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Documentary Film Lists

Business and Industry

  • Bright Leaves (2004)
  • The Corporation (2005)
  • Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
  • Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
  • Roger and Me (1989)
  • Salesman (1968)

Crime

  • Brother’s Keeper (1992)
  • Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
  • Con Man (2002)
  • Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (1991)
  • One Day in September (1999)
  • The Staircase (2005)
  • The Thin Blue Line (1988)
  • The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)

Environment and Nature

Film

Music

  • American Hardcore (2006)
  • American Roots Music (2001)
  • Beatles Anthology (1996)
  • Be Here to Love Me (2005)
  • Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
  • Dave Chappelle’s Block Party (2006)
  • The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006)
  • Don’t Look Back (1967)
  • From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980)
  • Gimme Shelter (1970)
  • History of Rock N Roll-series (1993)
  • Hype! (1996)
  • I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: A Film About Wilco (2002)
  • The Last Waltz (1976)
  • Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (2006)
  • Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
  • Monterey Pop (1968)
  • No Direction Home (2005)
  • Rattle and Hum (1988)
  • Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
  • This Machine Kills Fascists (2005)
  • Wattstax (1973)
  • We Jam Econo (2006)
  • Wild Man Blues (1998)
  • Woodstock: Three Days of Music and Peace (1970)

Politics

  • American Blackout (2006)
  • The Awful Truth-series (1998)
  • Chisholm ’72 (2004)
  • Control Room (2004)
  • Fahrenheit 911 (2004)
  • The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2004)
  • Tanner on Tanner (2004)
  • The War Room (1994)
  • The Weather Underground (2003)
  • When the Levees Broke (2006)
  • When the Wall Came Tumbling Down (1999)

Profiles and Portraits

  • Albert Schweitzer (1957)
  • Balseros (2002)
  • Best Boy (1979)
  • Crumb (1994)
  • Fast Cheap and Out of Control (1998)
  • Gates of Heaven (1978)
  • Grey Gardens (1976)
  • Lenny Bruce without Tears (2004)
  • Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr (2000)
  • Nanook of the North (1922)
  • Seven Up! (1964)
  • Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006)
  • Southern Comfort (2000)
  • Stevie (2002)
  • Trekkies (1998)
  • Vernon, Florida (1982)

Religion

  • Devil’s Playground (2002)
  • Jesus Camp (2006)
  • Marjoe (1972) DVD
  • Say Amen, Somebody (1980)
  • A Time for Burning (1967)
  • Trembling Before G-d (2001)
  • Wheel of Time (2005)

Series

  • American Roots Music (2001)
  • The Awful Truth (1998)
  • Errol Morris First Person (2005)
  • History of Rock N Roll (1993)
  • Ken Burns’ America (1991)
  • Ken Burns’ Baseball (1994, 2010)

Social Issues

  • 4 Little Girls (1997)
  • Born into Brothels (2004)
  • Dark Days (2001)
  • Supersize Me (2004)
  • When the Levees Broke (2006)

Sports

  • Dogtown and Z-boys (2001)
  • The Endless Summer (1966)
  • Hoop Dreams (1994)
  • Ken Burns’ Baseball (1994)
  • Murderball (2005)
  • Pumping Iron (1977)
  • When We Were Kings (1996)

War and Conflict

  • Blood of My Brother (2006)
  • The Day After Trinity (1980)
  • Hearts and Minds (1974)
  • Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)
  • The Last Days (1998)
  • Lost Boys of Sudan (2004)
  • Shoah (1985)
  • The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
  • The War Game (1967)
  • Why We Fight (2006)

Words and Literature

  • Bukowski: Born into This (2006)
  • Shakespeare Behind Bars (2006)
  • Slamnation (1998)
  • Spellbound (2002)
  • Stone Reader (2002)
  • Wordplay (2006)