# The best documentaries of 2020

From My Octopus Teacher to Collective: the 2020 documentaries that topped Moviepilot users' ratings and the Oscars (Moviepilot).

- 36 votes · 12 items
- Mar 25, 2022 · svenja_serienjunkie
- https://even.best/en/l/2173/the-best-documentaries-of-2020

## Top 12

1. **The Social Dilemma (2020)** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Former tech workers on the power of social platforms.
2. **My Octopus Teacher (2020)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A diver and an octopus in South Africa; Oscar winner.
3. **Boys State (2020)** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — A thousand teenage boys build a government in Texas.
4. **Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A daughter stages her father's death so as not to lose him.
5. **Picture a Scientist (2020)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Three women researchers on their careers and the obstacles.
6. **Gunda (2020)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — A sow and her piglets, in black and white and without words.
7. **Welcome to Chechnya (2020)** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Activists help persecuted people escape Chechnya.
8. **Collective (2019)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — After a nightclub fire, a sports paper uncovers Romania's health-care scandal.
9. **The Mole Agent (2020)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — A pensioner goes undercover in a Chilean care home.
10. **Time (2020)** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — A woman fights for twenty years to free her husband.
11. **Crip Camp (2020)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A summer camp and the US disability rights movement.
12. **Wall of Shadows (2020)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — A Sherpa family and a forbidden mountain.

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