ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTARIES

Changed from 100 favourites to include other notable and popular documentaries. I’m including some films which blur the line between reality and fiction (People on Sunday, Our Beloved Month of August, The War Game, My Winnipeg, F for Fake, The Naked Island..), drama (Close Up, Our Hitler, Story of the Weeping Camel..) or avant-garde (Aimless Walk, Organism, Video Letter, Sleep has her House..). Triumph of the Will? No thanks.

My favourites:

Man with a Movie Camera,
Around the World in 80 Days (TV),
Sans Soleil,
Route One USA,
Stealing a Nation,
Planet Earth (TV),
The Battle of Chile,
Life on Earth (TV),
The World at War (TV),
The Sorrow and the Pity,
Letter from a Film-maker to his Daughter,
Hour of the Furnaces,
A Valparaiso,
Great Canal Journeys (TV),
Salut les Cubains

Not on Mubi: Wales: Land of the Wild (TV), Buried by Mainstream Media: The True Story of Madeleine McCann (Hall), Hortobagy (Hollering)