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. 141 +7

    ...A Valparaíso

    1963 — a.k.a. Valparaiso, in 2 top lists Check
  2. 181 +7

    Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple

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

    21 Up

    1977, in 2 top lists Check
  4. 20 -

    28 Up

    1984, in 6 top lists Check
  5. 21 -

    35 Up

    1991, in 2 top lists Check
  6. 22 -

    42 Up

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
  7. 23 -

    49 Up

    2005, in 2 top lists Check
  8. 18 -

    7 Plus Seven

    1970, in 2 top lists Check
  9. 123 +7

    79 primaveras

    1969, in 5 top lists Check
  10. 29 -

    The Act of Killing

    2012, in 9 top lists Check
  11. 101 +7

    The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

    1971, in 9 top lists Check
  12. 251 +7

    Afrique 50

    1950, in 3 top lists Check
  13. 163 +7

    American Movie

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  14. 223 +7

    Amsterdam Global Village

    1996, in 3 top lists Check
  15. 178 +7

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

    2000, in 6 top lists Check
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 175 +7

    The Battle of Midway

    1942, in 1 top list Check
  20. 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
  21. 52 +7

    Belovy

    1992, in 2 top lists Check
  22. 76 +7

    Berlin - Die Sinfonie der Großstadt

    1927 — a.k.a. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis, in 12 top lists Check
  23. 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
  24. 249 +7

    La bocca del lupo

    2009 — a.k.a. The Mouth of the Wolf, in 2 top lists Check
  25. 66 +7

    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  26. 57 +7

    Burden of Dreams

    1982, in 4 top lists Check
  27. 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
  28. 211 +7

    Cabra Marcado Para Morrer

    1984 — a.k.a. Twenty Years Later, in 6 top lists Check
  29. 39 +7

    Capturing the Friedmans

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  30. 103 +7

    The Century of the Self

    2002, in 2 top lists Check
  31. 11 -

    Le chagrin et la pitié

    1969 — a.k.a. The Sorrow and the Pity, in 11 top lists Check
  32. 1 -

    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  33. 79 +7

    Chelsea Girls

    1966, in 6 top lists Check
  34. 7 -

    Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)

    1961 — a.k.a. Chronicle of a Summer, in 8 top lists Check
  35. 144 +7

    Chung Kuo - Cina

    1972, in 2 top lists Check
  36. 146 +7

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

    2001, in 3 top lists Check
  37. 227 +7

    The Civil War

    1990, in 3 top lists Check
  38. 191 +7

    Cocksucker Blues

    1972, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 188 +7

    La commune (Paris, 1871)

    2000 — a.k.a. La Commune (Paris, 1871), in 5 top lists Check
  40. 117 +7

    The Corporation

    2003, in 4 top lists Check
  41. 263 +7

    Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment

    1963, in 5 top lists Check
  42. 207 +7

    Crossroads

    1976, in 4 top lists Check
  43. 60 +7

    Crumb

    1994, in 12 top lists Check
  44. 244 +7

    Cuadecuc, vampir

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
  45. 70 +7

    Culloden

    1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check
  46. 262 +7

    Dal Polo all'Equatore

    1987 — a.k.a. From the Pole to the Equator, in 2 top lists Check
  47. 115 +7

    Dark Days

    2000, in 1 top list Check
  48. 50 +7

    Darwin's Nightmare

    2004, in 3 top lists Check
  49. 87 +7

    De fem benspænd

    2003 — a.k.a. The Five Obstructions, in 6 top lists Check
  50. 250 +7

    Délits flagrants

    1994, in 1 top list Check
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