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1.
Hearts and Minds
(1974 Documentary)
A documentary of the conflicting attitudes of the opponents of the Vietnam war. (112 mins.)
Director: Peter Davis
2.
Darwin's Nightmare
(2004 Documentary)
A documentary on the effect of fishing the
Nile perch in Tanzania's Lake Victoria. The predatory fish, which has
wiped out the native species, is sold in European supermarkets, while
starving Tanzanian families have to make do with the leftovers. (107 mins.)
Director: Hubert Sauper
3.
The Take
(2004 Documentary)
The film in not about auto-parts workers
in suburban Buenos Aires, but about workers of a ceramic floors factory
in Neuquen, several hundred miles southward, in Argentinian Patagonia. (87 mins.)
Director: Avi Lewis
4.
The Corporation
(2003 Documentary)
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance. (145 mins.)
Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
5.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
(1992 Documentary)
A film about the noted
American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate
media's role in modern propaganda. (167 mins.)
Director: Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick
6.
El juego de la guerra
(1965)
The War Game is a fictional,
worst-case-scenario docu-drama about nuclear war and its aftermath in
and around a typical English city... (48 mins.)
Director: Peter Watkins
7.
La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Primera parte: La insurreción de la burguesía
(1975 Documentary)
The chronicle of the political tension in
Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the
democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. (97 mins.)
Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández
8.
Shoah
(1985 Documentary)
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary
recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses -
perpetrators as well as survivors. (566 mins.)
Director: Claude Lanzmann
9.
Este perro mundo
(1962 Documentary)
A "shockumentary" consisting of a
collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most
depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and
bestial violence. (108 mins.)
Director: Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti
10.
Le fond de l'air est rouge
(1977 Documentary)
French essay film focusing on global
political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the
New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin
America. (240 mins.)
Director: Chris. Marker
11.
Morir en Madrid
(1963 Documentary)
To Die in Madrid (French: Mourir à Madrid)
is a 1963 French documentary film about the Spanish Civil War, directed
by Frédéric Rossif. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Documentary Feature. (85 mins.)
Director: Frédéric Rossif
12.
Occupation 101
(2006 Documentary)
A thought-provoking and powerful
documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S. political involvement. (90 mins.)
Director: Abdallah Omeish, Sufyan Omeish
13.
Bukowski: Born into This
(2003 Documentary)
Documentary on Charles Bukowski, author of
'Notes of a Dirty Old Man', 'Love Is a Dog from Hell', and the
autobiographical novels, 'Women', 'Hollywood', and 'Post Office'. (130 mins.)
Director: John Dullaghan
14.
Harlan County U.S.A.
(1976 Documentary)
A filmed account of a bitterly violent miner strike. (103 mins.)
Director: Barbara Kopple
15.
Salesman
(1968 Documentary)
Four relentless door-to-door salesmen deal
with constant rejection, homesickness and inevitable burnout as they go
across the country selling very expensive bibles to low-income Catholic
families. (85 mins.)
Director: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
16.
In the Year of the Pig
(1968 Documentary)
Produced at the height of the Vietnam War,
Emile de Antonio's Oscar-nominated 1968 documentary chronicles the
war's historical roots... (103 mins.)
Director: Emile de Antonio
17.
El asesino de Pedralbes
(1979 Documentary)
Documentary about the murderer José Luis Cerveto (86 mins.)
Director: Gonzalo Herralde
18.
Los
(2001 Documentary)
Los Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2 1/2 minutes long, in this non-narrative film. (90 mins.)
Director: James Benning
19.
Africa addio
(1966 Documentary)
The cruel acts of animal
poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking
place on the African continent. (140 mins.)
Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
20.
India: Matri Bhumi
(1959 Documentary)
Divided into four episodes Roberto Rosellini's performs a ritual trip with India covering culture, beautiful... (90 mins.)
Director: Roberto Rossellini
21.
Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)
(1961 Documentary)
Real-life individuals discuss topics on society, happiness in the working class among others and with... (85 mins.)
Director: Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch
22.
Hôtel Terminus
(1988 Documentary)
A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war. (267 mins.)
Director: Marcel Ophüls
24.
Le chagrin et la pitié
(1969 Documentary)
From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival... (251 mins.)
Director: Marcel Ophüls
25.
Touching the Void
(2003 Documentary)
The true story of two
climbers and their perilous journey up the west face of Siula Grande in
the Peruvian Andes in 1985. (106 mins.)
Director: Kevin Macdonald
26.
The Century of the Self
(2002 Mini-Series)
A documentary about the rise
of psychoanalysis as a powerfull mean of persuasion for both
governments and corporations. (240 mins.)
28.
Escadrons de la mort: L'école française
(2003 Documentary)
The French army was very influential in
how modern suppression of independence movements has been and is carried
out. This documentary reveals why. (60 mins.)
Director: Marie-Monique Robin
29.
The Atomic Cafe
(1982 Documentary)
Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s
United States government issued propaganda films designed to reassure
Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety. (86 mins.)
Director: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty
30.
Nanking
(2007)
Through readings of historical account by
actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing
Massacre are recounted. (90 mins.)
Director: Bill Guttentag, Dan Sturman
32.
Obyknovennyy fashizm
(1965 Documentary)
A documentary about the rise and fall of fascism and the effects of Nazism on German society. (138 mins.)
Director: Mikhail Romm
33.
Asalto al suenio
(2006 Documentary)
Every day thousands of people leave their impoverished Central American homelands to get into the USA... (82 mins.)
Director: Uli Stelzner, Fernando Vargas
35.
13 Lakes
(2004 Documentary)
Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land. (135 mins.)
Director: James Benning
36.
The Text of Light
(1974)
Time-lapse photography of
books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot
entirely through a glass ashtray. (71 mins.)
Director: Stan Brakhage
37.
La hora de los hornos: Notas y testimonios sobre el neocolonialismo, la violencia y la liberación
(1968 Documentary)
Divided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation... (260 mins.)
Director: Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas
38.
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
(1978 Documentary)
(100 mins.)
Director: Guy Debord
Stars: Duygu Erkan
39.
Planet Earth
(2006 Mini-Series)
Emmy Award-winning, 11 episodes, 5 years
in the making, the most expensive nature documentary series ever
commissioned by the BBC, and the first to be filmed in high definition. (48 mins.)
40.
Ônibus 174
(2002 Documentary)
Documentary depicts what
happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by
an armed young man... (150 mins.)
Director: José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda
41.
Deep Blue
(2003 Documentary)
The natural history of the oceans (83 mins.)
Director: Andy Byatt, Alastair Fothergill
42.
Señorita extraviada
(2001 Documentary)
This gripping documentary investigates the
disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the
Mexican-American border (74 mins.)
Director: Lourdes Portillo
44.
Decasia
(2002 Documentary)
A meditation on the human quest to
transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and
set to an original symphonic score. (70 mins.)
Director: Bill Morrison
Stars: Margaret Cullington, William S. Hart
45.
Manual de cine para pervertidos
(2006 Documentary)
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO
CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the
greatest movies ever made... (150 mins.)
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Stars: Slavoj Zizek
46.
Operación luna
(2002 TV Movie)
This hard-hitting mockumentary exposes how
Stanley Kubrick faked the 1969 moon landing, with seeming-endorsements
from many key players in NASA and the US government. (52 mins.)
Director: William Karel
47.
Roger y yo
(1989 Documentary)
Director Michael Moore pursues GM CEO
Roger Smith to confront him about the harm he did to Flint, Michigan
with his massive downsizing. (91 mins.)
Director: Michael Moore
48.
This Is Spinal Tap
(1984)
Spinal Tap, one of England's
loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DeBergi on what
proves to be a fateful tour. (82 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
49.
El desencanto
(1976 Documentary)
This film is a documentary about the poet 'Leopoldo Panero'. His widow and his sons talk about death... (97 mins.)
Director: Jaime Chavarri
50.
El sol del membrillo
(1992 Documentary)
The artist, Antonio Lopez,
tries to paint the quince tree he planted some time back in his garden.
Throughout his life... (133 mins.)
Director: Víctor Erice
51.
Workingman's Death
(2005 Documentary)
A documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living. (122 mins.)
Director: Michael Glawogger
52.
The Panama Deception
(1992 Documentary)
A film about the true reasons for the 1989 US invasion of Panama and big media complicity in these activities. (91 mins.)
Director: Barbara Trent
53.
El desierto viviente
(1953 Documentary)
Documentary of the live of flora and fauna in a desert in the US. (69 mins.)
Director: James Algar
Stars: Winston Hibler
54.
De nens
(2003 Documentary)
The film describes the scandal of
pederastria that exploded in the neighborhood of the Raval of Barcelona
and the trial that took place some years afterwards. Jordà analyzes the
mechanisms of the justice and of the world of the medias. (180 mins.)
Director: Joaquim Jordà
55.
Grey Gardens
(1975 Documentary)
An old mother and her middle-aged
daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, live their
eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton. (94 mins.)
Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles
56.
Apocalipsis - La segunda guerra mundial
(2009 Mini-Series)
Apocalypse: The Second World War(2009) is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War.... (312 mins.)
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Martin Sheen
57.
Titicut Follies
(1967 Documentary)
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman
takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater
where people stay trapped in their madness. (84 mins.)
Director: Frederick Wiseman
58.
Cabra Marcado Para Morrer
(1985 Documentary)
Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with
the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the
military coup... (119 mins.)
Director: Eduardo Coutinho
59.
Kisangani Diary
(1998 Documentary)
Along a railroad in the south of the former Zaire UN troups discover a few thousand refugees from Rwanda... (45 mins.)
Director: Hubert Sauper
60.
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
(1971 Documentary)
At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned. (32 mins.)
Director: Brakhage
61.
La brujería a través de los tiempos
(1922 Documentary)
Fictionalized documentary showing the
evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with
hysteria in modern Europe. (91 mins.)
Director: Benjamin Christensen
62.
No Quarto da Vanda
(2000)
The film follows the daily life of Vanda Duarte, a heroin addict in Lisbon, and the community she lives in. (170 mins.)
Director: Pedro Costa
63.
The War on Democracy
(2007 Documentary)
Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin... (96 mins.)
Director: Chris Martin, John Pilger
65.
Le sang des bêtes
(1949 Documentary)
An early example of
ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the
outskirts of Paris with the harsh... (20 mins.)
Director: Georges Franju
66.
ABC Africa
(2001 Documentary)
Documentary account of the AIDS crisis in Uganda. (83 mins.)
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Abbas Kiarostami, Seyfolah Samadian
67.
Tierra de España
(1937 Documentary)
A documentary showing the struggle of the
Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing
forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and
Fascist Italy. (52 mins.)
Director: Joris Ivens
68.
Trumbo y la lista negra
(2007 Documentary)
Through a focus on the life of Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976), this film examines the effects on individuals... (96 mins.)
Director: Peter Askin
69.
War Photographer
(2001 Documentary)
Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever. (96 mins.)
Director: Christian Frei
70.
Unser täglich Brot
(2005 Documentary)
OUR DAILY BREAD is a wide-screen tableau
of a feast which isn't always easy to digest - and in which we all take
part. A pure, meticulous and high-end film experience that enables the
audience to form their own ideas. (92 mins.)
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
71.
Encuentros en el Fin del Mundo
(2007 Documentary)
Film-maker Werner Herzog travels to the
McMurdo Station in Antarctica, looking to capture the continent's beauty
and investigate the characters living there. (99 mins.)
Director: Werner Herzog
72.
Baraka
(1992 Documentary)
A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion. (96 mins.)
Director: Ron Fricke
73.
Il pianeta azzurro
(1982 Documentary)
The passage of time in different
dimensions illustrated by biological evolution, the changing seasons and
the everyday moments of human life. (83 mins.)
Director: Franco Piavoli
74.
Videocracy
(2009 Documentary)
A look at segments of the Italian population who are consumed with celebrity worship. (85 mins.)
Director: Erik Gandini
75.
Nanuk, el esquimal
(1922 Documentary)
In this silent predecessor to the modern
documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the
lives of Nanook and his family, Inuit living in the Arctic Circle. (79 mins.)
Director: Robert J. Flaherty
76.
Las Hurdes
(1933 Documentary)
A surrealistic documentary portrait of the
region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has
barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without
even the most basic utilities and skills. (30 mins.)
Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
77.
Five Dedicated to Ozu
(2003 Documentary)
Five sequences : 1) A piece
of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves 2) People
walking on the seashore... (74 mins.)
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
79.
Life and Debt
(2001 Documentary)
Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture. (80 mins.)
Director: Stephanie Black
80.
Ilha das Flores
(1989 Documentary)
The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian... (13 mins.)
Director: Jorge Furtado
82.
Ashes and Snow
(2005 Documentary)
Exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals. (63 mins.)
Director: Gregory Colbert
83.
La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Segunda parte: El golpe de estado
(1976 Documentary)
Taking place during the Chilean Coup d'état in 1973, this film opens with the attempted military coup of June 1973... (88 mins.)
Director: Patricio Guzmán
84.
La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin armas - Tercera parte: El poder popular
(1979 Documentary)
Completed two years after _Batalla de
Chile: La insurrección de la burguesía, La (1975)_ and _Batalla de
Chile: El golpe de estado... (80 mins.)
Director: Patricio Guzmán
Stars: Salvador Allende, Abilio Fernández
85.
Zeitgeist
(2007 Documentary)
Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues. (118 mins.)
Director: Peter Joseph
86.
Earthlings
(2005 Documentary)
Using hidden cameras and never-before-seen
footage, EARTHLINGS chronicles the day-to-day practices of the largest
industries in the world, all of which rely entirely on animals for
profit. (95 mins.)
Director: Shaun Monson
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix
87.
Capturing the Friedmans
(2003 Documentary)
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly
typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly
transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and
charged with shocking and horrible crimes. (107 mins.)
Director: Andrew Jarecki
88.
El hombre de la cámara
(1929 Documentary)
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. (68 mins.)
Director: Dziga Vertov
Stars: Mikhail Kaufman
89.
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(2007 Documentary)
As global tensions rise, the unthinkable threat of nuclear war has become very real--and very frightening... (86 mins.)
Director: Steven Okazaki
90.
Salvador Allende
(2004 Documentary)
From his childhood in Valparaiso to his
death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life
and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende. (100 mins.)
Director: Patricio Guzmán
91.
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Apaga y vámonos
(2005 Documentary)
APAGA Y VAMONOS (SWITCH OFF) is a tale
about a usurped nation, about a forgotten genocide, about globalization,
about one river. (87 mins.)
Director: Manel Mayol
94.
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Nosotros los monos
(1971 Documentary)
(75 mins.)
Director: Edmund Valladares
Stars: Lautaro Murúa, Luis Medina Castro
96.
Loin du Vietnam
(1967 Documentary)
In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy and... (115 mins.)
Director: Joris Ivens, William Klein
97.
11 x 14
(1977)
One of the most widely praised American
avant-garde films in recent years, James Benning's 1977 feature is a
laconic mosaic of single-shot sequences... (81 mins.)
Director: James Benning
98.
Khaneh siah ast
(1963 Documentary)
Set in a leper colony in the north of
Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much
in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and
gratitude. (20 mins.)
Director: Forugh Farrokhzad
99.
Oro nazi en Argentina
(2004 Documentary)
The story begins in
Patagonia, deep south in Argentina, where researchers look for the
remains of a German U-boat landing... (93 mins.)
Director: Rolo Pereyra
100.
Primate
(1974 Documentary)
This film casts a forensic observational
eye over researchers working with primates. After a time watching it is
possible to wonder which ones of these two sets of primates is the more
strange. (105 mins.)
Director: Frederick Wiseman
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101.
Los espigadores y la espigadora
(2000 Documentary)
An intimate, picaresque inquiry into
French life as lived by the country's poor and its provident, as well as
by the film's own director... (82 mins.)
Director: Agnès Varda
102.
Megacities
(1998 Documentary)
A look at the people who live
precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and
imagination, in four gigantic urban agglomerations: Mumbai, New York
City, Moscow and Mexico City. (90 mins.)
Director: Michael Glawogger
103.
My Enemy's Enemy
(2007 Documentary)
A look at the history of one-time Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, infamously known as "The Butcher of... (87 mins.)
Director: Kevin Macdonald
105.
Tierra
(2007 Documentary)
Feature-length version of the documentary TV series Planet Earth, following the migration paths of four animal families. (90 mins.)
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
106.
Los niños del barrio rojo
(2004 Documentary)
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their
time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with
children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light
district. (85 mins.)
Director: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
109.
Diaries Notes and Sketches
(1969 Documentary)
A chronogical about life including self, family, friend, couple and idol in 6 reels (177 mins.)
Director: Jonas Mekas
110.
Edvard Munch
(1974 TV Movie)
Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism... (210 mins.)
Director: Peter Watkins
111.
Africa addio
(1966 Documentary)
The cruel acts of animal
poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking
place on the African continent. (140 mins.)
Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
112.
Comizi d'amore
(1964 Documentary)
Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex: he asks children where babies come from... (90 mins.)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
113.
Microcosmos
(1996 Documentary)
A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds. (80 mins.)
Director: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Jacques Perrin
115.
Amsterdam Global Village
(1996 Documentary)
(245 mins.)
Director: Johan van der Keuken
Stars: Julika Marijn
116.
La commune (Paris, 1871)
(2000)
In this war drama blurring the lines
between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie
of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before
and during a tragic workers' class revolt. (345 mins.)
Director: Peter Watkins
117.
Verj
(1994 Documentary)
People's struggle through Soviet mechanisation period. The film starts with homage to Peleshian's Armenian roots. (10 mins.)
Director: Artur Peleshian
118.
Noche y niebla
(1955 Documentary)
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps
of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death
contained inside. (32 mins.)
Director: Alain Resnais
119.
Man on Wire
(2008 Documentary)
A look at tightrope walker Philippe
Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New
York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some
consider, "the artistic crime of the century." (94 mins.)
Director: James Marsh
120.
30 for 30
(2009 TV Series)
Episode: The Two Escobars (2010)
The rise of Colombian soccer is attributed
to the influx of drug money into the sport by Pablo Escobar and the
other drug cartels. However, the team's swift decline after Escobar's
death results in the murder of star player Andres Escobar.
Director: Reggie Rock Bythewood, Bill Couturié
121.
30 for 30
(2009 TV Series)
Episode: Once Brothers (2010)
Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac were two friends who grew up together sharing the common bond of basketball...
Director: Reggie Rock Bythewood, Bill Couturié
122.
Grey Gardens
(1975 Documentary)
An old mother and her middle-aged
daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, live their
eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton. (94 mins.)
Director: Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles
125.
Balseros
(2002 Documentary)
The story of Cuban refugees who risked
their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life
is like for those who succeed. (120 mins.)
Director: Carlos Bosch, Josep Maria Domènech
127.
Crumb
(1994 Documentary)
An intimate portrait of the controversial cartoonist and his traumatized family. (119 mins.)
Director: Terry Zwigoff
128.
129.
Joy Division
(2007 Documentary)
A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band. (93 mins.)
Director: Grant Gee
130.
Lucio
(2007 Documentary)
Lucio Urtubia dedicated anarchist
participated in notorious kidnappings, he collaborated with Che Guevara,
he swindled Citibank of 3,000 million pesetas. And did it all without
missing a day's work as a building laborer. (93 mins.)
Director: Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga
131.
El cielo gira
(2004 Documentary)
One year in the life of a tiny village in northern Spain. (110 mins.)
Director: Mercedes Álvarez
133.
Más allá del espejo
(2006 Documentary)
(112 mins.)
Director: Joaquim Jordà
Stars: Esther Chumillas, Joaquim Jordà
134.
Why We Fight
(2005 Documentary)
Is American foreign policy dominated by
the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in
American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to
give an affirmative answer to each of these questions. (98 mins.)
Director: Eugene Jarecki
135.
Woodstock
(1970 Documentary)
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival. (184 mins.)
Director: Michael Wadleigh
136.
The Children of Leningradsky
(2005 Documentary)
AIDS, drug abuse, police brutality, and other social ills in post-Soviet Russia. (35 mins.)
Director: Andrzej Celinski, Hanna Polak
138.
Culloden
(1964 TV Movie)
A reconstruction of the Battle of
Culloden, the last battle to take place on British soil, as if modern TV
cameras were present. (69 mins.)
Director: Peter Watkins
139.
San Clemente
(1982 Documentary)
This documentary is about the life of a
Venetian psychiatric hospital. The relationships between the doctors,
the patients and their families are followed. (90 mins.)
Director: Raymond Depardon, Sophie Ristelhueber
140.
Chernobyl Heart
(2003 Documentary)
This Academy Award-winning documentary
takes a look at children born after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant
disaster who have been born with a deteriorated heart condition. (39 mins.)
Director: Maryann DeLeo
Stars: William Novick, Adi Roche
141.
Machssomim
(2003 Documentary)
Documentary filmmaker Yoav Shamir's
depiction of the checkpoints that the Israel Defense Forces man in the
Palestinian Authority. (80 mins.)
Director: Yoav Shamir
142.
Punishment Park
(1971)
"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary
purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers
escorting a group of hippies... (88 mins.)
Director: Peter Watkins
143.
El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War
(2005 Documentary)
Filmmaker Péter Forgács compiles home movies by a family of Catalan industrialists who have documented... (84 mins.)
Director: Péter Forgács
144.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
(2011 Mini-Series)
A series of films about how humans have
been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don't realize
it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of
the computers. (60 mins.)
Stars: Adam Curtis, Stewart Brand
145.
Human Remains
(1998 Documentary)
Film clips of the 20th century's great
dictators with narration in first person combine to form a fascinating
portrait of power and evil. (30 mins.)
Director: Jay Rosenblatt
146.
A propósito de Niza
(1930 Documentary)
What starts off as a conventional
travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the
French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants. (25 mins.)
Director: Jean Vigo
152.
Estamira
(2004 Documentary)
Documentary about Estamira, a
63-year-old woman who's been working for over 20 years at a landfill in
Rio de Janeiro... (121 mins.)
Director: Marcos Prado
Stars: Estamira
153.
El Perro Negro: Stories from the Spanish Civil War
(2005 Documentary)
Filmmaker Péter Forgács compiles home movies by a family of Catalan industrialists who have documented... (84 mins.)
Director: Péter Forgács
155.
Agarrando pueblo
(1977 Short Film)
Fictional film that simulates being a documentary about filmmakers who exploit the misery mercantilist purposes... (28 mins.)
Director: Carlos Mayolo, Luis Ospina
156.
Nostalgia de la luz
(2010 Documentary)
In Chile's Atacama Desert,
astronomers peer deep into the cosmos in search for answers concerning
the origins of life... (90 mins.)
Director: Patricio Guzmán
157.
It Felt Like a Kiss
(2009 Documentary)
The story of America's rise to power
starting in 1959, it uses nothing but archive footage and Amercia pop
music. Showing the consequences on the rest of the world and in peoples
mind. (54 mins.)
Director: Adam Curtis
158.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
(2011 Mini-Series)
A series of films about how humans have
been colonized by the machines we have built. Although we don't realize
it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of
the computers. (60 mins.)
Stars: Adam Curtis, Stewart Brand
159.
...A Valparaíso
(1965 Documentary)
A travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography... (34 mins.)
Director: Joris Ivens
Stars: Roger Pigaut
161.
Human Remains
(1998 Documentary)
Film clips of the 20th century's great
dictators with narration in first person combine to form a fascinating
portrait of power and evil. (30 mins.)
Director: Jay Rosenblatt
164.
167.
Me matan si no trabajo y si trabajo me matan: La huelga obrera en la fábrica INSUD
(1974 Documentary)
Director: Raymundo Gleyzer
169.
La doctrina del shock
(2009 Documentary)
An investigation of "disaster capitalism",
based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capitalism feeds on
natural disasters, war and terror to establish its dominance. (79 mins.)
Director: Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
170.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
(1995 Documentary)
A documentary presenting mankind's most ambitious effort at perfecting the means to its own annihilation... (92 mins.)
Director: Peter Kuran
171.
Prostitution bag sløret
(2004 Documentary)
A documentary that follows two young women
raising children and supporting drug habits through prostitution in a
country ruled by fundamentalists. (58 mins.)
Director: Nahid Persson
Stars: Nahid Persson
172.
Thrive
(2011 Documentary)
An unconventional
documentary that lifts the veil on what's really going on in our world
by following the money upstream... (132 mins.)
Director: Steve Gagné, Kimberly Carter Gamble
173.
Orozco el embalsamador
(2001 Documentary)
A Documentary about the grim work of an embalmer in one of the poorest and most dangerous parts in Colombia. (91 mins.)
Director: Kiyotaka Tsurisaki
Stars: Froilan Orozco
175.
A propósito de Niza
(1930 Documentary)
What starts off as a conventional
travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the
French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants. (25 mins.)
Director: Jean Vigo
176.
Presunto culpable
(2008 Documentary)
Two young Mexican attorneys attempt to
exonerate a wrongly convicted man by making a documentary. In the
process, they expose the contradictions of a judicial system that
presumes suspects guilty until proven innocent. (87 mins.)
Director: Roberto Hernández, Geoffrey Smith
177.
La Isla: Archives of a Tragedy
(2009 Documentary)
In July 2005 a huge explosion in the
Guatemalan Capital leads to the discovery of the historic archive of the
National Police... (85 mins.)
Director: Uli Stelzner
178.
La rabbia
(1963 Documentary)
"La Rabbia" employs documentary footage
(from the 1950's) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the
existential question... (104 mins.)
Director: Giovannino Guareschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
179.
Hidden in Plain Sight
(2003 Documentary)
A feature length documentary by John H. Smihula (90 mins.)
Director: John Smihula
180.
Vamos a hacer dinero
(2008 Documentary)
Most of us don't know where their money
is. However, one thing is for certain, it's is not in the bank to which
we entrusted it. The bank and our money is already a part of the cycle
of the global money market. (110 mins.)
Director: Erwin Wagenhofer
181.
Nosotros alimentamos al mundo
(2005 Documentary)
A look at how the world's food is produced and how mass production changes the environment and the lives of people. (96 mins.)
Director: Erwin Wagenhofer
182.
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
(1997 Documentary)
An experimental documentary detailing the history of plane hijackings. (68 mins.)
Director: Johan Grimonprez
183.
Le monde selon Monsanto
(2008 Documentary)
You do not have to believe that God exists, but you will after this movie know that the devil poster... (108 mins.)
Director: Marie-Monique Robin
184.
On the Bowery
(1956 Documentary)
At the time of this film, the Bowery was a neighborhood in New York City populated largely by the down and out... (65 mins.)
Director: Lionel Rogosin
185.
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
(2004 Mini-Series)
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain. (157 mins.)
186.
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
(2007 Mini-Series)
(180 mins.)
Director: Adam Curtis
187.
Iraq in Fragments
(2006 Documentary)
Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension. (94 mins.)
Director: James Longley
188.
Het oog boven de put
(1988 Documentary)
A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. We see how knowledge is passed... (94 mins.)
Director: Johan van der Keuken
190.
Death in Gaza
(2004 Documentary)
The harrowing documentary that portrays the horror of the Israeli conflict and the resulting death of its director, James Miller. (80 mins.)
Director: James Miller
Stars: James Miller, Saira Shah
191.
De la servitude moderne
(2009 Documentary)
A mesmerizing documentary about the origins and causes of the widespread unbalances of modern West societies... (52 mins.)
Director: Jean-François Brient
192.
Món petit
(2012 Documentary)
Albert and Anna use to travel around the
world without money and in a wheelchair. Now they want to conquer their
craziest challenge: to reach the other side of the planet, from
Barcelona to New Zealand.
Director: Marcel Barrena
193.
Programming the Nation?
(2011 Documentary)
According to many authorities, since the
late 1950's subliminal content has been tested and delivered through all
forms of media... (105 mins.)
Director: Jeff Warrick
194.
Samsara
(2011 Documentary)
Filmed over nearly five years in
twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre
film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds,
disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders. (102 mins.)
Director: Ron Fricke
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