Best animated documentary films - Charts
Best animated documentary films
![Waltz with Bashir](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/378/160378954_91c8d3.jpg)
1. Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Israel / France, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Ari Folman
Cast: Ari Folman, אורי סיון
![Money as Debt](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/377/377689_d38f26.jpg)
![The Five Obstructions](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/167/089/167089930_214544.jpg)
3. The Five Obstructions (2003)
Denmark / Switzerland, Documentary / Drama
Directed by: Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
![Last Days](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/374/159374463_f20e00.jpg)
![Donald in Mathmagic Land](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/073/73525_a8fc09.jpg)
![Baby Snakes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/057/57781_d43a3b.jpg)
6. Baby Snakes (1979)
USA, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Frank Zappa
Cast: Frank Zappa, Adrian Belew
![The Short Films of David Lynch](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/074/74437_9ca030.jpg)
7. The Short Films of David Lynch (2002)
USA, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: David Lynch
Cast: David Lynch, Talisa Soto
![American: The Bill Hicks Story](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/093/886/93886590_9d24d1.jpg)
8. American: The Bill Hicks Story (2009)
UK, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Matt Harlock, Paul Thomas
Cast: Bill Hicks
![Headspace: Unwind Your Mind](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/165/487/165487097_75b35e.jpg)
9. Headspace: Unwind Your Mind (2021)
USA, Documentary / Animation
Cast: Andy Puddicombe, Darren Pettie
![Flee](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/165/527/165527034_94f8e0.jpg)
![Tower](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/792/160792565_cd3f1a.jpg)
12. Tower (2016)
USA, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Keith Maitland
Cast: Violett Beane, Chris Doubek
![Life, Animated](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/525/162525114_467f82.jpg)
14. The Story of Bottled Water (2010)
USA, Animation / Short
Directed by: Louis Fox
Cast: Annie Leonard
![Jeszcze dzień życia](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/926/162926166_d1638f.jpg)
15. Jeszcze dzień życia (2018)
Poland / Spain, Animation / Biography
Directed by: Raúl de la Fuente, Damian Nenow
![Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy?](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/748/159748081_dfc01e.jpg)
16. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)
France, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Michel Gondry
Cast: Noam Chomsky, Michel Gondry
![Dark Universe](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/761/159761614_035f61.jpg)
![The Mighty River](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/208/159208494_725586.jpg)
18. The Mighty River (1993)
Canada, Animation / Short
Directed by: Frédéric Back
Cast: Donald Sutherland
![2012: Time for Change](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/532/159532716_4f009f.jpg)
19. 2012: Time for Change (2010)
USA / Brazil, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Joao G. Amorim
Cast: Maude Barlow, David Lynch
![Money as Debt II: Promises Unleashed](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/377/377965_860a2f.jpg)
20. Money as Debt II: Promises Unleashed (2009)
Canada, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Paul Grignon
![Bugs Bunny Superstar](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/165/770/165770066_bc8565.jpg)
21. Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975)
USA, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Larry Jackson
Cast: Robert Clampett, Tex Avery
![FAMU Four](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/167/880/167880882_2yjbt5.png)
22. FAMU Four (2023)
Czech Republic, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Philippe Kastner, Petr Pylypčuk
Cast: Caroline Barnard, Jan Pokorný
![True Štúr](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/191/160191436_1e7fde.jpg)
23. True Štúr (2015)
Slovakia, Documentary / Drama
Directed by: Michal Baláž, Noro Držiak
Cast: Robert Roth, Táňa Pauhofová
![Gorillaz: Phase One - Celebrity Take Down](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/056/56135_615f66.jpg)
24. Gorillaz: Phase One - Celebrity Take Down (2002)
UK / USA, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Jamie Hewlett
Cast: Damon Albarn, Phil Cornwell
![Dvojí život Josefa Hlinomaze](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/295/162295875_c8f4fd.jpg)
25. Dvojí život Josefa Hlinomaze (1976)
Czechoslovakia, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Jiří Brdečka
Cast: Josef Hlinomaz
![Hardly Working](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/168/334/168334605_lx22c2.jpg)
28. O Jihlavě (2013)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Short
Directed by: Hynek Bernard, Eva Bystrianská
Cast: Ondřej Vetchý
![Ryan](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/043/43665_48666c.jpg)
29. Ryan (2004)
Canada, Short / Animation
Directed by: Chris Landreth
Cast: Ryan Larkin, Chris Landreth
![Crulic - The Path to Beyond](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/161/293/161293926_134680.jpg)
30. Crulic - The Path to Beyond (2011)
Romania / Poland, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Anca Damian
Cast: Vlad Ivanov, Jamie Sives
![The Missing Picture](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/724/158724748_ae49de.jpg)
32. Game of Thrones Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms (2017)
USA, Animation / Fantasy
Cast: Pilou Asbæk, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
33. Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom (1953)
USA, Animation / Comedy
Directed by: Ward Kimball, Charles Nichols
Cast: Charlie Parlato, Bill Thompson
![Four Horsemen](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/226/158226864_3091d5.jpg)
34. Four Horsemen (2012)
UK, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Ross Ashcroft
Cast: Herman Daly, Noam Chomsky
![C. G. Jung - Povedený kacíř](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/164/903/164903764_1ff59c.png)
35. C. G. Jung - Povedený kacíř (2020)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Matyas Brych
Cast: Pjér la Šé'z, Vladimír Chrz
![Losing Nemo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/157/816/157816014_783929.jpg)
37. Lidé, kteří pozorují ptáky (2016)
Czech Republic, Short / Documentary
Directed by: Jan Hošek
Cast: Zdeněk Vermouzek
![Dream to Fly](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/739/159739569_bf2c26.jpg)
38. Dream to Fly (2013)
Poland, Animation / Short
Directed by: Paulina Majda, Maciej Sznabel
Cast: Danuta Stenka
![Eternal Spring](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/167/468/167468756_xabpq9.jpg)
![Still Born](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/161/783/161783282_897c28.jpg)
![Tussilago](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/165/165/165165147_f935eb.jpg)
41. Tussilago (2010)
Sweden, Short / Documentary
Directed by: Jonas Odell
Cast: Malin Buska, Camaron Silverek
42. Neighbours (Story of Rudolf Bělohoubek) (2018)
Czech Republic, Short / Animation
Directed by: Martin Búřil
![Egg](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/163/802/163802871_9d6df8.jpg)
![Otaku no Video](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/265/162265443_189a56.jpg)
44. Otaku no Video (1991)
Japan, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Takeshi Mori
Cast: Akio Ōtsuka, Wataru Takagi
45. Overpopulation: The More the Merrier? (2010)
Netherlands, Documentary / Short
Directed by: Rixt Singelsma
Cast: Rixt Singelsma
![Kings of Šumava](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/168/935/168935107_tdqpwe.png)
46. Kings of Šumava (2019)
Czech Republic / Ireland, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Kris Kelly
48. The Flying Horse (2015)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Short / Documentary
Directed by: Viera Čákanyová
![Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/159/809/159809094_862a0f.jpg)
49. Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure (2007)
USA, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Sean MacLeod Phillips
50. Preľudnenie vs. trvalá udržateľnosť (2018)
Slovakia, Documentary / Short
Directed by: Peter Kralovič
Cast: Peter Kralovič, Donald Trump
![The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/585/158585343_b95b97.jpg)
51. The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest (2014)
Canada / USA, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Gabriel London
Cast: Shea Whigham
52. The Shock Doctrine (2007)
USA / UK, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
Cast: Naomi Klein, Milton Friedman
![Felvidek: Caught in Between](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/537/158537992_f204c8.jpg)
53. Felvidek: Caught in Between (2014)
Slovakia / Czech Republic, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Vladislava Plančíková
![Dinotasia](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/163/869/163869869_a4405f.jpg)
54. Dinotasia (2012)
USA, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: David Krentz, Erik Nelson
Cast: Werner Herzog
![Victory Through Air Power](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/161/053/161053280_3f68cd.jpg)
55. Victory Through Air Power (1943)
USA, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Perce Pearce, James Algar
Cast: Art Baker
![Chris the Swiss](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/162/637/162637456_7172c4.jpg)
![FAMU in Cinema 03](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/166/542/166542826_fe709d.jpg)
58. FAMU in Cinema 03 (2022)
Czech Republic, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Diana Cam Van Nguyen, Andrea Szelesová
Cast: Hong Nhung The Thi, Le Hoai Trung
59. Pražská strašidla (1966)
Czechoslovakia, Animation / Documentary
Directed by: Josef Kořán
Cast: Eva Pilarová, Jan Werich
60. Forever and Ever (1998)
Czech Republic, Short / Animation
Directed by: Michaela Pavlátová, Pavel Koutecký
![Once I Dreamt of Life](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/387/158387569_5fe6ac.jpg)
62. Once I Dreamt of Life (2014)
Finland, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Jukka Kärkkäinen, Sini Liimatainen
Cast: Antti Timonen
63. Cheating Is Good for You (2021)
Finland, Short / Animation
Directed by: Catarina Diehl
Cast: Kati Outinen
![Swatted](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/166/015/166015863_c2ef8a.jpg)
64. Swatted (2018)
France, Short / Documentary
Directed by: Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis
Cast: Marie Rosic, Sean Goldring
![Yellow Sticky Notes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/158/980/158980464_2ce4ee.png)
![Little Germans](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/163/492/163492778_bad722.jpg)
67. Little Germans (2018)
Germany, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Mohammad Farokhmanesh, Frank Geiger
Cast: Katharina von Keller, Leonie Landa
![The High Heel High](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/484/160484355_62e061.jpg)
69. The High Heel High (2013)
Finland, Short / Animation
Directed by: Christer Lindström
Cast: Christer Lindström, Minna Parikka
![The Magic Mountain](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/416/160416335_45f0bf.jpg)
71. Dcera faraona (1980)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Stanislav Remeš, Edgar Dutka
Cast: Jiří Bartoška, Jana Hlaváčová
![Pear Cider and Cigarettes](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/161/202/161202036_79f3cd.jpg)
![Flesh](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/050/50977_77778f.jpg)
![Reality 2.0](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/046/770/46770513_2b2847.jpg)
![Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/165/783/165783963_d61356.jpg)
77. Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis (2021)
USA, Short / Documentary
Directed by: Mor Loushy, Daniel Sivan
Cast: Wernher von Braun
![Shock Head Soul](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/014/419/14419396_2e431e.jpg)
78. Shock Head Soul (2011)
Netherlands / UK, Documentary / Animation
Directed by: Simon Pummell
Cast: Hugo Koolschijn, Jochum ten Haaf
80. Vývoj soustavné elektrisace Západních Čech (1929)
Czechoslovakia, Animation / Documentary
![The Spirit of '43](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/160/198/160198908_bd1316.jpg)
![Mother Teresa](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w60h85/files/images/film/posters/000/052/52730_180ffb.jpg)