Best documentary crime films | Charts

1. The Cove (2009)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Louie Psihoyos

Cast: Isabel Lucas, Richard O'Barry

87.5%

6,792 Ratings rating

2. The Thin Blue Line (1988)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Errol Morris

Cast: Marianne Leone, Adam Goldfine

84.6%

399 Ratings rating

3. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)

USA, Documentary / Biography

Directed by: Brian Knappenberger

Cast: David Sirota

83.3%

830 Ratings rating

4. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky

Cast: Megyn Kelly, Natalie Maines

87.4%

159 Ratings rating

5. Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord (2021)

Germany, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Michael Schmitt

Cast: Maximilian Schmidt

81.9%

2,136 Ratings rating

6. The Act of Killing (2012)

Denmark / Norway, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn

81.8%

664 Ratings rating

7. Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters (2001)

USA / Canada, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Sean Buckley

Cast: Richard Morgan, Melanie Porter

81.2%

1,237 Ratings rating

8. The Killing of a Journalist (2022)

Denmark / Czech Republic, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Matt Sarnecki

Cast: Robert Fico, Andrej Kiska

79.7%

2,975 Ratings rating

9. The Killing of America (1981)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Sheldon Renan, Leonard Schrader

Cast: John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy

84.9%

85 Ratings rating

10. Girl in the Picture (2022)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Skye Borgman

Cast: Natalie De Vincentiis, Sarah French

76.7%

2,112 Ratings rating

11. Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis (2022)

Germany, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Volker Heise

Cast: Dieter Degowski, Hans-Jürgen Rösner

77.7%

390 Ratings rating

12. Deliver Us from Evil (2006)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Amy Berg

Cast: Paula Zahn, Pope Benedict XVI.

77.4%

492 Ratings rating

13. Who Killed Garrett Phillips? (2019)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Liz Garbus

77.8%

265 Ratings rating

14. The Tinder Swindler (2022)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Felicity Morris

75.8%

7,799 Ratings rating

15. 13th (2016)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Ava DuVernay

Cast: Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates

76.7%

488 Ratings rating

16. American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Jenny Popplewell

75.4%

3,623 Ratings rating

17. Show Must Go On 2 (2007)

Slovakia, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: DAOR, SENYOR

77.9%

149 Ratings rating

18. Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard (2022)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: James Erskine

75.3%

359 Ratings rating

19. Bet Raise Fold (2013)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Ryan Firpo

77.5%

130 Ratings rating

20. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Andrew Jarecki

Cast: Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman

76.0%

223 Ratings rating

21. Bus 174 (2002)

Brazil, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Felipe Lacerda, José Padilha

Cast: Rodrigo Pimentel, Luiz Eduardo Soares

77.6%

123 Ratings rating

22. Athlete A (2020)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk

Cast: Nadia Comăneci, Gabrielle Douglas

74.2%

991 Ratings rating

23. My Daughter’s Killer (2022)

France, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Antoine Tassin

74.1%

688 Ratings rating

24. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)

USA / UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Marina Zenovich

Cast: Roman Polański, Sharon Tate

72.5%

428 Ratings rating

25. Hooligan Sparrow (2016)

China / USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Nanfu Wang

77.8%

54 Ratings rating

26. Into the Abyss (2011)

USA / UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Werner Herzog

Cast: Werner Herzog

72.3%

266 Ratings rating

27. Once Upon a Time in Norway (2007)

Norway, Documentary / Crime

Cast: Ted "Nocturno Culto" Skjellum

75.6%

64 Ratings rating

28. Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist (2022)

Argentina, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Matías Gueilburt

73.9%

95 Ratings rating

29. Team Foxcatcher (2016)

USA, Documentary / Biography

Directed by: Jon Greenhalgh

75.8%

53 Ratings rating

30. The Lost Boys of Bucks County (2020)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Cast: Corey Johnson

81.5%

26 Ratings rating

31. The Invisible War (2012)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Kirby Dick

Cast: Kirby Dick

71.8%

156 Ratings rating

32. White Boy (2017)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Shawn Rech

Cast: Seth Ferranti, Gilbert R. Hill

75.4%

48 Ratings rating

33. Forever 'B' (2017)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Skye Borgman

Cast: Jan Broberg, James DuMont

70.8%

249 Ratings rating

34. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Alex Gibney

Cast: Alex Gibney, George W. Bush

70.1%

346 Ratings rating

35. Dirty Wars (2013)

USA, Documentary / War

Directed by: Rick Rowley

Cast: Barack Obama

70.6%

177 Ratings rating

36. The Phantom (2021)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Patrick Forbes

72.3%

80 Ratings rating

37. Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: David Gregory

Cast: Lucy Grantham, David Hess

76.6%

29 Ratings rating

38. Sea of Shadows (2019)

USA / Austria, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Richard Ladkani, Sean Bogle

Cast: Romel Eduardo Ledezma Abaroa, Rafael Pacchiano Alamán

73.9%

36 Ratings rating

39. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)

USA, Documentary / Biography

Directed by: Joe Berlinger

74.4%

32 Ratings rating

40. Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Chris Smith

Cast: Matthew Modine, Jeremy Sless

68.7%

420 Ratings rating

41. Midnight Family (2019)

USA / Mexico, Documentary / Action

Directed by: Luke Lorentzen

73.1%

35 Ratings rating

42. Lover Stalker Killer (2024)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Sam Hobkinson

68.0%

708 Ratings rating

43. How to Rob a Bank (2024)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Stephen Robert Morse, Seth Porges

Cast: Jordan Burtchett, Kurt Ostlund

70.6%

49 Ratings rating

44. H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer (2004)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: John Borowski

Cast: Tony Jay

71.8%

22 Ratings rating

45. 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets (2015)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Marc Silver

70.3%

29 Ratings rating

46. The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012)

France / Portugal, Mystery / Drama

Directed by: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata

Cast: Lydie Barbara, João Rui Guerra da Mata

68.8%

43 Ratings rating

47. Murder by the Coast (2021)

Spain, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Tània Balló

66.9%

223 Ratings rating

48. Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation (2007)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: John Borowski

Cast: Tony Jay, Albert Fish

68.2%

51 Ratings rating

49. Bitconned (2024)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Bryan Storkel

Cast: Ray Trapani

66.5%

439 Ratings rating

50. Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris (2023)

France, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Jamie Roberts

66.4%

211 Ratings rating

51. Untold: Hall of Shame (2023)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Bryan Storkel

66.3%

208 Ratings rating

52. Into the Deep (2020)

Denmark, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Emma Sullivan

65.7%

438 Ratings rating

53. Nail Bomber: Manhunt (2021)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Cast: David Copeland

65.8%

103 Ratings rating

54. Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (2022)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Luke Sewell

65.2%

810 Ratings rating

55. A Cop Movie (2021)

Mexico, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Alonso Ruizpalacios

Cast: Monica del Carmen, Raúl Briones

65.4%

81 Ratings rating

56. The Women and the Murderer (2021)

France, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Patricia Tourancheau, Mona Achache

65.1%

167 Ratings rating

57. Cropsey (2009)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman

Cast: Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman

64.4%

82 Ratings rating

58. The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012)

USA, Documentary / Biography

Directed by: Chris James Thompson

Cast: Frankie Latina, Nick Sommer

63.8%

26 Ratings rating

59. Lady Gucci: The Story Of Patrizia Reggiani (2020)

Italy, Documentary / Biography

Directed by: Jovica Nonkovic

64.0%

50 Ratings rating

60. In Broad Daylight: The Narvarte Case (2022)

Mexico, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Alberto Arnaut

63.5%

23 Ratings rating

61. Curry & Cyanide: The Jolly Joseph Case (2023)

India, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Christo Tomy

63.8%

53 Ratings rating

62. Killer Legends (2014)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Joshua Zeman

Cast: Joshua Zeman, Cindy Butler

63.1%

65 Ratings rating

63. The Photographer: Murder in Pinamar (2022)

Argentina, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Alejandro Hartmann

62.3%

35 Ratings rating

64. A Very British Gangster (2007)

UK / Ireland, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Donal MacIntyre

Cast: Dominic Noonan, Donal MacIntyre

62.1%

97 Ratings rating

65. The Jewel Thief (2023)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Landon Van Soest

59.1%

22 Ratings rating

66. Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn (2022)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Lucy Blakstad

62.0%

122 Ratings rating

67. Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Stanley Nelson

Cast: Dan Rather, Len Bias

62.3%

358 Ratings rating

68. Victim/Suspect (2023)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Nancy Schwartzman

Cast: Sacha Smith

61.9%

155 Ratings rating

69. Scout's Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America (2023)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Brian Knappenberger

61.6%

112 Ratings rating

70. Mumbai Mafia: Police vs the Underworld (2023)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Raaghav Dar

60.9%

112 Ratings rating

71. 137 Shots (2021)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Michael Milano

Cast: Alton Sterling

59.1%

43 Ratings rating

72. The Real Blair Witch (2003)

UK, Documentary / Crime

60.8%

106 Ratings rating

73. Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story (2020)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Daniel H. Birman

Cast: Cyntoia Brown-Long

61.4%

245 Ratings rating

74. The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders (2023)

Mexico, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Maria Jose Cuevas

59.5%

118 Ratings rating

75. Monsters of Florence (2021)

Italy, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Andrea Vogt

Cast: Fabrizio Careddu

53.3%

24 Ratings rating

76. Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case (2023)

USA / Japan, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Hyoe Yamamoto

Cast: Jake Adelstein

60.1%

401 Ratings rating

77. Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes (2021)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Michael Harte

60.0%

448 Ratings rating

78. Alabama Snake (2020)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Theo Love

Cast: Bentley Williams, Major Dodge Jr.

53.5%

31 Ratings rating

79. Our Father (2022)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Lucie Jourdan

Cast: Donald Cline, Keith Boyle

59.9%

803 Ratings rating

80. Crack House USA (2010)

UK / USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Anthony Wonke

Cast: Michael Iasparro, Dominic Iasparro

55.3%

47 Ratings rating

81. State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith (2022)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Ryan White

56.3%

60 Ratings rating

82. Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror (2022)

South Korea, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Jin-seong Choi

58.8%

178 Ratings rating

83. Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso (2023)

Indonesia / Singapore, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Rob Sixsmith

55.9%

58 Ratings rating

84. Capturing the Killer Nurse (2022)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Tim Travers Hawkins

59.0%

272 Ratings rating

85. Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld (2023)

Germany, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Kilian Lieb, Max Rainer

57.6%

123 Ratings rating

86. The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker (2023)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Colette Camden

59.3%

855 Ratings rating

87. Lords of Scam (2021)

France, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Guillaume Nicloux

57.3%

140 Ratings rating

88. The Anthrax Attacks (2022)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Dan Krauss

Cast: Clark Gregg, Regan Burns

56.9%

172 Ratings rating

89. What Jennifer Did (2024)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Jenny Popplewell

56.2%

421 Ratings rating

90. Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich (2022)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Lisa Bryant, Maiken Baird

Cast: Jeffrey Epstein, Kathy Searle

55.6%

260 Ratings rating

91. I Am Vanessa Guillen (2022)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Christy Wegener

53.8%

120 Ratings rating

92. Michael Jackson: A Faking It Special (2021)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Cast: Michael Jackson

53.1%

99 Ratings rating

93. Searching for Sheela (2021)

India, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Shakun Batra

Cast: Ma Anand Sheela

47.2%

39 Ratings rating

94. The Masked Scammer (2022)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Dominic Sivyer, Yvann Yagchi

52.8%

122 Ratings rating

95. A Life Too Short: The Isabella Nardoni Case (2023)

Brazil, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Micael Langer

51.6%

131 Ratings rating

96. The Devil on Trial (2023)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Chris Holt

53.4%

433 Ratings rating

97. Big Mäck: Gangsters and Gold (2023)

Germany, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Fabienne Hurst

46.7%

66 Ratings rating

98. Killing John Lennon (2019)

UK, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Jordan Hill

Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney

45.4%

63 Ratings rating

99. Why Did You Kill Me? (2021)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Fredrick Munk

50.8%

288 Ratings rating

100. Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee (2022)

USA, Documentary / Crime

Directed by: Charlie Russell

Cast: John McAfee

50.1%

261 Ratings rating

Best documentary crime films - Charts

Genres: