Filmspotting Top 100 Documentaries

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The Top 100 Documentaries of all time as selected by Filmspotting forum members.

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  1. 28 -

    American Masters: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
  2. 43 -

    American Movie

    1999, in 5 top lists Check
  3. 57 -

    Anvil: The Story of Anvil

    2008, in 2 top lists Check
  4. 52 -

    Baraka

    1992, in 5 top lists Check
  5. 54 -

    Baseball

    1994, in 3 top lists Check
  6. 16 -

    Bowling for Columbine

    2002, in 11 top lists Check
  7. 18 -

    Burden of Dreams

    1982, in 4 top lists Check
  8. 46 -

    Capturing the Friedmans

    2003, in 7 top lists Check
  9. 87 -

    Catfish

    2010, in 0 top lists Check
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    Chelovek s kino-apparatom

    1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check
  11. 25 -

    The Civil War

    1990, in 3 top lists Check
  12. 96 -

    Control Room

    2004, in 0 top lists Check
  13. 81 -

    Un coupable idéal

    2001 — a.k.a. Murder on a Sunday Morning, in 2 top lists Check
  14. 55 -

    The Cove

    2009, in 2 top lists Check
  15. 47 -

    Crumb

    1994, in 12 top lists Check
  16. 97 -

    La danse

    2009 — a.k.a. La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, in 0 top lists Check
  17. 42 -

    Dark Days

    2000, in 1 top list Check
  18. 75 -

    De fem benspænd

    2003 — a.k.a. The Five Obstructions, in 6 top lists Check
  19. 91 -

    Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

    2008, in 2 top lists Check
  20. 68 -

    The Devil and Daniel Johnston

    2005, in 0 top lists Check
  21. 84 -

    Dogtown and Z-Boys

    2001, in 3 top lists Check
  22. 12 -

    Dont Look Back

    1967 — a.k.a. Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back, in 10 top lists Check
  23. 90 -

    The Elephant Will Never Forget

    1953, in 0 top lists Check
  24. 71 -

    Encounters at the End of the World

    2007, in 2 top lists Check
  25. 86 -

    Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

    2005, in 1 top list Check
  26. 94 -

    Er shi si cheng ji

    2008 — a.k.a. 24 City, in 2 top lists Check
  27. 7 -

    Exit Through the Gift Shop

    2010, in 2 top lists Check
  28. 23 -

    F for Fake

    1973, in 11 top lists Check
  29. 95 -

    Fahrenheit 9/11

    2004, in 9 top lists Check
  30. 13 -

    The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of...

    2003 — a.k.a. The Fog of War, in 6 top lists Check
  31. 92 -

    For All Mankind

    1989, in 2 top lists Check
  32. 72 -

    Gates of Heaven

    1978, in 4 top lists Check
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    Gimme Shelter

    1970, in 8 top lists Check
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    Les glaneurs et la glaneuse

    2000 — a.k.a. The Gleaners & I, in 13 top lists Check
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    Grey Gardens

    1975, in 10 top lists Check
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    Grizzly Man

    2005, in 9 top lists Check
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    Harlan County U.S.A.

    1976, in 11 top lists Check
  38. 67 -

    Hearts and Minds

    1974, in 7 top lists Check
  39. 15 -

    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    1991, in 2 top lists Check
  40. 41 -

    High School

    1968, in 4 top lists Check
  41. 2 -

    Hoop Dreams

    1994, in 15 top lists Check
  42. 59 -

    In the Shadow of the Moon

    2007, in 0 top lists Check
  43. 89 -

    An Inconvenient Truth

    2006, in 3 top lists Check
  44. 50 -

    Inside Job

    2010, in 4 top lists Check
  45. 77 -

    Jesus Camp

    2006, in 0 top lists Check
  46. 88 -

    Khaneh siah ast

    1963 — a.k.a. The House Is Black, in 13 top lists Check
  47. 62 -

    The Kid Stays in the Picture

    2002, in 1 top list Check
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    The King of Kong

    2007 — a.k.a. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in 1 top list Check
  49. 82 -

    Koyaanisqatsi

    1982, in 12 top lists Check
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    Lake of Fire

    2006, in 1 top list Check
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