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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118 +7
Fahrenheit 9/11
2004, in 9 top lists Check -
66 +7
Bowling for Columbine
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
46 +7
Triumph des Willens
1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check -
48 +7
Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
54 +7
Vals Im Bashir
2008 — a.k.a. Waltz with Bashir, in 11 top lists Check -
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Grizzly Man
2005, in 9 top lists Check -
132 +7
Empire
1964, in 5 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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Sans soleil
1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check -
51 +7
Man on Wire
2008, in 6 top lists Check -
79 +7
Chelsea Girls
1966, in 6 top lists Check -
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F for Fake
1973, in 11 top lists Check -
206 +7
Häxan
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
129 +7
L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat
1896 — a.k.a. The Arrival of a Train, in 13 top lists Check -
170 +7
My Winnipeg
2007, in 9 top lists Check -
101 +7
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1971, in 9 top lists Check -
140 +7
Trop tôt/Trop tard
1981 — a.k.a. Too Early/Too Late, in 5 top lists Check -
162 +7
Inside Job
2010, in 4 top lists Check -
91 +7
La sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon
1895 — a.k.a. Leaving the Factory, in 10 top lists Check -
239 +7
La région centrale
1971, in 8 top lists Check -
126 +7
Window Water Baby Moving
1959, in 7 top lists Check -
117 +7
The Corporation
2003, in 4 top lists Check -
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Grey Gardens
1975, in 10 top lists Check -
60 +7
Crumb
1994, in 12 top lists Check -
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Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
39 +7
Capturing the Friedmans
2003, in 7 top lists Check -
43 +7
Roger & Me
1989, in 12 top lists Check -
154 +7
Pina
2011, in 3 top lists Check -
164 +7
Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle
2006 — a.k.a. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, in 4 top lists Check -
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Listen to Britain
1942, in 7 top lists Check -
173 +7
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
2004, in 4 top lists Check -
53 +7
Nema-ye Nazdik
1990 — a.k.a. Close-Up, in 21 top lists Check -
179 +7
Tarnation
2003, in 3 top lists Check -
163 +7
American Movie
1999, in 5 top lists Check -
38 +7
Leviathan
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
104 +7
Senna
2010, in 4 top lists Check -
215 +7
Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia
1971, in 8 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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Nuit et brouillard
1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check -
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The Thin Blue Line
1988, in 12 top lists Check -
143 +7
Tongues Untied
1989, in 11 top lists Check -
61 +7
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...
2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check -
89 +7
No Quarto da Vanda
2000 — a.k.a. In Vanda's Room, in 6 top lists Check -
119 +7
Woodstock
1970, in 13 top lists Check -
166 +7
Gates of Heaven
1978, in 4 top lists Check -
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Histoire(s) du cinéma
1989, in 8 top lists -
95 +7
Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, in 14 top lists Check -
59 +7
Portrait of Jason
1967, in 11 top lists Check
Last updated on Aug 3, 2017 by PeacefulAnarchy; source