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 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...
4 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...
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 Catfish
Catfish is a documentary film which was released in 2010 by production companies, Relativity pictures and Rogue pic...
8 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...
9 Gangland: Turf Wars
Gangland Turf Wars is the first episode in a two-part documentary series produced by Channel 5, first released...
10 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...
13 Walking With Dinosaurs
Walking With Dinosaurs is a 1999 BBC documentary series narrated by Kenneth Branagh and directed by Tim Haines. ...
14 Conor McGregor - The Notorious
A documentary about Conor McGregor (born 14 July 1988) who only a couple of years ago was collecting soci...
15 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...
16 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...
17 Fed Up
The 2014 Fed Up documentary by American journalist Katie Couric investigates why childhood obesity has dramatically...
18 Our Queen At 90 (preview)
“Our Queen at Ninety” A documentary about Queen Elizabeth The Second of England in celebration of her 9...
19 After Porn Ends
The lives of pornstars are documented extensively on camera, but what happens when they are not performing? “After...
20 Prehistoric Park
Prehistoric Park is a 2006 docu-fiction dinosaur series presented by British wildlife lover Nigel Marven. T...
21 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...
22 Crumb
Crumb, a 1994 documentary about underground cartoonist Robert Crumb who is notable for creating famous works depicting A...
23 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...
24 Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated
Simply Complicated: This feature-length documentary directed by Hannah Lux Davis is about the life of American...
25 Serial Killer with Piers Morgan Mark Riebe
Broadcaster Piers Morgan interviews serial killer Mark Riebe in this candid documentary. Mark Riebe (56)...
26 Through the Wormhole
Through the Wormhole season one, a landmark 6-part science documentary hosted by actor Morgan Freeman, who of course nee...
27 Walking with Beasts
Walking with Beasts: A revolutionary series that was a follow up to the landmark BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs. Thes...
28 Commando: On The Front Line
Commando: On The Front Line, is a 2014 military documentary series directed by Chris Terril for ITV. ...
29 Sharkwater
Sharkwater "The Truth Will Surface" is a 2006 documentary created to help save sharks by advocating a ban on C...
30 Hunting Hitler Season 1
Hunting Hilter is a 2015 documentary series which focuses on investigating certain conspiracy theories surroun...
31 Demi Lovato: Stay Strong
"Demi Lovato: Stay Strong" is the preceding documentary to "Simply Complicated", within which Demi L...
32 Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (preview)
Documentary filmmaker Marina Zenovich provides an insight into her new documentary Robin Williams: Come Inside...
33 The Coronation (preview)
In The Coronation documentary, Alastair Bruce presents a fascinating insight into the Crown Jewels of the...
34 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...
35 The Business of Being Born
The 2008 Business of Being Born documentary explores the contemporary experience of childbirth while criticizing the Ame...
36 The Act of Killing (preview)
The act of killing, a 2012 documentary film directed by Joshua Oppenheimer and produced by award winning producer Signe...
37 The Bully Project
The Bully Project: a 2011 documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America. This year over 13 million...
38 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....
39 The Crash Reel
A documentary about two snowboarding halfpipe legends, Shaun White and Kevin Pearce. Directed by Lucy Wal...
40 The Thin Blue Line
The Thin Blue Line, a 1988 biographical crime documentary by Errol Morris about Randall Dale Adams who was wrongfully co...
41 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...
42 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...
43 This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous, a sobering yet inspirational documentary about Canadian internet personality and glam...
44 Woodstock
Woodstock: A documentary which gives a full chronicle of the highly legends Woodstock music festival in 1969. In the fil...
45 The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeeps is a 2012 documentary film by Israeli director Dror Moreh about the Israel Security Agency Shin Bet (שירות...
46 Living on One Dollar
Living on One Dollar, a 2013 documentary by Zach Ingrasci and Sean Leonard about four friends who challenge themselves t...
47 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...
48 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...
49 Pearl Jam Twenty
Pearl Jam Twenty: A documentary directed by American filmmaker and author Cameron Crowe marking the 20th anniversary of...
50 Requiem for the American Dream
Requiem for the American Dream, a 2010 biographical documentary film directed by Peter Hutchison and Kelly Nyks which fo...
51 The Imposter
The imposter, a 2012 documentary film about a young Spanish man who made the astonishing claim that he was, in fact...
52 Louis Theroux, Savile (preview)
WARNING – Contains disturbing themes A couple of years after the huge revelation of Jimi Saviles...
53 Louis Theroux's Altered States: Choosing Death
"Choosing Death" is the second part of British filmmaker Louis Theroux's Altered States three-part documen...
54 The Queens Green Planet
The Queens Green Planet, a new 2018 documentary exploring Queen Elizabeth II's endeavours to plant a network of fore...
55 Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, a 2006 docudrama series narrated by British voice-over actor Alisdair Simp...
56 Which Universe Are We In?
This documentary explores the idea of multiple universes, and multiple instances of our own universe which are all runni...
57 Voyage of Time (preview)
Voyage of Time is a new 2016 science documentary narrated by Hollywood actors Brad Pitt & Cate Blanchett examining t...
58 Who Were the Greeks?
Who were the Greeks? This two-part documentary series presented by Dr Michael Scott investigates the past of this amazin...
59 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...
60 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...
61 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...
62 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...
63 The Immortalist
BBC Horizon The Immortalist documentary looks into how technology is changing the way in which we perceive the huma...
64 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...
65 Who Took Johnny
Who Took Johnny, a 2014 crime documentary by Michael Galinsky, David Beilinson and Suki Hawley about the infamous cold c...
66 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...
67 Planet Dinosaur
Planet Dinosaur, a six-part documentary series created by Nigel Paterson and Phil Dobree which brings dinosaurs back to...
68 Walking with Cavemen
Walking with Cavemen is a four-part 2006 BBC history documentary series created by Nick Green about the history of Human...
69 Cosmos: A Personal Voyage - Carl Sagan
Cosmos with Carl Sagan makes one think deeply about the very fundamentals of our universe. Carl is one of the most well-...
70 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...
72 Weiner (preview)
Weiner is a 2016 documentary created by directors, Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg about the disgraced New Y...
73 Gimme Danger (preview)
Gimme Danger is a 2016 documentary film directed by Jim Jarmusch about the American punk rock band the Stooges. The...
74 No Impact Man: The Documentary
No Impact Man, A Documentary film from 2009 that tells the story of author Colin Beavan, who went co...
75 Elizabeth: Our Queen
Elizabeth: Our Queen is a new 2018 eight-part documentary series about Queen Elizabeth II, narrated by James D...
76 Religulous
The 2008 Religulous documentary by American comedian and political commentator Bill Maher takes a look at the state of r...
77 Blackfish (preview)
Blackfish documentary (2013). Keeping large animals such as whales and dolphins is dangerous for both humans and th...
79 Vietnam in HD
Vietnam in HD is a six-part documentary series which brings the horror, valour, hopelessness and brutality of the Vietna...
80 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...
81 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...
82 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...
83 I Am Bolt (preview)
I Am Bolt is a 2016 documentary film created by film makers Benjamin Turner and Gabe Turner who are responsibl...
84 Tabloid
In the 2010 documentary "Tabloid", director Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line) investigates the story of Joyce...
85 The Secret Life of Prisons
Clip available only. The Secret Life of Prisons is a new 2016 documentary about the world behind bars...
86 Side by Side (preview)
Side by Side is a documentary film that explores the usage of two filmmaking processes, digital and film developmen...
87 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...
88 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...
89 Objectified
Objectified is a 2009 art and engineering documentary created by American photographer Gary Hustwit. ...
90 Man on wire
Here we watch the tremendous Man on Wire documentary. A documentation of Philippe Petit's life leading up...
91 Unacknowledged
Unacknowledged, a 2017 feature-length documentary by American filmmaker Michael Mazzola who specialises in exposing secr...
92 Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things, a 2016 documentary by Matt D'Avella who asks a question: How m...
93 Pina
The 2011 Pina documentary by German filmmaker Wim Wenders pays tribute to the famous choreographer, Pina Bausch. &nbs...
94 Attenboroughs Life That Glows
Attenborough's Life That Glows documentary. There are many amazing creatures out there which dazzle and enchant our...
95 Do you know what time it is?
Time seems simple on face value but if you were to actually to describe time then you would quickly realise that it is p...
96 Mommy Dead and Dearest
Mommy Dead and Dearest, a 2017 crime documentary film by Erin Lee Carr exploring the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard in 2015...
97 When We Were Kings
When We Were Kings, a 1996 sporting documentary about the historic “Rumble in the Jungle&rdquo...
98 Searching for Sugar Man
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film created by Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul about 2 Afric...
99 Joy Division
A documentary about the famous English Post-punk rock band Joy Division, who formed in Salford in 1976. The fi...
100 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...