturalist Sir David Attenborough is back to investigate a remarkable 200 million-year-old fossil of a gi...
92 Shoah
Shoah, a 1985 documentary film by French writer and director Claude Lanzmann (November 27, 1925 in Paris, France) a...
93 Everything and Nothing
Everything and Nothing, a two part documentary series presented by professor Jim Al-Khalili. In the first episode we exp...
94 Love and Hate Crime
A three-part 2018 BBC series exploring hate crime in the United States. The first epis...
95 Grand Prix The Killer Years
Grand Prix The Killer Years: This documetory tells the story of Grand Prix racing in the 1960s and 70s where mechanical...
96 The Search for Life: The Drake Equation
What is the likeliness that we are alone in the universe? This is a question that has been pondered for centur...
97 Terror At Sea: The Sinking Of The Concordia
One of the worst disasters in modern maritime history. The Concordia was a cruise ship which was operated...
98 Waco: The Rules of Engagement
Nominated for Best Documentary at the 1997 Academy Awards. The true story of the events at Waco, Texas 1993. A...
99 Touching the Void
Touching the Void is a 2003 documentary film based on a book by Joe Simpson about Joes' and Simon Yates' ne...
100 Requiem for the American Dream
Requiem for the American Dream, a 2010 biographical documentary film directed by Peter Hutchison and Kelly Nyks which fo...