Sight & Sound's The Greatest Documentaries of All Time
An official iCheckMovies list (adopted from PeacefulAnarchy).
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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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Shoah
1985, in 18 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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Le chagrin et la pitié
1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 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 -
63 +7
When We Were Kings
1996, in 7 top lists Check -
70 +7
Culloden
1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check -
71 +7
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2003, in 5 top lists Check -
106 +7
In the Year of the Pig
1968, in 4 top lists Check -
117 +7
The Corporation
2003, in 4 top lists Check -
119 +7
Woodstock
1970, in 13 top lists Check -
121 +7
Edvard Munch
1974, in 9 top lists Check -
122 +7
The Times of Harvey Milk
1984, in 8 top lists Check -
134 +7
Le tombeau d'Alexandre
1993 — a.k.a. The Last Bolshevik, in 3 top lists Check -
149 +7
S21, la machine de mort khmère rouge
2003 — a.k.a. S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine, in 6 top lists Check -
155 +7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011, in 1 top list Check -
188 +7
La commune (Paris, 1871)
2000 — a.k.a. La Commune (Paris, 1871), in 5 top lists Check -
199 +7
The World at War
1973, in 1 top list 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 -
204 +7
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu
2010 — a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, in 3 top lists Check -
209 +7
The War Room
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
227 +7
The Civil War
1990, in 3 top lists Check -
228 +7
The Spirit of '45
2013, in 1 top list Check -
231 +7
Stand van de Sterren
2010 — a.k.a. Position Among the Stars, in 1 top list Check -
242 +7
The River
1938, in 4 top lists Check -
264 +7
Eyes on the Prize
1987, in 1 top list Check -
265 +7
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the...
2004 — a.k.a. The Power of Nightmares, in 4 top lists Check
Last updated on Aug 3, 2017 by PeacefulAnarchy; source