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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Burden of Dreams
1982, in 4 top lists Check -
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Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
72 +7
News from Home
1976, in 7 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 -
128 +7
Encounters at the End of the World
2007, in 2 top lists Check -
38 +7
Leviathan
2012, in 5 top lists Check -
236 +7
Streetwise
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
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Sans soleil
1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check -
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21 Up
1977, in 2 top lists Check -
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7 Plus Seven
1970, in 2 top lists Check -
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Seven Up!
1964, in 5 top lists Check -
63 +7
When We Were Kings
1996, in 7 top lists Check -
183 +7
The Last Waltz
1978, in 9 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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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...
1975 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part I, in 8 top lists Check -
96 +7
Olympia 2. Teil - Fest der Schönheit
1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty, in 14 top lists Check -
95 +7
Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker
1938 — a.k.a. Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations, in 14 top lists Check -
207 +7
Crossroads
1976, in 4 top lists Check -
92 +7
Toute la mémoire du monde
1956, in 4 top lists Check -
154 +7
Pina
2011, in 3 top lists Check -
66 +7
Bowling for Columbine
2002, in 11 top lists Check -
205 +7
Dokfa nai meuman
2000 — a.k.a. Mysterious Object at Noon, in 6 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 -
81 +7
The Arbor
2010, in 5 top lists Check -
61 +7
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...
2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check -
82 +7
Entuziazm (Simfoniya Donbassa)
1930 — a.k.a. Enthusiasm, in 7 top lists Check -
213 +7
Primate
1974, in 2 top lists Check -
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Les glaneurs et la glaneuse
2000 — a.k.a. The Gleaners & I, in 13 top lists Check -
192 +7
Stories We Tell
2012, in 7 top lists Check -
196 +7
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
1968, in 7 top lists Check -
40 +7
Le sang des bêtes
1949 — a.k.a. Blood of the Beasts, in 10 top lists Check -
60 +7
Crumb
1994, in 12 top lists Check -
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Dont Look Back
1967 — a.k.a. Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back, in 10 top lists Check -
124 +7
In the Street
1948, in 4 top lists Check -
209 +7
The War Room
1993, in 2 top lists Check -
45 +7
Welfare
1975, in 7 top lists Check -
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The Thin Blue Line
1988, in 12 top lists Check -
166 +7
Gates of Heaven
1978, in 4 top lists Check -
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F for Fake
1973, in 11 top lists Check -
89 +7
No Quarto da Vanda
2000 — a.k.a. In Vanda's Room, in 6 top lists Check -
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Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
102 +7
Fata Morgana
1971, in 4 top lists Check -
70 +7
Culloden
1964 — a.k.a. The Battle of Culloden, in 5 top lists Check -
121 +7
Edvard Munch
1974, in 9 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
194 +7
Ningen jôhatsu
1967 — a.k.a. A Man Vanishes, in 3 top lists Check -
237 +7
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
1925, in 6 top lists Check -
158 +7
Videogramme einer Revolution
1992 — a.k.a. Videogram of a Revolution, in 4 top lists Check -
143 +7
Tongues Untied
1989, in 11 top lists Check
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