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.

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  1. 118 +7

    Fahrenheit 9/11

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
  2. 66 +7

    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  3. 46 +7

    Triumph des Willens

    1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check
  4. 48 +7

    Koyaanisqatsi

    1982, in 12 top lists Check
  5. 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
  7. 132 +7

    Empire

    1964, in 5 top lists Check
  8. 1 -

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  9. 3 -

    Sans soleil

    1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check
  10. 51 +7

    Man on Wire

    2008, in 6 top lists Check
  11. 79 +7

    Chelsea Girls

    1966, in 6 top lists Check
  12. 32 -

    F for Fake

    1973, in 11 top lists Check
  13. 206 +7

    Häxan

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  14. 129 +7

    L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat

    1896 — a.k.a. The Arrival of a Train, in 13 top lists Check
  15. 170 +7

    My Winnipeg

    2007, in 9 top lists Check
  16. 101 +7

    The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

    1971, in 9 top lists Check
  17. 140 +7

    Trop tôt/Trop tard

    1981 — a.k.a. Too Early/Too Late, in 5 top lists Check
  18. 162 +7

    Inside Job

    2010, in 4 top lists Check
  19. 91 +7

    La sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon

    1895 — a.k.a. Leaving the Factory, in 10 top lists Check
  20. 239 +7

    La région centrale

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  21. 126 +7

    Window Water Baby Moving

    1959, in 7 top lists Check
  22. 117 +7

    The Corporation

    2003, in 4 top lists Check
  23. 10 -

    Grey Gardens

    1975, in 10 top lists Check
  24. 60 +7

    Crumb

    1994, in 12 top lists Check
  25. 16 -

    Hoop Dreams

    1994, in 15 top lists Check
  26. 6 -

    Nanook of the North

    1922, in 17 top lists Check
  27. 29 -

    The Act of Killing

    2012, in 9 top lists Check
  28. 39 +7

    Capturing the Friedmans

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  29. 43 +7

    Roger & Me

    1989, in 12 top lists Check
  30. 154 +7

    Pina

    2011, in 3 top lists Check
  31. 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
  33. 173 +7

    Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  34. 53 +7

    Nema-ye Nazdik

    1990 — a.k.a. Close-Up, in 21 top lists Check
  35. 179 +7

    Tarnation

    2003, in 3 top lists Check
  36. 163 +7

    American Movie

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  37. 38 +7

    Leviathan

    2012, in 5 top lists Check
  38. 104 +7

    Senna

    2010, in 4 top lists Check
  39. 215 +7

    Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia

    1971, in 8 top lists Check
  40. 14 -

    Las Hurdes

    1933 — a.k.a. Land Without Bread, in 12 top lists Check
  41. 4 -

    Nuit et brouillard

    1956 — a.k.a. Night and Fog, in 17 top lists Check
  42. 5 -

    The Thin Blue Line

    1988, in 12 top lists Check
  43. 143 +7

    Tongues Untied

    1989, in 11 top lists Check
  44. 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
  45. 89 +7

    No Quarto da Vanda

    2000 — a.k.a. In Vanda's Room, in 6 top lists Check
  46. 119 +7

    Woodstock

    1970, in 13 top lists Check
  47. 166 +7

    Gates of Heaven

    1978, in 4 top lists Check
  48. 37 new

    Histoire(s) du cinéma

    1989, in 8 top lists
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  49. 95 +7

    Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker

    1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, in 14 top lists Check
  50. 59 +7

    Portrait of Jason

    1967, in 11 top lists Check
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