Year-End Lists

David Fear: 22 Best Documentaries of 2017, as published by Rolling Stone

[see also The 20 Best Movies of 2025 • 20 Best Movies of 2024 • The 20 Best Movies of 2023 • 22 Best Movies of 2022 • 20 Best Movies of 2021 • The 20 Best Movies of 2020 • Top 20 Movies of 2018 • Best Films of 2017 • 10 Best Movies of 2012 • Best Films of 2011]

1. Faces Places
   Agnès Varda and JR
2. The Work
   Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous
3. All These Sleepless Nights
   Michal Marczak
4. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
   Frederick Wiseman
5. LA 92
   Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin
6. Machines
   Rahul Jain
7. Whose Streets?
   Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis
8. Long Strange Trip
   Amir Bar-Lev
9. Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
   Chris Smith
10. Quest
    Jonathan Olshefski

Honorable mentions

• Casting JonBenet
  Kitty Green
• The Challenge
  Yuri Ancarani
• Contemporary Color
  Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
  Bill Morrison
• I Called Him Morgan
  Kasper Collin
• Jane
  Brett Morgen
• Last Men in Aleppo
  Firas Fayyad
• May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
  Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio
• Oklahoma City
  Barak Goodman
• Rat Film
  Theo Anthony
• 78/52
  Alexandre O. Philippe
• Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk
  Corbett Redford