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. 54 +7

    Vals Im Bashir

    2008 — a.k.a. Waltz with Bashir, in 11 top lists Check
  3. 141 +7

    ...A Valparaíso

    1963 — a.k.a. Valparaiso, in 2 top lists Check
  4. 254 +7

    1000-nen kizami no hidokei

    1987 — a.k.a. Magino Village: A Tale, in 1 top list Check
  5. 181 +7

    Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple

    1968 — a.k.a. 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, in 3 top lists Check
  6. 19 -

    21 Up

    1977, in 2 top lists Check
  7. 20 -

    28 Up

    1984, in 5 top lists Check
  8. 21 -

    35 Up

    1991, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 22 -

    42 Up

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 23 -

    49 Up

    2005, in 2 top lists Check
  11. 24 -

    56 Up

    2012, in 2 top lists Check
  12. 18 -

    7 Plus Seven

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  13. 123 +7

    79 primaveras

    1969, in 5 top lists Check
  14. 29 -

    The Act of Killing

    2012, in 9 top lists Check
  15. 101 +7

    The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

    1971, in 9 top lists Check
  16. 251 +7

    Afrique 50

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
  17. 163 +7

    American Movie

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  18. 223 +7

    Amsterdam Global Village

    1996, in 3 top lists Check
  19. 81 +7

    The Arbor

    2010, in 5 top lists Check
  20. 178 +7

    As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief...

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
  21. 186 +7

    At Sea

    2007, in 4 top lists Check
  22. 204 +7

    Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu

    2010 — a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, in 3 top lists Check
  23. 25 -

    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
  24. 26 -

    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
  25. 27 -

    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
  26. 175 +7

    The Battle of Midway

    1942, in 1 top list Check
  27. 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
  28. 52 +7

    Belovy

    1992, in 2 top lists Check
  29. 76 +7

    Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt

    1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check
  30. 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
  31. 160 +7

    Black Harvest

    1992, in 4 top lists Check
  32. 249 +7

    La bocca del lupo

    2009 — a.k.a. The Mouth of the Wolf, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 66 +7

    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  34. 57 +7

    Burden of Dreams

    1982, in 4 top lists Check
  35. 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
  36. 211 +7

    Cabra Marcado Para Morrer

    1984 — a.k.a. Twenty Years Later, in 6 top lists Check
  37. 39 +7

    Capturing the Friedmans

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  38. 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
  40. 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
  42. 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
  44. 144 +7

    Chung Kuo - Cina

    1972, in 2 top lists Check
  45. 146 +7

    Cinéma, de notre temps: Où gît votre sourire...

    2001, in 3 top lists Check
  46. 227 +7

    The Civil War

    1990, in 3 top lists Check
  47. 191 +7

    Cocksucker Blues

    1972, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 188 +7

    La commune (Paris, 1871)

    2000 — a.k.a. La Commune (Paris, 1871), in 5 top lists Check
  49. 117 +7

    The Corporation

    2003, in 4 top lists Check
  50. 263 +7

    Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

    1963, in 5 top lists Check
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