Criterion Collection Themes - Documentaries
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“Life caught unawares”—that’s how Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov expressed the principle and art of documentary in the 1930s. But the documentary has taken so many forms over the past century that it would be oversimplifying to call it merely the recording of reality. From its anthropological origins in the works of Robert Flaherty, the documentary has come to encompass Soviet and fascist propaganda of the thirties; the Direct Cinema and cinema verité of the sixties; the populist social-reform tradition of today; and so much more. What all great documentaries have in common is the ability to capture a place and time so vividly as to equal the imagery and storytelling of the best fiction.
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...And the Pursuit of Happiness
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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And Everything Is Going Fine
2010, in 1 top list Check -
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Antonio Gaudí
1984, in 1 top list Check -
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The Beales of Grey Gardens
2006, in 1 top list Check -
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Bergman och filmen, Bergman och teatern,...
2004 — a.k.a. Bergman Island, in 1 top list Check -
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A Brief History of Time
1991, in 1 top list Check -
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Burden of Dreams
1982, in 4 top lists Check -
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Carl Th. Dreyer: Min metier
1995 — a.k.a. Carl Th. Dreyer: My Métier, in 1 top list 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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Come on Children
1973, in 1 top list Check -
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A Constant Forge
2000, in 1 top list Check -
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Crumb
1994, in 12 top lists Check -
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Dokument Fanny och Alexander
1984 — a.k.a. The Making of Fanny and Alexander, in 1 top list Check -
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Dying at Grace
2003, in 5 top lists Check -
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F for Fake
1973, in 11 top lists Check -
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Fishing with John
1991, in 1 top list Check -
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For All Mankind
1989, in 2 top lists Check -
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Général Idi Amin Dada: Autoportrait
1974 — a.k.a. General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait, in 2 top lists Check -
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Gimme Shelter
1970, in 8 top lists Check -
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God's Country
1985, in 1 top list Check -
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Grey Gardens
1975, in 10 top lists Check -
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Harlan County U.S.A.
1976, in 11 top lists Check -
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Hearts and Minds
1974, in 7 top lists Check -
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Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
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Humain, trop humain
1974 — a.k.a. A Human Condition, in 1 top list Check -
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Ingmar Bergman gör en film
1963 — a.k.a. Ingmar Bergman Makes a Movie, in 1 top list Check -
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Jimi Plays Monterey
1986, in 1 top list Check -
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Koko, le gorille qui parle
1978 — a.k.a. Koko: A Talking Gorilla, in 1 top list Check -
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Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
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L'Inde fantôme
1969 — a.k.a. Phantom India, in 4 top lists Check -
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Louie Bluie
1985, in 1 top list Check -
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A Married Couple
1969, in 7 top lists Check -
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Memory for Max, Claire, Ida and Company
2005, in 1 top list Check -
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Monterey Pop
1968, in 2 top lists Check -
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My Crasy Life
1992, in 1 top list Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Naqoyqatsi
2002, in 1 top list Check -
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Nuit et brouillard
1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check -
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Pays de cocagne
1971 — a.k.a. Land of Milk and Honey, in 1 top list Check -
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Pina
2011, in 3 top lists Check -
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Place de la République
1974, in 1 top list Check -
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Poto and Cabengo
1980, in 2 top lists Check -
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Powaqqatsi
1988, in 1 top list Check -
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Routine Pleasures
1986, in 3 top lists Check -
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Salesman
1969, in 10 top lists Check -
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Sans soleil
1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check -
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Shake!: Otis at Monterey
1987, in 1 top list Check -
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Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
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The Times of Harvey Milk
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
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Tôkyô orinpikku
1965 — a.k.a. Tokyo Olympiad, in 6 top lists Check
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