BFI's 100 Documentary Films

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"100 Documentary Films is the first book to offer concise and authoritative individual critical commentaries on some of the key documentary films - from the Lumière brothers and the beginnings of cinema through to recent films such as Bowling for Columbine and When the Levees Broke - and is global in perspective. Many different types of documentary are discussed, as well as films by major documentary directors, including Robert Flaherty, Humphrey Jennings, Jean Rouch, Dziga Vertov, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield and Michael Moore. Each entry provides concise critical analysis, while frequent cross reference to other films featured helps to place films in their historical and aesthetic contexts."
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À propos de Nice
1930 — a.k.a. À Propos de Nice, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1971, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Atomic Cafe
1982, in 3 top lists Check -
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La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...
1975 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part I, in 8 top lists Check -
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La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...
1976 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part II, in 6 top lists Check -
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La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...
1979 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part III, in 6 top lists Check -
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Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check -
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Bowling for Columbine
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
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A British Picture
1989, in 1 top list Check -
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British Sounds
1970 — a.k.a. See You at Mao, 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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Cane Toads: An Unnatural History
1988, in 3 top lists Check -
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Le chagrin et la pitié
1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 10 top lists Check -
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Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)
1961 — a.k.a. Chronicle of a Summer, in 8 top lists Check -
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Nema-ye Nazdik
1990 — a.k.a. Close-Up, in 21 top lists Check -
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Coal Face
1935, in 2 top lists Check -
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Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
1963, in 5 top lists Check -
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Daughter Rite
1980, in 2 top lists Check -
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David Holzman's Diary
1967, in 7 top lists Check -
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Dead Birds
1963, in 3 top lists Check -
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A Diary for Timothy
1945, in 5 top lists Check -
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Dont Look Back
1967 — a.k.a. Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back, in 10 top lists Check -
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Yuki yukite, shingun
1987 — a.k.a. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, in 9 top lists Check -
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Être et avoir
2002 — a.k.a. To Be and to Have, in 8 top lists Check -
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Padenie dinastii Romanovykh
1927 — a.k.a. The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, in 2 top lists Check -
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Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons
1946 — a.k.a. Farrebique, in 2 top lists Check -
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Baraye azadi
1979 — a.k.a. For Liberty, in 1 top list Check -
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Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
1997, in 5 top lists Check -
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Forgotten Silver
1995, in 2 top lists Check -
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Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
2000 — a.k.a. The Gleaners & I, in 13 top lists Check -
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Grey Gardens
1975, in 10 top lists Check -
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Grizzly Man
2005, in 9 top lists Check -
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Handsworth Songs
1986, in 5 top lists Check -
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Happy Mother's Day
1963, in 2 top lists Check -
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Harlan County U.S.A.
1976, in 11 top lists Check -
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CBS Reports: Harvest of Shame
1960, in 2 top lists Check -
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Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam
1995, in 1 top list Check -
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Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
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La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios...
1968 — a.k.a. The Hour of the Furnaces, in 9 top lists Check -
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Housing Problems
1935, in 2 top lists Check -
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Las Hurdes
1933 — a.k.a. Land Without Bread, in 12 top lists Check -
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I for India
2005, in 1 top list Check -
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In the Year of the Pig
1968, in 4 top lists Check -
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Jazz
2001, in 2 top lists Check -
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Kon-Tiki
1950, in 3 top lists Check -
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Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
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Lektionen in Finsternis
1992 — a.k.a. Lessons of Darkness, in 6 top lists Check -
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Let There Be Light
1946, in 3 top lists Check -
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The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
1980, in 3 top lists Check -
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Lonely Boy
1963, in 4 top lists Check
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