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. 100 +7

    Time Indefinite

    1993, in 3 top lists Check
  2. 213 +7

    Primate

    1974, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 249 +7

    La bocca del lupo

    2009 — a.k.a. The Mouth of the Wolf, in 2 top lists Check
  4. 236 +7

    Streetwise

    1984, in 4 top lists Check
  5. 158 +7

    Videogramme einer Revolution

    1992 — a.k.a. Videogram of a Revolution, in 4 top lists Check
  6. 247 +7

    The Moon and the Sledgehammer

    1971, in 2 top lists Check
  7. 156 +7

    Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny....

    1995, in 3 top lists Check
  8. 179 +7

    Tarnation

    2003, in 3 top lists Check
  9. 241 +7

    Unser täglich Brot

    2005 — a.k.a. Our Daily Bread, in 2 top lists Check
  10. 254 +7

    1000-nen kizami no hidokei

    1987 — a.k.a. Magino Village: A Tale, in 1 top list Check
  11. 227 +7

    The Civil War

    1990, in 3 top lists Check
  12. 181 +7

    Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple

    1968 — a.k.a. 17th Parallel: Vietnam in War, in 3 top lists Check
  13. 184 +7

    Megacities

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
  14. 159 +7

    Jaime

    1974, in 1 top list Check
  15. 190 +7

    Happy Mother's Day

    1963, in 2 top lists Check
  16. 138 +7

    RR

    2007, in 4 top lists Check
  17. 162 +7

    Inside Job

    2010, in 4 top lists Check
  18. 86 +7

    Diaries Notes and Sketches

    1968, in 5 top lists Check
  19. 166 +7

    Gates of Heaven

    1978, in 4 top lists Check
  20. 208 +7

    Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe

    1996 — a.k.a. Microcosmos, in 3 top lists Check
  21. 204 +7

    Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceausescu

    2010 — a.k.a. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, in 3 top lists Check
  22. 75 +7

    Workingman's Death

    2005, in 2 top lists Check
  23. 150 +7

    Route One USA

    1989, in 3 top lists Check
  24. 233 +7

    L'Inde fantôme

    1969 — a.k.a. Phantom India, in 4 top lists Check
  25. 135 +7

    Diary

    1983 — a.k.a. Diary 1973-1983, in 3 top lists Check
  26. 175 +7

    The Battle of Midway

    1942, in 1 top list Check
  27. 130 +7

    Mashgh-e Shab

    1989 — a.k.a. Homework, in 4 top lists Check
  28. 223 +7

    Amsterdam Global Village

    1996, in 3 top lists Check
  29. 103 +7

    The Century of the Self

    2002, in 2 top lists Check
  30. 38 +7

    Leviathan

    2012, in 5 top lists Check
  31. 113 +7

    On the Bowery

    1956, in 4 top lists Check
  32. 172 +7

    La chasse au lion à l'arc

    1966 — a.k.a. The Lion Hunters, in 2 top lists Check
  33. 164 +7

    Zidane, un portrait du 21e siècle

    2006 — a.k.a. Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait, in 4 top lists Check
  34. 173 +7

    Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

    2004, in 4 top lists Check
  35. 145 +7

    Robinson in Space

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
  36. 207 +7

    Crossroads

    1976, in 4 top lists Check
  37. 265 +7

    The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the...

    2004 — a.k.a. The Power of Nightmares, in 4 top lists Check
  38. 255 +7

    Nippon Sengoshi - Madamu onboro no Seikatsu

    1970 — a.k.a. History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess, in 2 top lists Check
  39. 246 +7

    Gambling, Gods and LSD

    2002, in 3 top lists Check
  40. 102 +7

    Fata Morgana

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
  41. 80 +7

    Le fond de l'air est rouge

    1977 — a.k.a. A Grin Without A Cat, in 3 top lists Check
  42. 93 +7

    Le joli mai

    1963 — a.k.a. The Lovely Month of May, in 4 top lists Check
  43. 74 +7

    Handsworth Songs

    1986, in 5 top lists Check
  44. 234 +7

    Wszystko moze sie przytrafic

    1995 — a.k.a. Anything Can Happen, in 4 top lists Check
  45. 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
  46. 192 +7

    Stories We Tell

    2012, in 7 top lists Check
  47. 253 +7

    Milestones

    1975, in 2 top lists Check
  48. 133 +7

    Ici et ailleurs

    1976 — a.k.a. Here and Elsewhere, in 3 top lists Check
  49. 244 +7

    Cuadecuc, vampir

    1971, in 4 top lists Check
  50. 225 +7

    En construcción

    2001, in 3 top lists Check
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