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1

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

2014
TV-PG
557
N/A
9.40
2

Beneath the Helmet

2014
N/A
80
Wayne Kopping
9.10
3

The Champions

2015
N/A
90
Darcy Dennett
9.10
4

Tengo ganas de ti: Making Of

2012
N/A
Martin Samper
9.10
5

The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young

2014
N/A
89
Annika Iltis, Timothy James Kane
67
9.00
6

Moving Art: Underwater

2015
N/A
Howard Hall
9.00
7

The Road to Fallujah

2009
N/A
77
Mark Manning
9.00
8

Gardeners of Eden

2014
N/A
72
Austin Peck, Anneliese Vandenberg
8.90
9

The Jones Family Will Make a Way

2015
N/A
91
Alan Berg
8.90
10

How I Got Over

2014
N/A
87
Nicole Boxer
8.80
11

Infernal affairs 1: Origines d'une saga

2004
N/A
15
Frédéric Ambroisine
8.80
12

Moving Art: Oceans

2014
N/A
25
Louie Schwartzberg
8.80
13

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

2010
N/A
240
Daniel Farrands, Andrew Kasch
8.80
14

Through the Woods

2014
N/A
50
Jed Anderson
8.70
15

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime

2014
N/A
102
David Morris, Jacqui Morris
8.60
16

Dear Jack

2009
UNRATED
67
Joshua Morrisroe, Corey Moss
8.60
17

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

2008
N/A
95
Kurt Kuenne
82
8.60
18

Louis C.K.: Chewed Up

2008
N/A
61
Louis C.K., Shannon Hartman
8.60
19

Moving Art: Deserts

2014
N/A
25
Louie Schwartzberg
8.60
20

Moving Art: Waterfalls

2015
N/A
25
Louie Schwartzberg
8.60
21

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret

2014
N/A
85
Kip Andersen, Keegan Kuhn
8.50
22

Holy Ghost

2014
N/A
113
Darren Wilson
8.50
23

Inshallah, football

2010
N/A
80
Ashvin Kumar
8.50
24

The Invisible Front

2014
N/A
76
Jonas Ohman, Vincas Sruoginis
65
8.50
25

Moving Art: Flowers

2014
N/A
25
Louie Schwartzberg
8.50
26

Moving Art: Forests

2014
N/A
25
Louie Schwartzberg
8.50
27

Samsara

2011
PG-13
102
Ron Fricke
65
8.50
28

When the Iron Bird Flies: Tibetan Buddhism Arrives in the West

2012
N/A
96
Victress Hitchcock, Amber Bemak
8.50
29

Brothers on the Line

2012
N/A
81
Sasha Reuther
8.40
30

The Culture High

2014
N/A
120
Brett Harvey
37
8.40
31

Furious Love

2010
N/A
95
Darren Wilson
8.40
32

The Ghosts in Our Machine

2013
N/A
93
Liz Marshall
60
8.40
33

Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater

2011
N/A
63
Louis C.K.
8.40
34

Not Yet Begun to Fight

2012
N/A
60
Shasta Grenier, Sabrina Lee
78
8.40
35

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

2015
N/A
102
Evgeny Afineevsky
79
8.40
36

Zeitgeist: Addendum

2008
N/A
123
Peter Joseph
8.40
37

Above All Else

2014
N/A
95
John Fiege
8.30
38

Blood Brother

2013
N/A
92
Steve Hoover
71
8.30
39

Brothers in War

2014
N/A
Liz Reph
8.30
40

California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown

2011
N/A
Sascha Rice
8.30
41

Eddie Murphy: Delirious

1983
N/A
69
Bruce Gowers
8.30
42

Elephants: Spy in the Herd

2003
N/A
59
John Downer
8.30
43

Hoop Dreams

1994
PG-13
170
Steve James
98
8.30
44

How to Die in Oregon

2011
N/A
107
Peter Richardson
8.30
45

Jumbo Wild

2015
N/A
52
Nick Waggoner
8.30
46

Limited Partnership

2014
N/A
74
Thomas G. Miller
8.30
47

The Look of Silence

2014
PG-13
103
Joshua Oppenheimer
92
8.30
48

McConkey

2013
N/A
100
Rob Bruce, Scott Gaffney, Murray Wais, Steve Winter, David Zieff
68
8.30
49

Requiem for the American Dream

2015
N/A
73
Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott
8.30
50

Virunga

2014
N/A
100
Orlando von Einsiedel
95
8.30
51

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

2011
N/A
161
Peter Joseph
8.30
52

The Two Escobars

2010
N/A
104
Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist
8.20
53

The U Movie

2010
N/A
85
Alexander Reid, Tommy Douglas
8.20
54

Artifact

2012
N/A
103
Jared Leto
8.20
55

The Beautiful Game

2012
N/A
Victor Buhler
8.20
56

Byzantium a Tale of Three Cities

2013
N/A
N/A
8.20
57

Closure

2013
N/A
76
Bryan Tucker
8.20
58

Divorce Corp

2014
N/A
93
Joseph Sorge
39
8.20
59

Dogs on the Inside

2014
N/A
67
Brean Cunningham, Douglas Seirup
8.20
60

The Drop Box

2014
N/A
79
Brian Ivie
8.20
61

History of the Eagles

2013
N/A
187
N/A
8.20
62

India's Daughter

2015
N/A
63
Leslee Udwin
72
8.20
63

Legends of the Knight

2013
N/A
76
Brett Culp
8.20
64

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

2013
TV-PG
180
N/A
8.20
65

Tesla: Master of Lightning

2000
N/A
87
Robert Uth
8.20
66

Vito

2011
N/A
93
Jeffrey Schwarz
8.20
67

Into the Wind

2010
N/A
51
Ezra Holland, Steve Nash
8.10
68

The Battered Bastards of Baseball

2014
N/A
73
Chapman Way, Maclain Way
75
8.10
69

Bears: Spy in the Woods

2004
N/A
60
N/A
8.10
70

Blackfish

2013
PG-13
83
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
83
8.10
71

Bridegroom

2013
R
80
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
85
8.10
72

The Class of 92

2013
N/A
99
Benjamin Turner, Gabe Turner
8.10
73

A Drummer's Dream

2010
N/A
84
John Walker
8.10
74

El informe Toledo

2009
N/A
87
Albino Alvarez
8.10
75

Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy

2007
TV-14
60
Manny Rodriguez
8.10
76

The Hand That Feeds

2014
N/A
85
Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears
63
8.10
77

Paris Is Burning

1990
R
71
Jennie Livingston
8.10
78

People of a Feather

2011
N/A
90
Joel Heath
8.10
79

A Small Section of the World

2014
N/A
62
Lesley Chilcott
46
8.10
80

The Square

2013
N/A
95
Jehane Noujaim
84
8.10
81

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

2012
UNRATED
70
Paul Sen
8.10
82

The Thin Blue Line

1988
N/A
103
Errol Morris
79
8.10
83

Touching the Void

2003
R
106
Kevin Macdonald
82
8.10
84

All This Mayhem

2014
N/A
104
Eddie Martin
8.00
85

Aluna

2012
N/A
89
Alan Ereira
8.00
86

The Art of Organized Noize

2016
N/A
Quincy Jones III
8.00
87

Exit Through the Gift Shop

2010
R
87
Banksy
85
8.00
88

Give Me Shelter

2014
N/A
90
Kristin Rizzo
8.00
89

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2003
N/A
169
Thom Andersen
86
8.00
90

Marley

2012
PG-13
144
Kevin Macdonald
82
8.00
91

Mission Blue

2014
N/A
95
Robert Nixon, Fisher Stevens
77
8.00
92

The Only Real Game

2013
N/A
82
Mirra Bank
69
8.00
93

We Were Here

2011
N/A
90
David Weissman, Bill Weber
94
8.00
94

The Whale

2011
G
85
Suzanne Chisholm, Michael Parfit
64
8.00
95

What's Love Got to Do with It?

2013
N/A
84
Rohena Gera
8.00
96

Cocaine Cowboys

2006
R
118
Billy Corben
59
7.90
97

Deep Water

2006
PG
92
Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
80
7.90
98

The Genius of Marian

2013
TV-PG
85
Banker White, Anna Fitch
7.90
99

Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

2014
PG
116
James Keach
79
7.90
100

Gonchi la película

2015
N/A
88
Luis Ara, Federico Lemos
7.90
101

The House I Live In

2012
N/A
108
Eugene Jarecki
77
7.90
102

Inspired to Ride

2015
N/A
88
Mike Dion
7.90
103

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

2011
PG
81
David Gelb
77
7.90
104

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

2013
N/A
39
Malcolm Clarke
7.90
105

Life Itself

2014
R
120
Steve James
87
7.90
106

Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

2012
N/A
106
Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre
74
7.90
107

Microcosmos

1996
G
80
Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
7.90
108

Next Goal Wins

2014
N/A
97
Mike Brett, Steve Jamison
71
7.90
109

Out in the Line-up

2014
N/A
69
Ian W. Thomson
7.90
110

PlantPure Nation

2015
N/A
95
Nelson Campbell
7.90
111

Tibetan Warrior

2015
N/A
84
Dodo Hunziker
7.90
112

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

2013
N/A
118
Mami Sunada
75
7.90
113

Angry Sky

2015
N/A
90
Jeff Tremaine
7.80
114

All American High Revisited

2014
N/A
82
Keva Rosenfeld
7.80
115

Autism in Love

2015
N/A
76
Matt Fuller
7.80
116

Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of

2015
N/A
101
Stephen Kijak
42
7.80
117

Bella Vita

2013
N/A
82
Jason Baffa
7.80
118

Chasing Ice

2012
PG-13
75
Jeff Orlowski
75
7.80
119

Daughters of Dolma

2013
N/A
67
Adam Miklos
7.80
120

The Endless Summer

1966
PG
95
Bruce Brown
7.80
121

The Epic of Everest

1924
N/A
87
J.B.L. Noel
7.80
122

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

2013
N/A
83
Nicholas D. Wrathall
72
7.80
123

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

2010
N/A
90
Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
74
7.80
124

Katiyabaaz

2013
N/A
84
Deepti Kakkar, Fahad Mustafa
7.80
125

Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1

2006
TV-MA
45
Anthony Anderson, Gary Binkow
7.80
126

Kevin Hart: I'm a Grown Little Man

2009
N/A
73
Shannon Hartman
7.80
127

Lemmy

2010
N/A
116
Greg Olliver, Wes Orshoski
64
7.80
128

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

2006
PG
103
Jonathan Demme
85
7.80
129

Never a Neverland

2014
N/A
53
Ricky Norris
7.80
130

Silenced

2014
N/A
102
James Spione
7.80
131

Undefeated

2011
PG-13
113
Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin
71
7.80
132

Where Was God?

2014
N/A
89
Travis Palmer
7.80
133

Above and Beyond

2014
N/A
90
Roberta Grossman
69
7.70
134

The Art of the Steal

2009
UNRATED
101
Don Argott
75
7.70
135

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

2011
PG
80
Constance Marks
71
7.70
136

Brother's Keeper

1992
N/A
104
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
7.70
137

The Central Park Five

2012
N/A
119
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
79
7.70
138

Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded

2014
R
152
Billy Corben
7.70
139

Dark Girls

2011
N/A
71
D. Channsin Berry, Bill Duke
7.70
140

Desert Runners

2013
N/A
99
Jennifer Steinman
7.70
141

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

2005
N/A
110
Alex Gibney
7.70
142

Ethos

2011
N/A
78
Pete McGrain
7.70
143

Everybody Street

2013
N/A
83
Cheryl Dunn
7.70
144

Forks Over Knives

2011
PG
90
Lee Fulkerson
57
7.70
145

GasLand

2010
N/A
107
Josh Fox
7.70
146

The Ghost Army

2013
N/A
68
Rick Beyer
7.70
147

Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace

2012
N/A
60
Michael Dimich
7.70
148

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau

2013
N/A
96
Sam George
7.70
149

How Sherlock Changed the World

2013
N/A
120
Paul Bernays
7.70
150

Indie Game: The Movie

2012
N/A
94
Lisanne Pajot, James Swirsky
73
7.70
151

Keep on Keepin' On

2014
R
84
Alan Hicks
77
7.70
152

Lions: Spy in the Den

2000
N/A
59
John Downer
7.70
153

Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine

2014
N/A
89
Michele Josue
75
7.70
154

Miss Representation

2011
N/A
85
Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Kimberlee Acquaro
7.70
155

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

2007
N/A
89
John Landis
7.70
156

Muscle Shoals

2013
PG
111
Greg 'Freddy' Camalier
75
7.70
157

Pacific Warriors

2015
N/A
93
James Marquand
7.70
158

Pump

2014
PG
88
Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
56
7.70
159

SlingShot

2014
N/A
88
Paul Lazarus
7.70
160

Twinsters

2015
PG-13
89
Samantha Futerman, Ryan Miyamoto
81
7.70
161

A Woman Like Me

2015
N/A
79
Elizabeth Giamatti, Alex Sichel
7.70
162

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

2006
UNRATED
85
Rick Ray
7.60
163

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

2012
R
91
Alison Klayman
81
7.60
164

Antarctica: A Year on Ice

2013
PG
91
Anthony Powell
69
7.60
165

An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story

2013
N/A
90
Al Reinert, John Dean, Nellie Gonzalez
7.60
166

Best of Enemies

2015
R
87
Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
77
7.60
167

The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia

2012
N/A
60
James Redford
7.60
168

Buck

2011
PG
88
Cindy Meehl
76
7.60
169

Call Me Lucky

2015
N/A
106
Bobcat Goldthwait
64
7.60
170

Casting By

2012
TV-14
89
Tom Donahue
70
7.60
171

Chuck Norris vs. Communism

2015
N/A
78
Ilinca Calugareanu
7.60
172

Crafting a Nation

2013
N/A
104
Thomas Kolicko
7.60
173

DamNation

2014
N/A
87
Ben Knight, Travis Rummel
52
7.60
174

Disneynature: Wings of Life

2011
G
77
Louie Schwartzberg
7.60
175

Donald Glover Weirdo

2012
N/A
65
Shannon Hartman
7.60
176

Every Three Seconds

2014
N/A
99
Daniel G. Karslake
7.60
177

Go Grandriders

2012
N/A
80
Tian-Hao Hua
68
7.60
178

Gotta Dance

2008
N/A
93
Dori Berinstein
67
7.60
179

The Heart of the Game

2005
PG-13
97
Ward Serrill
74
7.60
180

Hot Coffee

2011
N/A
88
Susan Saladoff
7.60
181

How to Change the World

2015
N/A
110
Jerry Rothwell
77
7.60
182

How to Survive a Plague

2012
N/A
110
David France
86
7.60
183

Incident at Oglala

1992
PG
89
Michael Apted
7.60
184

John Pinette: Still Hungry

2011
TV-14
60
Milton Lage, Matthew McNeil
7.60
185

Last Day of Freedom

2015
N/A
32
Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman
7.60
186

Last Days in Vietnam

2014
N/A
98
Rory Kennedy
86
7.60
187

The Long Way Home

1997
N/A
120
Mark Jonathan Harris
7.60
188

Maidentrip

2013
N/A
82
Jillian Schlesinger
70
7.60
189

More Than Honey

2012
N/A
95
Markus Imhoof
70
7.60
190

Nature: Meet the Coy-wolf

2014
N/A
53
Susan Fleming
7.60
191

Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot

2014
N/A
105
Sebastian Dehnhardt
7.60
192

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film

2014
N/A
120
Bill Teck
7.60
193

Patton Oswalt: My Weakness Is Strong

2009
N/A
64
Jason Woliner
7.60
194

Reel Injun

2009
N/A
85
Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge, Jeremiah Hayes
63
7.60
195

Soaked in Bleach

2015
N/A
90
Benjamin Statler
50
7.60
196

Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story

2014
N/A
104
Alex Holmes
7.60
197

Sugar Coated

2015
N/A
90
Michèle Hozer
7.60
198

That Gal... Who Was in That Thing: That Guy 2

2015
N/A
80
Ian Roumain
7.60
199

The True Cost

2015
PG-13
92
Andrew Morgan
46
7.60
200

Tyke Elephant Outlaw

2015
N/A
78
Susan Lambert, Stefan Moore
7.60
1

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

2

Beneath the Helmet

3

The Champions

4

Tengo ganas de ti: Making Of

5

The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young

6

Moving Art: Underwater

7

The Road to Fallujah

8

Gardeners of Eden

9

The Jones Family Will Make a Way

10

How I Got Over

11

Infernal affairs 1: Origines d'une saga

12

Moving Art: Oceans

13

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy

14

Through the Woods

15

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime

16

Dear Jack

17

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

18

Louis C.K.: Chewed Up

19

Moving Art: Deserts

20

Moving Art: Waterfalls

21

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret

22

Holy Ghost

23

Inshallah, football

24

The Invisible Front

25

Moving Art: Flowers

26

Moving Art: Forests

27

Samsara

28

When the Iron Bird Flies: Tibetan Buddhism Arrives in the West

29

Brothers on the Line

30

The Culture High

31

Furious Love

32

The Ghosts in Our Machine

33

Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater

34

Not Yet Begun to Fight

35

Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

36

Zeitgeist: Addendum

37

Above All Else

38

Blood Brother

39

Brothers in War

40

California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown

41

Eddie Murphy: Delirious

42

Elephants: Spy in the Herd

43

Hoop Dreams

44

How to Die in Oregon

45

Jumbo Wild

46

Limited Partnership

47

The Look of Silence

48

McConkey

49

Requiem for the American Dream

50

Virunga

51

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

52

The Two Escobars

53

The U Movie

54

Artifact

55

The Beautiful Game

56

Byzantium a Tale of Three Cities

57

Closure

58

Divorce Corp

59

Dogs on the Inside

60

The Drop Box

61

History of the Eagles

62

India's Daughter

63

Legends of the Knight

64

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

65

Tesla: Master of Lightning

66

Vito

67

Into the Wind

68

The Battered Bastards of Baseball

69

Bears: Spy in the Woods

70

Blackfish

71

Bridegroom

72

The Class of 92

73

A Drummer's Dream

74

El informe Toledo

75

Gabriel Iglesias: Hot and Fluffy

76

The Hand That Feeds

77

Paris Is Burning

78

People of a Feather

79

A Small Section of the World

80

The Square

81

Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview

82

The Thin Blue Line

83

Touching the Void

84

All This Mayhem

85

Aluna

86

The Art of Organized Noize

87

Exit Through the Gift Shop

88

Give Me Shelter

89

Los Angeles Plays Itself

90

Marley

91

Mission Blue

92

The Only Real Game

93

We Were Here

94

The Whale

95

What's Love Got to Do with It?

96

Cocaine Cowboys

97

Deep Water

98

The Genius of Marian

99

Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

100

Gonchi la película

101

The House I Live In

102

Inspired to Ride

103

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

104

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

105

Life Itself

106

Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

107

Microcosmos

108

Next Goal Wins

109

Out in the Line-up

110

PlantPure Nation

111

Tibetan Warrior

112

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

113

Angry Sky

114

All American High Revisited

115

Autism in Love

116

Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of

117

Bella Vita

118

Chasing Ice

119

Daughters of Dolma

120

The Endless Summer

121

The Epic of Everest

122

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia

123

Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

124

Katiyabaaz

125

Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles Pt. 1

126

Kevin Hart: I'm a Grown Little Man

127

Lemmy

128

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

129

Never a Neverland

130

Silenced

131

Undefeated

132

Where Was God?

133

Above and Beyond

134

The Art of the Steal

135

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey

136

Brother's Keeper

137

The Central Park Five

138

Cocaine Cowboys: Reloaded

139

Dark Girls

140

Desert Runners

141

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

142

Ethos

143

Everybody Street

144

Forks Over Knives

145

GasLand

146

The Ghost Army

147

Hannibal Buress: Animal Furnace

148

Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau

149

How Sherlock Changed the World

150

Indie Game: The Movie

151

Keep on Keepin' On

152

Lions: Spy in the Den

153

Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine

154

Miss Representation

155

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

156

Muscle Shoals

157

Pacific Warriors

158

Pump

159

SlingShot

160

Twinsters

161

A Woman Like Me

162

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama

163

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

164

Antarctica: A Year on Ice

165

An Unreal Dream: The Michael Morton Story

166

Best of Enemies

167

The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia

168

Buck

169

Call Me Lucky

170

Casting By

171

Chuck Norris vs. Communism

172

Crafting a Nation

173

DamNation

174

Disneynature: Wings of Life

175

Donald Glover Weirdo

176

Every Three Seconds

177

Go Grandriders

178

Gotta Dance

179

The Heart of the Game

180

Hot Coffee

181

How to Change the World

182

How to Survive a Plague

183

Incident at Oglala

184

John Pinette: Still Hungry

185

Last Day of Freedom

186

Last Days in Vietnam

187

The Long Way Home

188

Maidentrip

189

More Than Honey

190

Nature: Meet the Coy-wolf

191

Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot

192

One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film

193

Patton Oswalt: My Weakness Is Strong

194

Reel Injun

195

Soaked in Bleach

196

Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story

197

Sugar Coated

198

That Gal... Who Was in That Thing: That Guy 2

199

The True Cost

200

Tyke Elephant Outlaw