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 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...
5 Restrepo
Restrepo, a 2010 war documentary film directed by renowned journalistic filmmakers, Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger w...
6 Planet Earth 2 (preview)
Planet Earth 2 episode 1 – Islands, exploring the wonderful array of animals that live on b...
7 Gangland: Turf Wars
Gangland Turf Wars is the first episode in a two-part documentary series produced by Channel 5, first released...
8 Catfish
Catfish is a documentary film which was released in 2010 by production companies, Relativity pictures and Rogue pic...
9 Dogtown and Z-Boys
Dogtown and Z-Boys. A documentary which takes us to the origins of skateboarding as we know it today through the ey...
11 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...
12 Conor McGregor - The Notorious
A documentary about Conor McGregor (born 14 July 1988) who only a couple of years ago was collecting soci...
13 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...
14 Walking With Dinosaurs
Walking With Dinosaurs is a 1999 BBC documentary series narrated by Kenneth Branagh and directed by Tim Haines. ...
15 Our Queen At 90 (preview)
“Our Queen at Ninety” A documentary about Queen Elizabeth The Second of England in celebration of her 9...
16 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...
17 Fed Up
The 2014 Fed Up documentary by American journalist Katie Couric investigates why childhood obesity has dramatically...
18 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...
19 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...
20 Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated
Simply Complicated: This feature-length documentary directed by Hannah Lux Davis is about the life of American...
21 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...
22 Serial Killer with Piers Morgan Mark Riebe
Broadcaster Piers Morgan interviews serial killer Mark Riebe in this candid documentary. Mark Riebe (56)...
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 Prehistoric Park
Prehistoric Park is a 2006 docu-fiction dinosaur series presented by British wildlife lover Nigel Marven. T...
26 The Coronation (preview)
In The Coronation documentary, Alastair Bruce presents a fascinating insight into the Crown Jewels of the...
27 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...
28 The Act of Killing (preview)
The act of killing, a 2012 documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and produced by award winning producer Signe...
29 Crumb
Crumb, a 1994 documentary about underground cartoonist Robert Crumb who is notable for creating famous works depicting A...
30 Sharkwater
Sharkwater "The Truth Will Surface" is a 2006 documentary created to help save sharks by advocating a ban on C...
31 The Bully Project
The Bully Project: a 2011 documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America. This year over 13 million...
32 Hunting Hitler Season 1
Hunting Hilter is a 2015 documentary series which focuses on investigating certain conspiracy theories surroun...
33 Commando: On The Front Line
Commando: On The Front Line, is a 2014 military documentary series directed by Chris Terril for ITV. ...
34 The Crash Reel
A documentary about two snowboarding halfpipe legends, Shaun White and Kevin Pearce. Directed by Lucy Wal...
35 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...
36 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....
37 After Porn Ends
The lives of pornstars are documented extensively on camera, but what happens when they are not performing? “After...
38 The Business of Being Born
The 2008 Business of Being Born documentary explores the contemporary experience of childbirth while criticizing the Ame...
39 Through the Wormhole
Through the Wormhole season one, a landmark 6-part science documentary hosted by actor Morgan Freeman, who of course nee...
40 Louis Theroux, Savile (preview)
WARNING – Contains disturbing themes A couple of years after the huge revelation of Jimi Saviles...
41 Secrets of quantum physics Ep 1
Secrets of quantum physics Ep 1: We are on the dawn of a quantum age in human history. In this documentary, the theoreti...
42 The Queens Green Planet
The Queens Green Planet, a new 2018 documentary exploring Queen Elizabeth II's endeavours to plant a network of fore...
43 This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, a sobering yet inspirational documentary about Canadian internet personality and glam...
44 Walking with Beasts
Walking with Beasts: A revolutionary series that was a follow up to the landmark BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs. Thes...
45 The Imposter
The imposter, a 2012 documentary film about a young Spanish man who made the astonishing claim that he was, in fact...
46 Voyage of Time (preview)
Voyage of Time is a new 2016 science documentary narrated by Hollywood actors Brad Pitt & Cate Blanchett examining t...
47 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...
48 Which Universe Are We In?
This documentary explores the idea of multiple universes, and multiple instances of our own universe which are all runni...
49 The Immortalist
BBC Horizon The Immortalist documentary looks into how technology is changing the way in which we perceive the huma...
50 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...
51 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...
52 Woodstock
Woodstock: A documentary which gives a full chronicle of the highly legends Woodstock music festival in 1969. In the fil...
53 The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line, a 1988 biographical crime documentary by Errol Morris about Randall Dale Adams who was wrongfully co...
54 Who Were the Greeks?
Who were the Greeks? This two-part documentary series presented by Dr Michael Scott investigates the past of this amazin...
55 The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeeps is a 2012 documentary film by Israeli director Dror Moreh about the Israel Security Agency Shin Bet (שירות...
56 In the Shadow of the Moon (preview)
A documentary about the manned missions to the moon. In the Shadow of the Moon follows the story of these historic...
57 Weiner (preview)
Weiner is a 2016 documentary created by directors, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg about the disgraced New Y...
58 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...
59 Gimme Danger (preview)
Gimme Danger is a 2016 documentary film directed by Jim Jarmusch about the American punk rock band the Stooges. The...
60 Elizabeth: Our Queen
Elizabeth: Our Queen is a new 2018 eight-part documentary series about Queen Elizabeth II, narrated by James D...
61 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...
63 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...
64 I Am Bolt (preview)
I Am Bolt is a 2016 documentary film created by film makers Benjamin Turner and Gabe Turner who are responsibl...
65 No Impact Man: The Documentary
No Impact Man, A Documentary film from 2009 that tells the story of author Colin Beavan, who went co...
66 Blackfish (preview)
Blackfish documentary (2013). Keeping large animals such as whales and dolphins is dangerous for both humans and th...
67 Pearl Jam Twenty
Pearl Jam Twenty: A documentary directed by American filmmaker and author Cameron Crowe marking the 20th anniversary of...
69 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...
70 The Secret Life of Prisons
Clip available only. The Secret Life of Prisons is a new 2016 documentary about the world behind bars...
71 Requiem for the American Dream
Requiem for the American Dream, a 2010 biographical documentary film directed by Peter Hutchison and Kelly Nyks which fo...
72 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...
73 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...
74 Attenboroughs Life That Glows
Attenborough's Life That Glows documentary. There are many amazing creatures out there which dazzle and enchant our...
75 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...
76 Religulous
The 2008 Religulous documentary by American comedian and political commentator Bill Maher takes a look at the state of r...
77 Side by Side (preview)
Side by Side is a documentary film that explores the usage of two filmmaking processes, digital and film developmen...
78 A History of Britain
A History of Britain, a 15 part documentary series hosted by English historian Simon Schama looking at the history of th...
79 Living on One Dollar
Living on One Dollar, a 2013 documentary by Zach Ingrasci and Sean Leonard about four friends who challenge themselves t...
80 Planet Dinosaur
Planet Dinosaur, a six-part documentary series created by Nigel Paterson and Phil Dobree which brings dinosaurs back to...
81 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...
82 Unacknowledged
Unacknowledged, a 2017 feature-length documentary by American filmmaker Michael Mazzola who specialises in exposing secr...
83 How to Survive a Plague
How to Survive a Plague is a moving documentary about the global AIDS/HIV pandemic and work by organisations such as Tre...
84 Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back, a historic 1967 biographical music documentary by D.A. Pennebaker which covers Bob Dylan...
85 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....
86 Walking with Cavemen
Walking with Cavemen is a four-part 2006 BBC history documentary series created by Nick Green about the history of Human...
87 The Kon-Tiki Expedition
The Kon-tiki expedition was a journey led by Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl with the aim to prove that the...
88 Joy Division
A documentary about the famous English Post-punk rock band Joy Division, who formed in Salford in 1976. The fi...
89 Man on wire
Here we watch the tremendous Man on Wire documentary. A documentation of Philippe Petit's life leading up...
90 Searching for Sugar Man
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film created by Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul about 2 Afric...
91 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...
92 Queen: Rock the World
A film following Queen band members, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon as they record their...
93 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...
94 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...
95 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...
96 The Doors: When Youre Strange
A documentary about the American rock band The Doors constructed in chronological order. The Doors formed...
97 Objectified
Objectified is a 2009 art and engineering documentary created by American photographer Gary Hustwit. ...
98 Who Took Johnny
Who Took Johnny, a 2014 crime documentary by Michael Galinsky, David Beilinson and Suki Hawley about the infamous cold c...
99 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...
100 Love and Hate Crime
A three-part 2018 BBC series exploring hate crime in the United States. The first epis...