Top 10 Best Sports Documentaries

A seven-and-a-half-hour masterpiece that weaves O.J. Simpson's story with race, celebrity, and the LAPD to create the greatest documentary — sports or otherwise — ever produced.

Asif Kapadia's intimate portrait of Ayrton Senna uses only archival footage and no talking heads, building to a devastating conclusion that leaves audiences shattered regardless of their interest in racing.

Following two inner-city Chicago teenagers chasing NBA dreams over five years, this film transcends basketball to become a searing examination of race, class, and the American Dream itself.

Leon Gast spent 22 years finishing this Oscar-winning film about the Rumble in the Jungle — Ali's genius, Mobutu's Zaire, and the most culturally significant sporting event of the 20th century.

Alex Honnold free-climbs the 3,000-foot face of El Capitan without ropes — the sweaty-palmed tension is so unbearable that audience members reportedly had to leave theaters mid-screening.

Netflix's Formula 1 docuseries singlehandedly made millions of Americans care about open-wheel racing, manufacturing drama and rivalries so effectively the drivers started complaining about the editing.

Bryan Fogel set out to explore amateur doping and accidentally uncovered Russia's state-sponsored doping program — the whistleblower's story reads like a spy thriller and won the Oscar.

Kapadia's second sports masterpiece explores Maradona's turbulent years at Napoli, where a working-class city worshipped him as a god while cocaine and the Camorra consumed him from within.

Wheelchair rugby played by quadriplegic athletes who crash metal chairs at full speed — ferocious, funny, and a demolition of every assumption about disability and competition.