Sight & Sound: Filmmakers’ Greatest Documentaries of All Time

Created by Jonas Van Dutch.
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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)
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Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
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Sans soleil
1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check -
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The Thin Blue Line
1988, in 12 top lists Check -
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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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Salesman
1969, in 10 top lists Check -
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Titicut Follies
1967, in 9 top lists Check -
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Dont Look Back
1967 — a.k.a. Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back, in 10 top lists Check -
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Man of Aran
1934, in 5 top lists Check -
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Nanook of the North
1922, in 17 top lists Check -
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Belovy
1992, in 2 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 -
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Grey Gardens
1975, in 10 top lists Check -
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Burden of Dreams
1982, in 4 top lists Check -
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Darwin's Nightmare
2004, in 3 top lists Check -
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Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
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Le sang des bêtes
1949 — a.k.a. Blood of the Beasts, in 10 top lists Check -
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Vremena goda
1975 — a.k.a. Four Seasons, in 3 top lists Check -
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
2000 — a.k.a. The Gleaners & I, in 13 top lists Check -
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Grizzly Man
2005, in 9 top lists Check -
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Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
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Roger & Me
1989, in 12 top lists Check -
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Sherman's March
1985, in 10 top lists Check -
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Triumph des Willens
1935 — a.k.a. Triumph of the Will, in 16 top lists Check -
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Welfare
1975, in 7 top lists Check -
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When We Were Kings
1996, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
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Gimme Shelter
1970, in 8 top lists Check -
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Harlan County U.S.A.
1976, in 11 top lists Check -
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Las Hurdes
1933 — a.k.a. Land Without Bread, in 12 top lists Check -
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Leviathan
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly
1997, in 1 top list Check -
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Le chagrin et la pitié
1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 10 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
Last updated on Aug 8, 2014; source