Stranger than Fiction

Stranger than Fiction: A Documentary Film List

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

• Grizzly Man (2005)
• An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
• March of the Penguins (2005)
• Microcosmos: le peuple de l'herbe (1996)
• Walking with Dinosaurs (1999)
• When the Levees Broke (2006)
• Winged Migration (2003)

Movies about Movies

• American Movie (1999)
• American Nightmare (2000)
• BaadAssss Cinema: a bold look at 70's blaxploitation films (2002)
• Burden of Dreams (1982)
• A Constant Forge (2000)
• Fabulous: The Story of Queer Cinema (2006)
• The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
• Reel Paradise (2005)
• This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)
• Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2005)

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)

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)