A companion piece to Dave Vis' list of Letterboxd's official top 250 films of all-time, which excludes documentaries from consideration. Credit to Andrew for the idea.

Ranked by average user rating. This list was extracted from here. Updated once a month. This is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron users. Expanded from a top 100 to a top 250 on June 27th, 2021, on the list's 3-year anniversary.

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ELIGIBILITY RULES:

• Documentaries must be feature-length (45+ minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release in its entirety.
• TV series, miniseries, and episodes are excluded but docs listed as 'TV movie' on IMDb are eligible. Exceptions made for series that also had a limited theatrical release.
• No featurettes unless theatrically distributed, even if feature-length (featurettes are marked as 'Video' on IMDb, such as 'making of' docs).
• Concert films are allowed if they had a theatrical release. However, documentaries and concert films about contemporary musicians have a 10-year grace period before eligibility due to unintentional vote manipulation by fans. Exceptions are made for disbanded or deceased groups as well as films that debuted at a film festival.
• No standup comedy marked as a documentary, nor any stage shows. Exceptions may be made for borderline exceptions.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold.

If I've excluded something you think deserves re-consideration please argue its case. I'm avoiding 'making of' docs (with exceptions) and concert films that were straight-to-DVD or part of a larger broadcast.

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STATS:

Top Decade: 2010s (102 films)
Top Decade (20th Century only): 1990s (27 films)
Top Year: 2020 (19 films, by Letterboxd year)
Top Years (20th Century only): 1976, 1984 (5 films, by Letterboxd year)
Newest Film: Summer of Soul (2021)
Oldest Film: Häxan (1922)
Longest Film: Shoah (566 mins)
Shortest Films: Sink or Swim, The War Game, The Year Earth Changed (48 mins)
Oscar Nominations: 42 (between 38 films. Woodstock, Honeyland, and Collective are the only films with multiple nominations; the former for Best Film Editing and Best Sound, and the latter two for Best Foreign Film alongside Best Documentary Feature. Hoop Dreams and Waltz With Bashir were nominated for Best Film Editing and Best Foreign Film respectively and not Best Documentary Feature. All other films were nominated in the latter category only.)
Oscar Wins: 13
Docs About Movies: 23
Concert Films: 13
Non-English Language Films: 70
Non-Verbal Films: 8
Films by Women Directors: 50

TOP DIRECTORS TALLY:

• Michael Apted – 7 films
• Agnès Varda – 7 films
• Martin Scorsese – 6 films
• Frederick Wiseman – 6 films
• Werner Herzog – 5 films
• D. A. Pennebaker – 5 films
• Jonas Mekas – 4 films
• Eduardo Coutinho – 3 films
• Patricio Guzmán – 3 films
• Spike Lee – 3 films
• Chris Marker – 3 films
• Albert Maysles – 3 films
• David Maysles – 3 films
• Chantal Akerman – 2 films
• Les Blank – 2 films
• Adam Curtis – 2 films
• Rob Epstein – 2 films
• David France – 2 films
• Ron Fricke – 2 films
• Steve James – 2 films
• Kirsten Johnson – 2 films
• Asif Kapadia – 2 films
• Daniel Lindsay – 2 films
• T.J. Martin – 2 films
• Errol Morris – 2 films
• Joshua Oppenheimer – 2 films
• Wim Wenders – 2 films
• Charlotte Zwerin – 2 films

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I also run Letterboxd's 'official' top 50s of 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.

See other 'official' Letterboxd's lists: my Top 100 Films Directed by Women, my Top 100 Films Directed by Black Directors, slinkyman's Top 100 Short Films, Rahat Ahmed's Top 100 Animated Movies and Devin Dulany's Top 100 Movies of the 2010s.