Every documentary movie streaming on Paramount+ in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Paramount+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Paramount+ US
Directed by Tania Alexander
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIntimate audio confessions reveal how a rock icon confronts mortality without the armor of performance.
Ozzy Osbourne faces his identity and mortality after his world stops. Dealing with health issues and Parkinson's, he questions if he can perform again while music remains his life's cornerstone.
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
✦ MovieMuse AI takeArchival layering across decades creates visceral temporal collage of Elvis's unguarded concert presence.
Long-lost footage from Elvis Presely's legendary Las Vegas residency in the 1970s woven together with rare 16mm footage from Elvis on Tour, and 8mm from the Graceland archive, plus recordings of Elvis telling "his side of the story" rediscovered during Baz Luhrmann's research for his 2022 film, Elvis.
Directed by Stevan Riley
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMarlon Brando's own voice becomes the primary subject, making autobiography the documentary's central device.
With exclusive access to his extraordinary unseen and unheard personal archive including hundreds of hours of audio recorded over the course of his life, this is the definitive Marlon Brando cinema documentary. Charting his exceptional career as an actor and his extraordinary life away from the stage and screen with Brando himself as your guide, the film will fully explore the complexities of the man by telling the story uniquely from Marlon's perspective, entirely in his own voice. No talking heads, no interviewees, just Brando on Brando and life.
Directed by Joel Gallen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
Comedy Central's best roasters and stand up comedians take a whack at actor/model Pamela Anderson.
Directed by Alex Coletti
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone celebrate South Park's 25th anniversary with a concert in Colorado, featuring Primus and Ween.
Directed by Arthur Bradford
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReal-time production access captures the chaotic creative crucible compressed into television's punishing weekly cycle.
Viewers will get a look at Parker and Stone's thought process as they approach a new episode and the 24/7 grind they subject themselves to each time the show is in production. The documentary also includes in-depth interviews with Parker and Stone about their working partnership and reflections on highlights from their careers.
Directed by Kathryn Ferguson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSonic and visual archives construct portrait of artistic defiance without reducing complexity to narrative arc.
Since the beginning of her career, Sinéad O’Connor has used her powerful voice to challenge the narratives she was surrounded by while growing up in predominantly Roman Catholic Ireland. Despite her agency, depth and perspective, O’Connor’s unflinching refusal to conform means that she has often been patronized and unfairly dismissed as an attention-seeking pop star.
Directed by Shiori Ito
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJournalist-subject becomes investigator of her own trauma, weaponizing personal testimony as documentary evidence.
Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country's outdated judicial and societal systems.
Directed by Oliver Stone
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReopens historical investigation with declassified materials, positioning documentary as ongoing inquiry.
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Directed by Luke Korem
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCareer resurrection narrative documents how myth-making industry destroys the individuals trapped inside it.
The story of Robert Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, who became fast friends during their youth in Germany. With Rob coming from a broken home and Fabrice having left an abusive household, they shared a similar upbringing, as well as a future goal: to become famous superstars. In a few short years, their dreams came true. Rob and Fab, better known as Milli Vanilli, became the world's most popular pop duo in 1990 and won the GRAMMY for Best New Artist. However, their ascension to success came with a devastating price that ultimately led to their infamous undoing.
Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
Daniel Tosh performs in front of a live San Francisco audience in this stand-up special for Comedy Central, and touches on topics ranging from sports and pop culture, to religion and politics.
Directed by Maite Alberdi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDevastating observational cinema watches love persist through the slow erasure of recognition itself.
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognizes her.
Directed by Joel Gallen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
It's William Shatner's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast. A parade of Shatner's friends have gotten together to boldly go ...
Directed by R. J. Cutler
✦ MovieMuse AI takePosthumous voice recordings let the subject speak across death, reconstructing presence through pure audio.
Using previously unheard audiotapes recorded shortly after John Belushi’s death, director R.J. Cutler’s documentary feature examines the too-short life of the once-in-a-generation talent who captured the hearts and funny bones of devoted audiences.
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
Johnny Knoxville, Bam Margera, Steve-O, Wee Man and the rest of their fearless and foolhardy friends take part in another round of outrageous pranks and stunts. In addition to standing in the path of a charging bull, launching themselves into the air and crashing through various objects, the guys perform in segments such as "Sweatsuit Cocktail," "Beehive Tetherball" and "Lamborghini Tooth Pull."
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
Jackass Number Two is a compilation of various stunts, pranks and skits, and essentially has no plot. Chris Pontius, Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Bam Margera, and the whole crew return to the screen to raise the stakes higher than ever before.
Directed by Errol Morris
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStranger-than-fiction true crime benefits from documentary's refusal to resolve its protagonist's contradiction.
A documentary on a former Miss Wyoming who is charged with abducting and imprisoning a young Mormon Missionary.
Directed by Blake J. Harris
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCorporate battle narrative finds unexpected humanity in nerds reshaping billion-dollar industry.
In 1990, SEGA, a fledgling arcade company assembled a team of misfits to take on the greatest video game company in the world, Nintendo. It was a once-in-a-lifetime, no-holds-barred conflict that pit brother against brother, kids against grownups, Sonic against Mario, and uniquely American capitalism against centuries-old Japanese tradition. For the first time ever, the men and women who fought on the front lines for Sega and Nintendo discuss this battle that defined a generation.
Directed by Jessica Kingdon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStatic camera observes China's capitalist paradox through quotidian details rather than explanatory narration.
The film explores the pursuit of the “Chinese Dream.” Driven by mesmerizing—and sometimes humorous—imagery, this observational documentary presents a contemporary vision of China that prioritizes productivity and innovation above all.
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
The Jackass crew, along with some newcomers, returns for one more round of hilarious, absurd, and dangerous stunts.
Directed by Nick Broomfield
✦ MovieMuse AI takeArchival footage and intimate interviews reconstruct a private self buried by icon status.
The life and tragic death of Whitney Houston.
Directed by Steven Leckart
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFan obsession becomes mirror for artist's own image anxiety, collapsing documentary distance.
A revealing, edgy, and disarmingly personal journey into the world of superfandom, told through the lens of one of the world's most iconic and enduring artists, Eminem, and the fans that worship him.
Directed by Nanette Burstein
✦ MovieMuse AI takeErratic subject defeats coherent narrative, forcing documentary to embrace contradiction as truth.
The strange story of John McAfee, who went from millionaire software mogul to yogi, Kurtz-like jungle recluse to potential murderer, and most recently a prospective presidential candidate for the American Libertarian Party.
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSelf-documenting stunt footage becomes inadvertent social record, turning MTV spectacle into unfiltered anthropology of late-90s masculinity.
Johnny Knoxville and his band of maniacs perform a variety of stunts and gross-out gags on the big screen for the first time. They wander around Japan in panda outfits, wreak havoc on a once civilized golf course, they even do stunts involving LIVE alligators, and so on.
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
Johnny Knoxville of 'Jackass' releases unused material of stunts, tricks, antics and shenanigans shot during the production of 'Jackass 3D' that didn't make it into the film, as well as the hilarious outtakes.
Directed by David Osit
✦ MovieMuse AI takePredator-catching spectacle becomes urgent examination of how entertainment exploits justice itself.
In the mid-aughts, Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator drew millions of weekly viewers to watch sting operations: men planning to meet minors for sex would instead be confronted by polished host Chris Hansen, then by the police — all on hidden camera.
Directed by Tiller Russell
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCrooked cop's unapologetic confession reveals systemic rot through one man's amoral candor.
Meet the dirtiest cop in NYC history. Michael Dowd stole money and dealt drugs while patrolling the streets of '80s Brooklyn.
Directed by Joel Gallen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
It's Charlie Sheen's turn to step in to the celebrity hot seat for the latest installment of The Comedy Central Roast.
Directed by Jeff Tremaine
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot a documentary.
The crew have now set off to finish what as left over from Jackass 2.0, and in this version they have Wee Man use a 'pee' gun on themselves, having a mini motor bike fracas in the grocery mall, a sperm test, a portly crew member disguised as King Kong, as well as include three episodes of their hilarious adventures in India.
Directed by Laura Poitras
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLaura Poitras embeds within her subject until journalistic objectivity becomes impossible and necessary.
Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives and contradictions of Assange and his inner circle in a documentary portrait of power, betrayal, truth and sacrifice.
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