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Viennale's The Way of the Termite: The Essay in Film 1909-2004
Favs/dislikes: 8:0. The Essay in Cinema was organized by The Austrian Film Museum and originally presented at the Viennale (Vienna International Film Festival) in October 2007. [quote]The extensive programme was curated by the French filmmaker and theorist Jean-Pierre Gorin who lives and teaches in San Diego and whose own work - partly created in collaboration with Jean-Luc Godard - includes important contributions to the "essayistic strategy” in cinema. Gorin has selected 60 works from 20 nations - among them a number of classics of film history as well as numerous (re-)discoveries. Beyond the characteristic and often-quoted elements - such as the presence of the author’s voice and the first person singular perspective chosen by many of these films - the essay film according to Gorin "is a rumination in Nietzsche's sense of the word, the meandering of an intelligence that tries to multiply the entries and the exits into the material it has elected (or has been elected by).[/quote] -
Up series
Favs/dislikes: 14:0. The Up Series is a series of documentary films directed by Michael Apted that have followed the lives of fourteen Britons, starting in 1964 when they were seven years old. Every installment is on Rober Ebert's list "The Great Movies", due to their historic value. -
True Crime Documentaries
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. Unsolved mysteries. Wrongly accused. Serial killers. Secrets. Lies. True crime. True stories. -
Time Out New York 50 Best Documentaries
Favs/dislikes: 28:0. From 2010, Time Out New York gets back to reality with their ranked list of nonfiction triumphs. -
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. All movies cited and presented by Slavoj Zizek. -
The Documentary Blog's Top 50 Documentaries of the Decade
Favs/dislikes: 9:0. Jay C of The Documentary Blog lists his favorite documentaries of the last decade. -
The Celluloid Closet: The Documentary
Favs/dislikes: 29:0. This list consists of the 117 movies featured in the 1995 compilation documentary “The Celluloid Closet”. See also: "The Celluloid Closet: The Book" http://www.icheckmovies.com/lists/the+celluloid+closet+the+book/moviedearest/ -
The Best of The British Transport Films
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. A descendant of the British sponsored documentary tradition, British Transport Films was established in 1949 to focus a spotlight on transport as a Nationalised undertaking, to create an appetite for travel and to entice the public to use nationalised transport. Over a period of more than 35 years, BTF produced an unrivalled documentary film legacy for generations of film and transport enthusiasts. This new 2-disc Blu-ray compilation gathers together 21 films representing the cream of the celebrated BTF collection newly remastered in stunning High Definition for the very first time to celebrate the 70th anniversary.. -
That's Entertainment!
Favs/dislikes: 22:0. This list consists of the 124 movies featured in the “That’s Entertainment!” compilation documentary series, plus those three films: “That’s Entertainment!” (1974), “That’s Entertainment, Part II” (1976) and “That’s Entertainment! III” (1994). -
That's Dancing!
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. This list consists of the 42 movies featured in the 1985 compilation documentary “That‘s Dancing!”. -
Terror in the Aisles
Favs/dislikes: 10:0. This list consists of the 77 movies featured in the 1984 compilation documentary “Terror in the Aisles”. -
Storyville
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. BBC Series showcasing the best in international documentaries. -
Sight & Sound: Filmmakers’ Greatest Documentaries of All Time
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. The greatest documentaries ever made, as voted by 103 directors including John Akomfrah, Thom Andersen, Michael Apted, Clio Barnard, Sophie Fiennes, Amos Gitai, Paul Greengrass, José Luis Guerin, Isaac Julien, Asif Kapadia, Sergei Loznitsa, Kevin Macdonald, James Marsh, Joshua Oppenheimer, Anand Patwardhan, Pawel Pawlikowski, Nicolas Philibert, Walter Salles and James Toback… (La batalla de Chile counts for 3 entries) -
Sight & Sound 2014 Greatest Documentaries: Filmmakers' Top 30
Favs/dislikes: 1:0. -
Sight & Sound 2014 Greatest Documentaries: Critics' Top 50
Favs/dislikes: 6:0. -
Rockumentaries
Favs/dislikes: 2:0. A bunch of documentaries about rock music and music stuff in general. Rock on! -
Remarkable Documentaries
Favs/dislikes: 3:1. -
Real Life Horrors
Favs/dislikes: 30:0. Original IMDb list created by Dr-Faustus. [quote=Dr-Faustus]There can be no fictional film that compares to the atrocities of real life. Some of these atrocities, abuses, injustices and crimes committed have been documented. Unfortunately man has learn't little from his past. Hopefully these films will create awareness and prevention in the future. "Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it".- T.S. Eliot. This list is dedicated to all those people working towards a peaceful, tolerant and harmonious world, and IMDb for creating the means for people to do so, through film.[/quote] -
RadiiChina's 100 Films to Watch to Help You Understand China
Favs/dislikes: 4:0. The history of cinema has shadowed the history of modern China, turning a lens on more than a century of radical upheavals that have given form and substance to the People’s Republic as it stands today. In the spirit of exploring this vast and complex country through the layer of its big-screen output, RADII presents our list of 100 Films to Understand China. This is not a ranked list of 1-100 — we’re not trying to tell you the 100 “best” or “most important” films to come out of China. Our goal is to give a round and deep profile of the country through the medium of films made here in the last 100 years or so. This list is a syllabus of movies across the spectrum of time, space and quality that, taken together, provide a snapshot of today’s China, the forces that shaped it, and the directions in which it’s moving looking forward. We’re focusing primarily on films made in mainland China, since these come from a different cultural context and industrial framework than films made in Hong Kong or Taiwan. In assembling the list we reached out to filmmakers, producers, distributors, curators, critics, experts and industry insiders, who gave us an eclectic mix of mainstream titles, cult classics, and deep cuts. They provided these via the category headings that we provided and therefore do not necessarily endorse all of the selections you’ll find here. To make it easier to navigate, we’ve divided the 100 films up into 10 categories with 10 movies each: - Pre-war Shanghai; - The Mao Years; - Opening Up; - Indie & Arthouse; - Documentaries; - Wuxia; - Pop(corn) Culture; - China Today; - Bad Films; - Animation. -
Pardon le Cinéma vol.2: 100 films à voir d'urgence, des classiques aux pépites
Favs/dislikes: 3:0. [b]Pardon the Cinema, vol. 2![/b] The team of the first French podcast on cinema does it again with a new opus. New films, new classics to (re)discover, new nuggets lovingly unearthed, new great moments of the 7th art... But the objective is always the same: to wake up your screens with another cinema, an in-depth selection that travels across all continents and all genres, from 1907 to 2021, from Chile to Japan, from documentaries to action films... [b]100 unknown, forgotten or marginal films... to see urgently! [/b] "Pardon le Cinema" is Victor Bonnefoy (director, screenwriter and creator of the Youtube channel InThePanda), Sophie Grech (press officer and screenwriter), Marc Moquin (editor-in-chief of Revus & Corrigés), Simon Riaux (critic cinema in Le Cercle on Canal+ or on the Large Screen website), Arthur Cios (journalist for Konbini) and Alexis Roux (cinema journalist): a team that talks about cinema in an irresponsible but respectful atmosphere and brings together more than 100,000 listeners per month. -
Out of the English bubble
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. A list of some international films (out of the Hollywood culture bubble) so that would also include some home-grown Canadian films. Plus a few I have yet to see. -
Onur's Documentary List
Favs/dislikes: 0:0. -
One Hundred Great Documentaries (OUP)
Favs/dislikes: 18:0. Patricia Aufderheide's list from 'Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction' - part of the highly regarded series from Oxford University Press. "These documentaries have been widely seen and discussed, and have been in many cases at the center of controversies; in other cases they have provided valuable teaching resources. They are all accessible for renting or buying for your private collection. You can use the index in this book and other books mentioned in the references, imdb.com, your local library, Netflix, Google, and the Library of Congress to find out more about why these films have attracted attention and esteem. Viewing this collection will set you up nicely with a context to watch your latest favorite, argue with the list, and build your own top one hundred." Currently missing: Taking Pictures (1996) (http://aso.gov.au/titles/documentaries/taking-pictures/) -
Offbeat Documentaries
Favs/dislikes: 28:0. A personal list of interesting, offbeat documentaries featuring people doing things we don't usually hear about. -
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film
Favs/dislikes: 7:0. All the films featured in the 2009 documentary "Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film". This list was compiled directly from the end credits of the film.
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