Murderball 2005

All credits go to IMDb user: RDLongoria

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur37216974

This isn't intended to be a comprehensive list. I'm just going to be periodically updating this list with titles from the following IMDB search parameters:

https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?genres=documentary,sport

UPDATED: 4/17/24

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature (Winners & Nominees)

All the Oscar nominees in the Documentary (Feature) category (1943 - to date, reverse chronological order display).
Winners list > https://trakt.tv/users/oropher_e/lists/academy-awards-best-documentary-feature-winners?sort=rank,desc

Rotten Tomatoes - Best of year

HollyWood Movies based on Popularity

List of Academy Award-winning since 1994 in:
- Best Picture - Best Director
- Best Actor/Actress - Best Supporting Actor/Actress
- Best Original Screenplay - Best Adapted Screenplay
- Best Animated Feature Film - Best Animated Short Film
- Best Documentary Feature - Best Documentary Short Subject
- Best Live Action Short Film - Best International Feature Film
- Best Original Score - Best Original Song
- Best Sound Editing - Best Sound Mixing
- Best Production Design - Best Cinematography
- Best Makeup and Hairstyling - Best Costume Design
- Best Film Editing - Best Visual Effects

The list includes also nominations in the same categories.

All the movies with "Must-See" badge on Metacritic. Movie gets the badge when it has a score of 81 or higher and has been reviewed by at least 15 pro critics.

Liste des films présents dans le livre et le site Movieland www.movieland.io

Can you remember a time without Rotten Tomatoes? Those sightless days of people reaching out and bumping into movies at random, like wandering through a Blockbuster with all the lights off. Those were dark and undirected times. Since the launch of RT in August of 1998, though – the site went live on August 18 of that year – movie fans have had immediate access to the largest accumulation of film reviews ever, distilled for one purpose: to get you watching the best kind of movies you want to see. (Or if you only want to watch bad movies, the site can help you find those more quickly, too.)

As we mark our 20th birthday, we’re looking back on the past two decades with this guide to the 200 best-reviewed movies released since that fateful day in August of 1998. To keep the competition tight, we only included movies that had at least 80 reviews, the number at which wide-release movies qualify for Certified Fresh status; applying that rule, and limiting the total list to 200 titles, the lowest Tomatometer score you’ll find is 95%. The criteria also meant that no films from 1998 made the cut (Shakespeare in Love did come awfully close).

The list, which we’ve ordered chronologically, runs the gamut of movies, ranging from popular blockbusters (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part II, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers) to indies (The Wrestler, Nightcrawler) and the still underseen (Step, Gloria). Some 14 movies come from this very year made the list, among them Mission: Impossible – Fallout and BlacKkKlansman. There are seven Best Picture Oscar winners and 24 animated movies in there – 10 of which are Pixar products, and three of which come from the UK’s Aardman Animations. Documentaries make up a whopping quarter of the movies listed, and include landmark films like Bowling For Columbine and Man On Wire, while 53 of the movies listed are foreign-language, including Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the first film on the list, Pedro Almodóvar‘s All About My Mother.

A number of directors show up twice on the list – Ava DuVernay, Taika Waititi, Ryan Coogler, and Sean Baker among them – and a handful show up even more than that: Lee Unkrich, Pete Docter, Brad Bird, and Richard Linklater. Meanwhile, series like the Paddington, Before, and Toy Story films appear more than once, along with both films in The Act of Killing/The Look of Silence documentary pairing feature.

So: 200 movies, 20 years. How many have you seen after all this time? And how many are you adding to your watchlist?
Link: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/freshest-movies-past-20-years/

http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/underrated-movies/274591/the-underrated-movies-of-the-2000s

Capturing truth, life, and reality — one movie at a time. The best documentaries allow us to see the world with a fresh set of eyes, from social experiments (Super Size Me) to quirky competitions (The King of Kong) to political exposés (Citizenfour) to the ultimate cat video (Kedi). Now, we take the top movies of the form (each is Certified Fresh from at least 100 critics reviews) for our countdown list of the 100 best-reviewed documentaries ranked by Tomatometer.
Link: https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/100-best-documentaries/

From: http://ew.com/gallery/50-best-movies-youve-never-seen/

Spanning the length of Roger Ebert's career as the leading American movie critic, this book contains all of his four-star reviews written during that time. A great guide for movie watching.

Taken from external source. 64 movies missing from original.

PART 1 (1929-1946)
PART 2 (1947-1964)
PART 3 (1965-1984)
PART 4 (1985-2002)
PART 6 (2020-2024)

1-15 — 2003 Winners
16-52 — 2003 Nominees

53-64 — 2004 Winners
65-101 — 2004 Nominees

102-115 — 2005 Winners
116-154 — 2005 Nominees

155-170 — 2006 Winners
171-208 — 2006 Nominees

209-224 — 2007 Winners
225-266 — 2007 Nominees

267-283 — 2008 Winners
284-324 — 2008 Nominees

325-337 — 2009 Winners
338-374 — 2009 Nominees

375-388 — 2010 Winners
389-432 — 2010 Nominees

433-445 — 2011 Winners
446-488 — 2011 Nominees

489-503 — 2012 Winners
504-549 — 2012 Nominees

550-563 — 2013 Winners
564-602 — 2013 Nominees

603-614 — 2014 Winners
615-660 — 2014 Nominees

661-676 — 2015 Winners
677-720 — 2015 Nominees

721-736 — 2016 Winners
737-777 — 2016 Nominees

778-792 — 2017 Winners
793-839 — 2017 Nominees

840-854 — 2018 Winners
855-898 — 2018 Nominees

899-913 — 2019 Winners
914-950 — 2019 Nominees

source: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-sports-movies-rocky-rudy-71467/