The 100 Best Documentaries of All Time
By Elizabeth Jackson, Stacker News
AND Nicole Johnson, Stacker News
On 5/5/21 at 8:00 PM EDT
Great documentaries often give access and illumination to stories that would otherwise go untold. The subject of a great documentary can be anything from a single individual s life to a broader political event, and the effect of the films can be anything from uplifting to devastating.
To celebrate the genre, Stacker created a ranking of the top 100 documentaries of all time by leveraging data on all documentary movies to create a Stacker score that serves as a weighted index split evenly between IMDb and Metacritic scores. To qualify, the film had to be listed as a documentary on IMDb, have a Metascore, and have at least 1,000 IMDb user votes. Ties were broken by Metascore and further ties were broken by votes. Documentary TV series were not included.
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Nomadland is so primed to win that if any other film were read off, we would say,
Why do they keep letting Warren Beatty present Best Picture?!
Chloé Zhao s resilient road movie became the first film to ever win both Venice s Golden Lion Award and the Toronto International Film Festival s People s Choice Award, the latter heralding it as one to watch come awards season. Then
Has a Best Picture race ever felt like
such a done deal? Even in years where there s been an obvious frontrunner, there was still some room for surprise come Oscars night. That doesn t seem to be the case this year, where
Nomadland is so primed to win that if any other film were read off, we would say,
Why do they keep letting Warren Beatty present Best Picture?!
Chloé Zhao s resilient road movie became the first film to ever win both Venice s Golden Lion Award and the Toronto International Film Festival s People s Choice Award, the latter heralding it as one to watch come awards season. Then