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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The Civil War
1990, in 3 top lists Check -
198 +7
Soupçons
2004 — a.k.a. The Staircase, in 1 top list Check -
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Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
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Tiexi qu
2002 — a.k.a. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, in 8 top lists Check -
132 +7
Empire
1964, in 5 top lists Check -
233 +7
L'Inde fantôme
1969 — a.k.a. Phantom India, in 4 top lists Check -
168 +7
Near Death
1989, in 3 top lists Check -
188 +7
La commune (Paris, 1871)
2000 — a.k.a. La Commune (Paris, 1871), in 5 top lists Check -
135 +7
Diary
1983 — a.k.a. Diary 1973-1983, in 3 top lists Check -
156 +7
Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny....
1995, in 3 top lists Check -
178 +7
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief...
2000, in 6 top lists Check -
116 +7
Hôtel Terminus
1988, in 6 top lists Check -
55 +7
La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios...
1968 — a.k.a. The Hour of the Furnaces, in 9 top lists Check -
150 +7
Route One USA
1989, in 3 top lists Check -
125 +7
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006, in 6 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 -
223 +7
Amsterdam Global Village
1996, in 3 top lists Check -
80 +7
Le fond de l'air est rouge
1977 — a.k.a. A Grin Without A Cat, in 3 top lists Check -
245 +7
Informe general sobre unas cuestiones de...
1977, in 2 top lists Check -
103 +7
The Century of the Self
2002, 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 -
79 +7
Chelsea Girls
1966, in 6 top lists Check -
121 +7
Edvard Munch
1974, in 9 top lists Check -
202 +7
Jai Bhim Comrade
2011, in 1 top list Check -
253 +7
Milestones
1975, in 2 top lists Check -
119 +7
Woodstock
1970, in 13 top lists Check -
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49 Up
2005, in 2 top lists Check -
204 +7
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu
2010 — a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, in 3 top lists Check -
246 +7
Gambling, Gods and LSD
2002, in 3 top lists Check -
239 +7
La région centrale
1971, in 8 top lists Check -
86 +7
Diaries Notes and Sketches
1968, in 5 top lists Check -
89 +7
No Quarto da Vanda
2000 — a.k.a. In Vanda's Room, in 6 top lists Check -
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Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
71 +7
Los Angeles Plays Itself
2003, in 5 top lists Check -
182 +7
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
1992, in 2 top lists Check -
45 +7
Welfare
1975, in 7 top lists Check -
93 +7
Le joli mai
1963 — a.k.a. The Lovely Month of May, in 4 top lists Check -
265 +7
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the...
2004 — a.k.a. The Power of Nightmares, in 4 top lists Check -
65 +7
Sherman's March
1985, in 10 top lists Check -
201 +7
Dying at Grace
2003, in 5 top lists Check -
117 +7
The Corporation
2003, in 4 top lists Check -
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56 Up
2012, in 2 top lists Check -
173 +7
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
2004, in 4 top lists Check -
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42 Up
1998, in 2 top lists Check -
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28 Up
1984, in 5 top lists Check -
144 +7
Chung Kuo - Cina
1972, in 2 top lists Check -
44 +7
El sol del membrillo
1992 — a.k.a. The Quince Tree Sun, in 9 top lists Check -
194 +7
Ningen jôhatsu
1967 — a.k.a. A Man Vanishes, in 3 top lists Check -
225 +7
En construcción
2001, in 3 top lists Check -
256 +7
The Interrupters
2011, in 1 top list Check
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