Letterboxd top 250 Documentaries
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"A companion piece to Dave Vis' list of Letterboxd's official top 250 films of all-time, which excludes documentaries from consideration. Credit to Andrew for the idea.
Ranked by average user rating.
ELIGIBILITY RULES:
• Documentaries must be feature-length (45+ minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release in its entirety.
• TV series, miniseries, and episodes are excluded but docs listed as 'TV movie' on IMDb are eligible. Exceptions made for series that also had a limited theatrical release.
• No featurettes unless theatrically distributed, even if feature-length (featurettes are marked as 'Video' on IMDb, such as 'making of' docs).
• Concert films are allowed if they had a theatrical release. However, documentaries and concert films about contemporary musicians have a 10-year grace period before eligibility due to unintentional vote manipulation by fans. Exceptions are made for disbanded or deceased groups as well as films that debuted at a film festival.
• No standup comedy marked as a documentary, nor any stage shows. Exceptions may be made for borderline exceptions.
• There is a 1,000 minimum ratings threshold. "
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Cabra Marcado Para Morrer
1984 — a.k.a. Twenty Years Later, in 6 top lists Check -
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The Beatles: Get Back - The Rooftop Concert
2022, in 0 top lists -
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Stop Making Sense
1984, in 9 top lists Check -
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As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief...
2000, in 6 top lists Check -
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Shoah
1985, in 18 top lists Check -
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Jogo de Cena
2007 — a.k.a. Playing, in 4 top lists Check -
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Nathan for You: Finding Frances
2017, in 1 top list -
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O.J.: Made in America
2016, in 7 top lists Check -
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Paris Is Burning
1990, in 12 top lists Check -
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Edifício Master
2002, in 2 top lists Check -
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Tiexi qu
2002 — a.k.a. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks, in 8 top lists Check -
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Streetwise
1984, in 4 top lists Check -
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Las tres muertes de Marisela Escobedo
2020 — a.k.a. The Three Deaths of Marisela Escobedo, in 0 top lists -
14 -1
Nema-ye Nazdik
1990 — a.k.a. Close-Up, in 21 top lists Check -
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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii
1972, in 1 top list Check -
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Dominion
2018, in 0 top lists -
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Harlan County U.S.A.
1976, in 11 top lists Check -
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For Sama
2019, in 3 top lists -
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Black Is... Black Ain't
1994, in 2 top lists Check -
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Hoop Dreams
1994, in 15 top lists Check -
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Life of Crime 1984-2020
2021, in 0 top lists -
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La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...
1975 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part I, in 8 top lists Check -
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Yuki yukite, shingun
1987 — a.k.a. The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, in 9 top lists Check -
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13th
2016, in 3 top lists Check -
25 +1
Les plages d'Agnès
2008 — a.k.a. The Beaches of Agnès, in 6 top lists Check -
26 -1
Ennio
2021, in 0 top lists -
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La batalla de Chile: La lucha de un pueblo sin...
1976 — a.k.a. The Battle of Chile: Part II, in 6 top lists Check -
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006, in 6 top lists Check -
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Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
2008, in 2 top lists Check -
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Human
2015, in 2 top lists Check -
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American Utopia
2020 — a.k.a. David Byrne's American Utopia, in 3 top lists -
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Minding the Gap
2018, in 2 top lists -
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Holocausto Brasileiro
2016, in 0 top lists -
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Tongues Untied
1989, in 11 top lists Check -
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The Act of Killing
2012, in 9 top lists Check -
36 -1
Baraka
1992, in 5 top lists Check -
37 -1
Original Cast Album: Company
1970, in 3 top lists Check -
38 -1
Chelovek s kino-apparatom
1929 — a.k.a. Man with a Movie Camera, in 24 top lists Check -
39 -1
The Look of Silence
2014, in 4 top lists Check -
40 -1
Century of Cinema: A Personal Journey with...
1995, in 1 top list Check -
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Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
42 -2
Tôkyô orinpikku
1965 — a.k.a. Tokyo Olympiad, in 6 top lists Check -
43 -1
Aswang
2019, in 0 top lists -
44 -1
A Metamorfose dos Pássaros
2020 — a.k.a. The Metamorphosis of Birds, in 1 top list -
45 -1
Sans soleil
1983 — a.k.a. Sans Soleil, in 16 top lists Check -
46 -1
One More Time with Feeling
2016, in 0 top lists Check -
47 -1
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
2018, in 2 top lists -
48 -1
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
2020, in 2 top lists -
49 -1
Sign 'o' the Times
1987, in 0 top lists Check -
50 -1
Tempestad
2016, in 2 top lists Check
Last updated on Jul 7, 2022 by Teproc; source