Every documentary movie streaming on Prime Video in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Prime Video’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Prime Video US
Directed by Ron Fricke
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBaraka's wordless montage structure transforms documentary into pure visual poetry, trusting images alone to articulate complex global truths.
A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that attempts to capture the essence of life.
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Directed by Kurt Kuenne
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDear Zachary weaponizes chronological revelation itself, restructuring narrative to devastate viewers with documentary's ultimate power: withheld truth.
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.
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Directed by Oh Yoon-dong
✦ MovieMuse AI takeConcert film masquerading as documentary, capturing live performance's unmediated energy through multi-angle editing designed for theatrical immersion.
Join RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook in this special cinematic cut, re-edited and remixed for the big screen. Watch new close-up angles and a whole new view of the entire concert, BTS Yet To Come in Busan. Featuring hit songs from across the group's career, including "Dynamite," "Butter" and “IDOL," plus the first concert performance of "Run BTS" from the group’s latest album Proof.
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Directed by Tobias Forge
✦ MovieMuse AI takePerformance documentation as experiential record, preserving spectacle's sensory totality rather than analyzing it from journalistic distance.
Whether you’re a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the GHOST live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, RITE HERE RITE NOW will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty looms—completely spellbound and in the thrall of this bombastic yet intimate cinematic portrait of GHOST.
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Directed by Rocco Urbisci
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStand-up special functions as documentary of comedic thought, capturing one mind's unfiltered observations on cultural moment in real time.
It's Bad For Ya, Carlin's Emmy nominated 14th and final HBO special from March of 2008 features Carlin's noted irreverent and unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death, religion, bureaucracy, patriotism, overprotected children and big business to the pungent examinations of modern language and the decrepit state of the American culture.
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Directed by Nicole Rittenmeyer
✦ MovieMuse AI take102 Minutes demonstrates documentary's raw power: unedited footage from multiple cameras creates collective testimony stronger than any narration.
The morning of September 11, 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in and around New York City, from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers collapse.
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Directed by Rocco Urbisci
✦ MovieMuse AI takeComedy special as social commentary archive, documenting 1990 vernacular and taboos through performer's unscripted observations.
George Carlin brings his comedy back to New Jersey and this time talks about Offensive Language, Euphemisms, They're Only Words, Dogs, Things you never hear, see or wanna hear, Some people are stupid, Cancer, Feminists, Good Ideas, Rape, Life's moments, and organ donors.
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Directed by Godfrey Reggio
✦ MovieMuse AI takeKoyaanisqatsi invents visual essay form, using time-lapse and music as documentary apparatus to expose modernity's environmental violence.
Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.
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Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
✦ MovieMuse AI takeArchives and composer's own reflections create a living audiovisual biography that honors its subject's creative legacy.
A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.
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Directed by Peter Joseph
✦ MovieMuse AI takeArgumentative documentary as polemic essay, marshaling evidence to construct ideological case without pretense of neutrality.
Zeitgeist: Addendum premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival. Director Peter Joseph stated: "The failure of our world to resolve the issues of war, poverty, and corruption, rests within a gross ignorance about what guides human behavior to begin with. It address the true source of the instability in our society, while offering the only fundamental, long-term solution."
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Directed by Rocco Urbisci
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStand-up special as documentary of mortality, Carlin's observations function as anthropological record of late-stage American anxieties.
Carlin returns to the stage in his 13th live comedy stand-up special, performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO®. His spot-on observations on the deterioration of human behavior include Americans’ obsession with their two favorite addictions - shopping and eating; his creative idea for The All-Suicide Channel, a new reality TV network; and the glorious rebirth of the planet to its original pristine condition - once the fires and floods destroy life as we know it.
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Directed by Michael Rossato-Bennett
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlive Inside proves documentary's therapeutic capacity through archival footage and observational sequences showing music's neurological miracle.
Five million Americans suffer from Alzheimer's disease and dementia—many of them alone in nursing homes. A man with a simple idea discovers that songs embedded deep in memory can ease pain and awaken these fading minds. Joy and life are resuscitated, and our cultural fears over aging are confronted.
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Directed by Mike Slee
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWildlife documentary exploits cinematic spectacle itself as subject, celebrating visual medium's capacity to reveal hidden ecosystems.
A wonderful country full of amazing creatures in America called Colombia, seen as never before, accompanied by incredible shots, make it a must-see place for adventurers and wildlife lovers this natural paradise.
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Directed by Peter Joseph
✦ MovieMuse AI takeZeitgeist: Moving Forward builds treatise through archival montage and expert testimony, abandoning objectivity for polemical documentary.
A presentation of a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical 'life ground' attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a 'Resource-Based Economy'.
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Directed by Nick Rosen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeValley Uprising uses archival footage and participant interviews to document counterculture leaving physical evidence on landscape.
In the shady campgrounds of Yosemite valley, climbers carved out a counterculture lifestyle of dumpster-diving and wild parties that clashed with the conservative values of the National Park Service. And up on the walls, generation after generation has pushed the limits of climbing, vying amongst each other for supremacy on Yosemite's cliffs. "Valley Uprising" is the riveting, unforgettable tale of this bold rock climbing tradition in Yosemite National Park: half a century of struggle against the laws of gravity -- and the laws of the land.
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Directed by Josh Tickell
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAgricultural documentary transforms policy debate into visual argument, showing regenerative farming's environmental restoration through field footage.
Sheds light on an alternative approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
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Directed by Werner Herzog
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHerzog reconstructs traumatic memory through geography and interview, proving documentary's ability to externalize interior psychological experience.
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.
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Directed by Colin Hanks
✦ MovieMuse AI takeArchival-dependent biography lets footage speak, allowing Candy's presence across decades to constitute his documentary self-portrait.
Those who knew iconic funnyman John Candy best share his story, in their own words, through never-before-seen archival footage, imagery, and interviews.
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Directed by Michael Moore
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUses provocation and direct access to interrogate American mythology rather than merely report facts.
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
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Directed by Paul Crowder
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRacing documentary captures mortality through competitive footage and interviews, examining sport as existential human performance.
Set in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing '1' tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula 1's deadliest period, and the men who stood up and changed the sport forever.
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Directed by Amy J. Berg
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInvestigative documentary as institutional exposure, Berg's persistence pursuing institutional accountability despite subject's eventual silence.
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. Victims' stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady offer a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining trust ... all the while betraying so many.
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Directed by Werner Herzog
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHerzog's essayistic approach to disability creates philosophical portraiture, finding metaphysical insight within intimate human observation.
Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.
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Directed by Jean-Xavier de Lestrade
✦ MovieMuse AI takeCourtroom documentary demonstrates racial injustice through trial footage and legal proceedings, letting system's bias reveal itself.
2001 French documentary about the murder trial of a 15 year old black teen accused of murder in Jacksonville, Florida. Winner of 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary.
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Directed by David France
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHidden-camera activism documentation captures real danger, distinguishing investigative courage from conventional portraiture.
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
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Directed by Werner Herzog
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHerzog's autoportrait via antagonist reveals documentary's reflexive power: subject defines filmmaker through their creative collision.
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
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Directed by Kevin Macdonald
✦ MovieMuse AI takeOne Day reconstructs historical tragedy through archival footage, interviews, and reconstruction, creating comprehensive forensic narrative.
The full story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli revenge operation 'Wrath of God.' The 1972 Munich Olympics were interrupted by Palestinian terrorists taking Israeli athletes hostage. Besides footage taken at the time, we see interviews with the surviving terrorist, Jamal Al Gashey, and various officials detailing exactly how the police, lacking an anti-terrorist squad and turning down help from the Israelis, botched the operation.
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Directed by Rob Stewart
✦ MovieMuse AI takeStewart's environmental advocacy becomes documentary activism, deploying aestheticized shark footage as counter-propaganda against species demonization.
Driven by passion fed from a life-long fascination with sharks, Rob Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas.
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Directed by Michael Gracey
✦ MovieMuse AI takeConcert documentary balances performance spectacle with domestic intimacy, capturing artist's professional and personal self simultaneously.
A behind-the-scenes look at P!NK as she balances family and life on the road, leading up to her first Wembley Stadium performance on 2019's "Beautiful Trauma" world tour.
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Directed by James Marsh
✦ MovieMuse AI takeReconstructs heist through animation and interviews, treating documentary as investigative storytelling rather than coverage.
On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rigged between New York's World Trade Center twin towers, then the world's tallest buildings. After nearly an hour of performing on the wire, 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of Manhattan, he was arrested. This fun and spellbinding documentary chronicles Philippe Petit's "highest" achievement.
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Directed by Werner Herzog
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGrizzly Man's layered structure—archival footage, Herzog narration, Treadwell's own footage—examines obsession through multiply-mediated perspective.
Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.
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