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The Oscar Documentary Feature Submissions of Film Year 2020 I've Seen, Ranked [Shortlist Completed]

An amazing record of 238 feature-length documentaries made it to the 2020 Oscar long-list. [See here: bit.ly/3atLXNx.]

This is my ongoing personal record, and ranking, of those I've seen.

As of the last update, I have seen all fifteen shortlisted titles.

My Other Documentary Features Lists: [ 2024 ] [ 2023 ] [ 2022 ] [ 2021 ] [ 2020 ]

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  • Stars and Strife

    12

  • The Last Blockbuster

    50

  • America's Forgotten

    147

  • Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles

    205

  • The Plot Against the President

    149

  • Uncle Tom

    148

  • Escape from Extinction

    138

  • Spaceship Earth

    143

  • Strip Down, Rise Up

    139

  • iHuman

    59

  • My Psychedelic Love Story

    131

  • Planet of the Humans

    114

  • Irradiated

    184

  • The Social Dilemma

    123

  • 915: Hunting Hispanics

    151

  • Transhood

    54

  • Descent

    165

  • Childhood 2.0

    31

  • Find Your Groove

    141

  • Lost in Face

    195

  • The Ghost of Peter Sellers

    83

  • Soros

    58

  • Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

    40

  • Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine

    95

  • First Vote

    174

  • Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll

    73

  • The State of Texas vs. Melissa

    62

  • Man In The Arena

    197

  • Trust Me

    227

  • Aggie

    152

  • Journey to Royal: A WWII Rescue Mission

    102

  • Women in Blue

    65

  • Billie

    100

  • Days of Cannibalism

    163

  • A Kid from Coney Island

    186

  • White Noise

    67

  • This Is Paris

    122

  • First We Eat

    175

  • The Times of Bill Cunningham

    47

  • 9/11 Kids

    150

  • We Don't Deserve Dogs

    127

  • WBCN and the American Revolution

    74

  • Elementa

    168

  • Dear Santa

    39

  • #UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

    112

  • Coded Bias

    14

  • Life Is Deadly

    192

  • La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla

    187

  • The Right Girls

    214

  • Influence

    182

  • Olympia

    24

  • Circus of Books

    124

  • The Big Scary “S” Word

    155

  • The Walrus and the Whistleblower

    111

  • Red Penguins

    109

  • A Woman's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem

    133

  • The Infiltrators

    145

  • American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself

    68

  • Dads

    104

  • Irmi

    183

  • The Booksellers

    9

  • Lennox Lewis: The Untold Story

    135

  • Bulletproof

    157

  • CoroNation

    72

  • The Pollinators

    99

  • A Most Beautiful Thing

    130

  • Flannery

    79

  • Capital in the Twenty-First Century

    7

  • Coming Clean

    161

  • River Tales

    216

  • Sky Blossom

    220

  • Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack

    212

  • The Letter

    190

  • Last Call for Tomorrow

    189

  • A Pandemic: Away from the Motherland

    208

  • Ending Disease

    169

  • My People: The Jews of Greece

    201

  • Napoli Eden

    202

  • The Power of Movement

    209

  • Death Protocol

    164

  • Chicago: America's Hidden War

    158

  • The Monster Inside Me

    198

  • The Curve

    162

  • Everybody Flies

    172

  • Who Is Gatsby Randolph

    231

  • Dave Grusin: Not Enough Time

    63

  • Wild Daze

    232

  • What's Eating Ralphie May?

    230

  • The Dog Doc

    105

  • Searching for Mr. Rugoff

    218

  • House of Cardin

    43

  • Mother to Earth

    199

  • The Phenomenon

    110

  • The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

    30

  • Ringside

    107

  • The Antidote

    136

  • Desert One

    97

  • My Darling Supermarket

    200

  • Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl

    185

  • With Drawn Arms

    82