By Genre
The Best Bollywood
Documentary Films
3 films in the canon are filed under Documentary, from 2008 to 2016.
3 films in this canon are filed under Documentary, running from 2008 to 2016.
The genre is spread across the 2000s, 2010s, with Faiza Ahmad Khan, Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla, Nishtha Jain doing the heaviest lifting. Hindi cinema rarely respects a single genre for a whole runtime, so most of these titles are cross-filed — follow the tags on any film page to find its neighbours.
Every entry links out to Wikipedia, IMDb, a trailer and a legal streaming search. See also the full ranked 100 and how we scored them.
| Rank | Film | Year | Director | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| – | Supermen of Malegaon सुपरमैन ऑफ़ मालेगांव | 2008 | Faiza Ahmad Khan | Documentary |
| – | An Insignificant Man प्रूव्ड इनोसेंट | 2016 | Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla | Documentary, Political |
| – | Gulabi Gang गुलाबी गैंग | 2012 | Nishtha Jain | Documentary |
Film record Wikipedia — the article linked from each film page · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial The ranking and the case made for each placement — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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