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.

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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 5-year grace period before eligibility due to unintentional vote manipulation by fans. Exceptions are made for disbanded or deceased groups.
• 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 (36 films)
Top Decade (20th Century only): 1980s (15 films)
Top Year: 2016 (7 films, by Letterboxd year)
Top Year (20th Century only): 1984 (5 films, by Letterboxd year)
Newest Film: The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo (2020)
Oldest Film: Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
Longest Film: Shoah (566 mins)
Shortest Film: Lessons of Darkness (54 mins)
Oscar Nominations: 20 (between 18 films, Woodstock is the only film with multiple nominations, for Best Film Editing and Best Sound with Best Documentary Feature. Hoop Dreams was nominated for Best Film Editing and not Best Documentary Feature, all other films were nominated in the latter category only.)
Oscar Wins: 6
Eligible TV Movies/Miniseries: 20 (i.e. films that qualify for Emmys)
Docs About Movies: 12
Concert Films: 7
Non-English Language Films: 33
Non-Verbal Films: 5
Films by Women Directors: 16

TOP DIRECTORS TALLY:

• Martin Scorsese – 5 films
• Eduardo Coutinho – 3 films
• Jonas Mekas – 3 films
• D. A. Pennebaker – 3 films
• Agnès Varda – 3 films
• Adam Curtis – 2 films
• Ron Fricke – 2 films
• Werner Herzog – 2 films
• Joshua Oppenheimer – 2 films

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

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.