Sight & Sound's The Greatest Documentaries of All Time
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In 2014, Sight & Sound polled 340 documentary critics, curators, academics and filmmakers asking for top 10 documentary lists. Over 1000 films got votes, from years as early as 1892 to as recent as 2013. This list is the combined critics and filmmakers list of all films that received 3 or more votes.
You can find the films receiving just one or two votes: here
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...A Valparaíso
1963 — a.k.a. Valparaiso, in 2 top lists Check -
254 +7
1000-nen kizami no hidokei
1987 — a.k.a. Magino Village: A Tale, in 1 top list Check -
181 +7
Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple
1968 — a.k.a. 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, in 3 top lists Check -
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21 Up
1977, in 2 top lists Check -
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28 Up
1984, in 5 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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7 Plus Seven
1970, in 2 top lists Check -
123 +7
79 primaveras
1969, in 5 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
101 +7
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1971, in 9 top lists Check -
251 +7
Afrique 50
1950, in 3 top lists Check -
163 +7
American Movie
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
223 +7
Amsterdam Global Village
1996, in 3 top lists Check -
81 +7
The Arbor
2010, in 5 top lists Check -
178 +7
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief...
2000, in 6 top lists Check -
186 +7
At Sea
2007, in 4 top lists Check -
204 +7
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu
2010 — a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, 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 -
175 +7
The Battle of Midway
1942, in 1 top list Check -
197 +7
The Battle of the Somme
1916 — a.k.a. Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme, in 4 top lists Check -
52 +7
Belovy
1992, in 2 top lists Check -
76 +7
Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt
1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check -
111 +7
Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges
1989 — a.k.a. Images of the World and the Inscription of War, in 4 top lists Check -
160 +7
Black Harvest
1992, in 4 top lists Check -
249 +7
La bocca del lupo
2009 — a.k.a. The Mouth of the Wolf, in 2 top lists Check -
66 +7
Bowling for Columbine
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
57 +7
Burden of Dreams
1982, in 4 top lists Check -
203 +7
Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land
2008 — a.k.a. Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country, in 1 top list Check -
211 +7
Cabra Marcado Para Morrer
1984 — a.k.a. Twenty Years Later, in 6 top lists Check -
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Capturing the Friedmans
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
103 +7
The Century of the Self
2002, in 2 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 -
172 +7
La chasse au lion à l'arc
1966 — a.k.a. The Lion Hunters, 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 -
79 +7
Chelsea Girls
1966, in 6 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 -
144 +7
Chung Kuo - Cina
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
146 +7
Cinéma, de notre temps: Où gît votre sourire...
2001, in 3 top lists Check -
227 +7
The Civil War
1990, in 3 top lists Check -
191 +7
Cocksucker Blues
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
188 +7
La commune (Paris, 1871)
2000 — a.k.a. La Commune (Paris, 1871), in 5 top lists Check -
117 +7
The Corporation
2003, in 4 top lists Check -
263 +7
Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
1963, in 5 top lists Check -
207 +7
Crossroads
1976, in 4 top lists Check -
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Crumb
1994, in 12 top lists Check
Last updated on Aug 3, 2017 by PeacefulAnarchy; source