# The best documentaries of 2024

From Super/Man to No Other Land: the 2024 documentaries that topped critics' lists and the Critics Choice Documentary Awards (Screen Daily, Deadline, POV Magazine).

- 618 votes · 14 items
- Aug 6, 2025 · Natalie Hunter
- https://even.best/en/l/2115/the-best-documentaries-of-2024

## Top 13

1. **No Other Land (2024)** (59 · ▲65 ▼6) — A Palestinian-Israeli collective films the demolitions in Masafer Yatta.
2. **Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)** (57 · ▲60 ▼3) — Superman, the accident and the activism; top Critics Choice doc winner.
3. **Will & Harper (2024)** (47 · ▲53 ▼6) — Will Ferrell road-trips across America with his friend Harper Steele.
4. **Sugarcane (2024)** (42 · ▲47 ▼5) — An investigation into an Indigenous residential school in Canada.
5. **Dahomey (2024)** (41 · ▲45 ▼4) — Looted royal treasures return from Paris to Benin; Golden Bear.
6. **Porcelain War (2024)** (38 · ▲41 ▼3) — Ukrainian artists keep making porcelain figures under bombardment.
7. **Daughters (2024)** (33 · ▲37 ▼4) — Girls prepare for a dance with their incarcerated fathers.
8. **Eno (2024)** (30 · ▲33 ▼3) — A generative documentary on Brian Eno that changes with every screening.
9. **Black Box Diaries (2024)** (30 · ▲32 ▼2) — Shiori Itō documents her own case in Japan.
10. **Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)** (27 · ▲35 ▼8) — Jazz, the Cold War and the fall of Patrice Lumumba.
11. **The Last of the Sea Women (2024)** (22 · ▲27 ▼5) — Korea's haenyeo divers fight for their way of life.
12. **Piece by Piece (2024)** (21 · ▲27 ▼6) — Pharrell Williams's life told in Lego animation.
13. **Union (2024)** (17 · ▲27 ▼10) — Amazon warehouse workers organise in Staten Island.
14. **Mistress Dispeller (2024)** (10 · ▲17 ▼7) — A professional hired in China to end an affair.

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