10 Best Anti-Religion Documentaries of All Time

When “Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief” premiered at the 2015 Sun-dance Film Festival, the Church of Scientology set out on the defense, launching a Twitter account and taking out full-page advertisements in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times to denounce the film for its misrepresentation of the controversial religion. Earlier this year, similar controversy hit “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary that followed cases of on-campus sexual assault. Florida State University called “The Hunting Ground” filmmakers unethical for their handling of the situation and for not giving FSU enough time to respond to the allegations. Insidermonkey experts made a list of best anti-religion documentaries of all time.

Controversial documentaries are nothing new, but with these two instances, and more questions arising about the methods that went into shooting HBO’s hit doc-series “The Jinx,” it seems like more and more documentaries that are challenging the status quo are being challenged by their subjects. In order to ease this process of searching good documentaries that are against religion, we made the list of 10 best anti-religion documentaries ever made. However, if you are interested in religious and atheist documentaries as well, you should definitely read our previous article of 11 Best Religious/Atheist Documentaries on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.