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100 Documentaries

A Documentary Canon.

"Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning." - Clifford Geertz

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  • Sans Soleil

    1

  • Shoah

    2

  • Minamata: The Victims and Their World

    3

  • The Act of Killing

    4

  • Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    5

  • Near Death

    6

  • Night and Fog

    7

  • Welfare

    8

  • 'Til Madness Do Us Part

    9

  • The House Is Black

    10

  • Karamay

    11

  • Hitler: A Film from

    12

  • Forest of Bliss

    13

  • F for Fake

    14

  • Edvard Munch

    15

  • Nostalgia for the Light

    16

  • A Grin Without a Cat

    17

  • The Hour of the Furnaces

    18

  • The Mad Masters

    19

  • Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen

    20

  • Dream of Light

    21

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

    22

  • Petition

    23

  • Taiga

    24

  • Surname Viêt Given Name Nam

    25

  • Doctor Ma's Country Clinic

    26

  • Route One/USA

    27

  • Araya

    28

  • The 17th Parallel

    29

  • A Married Couple

    30

  • The Memory of Justice

    31

  • Heaven and Earth

    32

  • Fengming: A Chinese Memoir

    33

  • Juvenile Court

    34

  • The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On

    35

  • The Vampires of Poverty

    36

  • Cannibal Tours

    37

  • What Has Happened to This City?

    38

  • Homo Sapiens

    39

  • Warrendale

    40

  • Hospital

    41

  • Brother's Keeper

    42

  • May They Rest in Revolt (Figures of War)

    43

  • Statues Also Die

    44

  • Everyday Life in a Syrian Village

    45

  • The Night It Rained

    46

  • The Brickmakers

    47

  • The Land of São Saruê

    48

  • Mind of Clay

    49

  • Children Full of Life

    50

  • Images of the World and the Inscription of War

    51

  • If I Had Four Dromedaries

    52

  • Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers

    53

  • Disorder

    54

  • The Fourth Dimension

    55

  • A Tale of the Wind

    56

  • Pictures of the Old World

    57

  • Mother Dao, the Turtlelike

    58

  • Leviathan

    59

  • Elsewhere

    60

  • Black Harvest

    61

  • From the East

    62

  • Women's Quarter

    63

  • The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes

    64

  • Land of Silence and Darkness

    65

  • The War Game

    66

  • Hearts and Minds

    67

  • Winter Soldier

    68

  • Lessons of Darkness

    69

  • General Idi Amin Dada

    70

  • Workingman's Death

    71

  • Darwin's Nightmare

    72

  • Crude

    73

  • Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania

    74

  • Good News: Newspaper Salesmen, Dead Dogs and Other People from Vienna

    75

  • How to Live in the German Federal Republic

    76

  • Titicut Follies

    77

  • Position Among the Stars

    78

  • Bombay: Our City

    79

  • India: Matri Bhumi

    80

  • Phantom India

    81

  • Primate

    82

  • Baraka

    83

  • Samsara

    84

  • Ödenwaldstetten

    85

  • Méditerranée

    86

  • Respite

    87

  • Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

    88

  • S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

    89

  • War and Peace

    90

  • Whores' Glory

    91

  • Africa, I Will Fleece You

    92

  • Katatsumori

    93

  • Happy People: A Year in the Taiga

    94

  • Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

    95

  • It's the Earth Not the Moon

    96

  • Stealing a Nation

    97

  • Portrait

    98

  • Valparaiso

    99

  • Nanook of the North

    100