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Top 50 Documentary movies by average vote

note: for these charts, only votes from regular voters are considered.

Rank	Title
1	Heima (2007) 8.6/10 (2610 votes)
2	Nuit et brouillard (1955) 8.6/10 (4376 votes)
3	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) 8.6/10 (1550 votes)
4	No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) 8.5/10 (5566 votes)
5	Concert for George (2003) 8.5/10 (646 votes)
6	Le chagrin et la pitié (1969) 8.5/10 (1468 votes)
7	Ilha das Flores (1989) 8.5/10 (1619 votes)
8	Promises (2001) 8.5/10 (1375 votes)
9	Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (2009) 8.5/10 (687 votes)
10	American Zeitgeist (2006) 8.5/10 (1788 votes)
11	The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) 8.5/10 (1997 votes)
12	My Flesh and Blood (2003) 8.5/10 (922 votes)
13	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (2007) 8.4/10 (354 votes)
14	U2 3D (2007) 8.4/10 (1852 votes)
15	Hearts and Minds (1974) 8.4/10 (1737 votes)
16	Home (2009/I) 8.4/10 (2375 votes)
17	Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! (1994) 8.4/10 (1120 votes)
18	Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) 8.4/10 (1313 votes)
19	No End in Sight (2007) 8.4/10 (3581 votes)
20	Lake of Fire (2006) 8.4/10 (776 votes)
21	Pries parskrendant i zeme (2005) 8.3/10 (545 votes)
22	Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) 8.3/10 (2973 votes)
23	Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) 8.3/10 (254 votes)
24	Chelovek s kino-apparatom (1929) 8.3/10 (4287 votes)
25	Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008) 8.3/10 (1437 votes)
26	The War Game (1965) 8.3/10 (1244 votes)
27	Earthlings (2007) 8.3/10 (1444 votes)
28	The King of Kong (2007) 8.3/10 (11573 votes)
29	The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007) 8.3/10 (437 votes)
30	Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination (1963) 8.3/10 (887 votes)
31	The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) 8.3/10 (9283 votes)
32	Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (2007) 8.2/10 (384 votes)
33	Sicko (2007) 8.2/10 (35454 votes)
34	Il mio viaggio in Italia (1999) 8.2/10 (1177 votes)
35	Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1972) 8.2/10 (2674 votes)
36	Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (2002) 8.2/10 (318 votes)
37	White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007) 8.2/10 (589 votes)
38	The Corporation (2003) 8.2/10 (8290 votes)
39	Lektionen in Finsternis (1992) 8.2/10 (1345 votes)
40	Obyknovennyy fashizm (1965) 8.2/10 (298 votes)
41	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) 8.2/10 (453 votes)
42	Bowling for Columbine (2002) 8.2/10 (71381 votes)
43	Chernobyl Heart (2003) 8.2/10 (296 votes)
44	Occupation 101 (2006) 8.2/10 (565 votes)
45	Khaneh siah ast (1963) 8.2/10 (361 votes)
46	Baraka (1992) 8.1/10 (8406 votes)
47	Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker (1938) 8.1/10 (1383 votes)
48	Please Vote for Me (2007) 8.1/10 (411 votes)
49	Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) 8.1/10 (2098 votes)
50	For All Mankind (1989) 8.1/10 (864 votes)

Bottom 10 Documentary movies

Rank	Title
10	Aquatic Wizards (1955) 1.8/10 (129 votes)
9	L'invitation aux images (2003) 1.8/10 (70 votes)
8	We're Funny That Way (1998) 1.8/10 (98 votes)
7	The Truck Farmer (1954) 1.6/10 (139 votes)
6	Economix - Needs and Wants (1996) 1.6/10 (111 votes)
5	A Date with Your Family (1950) 1.5/10 (407 votes)
4	At Home with Joan Crawford (1953) 1.5/10 (60 votes)
3	Catching Trouble (1936) 1.4/10 (236 votes)
2	Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009) 1.3/10 (13533 votes)
1	Proud American (2008) 1.3/10 (288 votes)

The top movies report uses a weighted rank calculated as follows:

 weighted rank (WR) = (v ÷ (v+m)) × R + (m ÷ (v+m)) × C

 where:
  R = average for the movie (mean) = (Rating)
  v = number of votes for the movie = (votes)
  m = minimum votes required to be listed in the top 50
      (currently 200)
  C = the mean vote across the whole report
      (currently 6.9)