Short Documentaries
Short documentaries — a length that suits the form better than most streaming docuseries do.
20 films, drawn from a catalog of 3,647 — every title rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members, with at least 5,000 ratings, and no longer than 110 minutes.
- One Direction: This Is Us — 1h 32m · 2013 · Morgan Spurlock · 4.4/5
- Night and Fog — 32 min · 1956 · Alain Resnais · 4.5/5
- Paris Is Burning — 1h 18m · 1991 · Jennie Livingston · 4.5/5
- Senna — 1h 46m · 2010 · Asif Kapadia · 4.3/5
- Stop Making Sense — 1h 28m · 1984 · Jonathan Demme · 4.7/5
- Koyaanisqatsi — 1h 26m · 1983 · Godfrey Reggio · 4.3/5
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father — 1h 34m · 2008 · Kurt Kuenne · 4.4/5
- 13th — 1h 40m · 2016 · Ava DuVernay · 4.3/5
- Baraka — 1h 37m · 1992 · Ron Fricke · 4.3/5
- Man with a Movie Camera — 1h 8m · 1929 · Dziga Vertov · 4.3/5
- No Other Land — 1h 32m · 2024 · Rachel Szor · 4.6/5
- The Salt of the Earth — 1h 50m · 2014 · Juliano Ribeiro Salgado · 4.3/5
- Samsara — 1h 42m · 2011 · Ron Fricke · 4.2/5
- Grizzly Man — 1h 43m · 2005 · Werner Herzog · 4.1/5
- Searching for Sugar Man — 1h 25m · 2012 · Malik Bendjelloul · 4.1/5
- Free Solo — 1h 40m · 2018 · Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi · 4.0/5
- Won't You Be My Neighbor? — 1h 35m · 2018 · Morgan Neville · 4.2/5
- Bring the Soul: The Movie — 1h 45m · 2019 · Park Jun-soo · 4.3/5
- They Shall Not Grow Old — 1h 39m · 2018 · Peter Jackson · 4.1/5
- Apollo 11 — 1h 33m · 2019 · Todd Douglas Miller · 4.1/5