This list also contains autobiographical and semi-autobiographical films.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Subject(s) | Overall Rank |
| 1 | Goodfellas | 1990 | Martin Scorsese | Henry Hill | 14 |
| 2 | Schindler's List | 1993 | Steven Spielberg | Oskar Schindler | 21 |
| 3 | Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | David Lean | T.E. Lawrence | 25 |
| 4 | Raging Bull | 1980 | Martin Scorsese | Jake La Motta | 44 |
| 5 | Bonnie and Clyde | 1967 | Arthur Penn | Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker | 116 |
| 6 | The Sound of Music | 1965 | Robert Wise | The von Trapp Family | 135 |
| 7 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Joan of Arc | 152 |
| 8 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | George Roy Hill | Butch Cassidy and Harry Longabaugh | 162 |
| 9 | The Pianist | 2002 | Roman Polanski | Wladyslaw Szpilman | 166 |
| 10 | Aguirre: The Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | Lope de Aguirre | 178 |
| 11 | Amadeus | 1984 | Milos Forman | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri | 190 |
| 12 | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 | Sidney Lumet | Sonny Wortzik | 227 |
| 13 | 12 Years a Slave | 2013 | Steve McQueen | Solomon Northup | 235 |
| 14 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Andrei Rublev | 264 |
| 15 | Braveheart | 1995 | Mel Gibson | William Wallace | 278 |
| 16 | The Social Network | 2010 | David Fincher | Mark Zuckerberg | 301 |
| 17 | Patton | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner | George S. Patton Jr. | 302 |
| 18 | Persepolis | 2007 | Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi | Marjane Satrapi | 334 |
| 19 | Spartacus | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | Spartacus | 336 |
| 20 | Waltz with Bashir | 2008 | Ari Folman | Ari Folman | 367 |
| 21 | The Elephant Man | 1980 | David Lynch | John Merrick | 385 |
| 22 | Chariots of Fire | 1981 | Hugh Hudson | Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell | 504 |
| 23 | Downfall | 2004 | Oliver Hirschbiegel | Adolf Hitler | 526 |
| 24 | Close-Up | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami | Hossain Sabzian | 531 |
| 25 | Malcolm X | 1992 | Spike Lee | Malcolm X | 555 |
| 26 | Glory | 1989 | Edward Zwick | Robert Gould Shaw | 562 |
| 27 | A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Ron Howard | John Nash | 572 |
| 28 | The Right Stuff | 1983 | Philip Kaufman | Various People | 589 |
| 29 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | Andrei Tarkovsky | 597 |
| 30 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2013 | Martin Scorsese | Jordan Belfort | 613 |
| 31 | Napoléon | 1927 | Abel Gance | Napoleon Bonaparte | 621 |
| 32 | The King's Speech | 2010 | Tom Hooper | George VI | 625 |
| 33 | Gandhi | 1982 | Richard Attenborough | Mohandas K. Gandhi | 626 |
| 34 | Man on Wire | 2008 | James Marsh | Philippe Petit | 644 |
| 35 | Boys Don't Cry | 1999 | Kimberly Peirce | Brandon Teena | 663 |
| 36 | Ed Wood | 1994 | Tim Burton | Ed Wood | 674 |
| 37 | Grizzly Man | 2005 | Werner Herzog | Timothy Treadwell | 682 |
| 38 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | Jesse James and Robert Ford | 713 |
| 39 | Catch Me If You Can | 2002 | Steven Spielberg | Frank Abagnale, Jr. | 733 |
| 40 | Into the Wild | 2007 | Sean Penn | Christopher McCandless | 749 |
| 41 | Hidden Figures | 2016 | Theodore Melfi | Various People | 771 |
| 42 | The Last Emperor | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci | Pu Yi | 779 |
| 43 | Spotlight | 2015 | Tom McCarthy | Various People | 783 |
| 44 | Hotel Rwanda | 2004 | Terry George | Paul Rusesabagina | 794 |
| 45 | Selma | 2014 | Ava DuVernay | Martin Luther King Jr. | 796 |
| 46 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant | Harvey Milk | 811 |
| 47 | The Straight Story | 1999 | David Lynch | Alvin Straight | 812 |
| 48 | Yankee Doodle Dandy | 1942 | Michael Curtiz | George M. Cohan | 820 |
| 49 | Serpico | 1973 | Sidney Lumet | Frank Serpico | 825 |
| 50 | The Gospel According to St. Matthew | 1964 | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Jesus of Nazareth | 845 |
| 51 | Remember the Titans | 2000 | Boaz Yakin | Herman Boone | 846 |
| 52 | The Insider | 1999 | Michael Mann | Lowell Bergman and Jeffrey Wigand | 871 |
| 53 | The Fighter | 2010 | David O. Russell | Micky Ward | 881 |
| 54 | My Left Foot | 1989 | Jim Sheridan | Christy Brown | 890 |
| 55 | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | 2007 | Julian Schnabel | Jean-Dominique Bauby | 902 |
| 56 | Orlando | 1992 | Sally Potter | 926 | |
| 57 | The Killing Fields | 1984 | Roland Joffé | Sydney Schanberg and Dith Pran | 930 |
| 58 | Crumb | 1994 | Terry Zwigoff | Robert Crumb | 932 |
| 59 | The Last Waltz | 1978 | Martin Scorsese | The Band | 935 |
| 60 | Senna | 2010 | Asif Kapadia | Ayrton Senna | 949 |
| 61 | Dallas Buyers Club | 2013 | Jean-Marc Vallée | Ron Woodroof | 954 |
| 62 | Funny Girl | 1968 | William Wyler | Fanny Brice | 955 |
| 63 | The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara | 2003 | Errol Morris | Robert S. McNamara | 959 |
| 64 | Hacksaw Ridge | 2016 | Mel Gibson | Desmond Doss | 972 |
| 65 | The Irishman | 2019 | Martin Scorsese | Frank Sheeran | 976 |
| 66 | Ivan the Terrible | 1944 | Sergei Eisenstein | Ivan IV | 987 |
| 67 | Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | 1973 | Sam Peckinpah | William H. Bonney | 988 |
| 68 | Argo | 2012 | Ben Affleck | Tony Mendez | 1002 |
| 69 | The Devils | 1971 | Ken Russell | Urbain Grandier and Jeanne des Anges | 1010 |
| 70 | In Cold Blood | 1967 | Richard Brooks | Perry Smith and Richard Hickock | 1020 |
| 71 | The Times of Harvey Milk | 1984 | Rob Epstein | Harvey Milk | 1028 |
| 72 | Capturing the Friedmans | 2003 | Andrew Jarecki | The Friedman family | 1031 |
| 73 | 28 Up | 1984 | Michael Apted | Various People | 1040 |
| 74 | Sergeant York | 1941 | Howard Hawks | Alvin York | 1056 |
| 75 | The Act of Killing | 2012 | Joshua Oppenheimer | Anwar Congo | 1070 |
| 76 | 42 Up | 1998 | Michael Apted | Various People | 1083 |
| 77 | Heavenly Creatures | 1994 | Peter Jackson | Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme | 1086 |
| 78 | Rudy | 1993 | David Anspaugh | Rudy Ruettiger | 1096 |
| 79 | Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton | Henry Lee Lucas | 1115 |
| 80 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitriy Vasilev | Alexander Nevsky | 1116 |
| 81 | Lincoln | 2012 | Steven Spielberg | Abraham Lincoln | 1122 |
| 82 | The Imitation Game | 2014 | Morten Tyldum | Alan Turing | 1123 |
| 83 | Rush | 2013 | Ron Howard | Niki Lauda and James Hunt | 1125 |
| 84 | 35 Up | 1991 | Michael Apted | Various People | 1153 |
| 85 | Lola Montès | 1955 | Max Ophüls | Lola Montez | 1169 |
| 86 | Donnie Brasco | 1997 | Mike Newell | Joseph D. Pistone | 1173 |
| 87 | Erin Brockovich | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich | 1187 |
| 88 | Miracle | 2004 | Gavin O'Connor | Herb Brooks | 1193 |
| 89 | 49 Up | 2005 | Michael Apted | Various People | 1209 |
| 90 | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | William Bligh and Fletcher Christian | 1211 |
| 91 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday | 1213 |
| 92 | 21 Up | 1977 | Michael Apted | Various People | 1232 |
| 93 | The Pride of the Yankees | 1942 | Sam Wood | Lou Gehrig | 1234 |
| 94 | A Man for All Seasons | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann | Sir Thomas More | 1237 |
| 95 | Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters | 1985 | Paul Schrader | Yukio Mishima | 1248 |
| 96 | Out of Africa | 1985 | Sydney Pollack | Isak Dinesen | 1259 |
| 97 | Papillon | 1973 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Henri Charriere | 1261 |
| 98 | Fruitvale Station | 2013 | Ryan Coogler | Oscar Grant III | 1283 |
| 99 | Born on the Fourth of July | 1989 | Oliver Stone | Ron Kovic | 1295 |
| 100 | O.J.: Made in America | 2016 | Ezra Edelman | O.J. Simpson | 1302 |
| 101 | The King and I | 1956 | Walter Lang | Anna Leonowens | 1315 |
| 102 | Ali | 2001 | Michael Mann | Muhammad Ali | 1316 |
| 103 | Moneyball | 2011 | Bennett Miller | Billy Beane | 1319 |
| 104 | Young Mr. Lincoln | 1939 | John Ford | Abraham Lincoln | 1332 |
| 105 | Hunger | 2008 | Steve McQueen | Bobby Sands | 1355 |
| 106 | Hachiko: A Dog's Story | 2009 | Lasse Hallström | 1367 | |
| 107 | The Pursuit of Happyness | 2006 | Gabriele Muccino | Chris Gardner | 1374 |
| 108 | Monster | 2003 | Patty Jenkins | Aileen Wuornos | 1379 |
| 109 | The King of Kong | 2007 | Seth Gordon | Steve Wiebe | 1381 |
| 110 | Seven Plus Seven | 1970 | Michael Apted | Various People | 1394 |
| 111 | Capote | 2005 | Bennett Miller | Truman Capote | 1406 |
| 112 | Walk the Line | 2005 | James Mangold | Johnny Cash | 1416 |
| 113 | American Splendor | 2003 | Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini | Harvey Pekar | 1420 |
| 114 | Cinderella Man | 2005 | Ron Howard | James J. Braddock | 1423 |
| 115 | Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Stanley Kramer | 1430 | |
| 116 | In the Name of the Father | 1993 | Jim Sheridan | Gerry Conlon | 1433 |
| 117 | Ford v Ferrari | 2019 | James Mangold | Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles | 1442 |
| 118 | Oppenheimer | 2023 | Christopher Nolan | Robert Oppenheimer | 1446 |
| 119 | Captain Phillips | 2013 | Paul Greengrass | Richard Phillips | 1471 |
| 120 | The Sea Inside | 2004 | Alejandro Amenábar | Ramón Sampedro | 1488 |
| 121 | Henry V | 1944 | Laurence Olivier | Henry V | 1503 |
| 122 | American Gangster | 2007 | Ridley Scott | Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts | 1523 |
| 123 | Dersu Uzala | 1975 | Akira Kurosawa | Dersu Uzala | 1533 |
| 124 | Coal Miner's Daughter | 1980 | Michael Apted | Loretta Lynn | 1552 |
| 125 | Ivan the Terrible, Part II | 1958 | Sergei Eisenstein | Ivan IV | 1555 |
| 126 | American Sniper | 2014 | Clint Eastwood | Chris Kyle | 1562 |
| 127 | La Vie en rose | 2007 | Olivier Dahan | Édith Piaf | 1566 |
| 128 | Topsy-Turvy | 1999 | Mike Leigh | William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan | 1573 |
| 129 | 127 Hours | 2010 | Danny Boyle | Aron Ralston | 1585 |
| 130 | An Angel at My Table | 1990 | Jane Campion | Janet Frame | 1593 |
| 131 | Good Morning, Vietnam | 1987 | Barry Levinson | Adrian Cronauer | 1594 |
| 132 | The Lion in Winter | 1968 | Anthony Harvey | Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine | 1596 |
| 133 | The Miracle Worker | 1962 | Arthur Penn | Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan | 1597 |
| 134 | The Wind Rises | 2013 | Hayao Miyazaki | Jiro Horikoshi | 1601 |
| 135 | The New World | 2005 | Terrence Malick | John Smith and Pocahontas | 1630 |
| 136 | Sherman's March | 1985 | Ross McElwee | Ross McElwee | 1644 |
| 137 | Searching for Sugar Man | 2012 | Malik Bendjelloul | Sixto Rodriguez | 1646 |
| 138 | The Blind Side | 2009 | John Lee Hancock | Leigh Anne Tuohy and Michael Oher | 1674 |
| 139 | Queen Christina | 1933 | Rouben Mamoulian | Christina of Sweden | 1701 |
| 140 | The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | Howard Hughes | 1704 |
| 141 | BlacKkKlansman | 2018 | Spike Lee | Ron Stallworth | 1719 |
| 142 | The Damned United | 2009 | Tom Hooper | Brian Clough | 1724 |
| 143 | 56 Up | 2012 | Michael Apted | Various People | 1733 |
| 144 | Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son about His Father | 2008 | Kurt Kuenne | Andrew Bagby | 1752 |
| 145 | The Mystery of Kaspar Hausar | 1974 | Werner Herzog | Kaspar Hausar | 1763 |
| 146 | 24 Hour Party People | 2002 | Michael Winterbottom | Tony Wilson | 1767 |
| 147 | Invictus | 2009 | Clint Eastwood | Nelson Mandela and François Pienaar | 1771 |
| 148 | Marie Antoinette | 2006 | Sofia Coppola | Marie Antoinette | 1793 |
| 149 | The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Sergei Parajanov | Sayat Nova | 1815 |
| 150 | Henry V | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | Henry V | 1822 |
| 151 | Bright Star | 2009 | Jane Campion | Fanny Brawne | 1830 |
| 152 | October Sky | 1999 | Joe Johnston | Homer Hickam | 1833 |
| 153 | Reds | 1981 | Warren Beatty | Jack Reed | 1837 |
| 154 | Pride | 2014 | Matthew Warchus | Mark Ashton | 1864 |
| 155 | The Cove | 2009 | Louie Psihoyos | 1889 | |
| 156 | Cleopatra | 1963 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Cleopatra VII | 1904 |
| 157 | Green Book | 2018 | Peter Farrelly | Tony Lip and Don Shirley | 1920 |
| 158 | Ray | 2004 | Taylor Hackford | Ray Charles | 1929 |
| 159 | The Favourite | 2018 | Yorgos Lanthimos | Various People | 1946 |
| 160 | Quiz Show | 1994 | Robert Redford | Herb Stempel and Charles Van Doren | 1956 |
| 161 | Portrait of Jason | 1967 | Shirley Clarke | Jason Holliday | 1962 |
| 162 | Finding Neverland | 2004 | Marc Forster | J.M. Barrie | 1965 |
| 163 | The Look of Silence | 2014 | Joshua Oppenheimer | Anonymous | 1971 |
| 164 | The Hurricane | 1999 | Norman Jewison | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and Lesra Martin | 1977 |
| 165 | Straight Outta Compton | 2015 | F. Gary Gray | N.W.A | 1986 |
| 166 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney | Edward R. Murrow | 2012 |
| 167 | Elizabeth | 1998 | Shekhar Kapur | Elizabeth I | 2034 |
| 168 | Ip Man | 2008 | Wilson Yip | Ip Man | 2039 |
| 169 | Changeling | 2008 | Clint Eastwood | Christine Collins | 2089 |
| 170 | Silkwood | 1983 | Mike Nichols | Karen Silkwood | 2112 |
| 171 | Control | 2007 | Anton Corbijn | Ian Curtis | 2113 |
| 172 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | 2018 | Marielle Heller | Lee Israel | 2135 |
| 173 | For Sama | 2019 | Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts | Waad al-Kateab | 2137 |
| 174 | The Wild Child | 1970 | François Truffaut | Victor of Aveyron | 2151 |
| 175 | Midnight Express | 1978 | Alan Parker | Billy Hayes | 2171 |
| 176 | Won't You Be My Neighbor? | 2018 | Morgan Neville | Fred Rogers | 2172 |
| 177 | Public Enemies | 2009 | Michael Mann | John Dillinge | 2188 |
| 178 | Hamilton | 2020 | Thomas Kail | Alexander Hamilton | 2199 |
| 179 | Blue | 1993 | Derek Jarman | Derek Jarman | 2218 |
| 180 | Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox | Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen | 2241 |
| 181 | Brian's Song | 1971 | Buzz Kulik | Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo | 2249 |
| 182 | The Beaches of Agnès | 2008 | Agnès Varda | Agnès Varda | 2252 |
| 183 | Queen of Katwe | 2016 | Mira Nair | Phiona Mutesi | 2262 |
| 184 | Lenny | 1974 | Bob Fosse | Lenny Bruce | 2270 |
| 185 | Lion | 2016 | Garth Davis | Saroo Brierley | 2273 |
| 186 | Amy | 2015 | Asif Kapadia | Amy Winehouse | 2274 |
| 187 | The Flowers of St. Francis | 1950 | Roberto Rossellini | Francis of Assisi and Ginepro | 2275 |
| 188 | I'm Not There. | 2007 | Todd Haynes | Bob Dylan | 2282 |
| 189 | Girl, Interrupted | 1999 | James Mangold | Susanna Kaysen | 2288 |
| 190 | The Puppet Master | 1993 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | Li Tian-lu | 2291 |
| 191 | Awakenings | 1990 | Penny Marshall | Oliver Sacks | 2297 |
| 192 | I, Tonya | 2017 | Craig Gillespie | Tonya Harding | 2306 |
| 193 | What's Love Got to Do with It | 1993 | Brian Gibson | Tina Turner | 2332 |
| 194 | Citizenfour | 2014 | Laura Poitras | Edward Snowden | 2343 |
| 195 | Bohemian Rhapsody | 2018 | Bryan Singer | Freddie Mercury | 2381 |
| 196 | Frida | 2002 | Julie Taymor | Frida Kahlo | 2399 |
| 197 | Frost/Nixon | 2008 | Ron Howard | David Frost and Richard Nixon | 2402 |
| 198 | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | 1957 | John Sturges | Wyatt Earp | 2403 |
| 199 | Il Postino | 1994 | Michael Radford | Pablo Neruda | 2419 |
| 200 | Bloodsport | 1988 | Newt Arnold | Frank Dux | 2421 |
| 201 | Rabbit-Proof Fence | 2002 | Phillip Noyce | Molly and Daisy Craig | 2447 |
| 202 | Edvard Munch | 1974 | Peter Watkins | Edvard Munch | 2468 |
| 203 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | Edmund and Beth Horman | 2477 |
| 204 | My Brilliant Career | 1979 | Gillian Armstrong | Sybylla Melvyn | 2481 |
| 205 | The Queen | 2006 | Stephen Frears | Tony Blair and Elizabeth II | 2485 |
| 206 | The Dream of Light | 1992 | Víctor Erice | Antonio López García | 2502 |
| 207 | Rescue Dawn | 2006 | Werner Herzog | Dieter Dengler | 2514 |
| 208 | Carlos | 2010 | Olivier Assayas | Carlos the Jackal | 2518 |
| 209 | The Greatest Showman | 2017 | Michael Gracey | P. T. Barnum | 2540 |
| 210 | The Long Day Closes | 1992 | Terence Davies | Terence Davies | 2547 |
| 211 | Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room | 2005 | Alex Gibney | 2553 | |
| 212 | The Life of Emile Zola | 1937 | William Dieterle | Emile Zola | 2575 |
| 213 | Reversal of Fortune | 1990 | Barbet Schroeder | Claus von Bülow | 2583 |
| 214 | Anvil! The Story of Anvil | 2008 | Sacha Gervasi | Anvil | 2590 |
| 215 | The Time to Live and the Time to Die | 1985 | Hsiao-hsien Hou | Hsiao-hsien Hou | 2597 |
| 216 | Shine | 1996 | Scott Hicks | David Helfgott | 2607 |
| 217 | Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | Joan and Christina Crawford | 2608 |
| 218 | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | 1997 | Werner Herzog | Dieter Dengler | 2621 |
| 219 | The Tale | 2018 | Jennifer Fox | Jennifer Fox | 2628 |
| 220 | The Motorcycle Diaries | 2004 | Walter Salles | Che Guevara and Alberto Granado | 2646 |
| 221 | The Long Riders | 1980 | Walter Hill | Various People | 2722 |
| 222 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | 1993 | Steven Zaillian | Joshua Waitzkin | 2731 |
| 223 | The People vs. Larry Flynt | 1996 | Milos Forman | Larry Flynt | 2732 |
| 224 | Escape from Alcatraz | 1979 | Don Siegel | Frank Morris | 2738 |
| 225 | Evita | 1996 | Alan Parker | Eva Perón | 2763 |
| 226 | Nixon | 1995 | Oliver Stone | Richard M. Nixon | 2803 |
| 227 | The Theory of Everything | 2014 | James Marsh | Stephen Hawking | 2817 |
| 228 | Lust for Life | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli | Vincent Van Gogh | 2818 |
| 229 | Becket | 1964 | Peter Glenville | Thomas Becket | 2820 |
| 230 | Rocketman | 2019 | Dexter Fletcher | Elton John | 2842 |
| 231 | Gods and Monsters | 1998 | Bill Condon | James Whale | 2847 |
| 232 | The Imposter | 2012 | Bart Layton | Frédéric Bourdin | 2854 |
| 233 | Philomena | 2013 | Stephen Frears | Philomena Lee | 2859 |
| 234 | El Cid | 1961 | Anthony Mann | Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar | 2872 |
| 235 | Blow | 2001 | Ted Demme | George Jung | 2876 |
| 236 | As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty | 2000 | Jonas Mekas | Jonas Mekas | 2897 |
| 237 | The Ten Commandments | 1923 | Cecil B. DeMille | 2900 | |
| 238 | Looking for Langston | 1989 | Isaac Julien | Langston Hughes | 2913 |
| 239 | The Rise of Louis XIV | 1966 | Roberto Rossellini | Louis XIV | 2917 |
| 240 | Flee | 2021 | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Amin Nawabi | 2921 |
| 241 | Quo Vadis | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2936 | |
| 242 | Bound for Glory | 1976 | Hal Ashby | Woody Guthrie | 2944 |
| 243 | Mask | 1985 | Peter Bogdanovich | Roy L. Dennis | 2949 |
| 244 | Cameraperson | 2016 | Kirsten Johnson | Kirsten Johnson | 2965 |
| 245 | Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel | Reinaldo Arenas | 2976 |
| 246 | Tarnation | 2003 | Jonathan Caouette | Jonathan Caouette | 3001 |
| 247 | Story of G.I. Joe | 1945 | William A. Wellman | Ernie Pyle | 3006 |
| 248 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda | Henry VIII | 3015 |
| 249 | Bill Cunningham New York | 2010 | Richard Press | Bill Cunningham | 3022 |
| 250 | Mr. Turner | 2014 | Mike Leigh | J. M. W. Turner | 3031 |
| 251 | Foxcatcher | 2014 | Bennett Miller | John Eleuthère du Pont | 3033 |
| 252 | The Last King of Scotland | 2006 | Kevin Macdonald | Idi Amin | 3040 |
| 253 | Riding Giants | 2004 | Stacy Peralta | 3050 | |
| 254 | 42 | 2013 | Brian Helgeland | Jackie Robinson | 3056 |
| 255 | Jarhead | 2005 | Sam Mendes | Anthony Swofford | 3058 |
| 256 | Man on the Moon | 1999 | Milos Forman | Andy Kaufman | 3060 |