The 25 Best Life Story Documentaries

31 documentaries

Portraits of unusual lives, famous and unknown.

Portraits of lives worth knowing about, famous and not. Won't You Be My Neighbor? is about Fred Rogers and will get you, and Minding the Gap is three skaters growing up on camera. Grey Gardens is the strangest of the lot.

Won't You Be My Neighbor? poster
1

Won't You Be My Neighbor?

2018 · 1h 35m

8.397%
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie poster
2

Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

2023 · 1h 35m

8.199%
Minding the Gap poster
3

Minding the Gap

2018 · 1h 33m

8.0100%
Grey Gardens poster
4

Grey Gardens

1975 · 1h 35m

7.595%
Stories We Tell poster
5

Stories We Tell

2012 · 1h 49m

7.594%
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin poster
6

The Remarkable Life of Ibelin

2024 · 1h 43m

8.197%
Flee poster
8

Flee

2021 · 1h 29m

7.998%
The Beaches of Agnès poster
9

The Beaches of Agnès

2008 · 1h 50m

8.096%
Daughters poster
10

Daughters

2024 · 1h 48m

7.7100%
Streetwise poster
11

Streetwise

1984 · 1h 31m

8.292%
Salesman poster
12

Salesman

1969 · 1h 30m

7.6100%
Mr. Death poster
13

Mr. Death

1999 · 1h 31m

7.5100%
Stutz poster
14

Stutz

2022 · 1h 36m

7.796%
Tell Me Who I Am poster
15

Tell Me Who I Am

2019 · 1h 25m

7.697%
Dick Johnson Is Dead poster
16

Dick Johnson Is Dead

2020 · 1h 29m

7.499%
Dark Days poster
17

Dark Days

2000 · 1h 22m

7.794%
The Mole Agent poster
18

The Mole Agent

2020 · 1h 30m

7.595%
Four Daughters poster
19

Four Daughters

2023 · 1h 48m

7.496%
My Architect poster
21

My Architect

2003 · 1h 56m

7.493%
The Eternal Memory poster
22

The Eternal Memory

2023 · 1h 25m

7.492%
The Contestant poster
23

The Contestant

2023 · 1h 31m

7.292%
Time poster
24

Time

2020 · 1h 21m

6.898%
Finders Keepers poster
25

Finders Keepers

2015 · 1h 22m

6.898%

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Gates of Heaven poster

Gates of Heaven

1978 · 1h 23m

7.390%
Winnebago Man poster

Winnebago Man

2009 · 1h 25m

7.290%
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control poster

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control

1997 · 1h 23m

7.191%
Tabloid poster

Tabloid

2010 · 1h 27m

7.092%
The Wolfpack poster

The Wolfpack

2015 · 1h 29m

7.087%
Up series poster

Up series

1964–2019 · 9 films

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