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1.
Hearts and Minds (1974 Documentary)
    8.4/10  
A documentary of the conflicting attitudes of the opponents of the Vietnam war. (112 mins.)
Director: Peter Davis
2.
Darwin's Nightmare (2004 Documentary)
    7.6/10  
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)
    7.8/10  
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)
    8.2/10  
Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance. (145 mins.)
5.
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992 Documentary)
    8.2/10  
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda. (167 mins.)
6.
El juego de la guerra (1965)
    8.1/10  
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)
    8.3/10  
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
8.
Shoah (1985 Documentary)
    8.3/10  
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)
    6.4/10  
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.)
10.
Le fond de l'air est rouge (1977 Documentary)
    8.2/10  
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)
    8.2/10  
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.)
12.
Occupation 101 (2006 Documentary)
    8.4/10  
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.)
13.
Bukowski: Born into This (2003 Documentary)
    7.9/10  
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)
    8.3/10  
A filmed account of a bitterly violent miner strike. (103 mins.)
Director: Barbara Kopple
15.
Salesman (1968 Documentary)
    7.9/10  
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.)
16.
In the Year of the Pig (1968 Documentary)    
    7.7/10  
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)
    7.7/10  
Documentary about the murderer José Luis Cerveto (86 mins.)
Director: Gonzalo Herralde
18.
Los (2001 Documentary)
    7.2/10  
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)
    7.2/10  
The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent. (140 mins.)
20.
India: Matri Bhumi (1959 Documentary)
    7.6/10  
Divided into four episodes Roberto Rosellini's performs a ritual trip with India covering culture, beautiful... (90 mins.)
21.
Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960) (1961 Documentary)
    7.6/10  
Real-life individuals discuss topics on society, happiness in the working class among others and with... (85 mins.)
22.
Hôtel Terminus (1988 Documentary)
    7.8/10  
A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war. (267 mins.)
Director: Marcel Ophüls
23.
Ten Skies (2004 Documentary)
    7.0/10  
(101 mins.)
Director: James Benning
24.
Le chagrin et la pitié (1969 Documentary)
    8.4/10  
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)
    8.1/10  
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)
    9.0/10  
A documentary about the rise of psychoanalysis as a powerfull mean of persuasion for both governments and corporations. (240 mins.)
27.
Carl Gustav Jung (2007 Documentary)
    7.8/10  
Director: Salomón Shang
28.
Escadrons de la mort: L'école française (2003 Documentary)
    7.9/10  
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.)
29.
The Atomic Cafe (1982 Documentary)
    7.7/10  
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.)
30.
Nanking (2007)
    7.9/10  
Through readings of historical account by actors and the testimony of survivors, the events of the Nanjing Massacre are recounted. (90 mins.)
31.
Chircales (1972 Documentary)
    7.4/10  
(42 mins.)
32.
Obyknovennyy fashizm (1965 Documentary)
    8.3/10  
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)
    -/10  
Every day thousands of people leave their impoverished Central American homelands to get into the USA... (82 mins.)
35.
13 Lakes (2004 Documentary)
    7.4/10  
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)
    6.9/10  
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)
    7.8/10  
Divided into three segments, namely 1 Neocolonialism, 2 Act for liberation, 3 Violence and liberation... (260 mins.)
38.
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978 Documentary)
    8.5/10  
(100 mins.)
Director: Guy Debord
Stars: Duygu Erkan
39.
Planet Earth (2006 Mini-Series)
    9.5/10  
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)
    7.9/10  
Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man... (150 mins.)
41.
Deep Blue (2003 Documentary)
    7.5/10  
The natural history of the oceans (83 mins.)
42.
Señorita extraviada (2001 Documentary)
    7.6/10  
This gripping documentary investigates the disappearance of young women from assembly plants that line the Mexican-American border (74 mins.)
Director: Lourdes Portillo
43.
The World at War (1973 Mini-Series)
    9.3/10  
A series of documentaries about World War II. (52 mins.)
44.
Decasia (2002 Documentary)
    7.4/10  
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
45.
Manual de cine para pervertidos (2006 Documentary)
    7.9/10  
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)
    7.8/10  
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)
    7.5/10  
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)
    8.0/11  
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)
    8.3/10  
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)
    7.9/10  
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)
    8.1/10  
A documentary on the extremes to which workers will go to earn a living. (122 mins.)
52.
The Panama Deception (1992 Documentary)
    7.5/10  
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)
    7.7/10  
Documentary of the live of flora and fauna in a desert in the US. (69 mins.)
Director: James Algar
54.
De nens (2003 Documentary)
    8.1/10  
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)
    7.7/10  
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.)
56.
Apocalipsis - La segunda guerra mundial (2009 Mini-Series)
    9.2/10  
Apocalypse: The Second World War(2009) is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War.... (312 mins.)
57.
Titicut Follies (1967 Documentary)
    7.9/10  
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness. (84 mins.)
58.
Cabra Marcado Para Morrer (1985 Documentary)
    8.4/10  
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)
    7.8/10  
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)
    7.2/10  
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)
    7.7/10  
Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in modern Europe. (91 mins.)
62.
No Quarto da Vanda (2000)
    7.4/10  
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)
    8.3/10  
Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin... (96 mins.)
64.
Law and Order (1969 Documentary)
    7.8/10  
(81 mins.)
65.
Le sang des bêtes (1949 Documentary)
    7.9/10  
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)
    7.1/10  
Documentary account of the AIDS crisis in Uganda. (83 mins.)
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
67.
Tierra de España (1937 Documentary)
    6.7/10  
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)
    7.5/10  
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)
    8.0/10  
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)
    7.7/10  
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.)
71.
Encuentros en el Fin del Mundo (2007 Documentary)
    7.8/10  
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)
    8.6/10  
A collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion. (96 mins.)
Director: Ron Fricke
73.
Il pianeta azzurro (1982 Documentary)
    8.0/10  
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)
    6.5/10  
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)
    7.8/10  
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.)
76.
Las Hurdes (1933 Documentary)
    7.6/10  
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
77.
Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003 Documentary)
    6.6/10  
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)
    7.7/10  
Documentary look at the effects of globalization on Jamaican industry and agriculture. (80 mins.)
Director: Stephanie Black
80.
Ilha das Flores (1989 Documentary)
    8.5/10  
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)
    8.4/10  
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)
    8.2/10  
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)
    7.9/10  
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
85.
Zeitgeist (2007 Documentary)
    8.3/10  
Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues. (118 mins.)
Director: Peter Joseph
86.
Earthlings (2005 Documentary)
    8.7/10  
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
87.
Capturing the Friedmans (2003 Documentary)
    7.8/10  
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)
    8.4/10  
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. (68 mins.)
Director: Dziga Vertov
89.
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007 Documentary)
    8.4/10  
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)
    7.7/10  
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.
92.
To Shoot an Elephant (2009 Documentary)
    8.1/10  
(112 mins.)
93.
Apaga y vámonos (2005 Documentary)
    7.3/10  
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.
Sonata dlya Gitlera (1989 Documentary)
    6.3/10  
(10 mins.)
Stars: Adolf Hitler
95.
Nosotros los monos (1971 Documentary)
    -/10  
(75 mins.)
96.
Loin du Vietnam (1967 Documentary)
    7.5/10  
In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais and Varda show their sympathy and... (115 mins.)
97.
11 x 14 (1977)
    7.4/10  
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)
    8.0/10  
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.)
99.
Oro nazi en Argentina (2004 Documentary)
    7.2/10  
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)
    7.7/10  
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.)


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101.
Los espigadores y la espigadora (2000 Documentary)
    7.6/10  
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)
    7.5/10  
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.)
103.
My Enemy's Enemy (2007 Documentary)
    7.4/10  
A look at the history of one-time Gestapo commander Klaus Barbie, infamously known as "The Butcher of... (87 mins.)
Director: Kevin Macdonald
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105.
Tierra (2007 Documentary)
    8.0/10  
Feature-length version of the documentary TV series Planet Earth, following the migration paths of four animal families. (90 mins.)
106.
Los niños del barrio rojo (2004 Documentary)
    7.5/10  
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.)
107.
Lejos de los árboles (1972 Documentary)
    7.5/10  
(101 mins.)
Director: Jacinto Esteva
108.
Eyengui, el dios del sueño (2003 Documentary)
    6.8/10  
(90 mins.)
109.
Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969 Documentary)
    8.0/10  
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)
    8.5/10  
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)
    7.2/10  
The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent. (140 mins.)
112.
Comizi d'amore (1964 Documentary)
    7.5/10  
Microphone in hand, Pier Paolo Pasolini asks Italians to talk about sex: he asks children where babies come from... (90 mins.)
113.
Microcosmos (1996 Documentary)
    7.9/10  
A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds. (80 mins.)
114.
El somni (2008)
    7.6/10  
(77 mins.)
Stars: Joan Pipa
115.
Amsterdam Global Village (1996 Documentary)
    7.8/10  
(245 mins.)
116.
La commune (Paris, 1871) (2000)
    8.0/10  
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)
    7.1/10  
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)
    8.6/10  
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)
    7.9/10  
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)
    8.6/10  
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.
121.
30 for 30 (2009 TV Series)
Episode: Once Brothers (2010)
    8.6/10  
Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac were two friends who grew up together sharing the common bond of basketball...
122.
Grey Gardens (1975 Documentary)
    7.7/10  
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.)
123.
El sopar (1974 Documentary)
    6.3/10  
(60 mins.)
Director: Pere Portabella
124.
Lejos de los árboles (1972 Documentary)
    7.5/10  
(101 mins.)
Director: Jacinto Esteva
125.
Balseros (2002 Documentary)
    7.4/10  
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.)
126.
Numax presenta... (1980 Documentary)
    7.3/10  
(102 mins.)
Director: Joaquín Jordà
127.
Crumb (1994 Documentary)
    8.0/10  
An intimate portrait of the controversial cartoonist and his traumatized family. (119 mins.)
Director: Terry Zwigoff
128.
129.
Joy Division (2007 Documentary)
    7.8/10  
A chronological account of the influential late 1970s English rock band. (93 mins.)
Director: Grant Gee
130.
Lucio (2007 Documentary)
    8.1/10  
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.)
131.
El cielo gira (2004 Documentary)
    7.1/10  
One year in the life of a tiny village in northern Spain. (110 mins.)
132.
Cravan vs. Cravan (2002 Documentary)
    7.2/10  
(100 mins.)
Director: Isaki Lacuesta
133.
Más allá del espejo (2006 Documentary)
    7.7/10  
(112 mins.)
Director: Joaquim Jordà
134.
Why We Fight (2005 Documentary)
    8.1/10  
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)
    8.1/10  
The film chronicle of the legendary 1969 music festival. (184 mins.)
Director: Michael Wadleigh
136.
The Children of Leningradsky (2005 Documentary)
    8.0/10  
AIDS, drug abuse, police brutality, and other social ills in post-Soviet Russia. (35 mins.)
138.
Culloden (1964 TV Movie)
    8.0/10  
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)
    7.7/10  
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.)
140.
Chernobyl Heart (2003 Documentary)
    8.1/10  
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
141.
Machssomim (2003 Documentary)
    8.0/10  
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)
    7.9/10  
"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)
    6.9/10  
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)
    8.4/10  
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.)
145.
Human Remains (1998 Documentary)
    8.2/10  
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)
    7.6/10  
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
147.
Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende (1995 Documentary)
    8.1/10  
(90 mins.)
148.
I Do Not Know What It Is I Am Like (1986)
    7.2/10  
(89 mins.)
Director: Bill Viola
149.
Jaguar (1979)
    7.6/10  
(100 mins.)
Director: Lino Brocka
150.
Bagatela (2009 Documentary)
    8.4/10  
(74 mins.)
151.
I Love Dollars (1986)
    7.6/10  
152.
Estamira (2004 Documentary)
    8.0/10  
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)
    6.9/10  
Filmmaker Péter Forgács compiles home movies by a family of Catalan industrialists who have documented... (84 mins.)
Director: Péter Forgács
154.
México, la revolución congelada (1973 Documentary)
    8.3/10  
(65 mins.)
Director: Raymundo Gleyzer
155.
Agarrando pueblo (1977 Short Film)
    7.7/10  
Fictional film that simulates being a documentary about filmmakers who exploit the misery mercantilist purposes... (28 mins.)
156.
Nostalgia de la luz (2010 Documentary)
    7.6/10  
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)
    8.1/10  
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)
    8.4/10  
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.)
159.
...A Valparaíso (1965 Documentary)
    7.8/10  
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
160.
Moeder Dao, de schildpadgelijkende (1995 Documentary)
    8.1/10  
(90 mins.)
161.
Human Remains (1998 Documentary)
    8.2/10  
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
162.
163.
At Sea (2007 Documentary)
    7.4/10  
(60 mins.)
Director: Peter Hutton
168.
Ocurrido en Hualfín (1965 Documentary)
    8.3/10  
(50 mins.)
169.
La doctrina del shock (2009 Documentary)
    7.6/10  
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.)
170.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie (1995 Documentary)
    8.0/10  
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)
    6.9/10  
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
172.
Thrive (2011 Documentary)
    6.8/10  
An unconventional documentary that lifts the veil on what's really going on in our world by following the money upstream... (132 mins.)
173.
Orozco el embalsamador (2001 Documentary)
    6.7/10  
A Documentary about the grim work of an embalmer in one of the poorest and most dangerous parts in Colombia. (91 mins.)
174.
Jose Torres (1959 Documentary)
    8.1/10  
(25 mins.)
175.
A propósito de Niza (1930 Documentary)
    7.6/10  
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)
    8.2/10  
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.)
177.
La Isla: Archives of a Tragedy (2009 Documentary)
    7.5/10  
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)
    7.2/10  
"La Rabbia" employs documentary footage (from the 1950's) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question... (104 mins.)
179.
Hidden in Plain Sight (2003 Documentary)
    6.8/10  
A feature length documentary by John H. Smihula (90 mins.)
Director: John Smihula
180.
Vamos a hacer dinero (2008 Documentary)
    7.5/10  
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)
    7.6/10  
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)
    6.9/10  
An experimental documentary detailing the history of plane hijackings. (68 mins.)
Director: Johan Grimonprez
183.
Le monde selon Monsanto (2008 Documentary)
    8.2/10  
You do not have to believe that God exists, but you will after this movie know that the devil poster... (108 mins.)
184.
On the Bowery (1956 Documentary)
    7.7/10  
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)
    9.0/10  
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain. (157 mins.)
187.
Iraq in Fragments (2006 Documentary)
    7.4/10  
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)
    7.8/10  
A poetic depiction of life and ritual in the south Indian state of Kerala. We see how knowledge is passed... (94 mins.)
189.
The War You Don't See (2010 Documentary)
    8.5/10  
(97 mins.)
190.
Death in Gaza (2004 Documentary)
    8.3/10  
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
191.
De la servitude moderne (2009 Documentary)
    8.1/10  
A mesmerizing documentary about the origins and causes of the widespread unbalances of modern West societies... (52 mins.)
192.
Món petit (2012 Documentary)
    8.0/10  
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)
    7.2/10  
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)
    8.5/10  
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