Top Docs
By: Marq
Who doesn’t love a good documentary? When done well, they can be as captivating as any narrative film.
Some I really need to see (in no particular order):
- Salesman
- Gates of Heaven
- Vernon, Florida
- the works of Frederick Wiseman
- many docs by Werner Herzog
- the 7 Up series
- Burden of Dreams
- Man with a Movie Camera
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
- A Brief History of Time
- Lost in La Mancha
- Gimme Shelter
- A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
- My Voyage to Italy
- One Day in September
- The Fog of War
- Manufactured Landscapes
- Hearts and Minds
- Taxi to the Dark Side
- Jesus Camp
- Standard Operating Procedure
- The Kid Stays in the Picture
- The Hip Hop Project
- Bus 174
- Surfwise
- Woodstock
At last, onto the master list…
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01Steve James
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02Errol Morris
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03Joe Berlinger
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04Joe Berlinger
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05Andrew Jarecki
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06Chris Smith
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07Terry Zwigoff
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08Albert Maysles
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09Jørgen Leth
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10Tony Silver
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11Marc Singer
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12Bruce Brown
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13Joe Berlinger
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14Leon Gast
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15Spike Lee
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16Michael Moore
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17Michael Moore
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18Kurt Kuenne
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19Jessica Yu
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20Amir Bar-Lev
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21Doug Pray
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22Nick Broomfield
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23Werner Herzog
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24Kevin Macdonald
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25Barry Blaustein
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26Errol Morris
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27Steve James
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28Michael Moore
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29Henry Joost
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30Carl Deal
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31Seth Gordon
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32Stephen Kijak
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33Ted Demme
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34Kenneth Bowser
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35Werner Herzog
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36Paul Jay
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37Elijah Drenner
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38George Ratliff
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39Patrick Creadon
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40Jeffrey Blitz
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41Spike Lee
