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I(heart)documentaries TOP100

By: Matt Kilgore

The Up series combined into one, using the latest installment.

After adding a couple I can now get rid of “Babies” and “180 degrees South”, those don’t deserve to be here…

Not on the List (placing them between spots to not mess up the numbers)

On the Ropes (between 89/90)
Frontline: Obama’s Deal (40/41)
Say Amen, Somebody (40/41)
Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (51/52)
Hands on a Hard Body (66/67)
The Lottery (55/56)

New…

Top 100 Documentaries:
1. F for Fake (Orson Welles – 1973)
2. Up Series (Michael Apted – 1964/2005)
3. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog – 2005)
4. Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme – 1984)
5. Jazz on a Summer’s Day (Aram Avakian, Bert Stern – 1960)
6. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy – 2010)
7. That’s Entertainment! III (Michael J Sheridan – 1994)
8. Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris -1978)
9. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov – 1929)
10. Woostock (Michael Wadleigh – 1970)
11. Hoop Dreams (Steve James – 1994)
12. The Fog of War (Errol Morris – 2003)
13. Sweetgrass (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash – 2009)
14. My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin – 2007)
15. Roger and Me (Michael Moore – 1989)
16. No Direction Home (Martin Scorsese – 2005)
17. Man on Wire (James Marsh – 2008)
18. Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa – 1965)
19. Ten (Abbas Kiarostami – 2002)
20. The Times of Harvey Milk (Rob Epstein – 1984)
21. Salesman (Albert Maysles, David Maysles – 1968)
22. Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty – 1922)
23. Night and Fog (Alain Resnais – 1955)
24. Sherman’s March (Ross McElwee – 1986)
25. The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris – 1988)
26. ABC Africa (Abbas Kiarostami – 2001)
27. The Sorrow and the Pity (Marcel Ophuls – 1969)
28. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff – 1994)
29. Standard Operating Procedure
30. Tabloid (Errol Morris – 2010)
31. Mix-Up ou Meli-melo (Francoise Romand – 1986)
32. When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee – 2006)
33. Passing Strange (Spike Lee – 2009)
34. The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters (Seth Gordon – 2007)
35. Don’t Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker – 1967)
36. That’s Entertainment! (Jack Haley Jr. – 1974)
37. Restrepo (Tim Hetherinton – 2010)
38. Gimme Shelter (Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin)
39. Lake of Fire (Tony Kaye – 2007)
40. Point of Order (Emile de Antonio – 1964)
41. Lessons in Darkness (Werner Herzog – 1992)
42. 4 Little Girls (Spike Lee – 1997)
43. Triumph of the Will (Leni Riefenstahl – 1935)
44. Burden of Dreams (Les Blank – 1982)
45. The Beaches of Agnes (Agnes Varda – 2008)
46. We Live in Public (Ondi Timoner – 2009)
47. Heavy Metal Parking Lot (John Heyn, Jeff Krulik – 1986)
48. General Idi Amin Dada (Barbet Schroeder – 1974)
49. Harlan County U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple – 1976)
50. The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda – 2000)
51. Hands on a Hard Body (S.R. Bindler – 1998)
52. Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore – 2002)
53. American Movie (Chris Smith – 1999)
54. The War Room (Chris Hegedus, D.A. Penebaker – 1993)
55. La Soufriere (Werner Herzog – 1977)
56. Say Amen, Somebody (George T. Nierenberg – 1982)
57. To Be and to Have (Nicolas Philibert – 2003)
58. Shine a Light (Martin Scorsese – 2008)
59. Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog – 2010)
60. Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (Errol Morris – 1997)
61. Touching the Void (Kevin Macdonald – 2003)
62. Taxi to the Dark Side (Alex Gibney – 2008)
63. Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (Nathan Frankowski – 2008)
64. Of Time and the City (Terence Davies – 2008)
65. That’s Entertainment! II (Gene Kelly – 1976)
66. In the Shadow of the Moon (David Sington – 2007)
67. My Voyage to Italy (Martin Scorsese – 1999)
68. When We Were Kings (Leon Gast – 1996)
69. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog – 1997)
70. Our Daily Bread (Nikolaus Geyhalter – 2005)
71. A Propos de Nice (Jean Vigo – 1930)
72. Spellbound (Jeffrey Blitz – 2003)
73. American Dream (Barbara Kopple – 1992)
74. Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (Paul Jay – 1998)
75. Hearts and Minds (Peter Davis – 1974)
76. My Brother’s Keeper (Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky – 1992)
77. Farhenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore – 2004)
78. Into Great Silence (Philip Groning – 2005)
79. A Film Unfinished (Yael Hersonki – 2010)
80. Catfish (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman – 2010)
81. Young @ Heart (Stephen Walker, Sally George – 2008)
82. Hell and Back Again (Danfung Dennis – 2011)
83. Buck (Cindy Meehl – 2011)
84. Helvetica (Gary Hustwit – 2007)
86. Paradise Lost (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky – 1996)

87. The Smartest Guys in the Room (Alex Gibney – 2005)

88. The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese – 1978)

89. Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog – 2007)

90. The Agronomist (Jonathan Demme – 2003)

91. Food, Inc. (Robert Kenner – 2009)

92. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Jeff Feuerzeig – 2006)

93. Anvil! The Story of Anvil! (Sacha Gervasi – 2008)

94. No End in Sight (Charles Ferguson – 2007)

95. Please Vote for Me (Weijun Chin – 2007)

96. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse (Fax Bahr – 1991)

97. Last Train Home (Lixin Fan – 2009)

98. Dear Zachary (Kurt Kuenne – 2008)

99. Grey Gardens (Albert Maysles, David Maysles – 1975)

100. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki – 2003)

Top 100 Foreign Films

1. L’atalante (Jean Vigo – 1934)

2. The Third Man (Carol Reed – 1949)

3. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir – 1939)

4. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – 1948)

5. Bleak Moments (Mike Leigh – 1972)

6. Playtime (Jacques Tati – 1967)

7. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard – 1960)

8. The Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M. Eisenstein – 1925)

9. The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut – 1959)

10. L’avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni – 1960)

11. Tokyo Story (Yasujiro Ozu – 1953)

12. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini – 1963)

13. Pickpocket (Robert Bresson – 1959)

14. Mr. Hulot’s Holiday (Jacques Tati – 1953)

15. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki – 2001)

16. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa – 1954)

17. Rashomon ( Akira Kurosawa – 1950)

18. Le Samourai (Jean-Pierre Melville – 1967)

19. I Vitelloni (Federico Fellini – 1953)

20. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata – 1988)

21. Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard – 1964)

22. The Bicycle Thief (Vittorio De Sica – 1948)

23. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson – 1966)

24. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini – 1960)

25. Mon Oncle (Jacques Tati – 1958)

26. Blow-Up (Michelangelo Antonioni – 1966)

27. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari – Robert Wiene – 1920)

28. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer – 1928)

29. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder – 1974)

30. Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh – 2008)

31. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi – 1953)

32. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa – 1952)

33. Week End (Jean-Luc Godard – 1967)

34. The Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir – 1937)

35. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman – 1957)

36. Gertrud (Carl Theodor Dreyer – 1964)

37. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer – 1955)

38. Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer – 1949)

39. The River (Jean Renoir – 1951)

40. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti – 1963)

41. Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel – 1966)

42. The Red Balloon (Albert Lamorisse – 1956)

43. A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Godard – 1961)

44. Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock – 1951)

45. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard – 1965)

46. The 39 Steps (Alfred Hitchcock – 1935)

47. La Strada (Federico Fellini – 1954)

48. Un Chien Andalou (Luis Bunuel – 1929)

49. L’eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni – 1962)

50. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp – 1943)

51. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa – 1961)

52. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda – 1958)

53. Chloe in the Afternoon (Eric Rohmer – 1972)

54. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu – 2009)

55. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman – 1957)

56. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu – 1962)

57. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Werner Herzog – 1974)

58. Aguirre: The Wrath of God (Werner Herzog – 1972)

59. The Little Soldier (Jean-Luc Godard – 1960)

60. Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas – 2007)

61. In Bruges (Martin McDonagh – 2008)

62. High and Low (Akira Kurosawa – 1963)

63. The Best of Youth (Marco Tullio Giordana – 2003)

64. Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman – 1955)

65. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy – 1964)

66. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice – 1973)

67. Once (John Carney – 2006)

68. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne – 1945)

69. Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh – 1996)

70. 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom – 2002)

71. The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieslowski – 1989)

72. A Hard Day’s Night (Richard Lester – 1964)

73. The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock – 1938)

74. Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Edward Yang – 2000)

75. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir – 1975)

76. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky – 1972)

77. Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami – 2010)

78. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro – 2006)

79. Castle in the Sky (Hayao Mizazaki – 1986)

80. My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard – 1962)

81. Three Colors: Red (Krzystof Kieslowski – 1994)

82. Woyzeck (Werner Herzog – 1979)

83. A Trip to the Moon (Georges Melies)

84. Alphaville (Jean-Luc Godard – 1965)

85. Platform (Zhang Ke Jia – 2000)

86. Cache (Michael Haneke – 2005)

87. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee – 2000)

88. Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman – 1961)

89. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders – 1987)

90. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman – 1982)

91. Day for Night (Francois Truffaut – 1973)

92. Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman – 1963)

93. Dancer in the Dark (Lars von Trier – 2000)

94. Autumn Sonata (Ingmar Bergman – 1978)

95. Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog – 1982)

96. Jules and Jim (Francois Truffaut – 1962)

97. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky – 1975)

98. The Silence (Ingmar Bergman – 1963)

99. Hunger (Steve McQueen – 2008)

100.

Top 100 American Films

1. City Lights (Charlie Chaplin – 1931)

2. Citizen Kane (Orson Welles – 1941)

3. Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock – 1958)

4. Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly – 1952)

5. The Searchers (John Ford – 1956)

6. His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks – 1940)

7. The General (Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton – 1926)

8. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick – 1968)

9. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (F.W. Murnau – 1927)

10. Casablanca (Michael Curtiz – 1942)

11. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock – 1946)

12. Rushmore (Wes Anderson – 1998)

13. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese – 1980)

14. The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey – 1937)

15. Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder – 1950)

16. Annie Hall (Woody Allen – 1977)

17. Stagecoach (John Ford – 1939)

18. JFK (Oliver Stone – 1991)

19. The Apartment (Billy Wilder – 1960)

20. How Green Was My Valley (John Ford – 1941)

21. Manhattan (Woody Allen – 1979)

22. Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick – 1957)

23. The Kid (Charles Chaplin – 1921)

24. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston – 1948)

25. The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton – 1955)

26. L.A. Confidential (Curtis Hanson – 1997)

27. My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava – 1936)

28. Fargo (Joel Coen & Ethan Coen – 1996)

29. High Sierra (Raoul Walsh – 1941)

30. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford – 1962)

31. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee – 1989)

32. Laura (Otto Preminger – 1944)

33. Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese -1976)

34. Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett – 1977)

35. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick – 2011)

36. Modern Times (Charles Chaplin – 1936)

37. 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet – 1957)

38. Alien (Ridley Scott – 1979)

39. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand – 1937)

40. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg – 1984)

41. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick – 1978)

42. Down by Law (Jim Jarmusch – 1986)

43. Badlands (Terrence Malick – 1973)

44. Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock – 1960)

45. The Cameraman (Edward Sedgwick – 1928)

46. Being There (Hal Ashby – 1979)

47. The Graduate (Mike Nichols – 1967)

48. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder – 1944)

49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford – 1940)

50. Faces (John Cassavetes – 1968)

51. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg)

52. True Stories (David Byrne – 1986)

53. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey – 1933)

54. The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese – 1982)

55. The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola – 1974)

56. It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra – 1946)

57. The Magnificent Ambersons (Orson Welles – 1942)

58. Jaws (Steven Spielberg – 1975)

59. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott – 1982)

60. Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino – 2004)

61. Up (Pete Docter – 2009)

62. The Social Network (David Fincher – 2010)

63. Coffee and Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch – 2004)

64. Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks – 1959)

65. The Stranger (Orson Welles – 1946)

66. Nashville (Robert Altman – 1975)

67. The Fighter (David O Russell – 2010)

68. Swing Time (George Stevens – 1936)

69. Touch of Evil (Orson Welles – 1958)

70. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg – 2001)

71. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola – 1974)

72. Track of the Cat (William A. Wellman – 1954)

73. Hallelujah, I’m a Bum! (Lewis Milestone – 1933)

74. The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola – 1972)

75. (Lee – 1992)

76. The Lady from Shanghai (Orson Welles – 1947)

77. No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen & Joel Coen)

78. A Christmas Story (Bob Clark – 1983)

79. My Darling Clementine (John Ford – 1946)

80. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick – 1964)

81. Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis – 1988)

82. Pinocchio (Hamilton Luske – 1940)

83. High Fidelity (Stephen Frears – 2000)

84. The Far Country (Anthony Mann – 1954)

85. Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch – 1984)

86. Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford – 1939)

87. Drive (Nicolas Winding Refn – 2011)

88. The Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin – 1925)

89. Star Wars (George Lucas – 1977)

90. You Can’t Take it With You (Frank Capra – 1938)

91. Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders – 1984)

92. Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen – 1989)

93. Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock – 1954)

94. Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl (D.W. Griffith – 1919)

95. The Player (Robert Altman – 1992)

96. Chinatown (Roman Polanski – 1974)

97. Halloween (John Carpenter – 1978)

98. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson – 2009)

99. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton – 2008)

100. The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer – 1962)

 

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