The 151 Greatest Documentaries of All Time

Movies 1 Minute
  1. Capturing the Friedmans
  2. Man on Wire
  3. Hoop Dreams
  4. The Act of Killing
  5. The Fog of War
  6. I Am Not Your Negro
  7. Citizenfour
  8. F for Fake
  9. Grizzly Man
  10. Shoah
  11. The Last Waltz
  12. The Look of Silence
  13. The Up Series (1964-2019)
  14. This is Not a Film
  15. Waltz with Bashir
  16. 13th
  17. Amy
  18. Collective (Colectiv)
  19. Crumb
  20. Dick Johnson is Dead
  21. Grey Gardens
  22. Minding the Gap
  23. Nostalgia for the Light
  24. When We Were Kings
  25. Bill Cunningham New York
  26. Blackfish
  27. Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back
  28. Bowling for Columbine
  29. Faces Places (Visages, villages)
  30. Harlan County U.S.A.
  31. How to Survive a Plague
  32. Inside Job
  33. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
  34. Kedi
  35. Life Itself
  36. Murderball
  37. Night and Fog
  38. Paris is Burning
  39. Stop Making Sense
  40. Stories We Tell
  41. The Missing Picture
  42. The Overnighters
  43. The Thin Blue Line
  44. Tower
  45. Twenty Feet From Stardom
  46. We Were Here
  47. Weiner
  48. Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
  49. Amazing Grace
  50. Apollo 11
  51. Deliver Us From Evil
  52. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  53. Exit Through the Gift Shop
  54. For Sama
  55. Free Solo
  56. Gimmie Shelter
  57. Honeyland
  58. Jane
  59. Koyaanisqatsi
  60. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
  61. Last Train Home
  62. Nanook of the North
  63. O.J.: Made in America
  64. Portrait of Jason
  65. Rewind
  66. Salesman
  67. Searching for Sugar Man
  68. Spellbound
  69. The Battle of Chile
  70. The Decline of Western Civilization
  71. The Gleaners & I
  72. The Square (Al Midan)
  73. The Times of Harvey Milk
  74. Time
  75. Virunga
  76. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts
  77. Woodstock (1970)
  78. 4 Little Girls
  79. A Grin Without a Cat
  80. Afghan Star
  81. American Factory
  82. American Movie
  83. Anvil! The Story of Anvil
  84. Bisbee ’17
  85. Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
  86. Brother’s Keeper
  87. Burden of Dreams
  88. Cameraperson
  89. Chronicle of a Summer
  90. Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
  91. David Byrne’s American Utopia
  92. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
  93. Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me
  94. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
  95. Ex Libris: New York Public Library
  96. Fire at Sea
  97. Gleason
  98. Gunda
  99. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
  100. Histoire(s) du cinema
  101. I Called Him Morgan
  102. Iris
  103. Jane Fonda in Five Acts
  104. Jodorowsky’s Dune
  105. Kate Plays Christine
  106. Lake of Fire
  107. Leviathan
  108. Listen to Me Marlon
  109. Los Angeles Plays Itself
  110. Man with a Movie Camera
  111. March of the Penguins
  112. McQueen
  113. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
  114. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr.
  115. My Journey Through French Cinema
  116. My Voyage to Italy
  117. No End in Sight
  118. No Home Movie
  119. One Child Nation
  120. One More Time with Feeling
  121. Original Cast Album: Company
  122. Pina
  123. Project Nim
  124. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time
  125. Roger & Me
  126. Sans Soleil
  127. Senna
  128. Seymour: An Introduction
  129. Sherman’s March
  130. Sherpa
  131. Shirkers
  132. Sound City
  133. Taxi to the Dark Side
  134. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
  135. The Beaches of Agnes
  136. The Central Park Five
  137. The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On
  138. The Farthest
  139. The Gatekeepers
  140. The Interrupters
  141. The Invisible War
  142. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
  143. The Sorrow and the Pity
  144. The Tillman Story
  145. They Shall Not Grow Old
  146. Three Identical Strangers
  147. Titicut Follies
  148. To Be and to Have
  149. Waste Land
  150. Welcome to Chechnya
  151. Welfare

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