Best Documentary Novelty in Film — Rated 4/4 on Quartile

Quartile rates every film 1–4 across Plot, Acting, Cinematography, Novelty and Ending. These documentary films earned a 4 — Well Above Average — for Novelty, ranked by their overall Q score.

  1. Valley Uprising (2014) — Q 9.5
  2. Nirvana: Unplugged In New York (1993) — Q 9.5
  3. Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) — Q 9
  4. All the Empty Rooms (2025) — Q 9
  5. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014) — Q 9
  6. Dominion (2018) — Q 9
  7. Free Solo (2018) — Q 9
  8. O.J.: Made in America (2016) — Q 9
  9. CM101MMXI Fundamentals (2013) — Q 9
  10. The Alabama Solution (2025) — Q 9
  11. Nazi Concentration Camps (1945) — Q 8.5
  12. Alone in the Wilderness (2004) — Q 8.5
  13. Zero Days (2016) — Q 8.5
  14. Rite Here Rite Now (2024) — Q 8.5
  15. HyperNormalisation (2016) — Q 8.5
  16. The Dawn Wall (2017) — Q 8.5
  17. Twenty Years Later (1984) — Q 8.5
  18. Stop Making Sense (1984) — Q 8.5
  19. Night and Fog (1956) — Q 8.5
  20. Hoop Dreams (1994) — Q 8.5
  21. No Other Land (2024) — Q 8.5
  22. Samsara (2011) — Q 8.5
  23. Man with a Movie Camera (1929) — Q 8.5
  24. Earthlings (2005) — Q 8.5
  25. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) — Q 8.5
  26. Shoah (1985) — Q 8.5
  27. My Mom Jayne (2025) — Q 8.5
  28. BTS World Tour: Love Yourself in Seoul (2019) — Q 8.5
  29. Master, a Building in Copacabana (2002) — Q 8.5
  30. National Geographic: Journey to the Edge of the Universe (2008) — Q 8.5

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