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Letterboxd Four Favorites Interviews

All movies mentioned in Letterboxd Four Favorites interviews, ranked by number of picks. The notes contain the names of those who pick each film and its position in their ranking. The links in the names will redirect to each interview, with time codes for those on YouTube. Constantly updated as new interviews are released.

Some were interviewed more than once, so in these cases I've included the date of each occasion in parentheses. When the same person chose the same film in different interviews, it counts as one pick. For those who picked more than four, I put it exactly how they answered. The tiebreaker for the ranking is the number of picks in each position. If anyone has any…

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There are 120 documentary films in this list.

  • The Last Angel of History

    406

  • Tongues Untied

    430

  • Stop Making Sense

    441

  • Paris Is Burning

    486

  • Hoop Dreams

    498

  • Jane B. by Agnès V.

    507

  • Koyaanisqatsi

    527

  • Grizzly Man

    592

  • American Movie

    598

  • Baraka

    630

  • Four Daughters

    675

  • As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    684

  • A New Kind of Wilderness

    720

  • Kokomo City

    755

  • Fire of Love

    790

  • The Cruise

    793

  • The Beaches of Agnès

    836

  • F for Fake

    848

  • Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

    877

  • Faces Places

    931

  • Shirkers

    944

  • Sans Soleil

    952

  • Grey Gardens

    973

  • Vernon, Florida

    1020

  • Nanook of the North

    1024

  • Shoah

    1033

  • Our Body

    1074

  • Dark Days

    1085

  • Mur Murs

    1091

  • As We Speak: Rap Music on Trial

    1111

  • The Decline of Western Civilization

    1120

  • Los Angeles Plays Itself

    1125

  • Fast Horse

    1143

  • Angry Inuk

    1144

  • Copa 71

    1150

  • NiiSoTeWak: Two Bodies, One Heart

    1156

  • Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    1158

  • The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

    1166

  • Transnistria

    1179

  • A Bigger Splash

    1211

  • Bye Bye Tiberias

    1216

  • Orozco the Embalmer

    1243

  • The Neglected Miracle

    1259

  • The Act of Killing

    1271

  • Lords of the Gourd

    1276

  • Windy City Heat

    1278

  • Kaikohe Demolition

    1332

  • Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.

    1333

  • Billion Dollar Heist

    1351

  • Twenty Years Later

    1370

  • George Harrison: Living in the Material World

    1384

  • Waltz with Bashir

    1392

  • Bastion Point: Day 507

    1429

  • The Last Daughter

    1439

  • Time

    1448

  • Flipside

    1526

  • Island of the Hungry Ghosts

    1531

  • Hospital

    1535

  • Voices Through Time

    1538

  • The Taste of Mango

    1558

  • The Gleaners and I

    1565

  • 'Til Madness Do Us Part

    1585

  • A Month of Single Frames

    1611

  • My Octopus Teacher

    1612

  • Burden of Dreams

    1617

  • Pumping Iron II: The Women

    1644

  • Searching for Sugar Man

    1707

  • Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President

    1711

  • 13th

    1748

  • The House Is Black

    1768

  • One Child Nation

    1797

  • The Saving of the President

    1829

  • Pina

    1832

  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    1851

  • News from Home

    1876

  • Otro sol

    1895

  • Gush

    1898

  • Occupied City

    1900

  • Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa

    1908

  • Boil Alert

    1910

  • De Humani Corporis Fabrica

    1920

  • All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

    1937

  • Milisuthando

    1953

  • Metal and Melancholy

    1983

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

    1987

  • No Home Movie

    1991

  • 4 Little Girls

    2024

  • Jackass: The Movie

    2082

  • Playing

    2089

  • Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

    2116

  • À propos de Nice

    2123

  • Welfare

    2156

  • Sherman's March

    2186

  • Minding the Gap

    2192

  • This Is Not a Film

    2208

  • Won't You Be My Neighbor?

    2246

  • The Tiniest Place

    2249

  • Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen

    2253

  • Look Into My Eyes

    2279

  • Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

    2293