Best Documentary Movies of the 2000s
The best documentary films from the 2000s, ranked by rating. Leading the list is Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008), rated 8.1. These films span 2000–2009, hand-ranked on Vlovu.

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

The Cove

Waltz with Bashir

Bowling for Columbine

Home

Finding Neverland

Earthlings

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

Grizzly Man

Man on Wire

Sicko

Earth

Touching the Void

The Fog of War

This Is It

The Corporation

Fahrenheit 9/11

Food, Inc.

Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

March of the Penguins

Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy

The Pixar Story

Encounters at the End of the World

Religulous

Capitalism: A Love Story

An Inconvenient Truth

Capturing the Friedmans

Winged Migration

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

The Gleaners and I

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth

The Beaches of Agnès

Bus 174

Why We Fight