# 🔍 FILMS - DOCUMENTARIES ## Round 2 - [ ] Amargosa (2000) 93m 7.4 - [ ] The Million Dollar Duck 2016 71m - [ ] Public Trust (2020) 96m 8.4 - [ ] Swimming Pool Stories (2022) 74m - [ ] The Contestant 2023 - [ ] We Are As Gods 2020 90m - [ ] Shirkers (2018) - [ ] Linotype: The Film - amazon - [ ] City Hall (2020) 7.3 272m - [ ] The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) 251m 8.1 - [ ] American Animals (2018) - [ ] The Beaches of Agnès (2008) - [ ] Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story 2024 ## Round 1 - [x] Free Solo (2018) - [x] Stop Making Sense (1984) - [x] Icarus (2017) - [x] Kedi (2016) - [x] Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013) - [x] Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012) - [x] Genghis Blues (1999) - [x] The Thin Blue Line (1988) - [x] Paris is Burning (1990) - [x] Holy Ghost People (1967) - [x] The Fog of War (2003) - [x] Minding the Gap (2018) - [x] Sherpa (2015) - [x] Harlan County U.S.A. (1976) - [x] F for Fake (1973) - [x] Val (2021) - [x] Marlene (1984) - [x] Crip Camp (2020) - [x] Meru (2015) - [x] Lifeline: Clyfford Still (2019) - [x] How to Build a Time Machine (2016) - [x] Brooklyn Castle (2012) - [x] Grizzly Man (2005) - [x] Bobby Fischer Against the World (2011) - [x] Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988) - [x] Everest (1998) - [x] The Barkley Marathons (2014) - [x] Grey Gardens (1975) - [x] My Octopus Teacher (2020) - [x] Boys State (2020) - [x] Man on Wire (2008) - [x] At the Drive-In (2017) - [x] American Movie (1999) - [x] Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (2019) - [x] Sweetgrass (2009) - [x] Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - [x] Sisters with Transistors (2020) - [x] Man with a Movie Camera (1929) - [x] Alive Inside (2014) - [x] Tickled (2016) - [x] Rams (2018) - [x] Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980) - [x] Sound and Fury (2000) - [x] Night and Fog (1956) - [x] The Act of Killing (2012) - [ ] Samara (2011) 8.5 102m - [ ] Baraka (1992) 8.6 96m - [ ] For Sama (2019) 8.5 100m - [ ] Hoop Dreams (1994) 8.3 170m - [ ] Black Wax (1983) 7.9 79m - [ ] Exit through the Gift Shop (2010) 8.0 87m - [ ] Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016) 93m 7.5 - [ ] Dark Days (2002) 82m 7.8 - [ ] Life Itself (2014) 7.8 120m - [ ] Crumb (1994) 8.0 119m - [ ] Welcome to Chechnya (2020) 7.9 107m - [ ] American Factory (2019) 110m 7.4 - [ ] Black Gold (2006) 78m 7.2 - [ ] A Six Dollar Cup of Coffee (2018) 72m 7.5 - [ ] Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005) 96m 8.1 - [ ] Feels Good Man (2020) 94m 7.6 - [ ] Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) 7.5 - [ ] Microcosmos (1996) 80m 7.9 - [ ] Capturing the Friedmans (2003) - [ ] Where Dreams Go To Die (2017) 7.9 76m - [ ] Dwarves Kingdom (2015) 75m 7.2 - [ ] A Life in Waves (2017) 75m - [ ] Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise’ (1980) 60m 7.3 - [ ] Black Coffee (2007) 7.7 172m - [ ] The Coffee Man (2016) 8.3 85m - [ ] The Dark Side of Chocolate (2010) 46m 7.5 - [ ] Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) 90m 7.0 - [ ] Copyright Criminals (2009) 7.4 54m - [ ] RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2008) - [ ] Paul Robeson: Here I Stand (1999) - [ ] Kiss the Ground (2020) - [ ] AlphaGo (2017) 7.9 - [ ] The Social Dilemma (2020) 7.6 94m - [ ] Bring Your Own Brigade (2021) 7.6 119m - paramount - [ ] Summer of Soul (2021) 8.2 118m - [ ] The Biggest Little Farm (2018) 91m 8.1 - [ ] Set! (2021) 7.6 - [ ] Hafu (2013) 87m 7.1 - [ ] Searching for Sugar Man (2012) 8.2 86m - [ ] Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) 135 m 7.5 - [ ] Instant Dream (2017) 7.6 91m - [ ] Seaspiracy (2021) 89m 8.2 - [ ] Flee (2021) 83m 8.1 - [ ] Pumping Iron (1977) - [ ] Capturing the Friedmans (2003) 7.7 107m - [ ] The Glacier Project (2012) 60m - [ ] Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016) - [ ] The Endless Summer (1965) 7.7 95m - [ ] Ama-San (2016) 113m 7.0 - [ ] Thunder Soul (2010) - [ ] The Art of the Steal (2009) 101m 7.6 - [ ] Le mystère Picasso (1956) 78m 7.6 - [ ] Mur Murs (1982) 78m 7.4 - [ ] Mountain (2017) 73m 7.2 - [ ] Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) - [ ] The Great White Silence (1924) 108m - [ ] Dark Money (2018) - kanopy - [ ] I Called Him Morgan (2016) 7.3 92m - [ ] Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records (2018) 85m 7.2 - [ ] The Departure - The Life of an Unconventional Monk (2017) 87m 7.1 - [ ] The Search for General Tso (2014) 71m - [ ] See What I'm Saying - [ ] A Life in Dirty Movies 100m 6.6 - [ ] The Celluloid Closet (1995) - [ ] Magnus Carlsen (2016) 7.1 78m - [ ] Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry (2012) - [ ] Touching the Void (2003) - [ ] The Century of the Self (2002) - [ ] Prince - Sign o’ the Times (1988) 84m 8.1 - [ ] Sigur Rós: Heima (2007) 8.5 97m - [ ] The Overnighters (2014) 7.4 102m - [ ] Close up (1990) - [ ] Booksellers (2020) - kanopy 6.9 99m - [ ] Becoming Nobody (2019) - [ ] Shoah (1985) 8.7 566m - [ ] Walk with Me (2017) - [ ] Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991) - [ ] Miles Davis: The Birth Of The Cool (2019) - [ ] What Happened, Miss Simone? (2015) - [ ] The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013) - [ ] The Great Buster (2018) - [ ] Mifune: The Last Samurai (2015) - [ ] Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003) - [ ] Honeyland (2020) - [ ] I Am Not Your Negro (2016) - [ ] Kate Plays Christine (2016) - [ ] Chasing Coral (2017) - [ ] The Living Desert (1953) - [ ] Ram Dass, Going Home (2018) - 30m - [ ] Whores' Glory (2011) - prostitutes in Thailand, Bangladesh and Mexico. - [ ] National Gallery (2014) - [ ] Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) - [ ] Fasting (2017) - [ ] Life on Us: A Microscopic Safari (2014) - [ ] Yarn (2016) - [ ] David Bowie: The Last Five Years (2019) - [ ] How To Survive A Plague (2012) - [ ] The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) - [ ] Amy (2015) - [ ] Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things (2015) - [ ] Knock Down the House (2019) - [ ] The Last Waltz (1972) - [ ] The Central Park Five (2013) - [ ] Life, Animated (2016) - [ ] The Queen (1968) - [ ] Blackfish (2013) - [ ] Buena Vista Social Club (1999) - [ ] The Up Series (1964-2012) - [ ] Nanook of the North (1922) - [ ] High School (1968) -Frederick Wiseman - [ ] Welfare (1975)- Frederick Wiseman - [ ] National Gallery (2014) - Frederick Wiseman - [ ] Ex Libris: New York Public Library (2017) - 7.4 197m - [ ] Gimme Shelter (1970) - [ ] Woodstock (1970) - [ ] The Forgotten Frontier (1931) - [ ] The City (1939) - [ ] Word Is Out (1977) - [ ] A Hot Dog Program (1999) 50m 8.2 - [ ] The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) - [ ] Borat (2006) - [ ] Seal Island - [ ] Powers of Ten - [ ] McMillions - [ ] Be Water - [x] Spellbound (2002) - [x] Super Size Me (2004) - [x] Citizen Four (2014) - [x] 13th (2016) - [x] The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) - [x] Bowling for Columbine (2002) - [x] Roger & Me (1989) - [x] Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) - [x] The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) - [x] This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006) - [x] Art and Craft (2014) - [x] The Corporation (2003) Definitions of Documentary Film A documentary film purports to present factual information about the world outside the film. — David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson, Film Art: An Introduction A nonfiction film about real events and people, often avoiding traditional narrative structures. — Timothy Corrigan, A Short Guide to Writing About Film Documentary [is] the creative treatment of actuality. — John Grierson, Cinema Quarterly 2.1 Documentary defines not subject or style, but approach. … Documentary approach to cinema differs from that of story-film not in its disregard for craftsmanship, but in the purpose to which that craftsmanship is put. — Paul Rotha, Cinema Quarterly 2.2 Defining Documentary Film https://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_22/section_1/artc1A.html https://www.pbs.org/pov/engage/resources/honest-truths-ethics-documentary-film/icebreaker-what-makes-film-documentary/ Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - Hopi Indian term for “life out of balance”, is not so much a movie than it is an experience in visual stimulation and freedom of plot and narrative https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/sixty-two-films-that-shaped-the-art-of-documentary-filmmaking Night and Fog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tij8A83EnqU