Filmspotting Top 100 Documentaries

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The Top 100 Documentaries of all time as selected by Filmspotting forum members.

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  1. 40 -

    Nanook of the North

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  2. 9 -

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  3. 70 -

    Man of Aran

    1934, in 5 top lists Check
  4. 61 -

    Le sang des bêtes

    1949 — a.k.a. Blood of the Beasts, in 10 top lists Check
  5. 90 -

    The Elephant Will Never Forget

    1953, in 0 top lists Check
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    Nuit et brouillard

    1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check
  7. 88 -

    Khaneh siah ast

    1963 — a.k.a. The House Is Black, in 13 top lists Check
  8. 17 -

    Seven Up!

    1964, 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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    A Time for Burning

    1967, in 1 top list Check
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    Titicut Follies

    1967, in 9 top lists Check
  12. 41 -

    High School

    1968, in 4 top lists Check
  13. 30 -

    Salesman

    1969, in 10 top lists Check
  14. 26 -

    Gimme Shelter

    1970, in 8 top lists Check
  15. 31 -

    Woodstock

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
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    F for Fake

    1973, in 11 top lists Check
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    Hearts and Minds

    1974, in 7 top lists 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
  20. 72 -

    Gates of Heaven

    1978, in 4 top lists Check
  21. 74 -

    The Last Waltz

    1978, in 9 top lists Check
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    Burden of Dreams

    1982, in 4 top lists Check
  23. 82 -

    Koyaanisqatsi

    1982, in 12 top lists Check
  24. 36 -

    Sans soleil

    1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check
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    Stop Making Sense

    1984, in 9 top lists Check
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    Streetwise

    1984, in 4 top lists Check
  27. 6 -

    The Times of Harvey Milk

    1984, in 8 top lists Check
  28. 64 -

    Shoah

    1985, in 18 top lists Check
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    The Thin Blue Line

    1988, in 12 top lists Check
  30. 92 -

    For All Mankind

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 21 -

    Roger & Me

    1989, in 12 top lists Check
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    The Civil War

    1990, in 3 top lists Check
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    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    1991, in 2 top lists Check
  34. 52 -

    Baraka

    1992, in 5 top lists Check
  35. 54 -

    Baseball

    1994, in 3 top lists Check
  36. 47 -

    Crumb

    1994, in 12 top lists Check
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    Hoop Dreams

    1994, in 15 top lists Check
  38. 49 -

    Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood...

    1996, in 2 top lists Check
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    When We Were Kings

    1996, in 7 top lists Check
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    Little Dieter Needs to Fly

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
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    Trekkies

    1997, in 0 top lists Check
  42. 43 -

    American Movie

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  43. 100 -

    Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski

    1999 — a.k.a. My Best Fiend, in 1 top list Check
  44. 78 -

    One Day in September

    1999, in 1 top list Check
  45. 42 -

    Dark Days

    2000, in 1 top list Check
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    Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

    2000 — a.k.a. The Gleaners & I, in 13 top lists Check
  47. 81 -

    Un coupable idéal

    2001 — a.k.a. Murder on a Sunday Morning, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 84 -

    Dogtown and Z-Boys

    2001, in 3 top lists Check
  49. 73 -

    Le peuple migrateur

    2001 — a.k.a. Winged Migration, in 1 top list Check
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    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
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