| 1. | 9.6 | Zeitgeist
(2007) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Peter Joseph | Peter Joseph | Osama bin Laden, George W. Bush, George Carlin | |
| 2. | 9.0 | Schindler's List
(1993) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Thomas Keneally | Steven Spielberg | Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley | |
| 3. | 8.8 | The Pianist
(2002) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Wladyslaw Szpilman | Roman Polanski | Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay | |
| 4. | 8.7 | Glory
(1989) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Lincoln Kirstein | Edward Zwick | Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes | |
| 5. | 8.5 | The Blind Side
(2009) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Lewis | John Lee Hancock | Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw | |
| 6. | 8.4 | Seven Years in Tibet
(1997) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Heinrich Harrer | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, BD Wong | |
| 7. | 8.4 | Gettysburg
(1993) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Shaara | Ronald F. Maxwell | Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang | |
| 8. | 8.4 | Amistad
(1997) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | David Franzoni | Steven Spielberg | Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins | |
| 9. | 8.3 | JFK
(1991) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Oliver Stone | Oliver Stone | Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon | |
| 10. | 8.3 | The Killing Fields
(1984) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Bruce Robinson | Roland Joffe | Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich | |
| 11. | 8.3 | Downfall
(2004) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Joachim Fest | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ulrich Matthes | |
| 12. | 8.3 | Gandhi
(1982) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | John Briley | Richard Attenborough | Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen | |
| 13. | 8.2 | Patton
(1970) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Francis Ford Coppola | Franklin J. Schaffner | George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young | |
| 14. | 8.1 | Empire of the Sun
(1987) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | J.G. Ballard | Steven Spielberg | Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson | |
| 15. | 8.1 | Viva Zapata!
(1952) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | John Steinbeck | Elia Kazan | Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn | |
| 16. | 8.1 | Band of Brothers
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Erik Jendresen | David Frankel | Scott Grimes, Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston | Series |
| 17. | 8.1 | The Message
(1977) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | H.A.L. Craig | Moustapha Akkad | Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara | |
| 18. | 8.1 | Touching the Void
(2003) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Joe Simpson | Kevin Macdonald | Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Brendan Mackey | |
| 19. | 8.1 | The Motorcycle Diaries
(2004) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Ernesto 'Che' Guevara | Walter Salles | Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mercedes Moran | |
| 20. | 8.1 | Bowling for Columbine
(2002) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Moore | Michael Moore | Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson | |
| 21. | 8.1 | Michael Collins
(1996) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Neil Jordan | Neil Jordan | Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts | |
| 22. | 8.1 | Conspiracy
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Loring Mandel | Frank Pierson | Kenneth Branagh, Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci | |
| 23. | 8.1 | Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
(1992) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Mark Achbar | Mark Achbar | Noam Chomsky, Mark Achbar, Edward S. Herman | |
| 24. | 8.1 | Religulous
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Bill Maher | Larry Charles | Bill Maher, Tal Bachman, Jonathan Boulden | |
| 25. | 8.1 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
(2003) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Errol Morris | Errol Morris | Robert McNamara, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy | |
| 26. | 8.0 | Fahrenheit 9/11
(2004) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Moore | Michael Moore | Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Ben Affleck | |
| 27. | 8.0 | The Sorrow and the Pity
(1969) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Andre Harris | Marcel Ophuls | Georges Bidault, Matthaus Bleibinger, Charles Braun | |
| 28. | 8.0 | Born on the Fourth of July
(1989) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Ron Kovic | Oliver Stone | Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava | |
| 29. | 8.0 | Invictus
(2009) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | John Carlin | Clint Eastwood | Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge | |
| 30. | 7.9 | Salvador
(1986) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Oliver Stone | Oliver Stone | James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy | |
| 31. | 7.9 | The Insider
(1999) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Marie Brenner | Michael Mann | Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer | |
| 32. | 7.9 | Grizzly Man
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Werner Herzog | Werner Herzog | Timothy Treadwell, Amie Huguenard, Werner Herzog | |
| 33. | 7.9 | Senna
(2010) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Manish Pandey | Asif Kapadia | Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams | |
| 34. | 7.9 | The Mission
(1986) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Robert Bolt | Roland Joffe | Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally | |
| 35. | 7.9 | The Corporation
(2003) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Joel Bakan | Jennifer Abbott | Mikela Jay, Rob Beckwermert, Christopher Gora | |
| 36. | 7.9 | Das Boot
(1981) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Wolfgang Petersen | Wolfgang Petersen | Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann | |
| 37. | 7.9 | In the Name of the Father
(1993) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Gerry Conlon | Jim Sheridan | Daniel Day-Lewis, Pete Postlethwaite, Alison Crosbie | |
| 38. | 7.9 | Malcolm X
(1992) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Alex Haley | Spike Lee | Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo | |
| 39. | 7.9 | Why We Fight
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Eugene Jarecki | Eugene Jarecki | Gore Vidal, John McCain, Ken Adelman | |
| 40. | 7.9 | Lawrence of Arabia
(1962) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | T.E. Lawrence | David Lean | Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn | |
| 41. | 7.9 | Braveheart
(1995) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Randall Wallace | Mel Gibson | Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan | |
| 42. | 7.9 | Saving Private Ryan
(1998) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Robert Rodat | Steven Spielberg | Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore | |
| 43. | 7.9 | Black Hawk Down
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Mark Bowden | Ridley Scott | Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore | |
| 44. | 7.8 | Hotel Rwanda
(2004) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Keir Pearson | Terry George | Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix | |
| 45. | 7.8 | Thirteen Days
(2000) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Ernest R. May | Roger Donaldson | Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Shawn Driscoll | |
| 46. | 7.8 | The Magdalene Sisters
(2002) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Peter Mullan | Peter Mullan | Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone | |
| 47. | 7.8 | Europa Europa
(1990) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Agnieszka Holland | Agnieszka Holland | Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, Rene Hofschneider | |
| 48. | 7.8 | Bloody Sunday
(2002) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Paul Greengrass | Paul Greengrass | James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell | |
| 49. | 7.8 | Sometimes in April
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Raoul Peck | Raoul Peck | Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete | |
| 50. | 7.8 | The Devil and Daniel Johnston
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Jeff Feuerzeig | Jeff Feuerzeig | Daniel Johnston, Mabel Johnston, Bill Johnston | |
| 51. | 7.8 | Gallipoli
(1981) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Ernest Raymond | Peter Weir | Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr | |
| 52. | 7.8 | Elizabeth
(1998) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Hirst | Shekhar Kapur | Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston | |
| 53. | 7.8 | Angela's Ashes
(1999) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Frank McCourt | Alan Parker | Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen | |
| 54. | 7.8 | Pickpocket
(1959) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Robert Bresson | Robert Bresson | Martin LaSalle, Marika Green, Jean Pelegri | |
| 55. | 7.7 | Ace in the Hole
(1951) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder | Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur | |
| 56. | 7.7 | Zeitgeist: Addendum
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Peter Joseph | Peter Joseph | Jacque Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, John Perkins | |
| 57. | 7.7 | Judgment at Nuremberg
(1961) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Abby Mann | Stanley Kramer | Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark | |
| 58. | 7.7 | The Right Stuff
(1983) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Tom Wolfe | Philip Kaufman | Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris | |
| 59. | 7.7 | Becket
(1964) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Jean Anouilh | Peter Glenville | Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud | |
| 60. | 7.7 | Dead Man Walking
(1995) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Helen Prejean | Tim Robbins | Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn, Robert Prosky | |
| 61. | 7.7 | Jarhead
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Anthony Swofford | Sam Mendes | Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Lucas Black | |
| 62. | 7.7 | Full Metal Jacket
(1987) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Gustav Hasford | Stanley Kubrick | Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio | |
| 63. | 7.7 | Deliver Us from Evil
(2006) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Amy Berg | Amy Berg | Oliver O'Grady, Thomas Doyle, Adam | |
| 64. | 7.7 | A Beautiful Mind
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Sylvia Nasar | Ron Howard | Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly | |
| 65. | 7.7 | Prayers for Bobby
(2009) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Leroy Aarons | Russell Mulcahy | Sigourney Weaver, Henry Czerny, Ryan Kelley | |
| 66. | 7.7 | Platoon
(1986) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Oliver Stone | Oliver Stone | Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe | |
| 67. | 7.6 | The Last Emperor
(1987) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Mark Peploe | Bernardo Bertolucci | John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole | |
| 68. | 7.6 | Cry Freedom
(1987) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | John Briley | Richard Attenborough | Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Josette Simon | |
| 69. | 7.6 | Hearts and Minds
(1974) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Peter Davis | Peter Davis | Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker | |
| 70. | 7.6 | All the President's Men
(1976) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Carl Bernstein | Alan J. Pakula | Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden | |
| 71. | 7.6 | Kundun
(1997) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Melissa Mathison | Martin Scorsese | Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin | |
| 72. | 7.6 | Che: Part Two
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Peter Buchman | Steven Soderbergh | Demian Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Benicio Del Toro | |
| 73. | 7.6 | Apollo 13
(1995) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Jim Lovell | Ron Howard | Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon | |
| 74. | 7.6 | The Hurricane
(1999) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter | Norman Jewison | Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, Deborah Kara Unger | |
| 75. | 7.6 | Enemy at the Gates
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes | |
| 76. | 7.6 | Generation Kill
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Ed Burns | Susanna White | Alexander Skarsgard, James Ransone, Lee Tergesen | Series |
| 77. | 7.6 | The Sea Inside
(2004) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Alejandro Amenabar | Alejandro Amenabar | Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda, Lola Duenas | |
| 78. | 7.6 | Mississippi Burning
(1988) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Chris Gerolmo | Alan Parker | Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand | |
| 79. | 7.6 | This Boy's Life
(1993) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Tobias Wolff | Michael Caton-Jones | Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Barkin | |
| 80. | 7.6 | Awakenings
(1990) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Oliver Sacks | Penny Marshall | Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner | |
| 81. | 7.6 | Amen.
(2002) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Costa-Gavras | Costa-Gavras | Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Muhe | |
| 82. | 7.6 | The Great Escape
(1963) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Paul Brickhill | John Sturges | Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough | |
| 83. | 7.6 | Lorenzo's Oil
(1992) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | George Miller | George Miller | Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov | |
| 84. | 7.6 | Life of Pi
(2012) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Yann Martel | Ang Lee | Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain | |
| 85. | 7.6 | Alive
(1993) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Piers Paul Read | Frank Marshall | Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton | |
| 86. | 7.5 | Woodstock
(1970) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Wadleigh | Michael Wadleigh | Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Joe Cocker | |
| 87. | 7.5 | Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Jan Harlan | Jan Harlan | Katharina Kubrick, Malcolm McDowell, Tom Cruise | |
| 88. | 7.5 | Joyeux Noel
(2005) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Christian Carion | Christian Carion | Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Guillaume Canet | |
| 89. | 7.5 | The Civil War
(1990) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Ken Burns | Ken Burns | David McCullough, Sam Waterston, Julie Harris | Series |
| 90. | 7.5 | Baraka
(1992) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Ron Fricke | Ron Fricke | | |
| 91. | 7.5 | To End All Wars
(2001) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Brian Godawa | David L. Cunningham | Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciaran McMenamin | |
| 92. | 7.5 | Nixon
(1995) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Stephen J. Rivele | Oliver Stone | Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe | |
| 93. | 7.5 | Defiance
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Nechama Tec | Edward Zwick | Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell | |
| 94. | 7.5 | The Longest Day
(1962) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Cornelius Ryan | Ken Annakin | John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton | |
| 95. | 7.5 | My Left Foot
(1989) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Christy Brown | Jim Sheridan | Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan | |
| 96. | 7.5 | One Day in September
(1999) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Kevin Macdonald | Kevin Macdonald | Michael Douglas, Ankie Spitzer, Jamal Al Gashey | |
| 97. | 7.5 | Rabbit-Proof Fence
(2002) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Doris Pilkington | Phillip Noyce | Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, Kenneth Branagh | |
| 98. | 7.5 | The Other Boleyn Girl
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Philippa Gregory | Justin Chadwick | Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana | |
| 99. | 7.5 | Roger & Me
(1989) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Michael Moore | Michael Moore | Michael Moore, James Blanchard, James Bond | |
| 100. | 7.5 | Hunger
(2008) | | WIKI RT NF IT AM | Enda Walsh | Steve McQueen | Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan | |