The best documentaries of 2024
The top 3 according to 618 votes from people: No Other Land (2024) · Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024) · Will & Harper (2024). (Updated Aug 6, 2025.)
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).
Top 13
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1
No Other Land (2024)
A Palestinian-Israeli collective films the demolitions in Masafer Yatta.
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)
Superman, the accident and the activism; top Critics Choice doc winner.
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3
Will & Harper (2024)
Will Ferrell road-trips across America with his friend Harper Steele.
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Sugarcane (2024)
An investigation into an Indigenous residential school in Canada.
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Dahomey (2024)
Looted royal treasures return from Paris to Benin; Golden Bear.
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Porcelain War (2024)
Ukrainian artists keep making porcelain figures under bombardment.
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Daughters (2024)
Girls prepare for a dance with their incarcerated fathers.
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8
Eno (2024)
A generative documentary on Brian Eno that changes with every screening.
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Black Box Diaries (2024)
Shiori Itō documents her own case in Japan.
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10
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024)
Jazz, the Cold War and the fall of Patrice Lumumba.
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11
The Last of the Sea Women (2024)
Korea's haenyeo divers fight for their way of life.
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Piece by Piece (2024)
Pharrell Williams's life told in Lego animation.
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Union (2024)
Amazon warehouse workers organise in Staten Island.
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14
Mistress Dispeller (2024)
A professional hired in China to end an affair.
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Comments (3)
Will & Harper made me laugh and cry in the same scene. Didn't expect that from a Will Ferrell doc.
Porcelain War is beautiful, can't believe they filmed it while all that was happening
No Other Land is essential viewing. Hard to watch, impossible to forget.