# The best documentaries of 2022

From Fire of Love to All the Beauty and the Bloodshed: the 2022 documentaries that topped critics' lists and the Critics Choice Documentary Awards (Screen Daily, POV Magazine, IndieWire).

- 39 votes · 12 items
- Jun 7, 2023 · Daniel White
- https://even.best/en/l/2124/the-best-documentaries-of-2022

## Top 12

1. **Good Night Oppy (2022)** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — The Mars rover Opportunity's 15-year mission.
2. **All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Laura Poitras on Nan Goldin; Golden Lion in Venice.
3. **Moonage Daydream (2022)** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — A kaleidoscopic David Bowie film by Brett Morgen.
4. **To Kill a Tiger (2022)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A father in rural India seeks justice for his daughter.
5. **The Janes (2022)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — The underground abortion network in 1960s Chicago.
6. **Fire of Love (2022)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, in their own footage.
7. **Navalny (2022)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — The Russian opposition leader investigates his own poisoning; Oscar winner.
8. **Turn Every Page (2022)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Robert Caro and his editor Robert Gottlieb.
9. **Descendant (2022)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Descendants of the last slave ship to reach the US.
10. **All That Breathes (2022)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Two brothers in Delhi rescue injured kites.
11. **The Territory (2022)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — The Uru-eu-wau-wau defend their land in the Amazon.
12. **A House Made of Splinters (2022)** (-1 · ▲1 ▼2) — Children in a shelter in eastern Ukraine.

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