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Peak 2010s

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A GENRE IN CINEMA
Every film catalogued, ranked by master score across a hundred years of the form.
Peak 2010s
58
Films Catalogued
71.1
Avg Master Score
7.3
Avg IMDb
2010s
Peak Decade
ROBERT DREW
Top Director
Of which 1 won at least one Oscar
The Defining Three

ESSENTIAL VIEWING

Top-ranked by master score. If you only saw three films from this decade, these are the three.

No.01
MS86.3
PETER D. HUTCHISON, KELLY NYKS, JARED P. SCOTT|2015
REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM

“Noam Chomsky and the PRINCIPLES of CONCENTRATION of WEALTH & POWER”

No.02
MS84.5
LOUIE PSIHOYOS|2015
RACING EXTINCTION

“It's better to light one candle than curse the darkness.”

No.03
MS83.7
FISHER STEVENS|2016
BEFORE THE FLOOD

“The science is clear, the future is not.”

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01
Requiem for the American Dream
2015 · Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks, Jared P. Scott
86.3
02
Racing Extinction
2015 · Louie Psihoyos · 1 nom
84.5
03
Before the Flood
2016 · Fisher Stevens
83.7
04
Food, Inc.
2008 · Robert Kenner · 1 nom
83.7
05
How to Survive a Plague
2012 · David France · 1 nom
83.2
06
While We Watched
2022 · Vinay Shukla
81.9
07
The Culture High
2014 · Brett Harvey
81.4
08
The Weight of Chains
2010 · Boris Malagurski
81.3
09
Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
2014 · Michael Rossato-Bennett
81.2
10
The True Cost
2015 · Andrew Morgan
80.3
11
The Mask You Live In
2015 · Jennifer Siebel Newsom
79.4
12
(Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies
2015 · Yael Melamede
79.3
13
Terms and Conditions May Apply
2013 · Cullen Hoback
79.3
14
The Case Against 8
2014 · Ben Cotner, Ryan White
78.3
15
Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
2008 · Anders Østergaard · 1 nom
78.0
16
Four Horsemen
2012 · Ross Ashcroft
77.8
17
All the World in a Design School
2015 · Mattias Löw
77.5
18
Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
2004 · Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman · 1 Oscar
77.5
19
Primary
1960 · Robert Drew
75.2
20
The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin
2014 · Nicholas Mross
75.2
21
The Age of Stupid
2009 · Franny Armstrong
75.1
22
Propaganda
2012 · Slavko Martinov
75.1
23
Banking on Bitcoin
2016 · Christopher Cannucciari
74.0
24
The Chinese Mayor
2015 · Hao Zhou
73.4
25
Poverty, Inc.
2014 · Michael Matheson Miller
72.8
26
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve
2013 · Jim Bruce
72.8
27
Neurons to Nirvana
2013 · Oliver Hockenhull
72.7
28
Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare
2012 · Susan Froemke, Matthew Heineman
72.1
29
Red Obsession
2013 · David Roach, Warwick Ross
71.9
30
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
1963 · Robert Drew
71.6
31
SlingShot
2014 · Paul Lazarus
71.2
32
No Safe Spaces
2019 · Justin Folk
71.0
33
The Drop Box
2015 · Brian Tetsuro Ivie
70.5
34
The Champions
2015 · Darcy Dennett
70.3
35
The Revisionaries
2012 · Scott Thurman
70.1
36
F@ck This Job
2021 · Vera Krichevskaya
68.5
37
Rabbit à la Berlin
2009 · Bartosz Konopka · 1 nom
68.2
38
Disneynature: Wings of Life
2011 · Louie Schwartzberg
67.9
39
Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World
2018 · Hans Pool
67.8
40
Bitcoin: The End of Money as We Know It
2015 · Torsten Hoffmann, Michael Watchulonis
67.0
41
Among the Believers
2015 · Mohammed Ali Naqvi, Hemal Trivedi
67.0
42
Lost for Life
2013 · Joshua Rofé
66.6
43
The Human Scale
2012 · Andreas Dalsgaard
66.1
44
Sustainable
2016 · Matt Wechsler
65.6
45
Lost Angels: Skid Row Is My Home
2010 · Thomas Napper
65.0
46
The Lottery
2010 · Madeleine Rotzler
64.6
47
Two Catalonias
2018 · Álvaro Longoria, Gerardo Olivares
64.4
48
Oxyana
2013 · Sean Dunne
64.2
49
Farmageddon
2011 · Kristin Canty
63.4
50
Streif: One Hell of a Ride
2014 · Gerald Salmina, Tom Dauer
62.4
51
Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
2013 · Joe Berlinger
61.3
52
The Thread
2015 · Greg Barker
59.8
53
Sushi: The Global Catch
2011 · Mark Hall
58.6
54
Ukraine Is Not a Brothel
2013 · Kitty Green
58.5
55
8th Wonderland
2008 · Nicolas Alberny, Jean Mach
57.8
56
Rolling Papers
2015 · Mitch Dickman
57.6
57
Los Scandalous - Skid Row
2014 · Shanks Rajendran
52.3
58
Food, Inc. 2
2023 · Robert Kenner, Melissa Robledo
42.1
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