Flavorwire's 50 Best Documentaries of All Time
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The list is ordered top-down. #6 and #19 in the original list are series ("Up" and "Paradise Lost"): all the movies in those series have been included here.
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Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
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The Thin Blue Line
1988, in 12 top lists Check -
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Grey Gardens
1975, in 10 top lists Check -
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Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
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Gates of Heaven
1978, in 4 top lists Check -
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Seven Up!
1964, in 5 top lists Check -
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7 Plus Seven
1970, in 2 top lists Check -
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21 Up
1977, in 2 top lists Check -
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28 Up
1984, in 6 top lists Check -
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35 Up
1991, in 2 top lists Check -
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42 Up
1998, in 2 top lists Check -
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49 Up
2005, in 2 top lists Check -
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56 Up
2012, in 2 top lists Check -
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Primary
1960, in 6 top lists Check -
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F for Fake
1973, in 11 top lists Check -
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Sans soleil
1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check -
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Grizzly Man
2005, in 9 top lists Check -
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Le chagrin et la pitié
1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check -
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Nuit et brouillard
1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check -
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
2008, in 2 top lists Check -
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4 Little Girls
1997, in 1 top list Check -
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Capturing the Friedmans
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
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Titicut Follies
1967, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Times of Harvey Milk
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood...
1996, in 2 top lists Check -
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Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
2000, in 0 top lists Check -
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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
2011, in 0 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
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Hearts and Minds
1974, in 7 top lists Check -
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Salesman
1969, in 10 top lists Check -
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Harlan County U.S.A.
1976, in 11 top lists Check -
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Crumb
1994, in 12 top lists Check -
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Taxi to the Dark Side
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
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Ônibus 174
2002 — a.k.a. Bus 174, in 5 top lists Check -
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Pressure Cooker
2008, in 0 top lists Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Roger & Me
1989, in 12 top lists Check -
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Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan,...
1997, in 0 top lists Check -
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Vals Im Bashir
2008 — a.k.a. Waltz with Bashir, in 11 top lists Check -
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Inside Job
2010, in 4 top lists Check -
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997, in 2 top lists Check -
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The War Room
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
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Brother's Keeper
1992, in 1 top list Check -
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The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...
2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check -
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No End in Sight
2007, in 0 top lists Check -
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Man on Wire
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
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When We Were Kings
1996, in 7 top lists Check -
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King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970, in 1 top list Check -
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Italianamerican
1974, in 2 top lists Check
Last updated on Oct 23, 2014; source