Best crime documentaries - Charts
Best crime documentaries
1. The Cove (2009)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Louie Psihoyos
Cast: Isabel Lucas, Richard O'Barry
2. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Errol Morris
Cast: Marianne Leone, Adam Goldfine
3. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Brian Knappenberger
Cast: David Sirota
4. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Cast: Megyn Kelly, Natalie Maines
5. Shiny_Flakes: The Teenage Drug Lord (2021)
Germany, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Michael Schmitt
Cast: Maximilian Schmidt
6. The Act of Killing (2012)
Denmark / Norway, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
7. Serial Killers: The Real Life Hannibal Lecters (2001)
USA / Canada, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Sean Buckley
Cast: Richard Morgan, Melanie Porter
8. The Killing of a Journalist (2022)
Denmark / Czech Republic, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Matt Sarnecki
Cast: Robert Fico, Andrej Kiska
9. The Killing of America (1981)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Sheldon Renan, Leonard Schrader
12. Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Amy Berg
Cast: Paula Zahn, Pope Benedict XVI.
15. 13th (2016)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Ava DuVernay
Cast: Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates
16. American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Jenny Popplewell
20. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Andrew Jarecki
Cast: Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman
22. Athlete A (2020)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
Cast: Nadia Comăneci, Gabrielle Douglas
24. Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
USA / UK, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Marina Zenovich
Cast: Roman Polański, Sharon Tate
26. Into the Abyss (2011)
USA / UK, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Werner Herzog
Cast: Werner Herzog
27. Once Upon a Time in Norway (2007)
Norway, Documentary / Crime
28. Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist (2022)
Argentina, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Matías Gueilburt
32. White Boy (2017)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Shawn Rech
Cast: Seth Ferranti, Gilbert R. Hill
33. Forever 'B' (2017)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Skye Borgman
Cast: Jan Broberg, James DuMont
34. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Alex Gibney
Cast: Alex Gibney, George W. Bush
37. Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005)
UK, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: David Gregory
Cast: Lucy Grantham, David Hess
38. Sea of Shadows (2019)
USA / Austria, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Richard Ladkani, Sean Bogle
39. Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger (2014)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Joe Berlinger
40. Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Chris Smith
Cast: Matthew Modine, Jeremy Sless
43. How to Rob a Bank (2024)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Stephen Robert Morse, Seth Porges
Cast: Jordan Burtchett, Kurt Ostlund
44. H.H. Holmes: America's First Serial Killer (2004)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: John Borowski
Cast: Tony Jay
46. The Last Time I Saw Macao (2012)
France / Portugal, Mystery / Drama
Directed by: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
48. Albert Fish: In Sin He Found Salvation (2007)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: John Borowski
Cast: Tony Jay, Albert Fish
50. Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris (2023)
France, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Jamie Roberts
54. Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King (2022)
UK, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Luke Sewell
55. A Cop Movie (2021)
Mexico, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Cast: Monica del Carmen, Raúl Briones
56. The Women and the Murderer (2021)
France, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Patricia Tourancheau, Mona Achache
57. Cropsey (2009)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman
Cast: Barbara Brancaccio, Joshua Zeman
58. The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Chris James Thompson
Cast: Frankie Latina, Nick Sommer
59. Lady Gucci: The Story Of Patrizia Reggiani (2020)
Italy, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Jovica Nonkovic
60. In Broad Daylight: The Narvarte Case (2022)
Mexico, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Alberto Arnaut
61. Curry & Cyanide: The Jolly Joseph Case (2023)
India, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Christo Tomy
62. Killer Legends (2014)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Joshua Zeman
Cast: Joshua Zeman, Cindy Butler
63. The Photographer: Murder in Pinamar (2022)
Argentina, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Alejandro Hartmann
64. A Very British Gangster (2007)
UK / Ireland, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Donal MacIntyre
Cast: Dominic Noonan, Donal MacIntyre
66. Fugitive: The Curious Case of Carlos Ghosn (2022)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Lucy Blakstad
67. Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Stanley Nelson
Cast: Dan Rather, Len Bias
69. Scout's Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America (2023)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Brian Knappenberger
72. The Real Blair Witch (2003)
UK, Documentary / Crime
73. Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story (2020)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Daniel H. Birman
Cast: Cyntoia Brown-Long
74. The Lady of Silence: The Mataviejitas Murders (2023)
Mexico, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Maria Jose Cuevas
75. Monsters of Florence (2021)
Italy, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Andrea Vogt
Cast: Fabrizio Careddu
76. Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case (2023)
USA / Japan, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Hyoe Yamamoto
Cast: Jake Adelstein
77. Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes (2021)
UK, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Michael Harte
78. Alabama Snake (2020)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Theo Love
Cast: Bentley Williams, Major Dodge Jr.
79. Our Father (2022)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Lucie Jourdan
Cast: Donald Cline, Keith Boyle
80. Crack House USA (2010)
UK / USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Anthony Wonke
Cast: Michael Iasparro, Dominic Iasparro
82. Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror (2022)
South Korea, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Jin-seong Choi
83. Ice Cold: Murder, Coffee and Jessica Wongso (2023)
Indonesia / Singapore, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Rob Sixsmith
85. Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld (2023)
Germany, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Kilian Lieb, Max Rainer
88. The Anthrax Attacks (2022)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Dan Krauss
Cast: Clark Gregg, Regan Burns
90. Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich (2022)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Lisa Bryant, Maiken Baird
Cast: Jeffrey Epstein, Kathy Searle
93. Searching for Sheela (2021)
India, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Shakun Batra
Cast: Ma Anand Sheela
95. A Life Too Short: The Isabella Nardoni Case (2023)
Brazil, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Micael Langer
98. Killing John Lennon (2019)
UK, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Jordan Hill
Cast: John Lennon, Paul McCartney
100. Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee (2022)
USA, Documentary / Crime
Directed by: Charlie Russell
Cast: John McAfee