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1. Nanook of the North - (1922, Robert J. Flaherty) (Inuit family in the Canadian arctic)
2. Olympia 1. Teil - Fest der Völker - (1938, Leni Riefenstahl) (1936 Olympics in Berlin)
3. Man With a Movie Camera - (1929, Dziga Vertov) (Soviet city life under Stalin)
4. The Sorrow and the Pity - (1971, Marcel Ophuls) (French collaboration with Nazi Germany)
5. The City - (1939, Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke) (Industrialization of American Cities)
6. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life - (1925, Merian C. Cooper) (Journey of Bakhtiari tribe in Iran)
7. The Silent World - (1956, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle) (Underwater world)
8. Woodstock - (1970, Michael Wadleigh) (Woodstock music festival 1969)
9. Nuit et brouillard (aka "Night and Fog") - (1955, Alain Resnais) (Nazi Concentration Camps)
10. Fahrenheit 9/11 - (2004, Michael Moore) (George W. Bush, and the War on Terrorism)
11. Triumph of the Will - (1934, Leni Riefenstahl) (Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg)
12. Anne Frank Remembered - (1995, Jon Blair) (Anne Frank, diary)
13. The Thin Blue Line - (1988, Errol Morris) (Corrupt justice system, wrongly convicted man)
14. Shoah - (1985, Claude Lanzmann) (Death-camp survivors of the Holocaust)
15. Hearts and Minds - (1974, Peter Davis) (U.S. involvement in Vietnam War)
16. The Plow That Broke the Plains - (1936, Pare Lorentz) (The Dust Bowl)
17. The River - (1938, Pare Lorentz) (Mississippi River)
18. Hoop Dreams - (1994, Steve James) (Basketball)
19. Kon-Tiki - (1950, Thor Heyerdahl) (Six men on a raft cross the Pacific)
20. Harlan County, USA - (1976, Barbara Kopple) (Coal miners on strike in Kentucky - 1973)
21. No Direction Home: Bob Dylan - (2005, Martin Scorsese) (Bob Dylan, 1961-1966)
22. Chernobyl Heart - (2003, Maryann DeLeo) (Ill children born after the Chernobyl disaster)
23. Taxi to the Dark Side - (2007, Alex Gibney) (Taxi driver in Afghanistan tortured & killed in '02)
24. March of the Penguins - (2005, Luc Jacquet) (Annual journey of Emperor penguins)
25. When We Were Kings - (1996, Leon Gast) (Foreman/Ali, 1974 boxing championship in Zaire)
26. The Times of Harvey Milk - (1984, Rob Epstein) (San Francisco's first elected gay councillor)
27. Bowling for Columbine - (2002, Michael Moore) (Violence and guns)
28. American Dream - (1990, Barbara Kopple) (Labor strike by blue-collar workers in 80's America)
29. The Eleanor Roosevelt Story - (1965,Richard Kaplan ) (Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt)
30. An Inconvenient Truth - (2006, Davis Guggenheim) (Global warming)
31. The Endless Summer - (1966, Bruce Brown) (Surfing around the world)
32. Promises - (2001, Carlos Bolado) (Jewish and Palestinian children together)
33. Down and Out in America - (1986, Lee Grant) (Poverty in the USA under Ronald Reagan)
34. Man of Aran - (1934, Robert J. Flaherty) (Life of people on Island of Aran)
35. Gimme Shelter - (1970, Albert and David Maysles) (Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour)
36. The Atomic Cafe - (1982, Jayne Loader) (Government issued propaganda about atomic bomb)
37. Spellbound - (2002, Jeffrey Blitz) (Eight teenagers out to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee)
38. The True Glory - (1945, Garson Kanin) (Allied invasion of Europe during World War II)
39. Let There Be Light - (1945, John Huston) (Shell-shocked soldiers)
40. Salesman - (1968, Albert Maysles) (Four door-to-door salesmen sell Bibles to the poor)
41. Crumb - (1994, Terry Zwigoff) (Comic artist Robert Crumb)
42. Winter Soldier - (1972, Winterfilm Collective) (US soldiers relate Vietnam war experiences)
43. Scared Straight! - (1980, Arnold Shapi) (Convicts tell troubled kids about horrors of prison)
44. Don't Look Back - (1967, D.A. Pennebaker) (Bob Dylan's '65 concert tour of United Kingdom)
45. The Memphis Belle - (1944, William Wyler) (Actual Bombing Mission Over Germany, WWII)
46. Titicut Follies - (1967, Frederick Wiseman) (Prison hospital for the criminally insane)
47. Sicko - (2007, Michael Moore) (American health care industry)
48. Journey Into Self - (1968, Tom Skinner) (Group therapy session)
49. The Long Way Home - (1997, Mark Jonathan Harris) (Establishment of modern state of Israel)
50. Moscow Strikes Back - (1942, Ilya Kopalin) (Soviet war documentary about Battle of Moscow)
51. The Farm: Life Inside Angola Prison - (1998, Liz Garbus) (Life in Louisianas' Angola Prison)
52. Fires Were Started - (1943, Humphrey Jennings) (British firemen in the Blitz of World War II)
53. Grey Gardens - (1975, Ellen Hovde) (Reclusive mother and daughter live in a crumbling mansion)
54. One Day in September - (1999, Kevin Macdonald) (Israeli athletes killed at 1972 Olympics)
55. A Brief History of Time - (1991, Errol Morris) (Physicist Stephen Hawking)
56. American Zeitgeist - (2006, Rob McGann) (War on Terror)
57. Khaneh siah ast (aka "The House Is Black") - (1963, Forugh Farrokhzad) (Life in a leper colony)
58. The Conquest of Everest - (1953, George Lowe) (Mount Everest)
59. Obyknovennyy fashizm (aka "Triumph Over Violence") - (1965, Mikhail Romm) (German nazism)
60. My Flesh and Blood - (2003, Jonathan Karsh) (11 adopted special needs children)
61. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara - (2003, Errol Morris)
62. Koyaanisqatsi - (1982, Godfrey Reggio) (Natural environments to manmade environments)
63. Grizzly Man - (2005, Werner Herzog) (Timothy Treadwell interacts with grizzly bears)
64. Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots of World War II - (2007, Robert Child)
65. Monterey Pop - (1968, D.A. Pennebaker) (Monterey International Pop Festival)
66. Dark Days (2000, Marc Singer) - (Homeless life near Penn Station)
67. Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herb - (1996, Claude Nuridsany) (A documentary of insect life)
68. Lessons of Darkness - (1992, Werner Herzog) (Kuwait oil fields in flames)
69. The Decline of Western Civilization - (1981, Penelope Spheeris) (Los Angeles punk rock scene)
70. The Corporation - (2003, Mark Achbar) (Corporations and their present-day dominance)
71. The Animal World - (1956, Irwin Allen) (Animals and dinosaurs)
72. Roger & Me - (1989, Michael Moore) (GM CEO Roger Smith/downsizing)
73. Moana - (1926, Robert J. Flaherty) (Customs of Polynesian natives)
74. Apur Sansar (aka The World of Apu) - (1959, Satyajit Ray) (jobless ex-student in India)
75. The Last Waltz - (1978, Martin Scorsese) (Final concert of The Band)
76. Buena Vista Social Club - (1998, Wim Wenders) (Cuban musicians spotlighted by Ry Cooder)
77. The U.S. vs. John Lennon - (2006, David Leaf) (John Lennon, musician/antiwar activist)
78. American Hardcore - (2006, Paul Rachman) (Hardcore punk music)
79. World Without Sun - (1964, Jacques-Yves Cousteau) (Underwater world)
80. Super Size Me - (2004, Morgan Spurlock) (Fast food and obesity in America)
81. Lake of Fire - (2006, Tony Kaye) (The abortion debate)
82. Paragraph 175 - (2000, Rob Epstein) (Nazi persecution of homosexuals)
83. Il Mio viaggio in Italia (aka "My Voyage to Italy") - (1999, Martin Scorsese) (Italian cinema)
84. The Hellstrom Chronicle - (1971, Walon Green) (The insect world could take over the world)
85. In the Realms of the Unreal - (2004, Jessica Yu) (Henry Darger, visionary artist and novelist)
86. Land Without Bread - (1933, Luis Bunuel) (Spanish peasants)
87. Chronicle of a Summer - (1961, Edgar Morin) (French society in the summer of 1960)
88. Heima - (2007, Dean DeBlois) (Sigur Rós Iceland concerts, 2006)
89. Sir! No Sir! - (2005, David Zeiger) (Vietnam anti-war soldiers)
90. That's Entertainment! - (1974, Jack Haley Jr.) (MGM stars from the studio's 50 year history)
91. Encounters at the End of the World - (2007, Werner Herzog) (Antarctica)
92. Atomic Ed and the Black Hole - (2002, Ellen Spiro) (Ed Grothus, junk collector)
93. For All Mankind - (1989, Al Reinert) (the Apollo missions to the Moon)
94. The Hour of the Furnaces - (1968, Octavio Getino) (Neo-Colonisation of South America)
95. Blue Planet - (1990, Ben Burtt) (Earth from Space Shuttle)
96. Broken Rainbow - (1985, Victoria Mudd) (Government relocation of Navajo Indians in Arizona)
97. The Celluloid Closet - (1995, Rob Epstein) (Homosexuals in Hollywood films)
98. Jesus Camp - (2006, Heidi Ewing) (Christian summer camp for kids)
99. Faces of Death - (1978, Conan Le Cilaire) (Explicit scenes of Death)
100. Pumping Iron - (1977, Robert Fiore, George Butler) (Bodybuilding)
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1. Victory at Sea - (1952, M. Clay Adams) (Naval combat during World War Two)
2. Civilisation - (1969, BBC) (Western civilization through art & architecture by Kenneth Clark)
3. Planet Earth - (2006, BBC) (The Earth narrated by David Attenborough)
4. The World at War - (1974, Jeremy Isaacs producer) (WWII, narrated by Laurence Olivier)
5. Cosmos - (1980, Adrian Malone) (Carl Sagan explains theories of the Universe)
6. The Great War - (1964, BBC) (First World War)
7. The Civil War - (1990, Ken Burns) (American Civil War)
8. The Up Series - (1964-1998, Michael Apted) (14 British childrens' lives updated every 7 years)
9. Baseball - (1994, Ken Burns) (Baseball history)
10. The First World War: The Complete Series - (2003, Marcus Kiggell) (WWI)
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1. The Cove - (Louie Psihoyos) (Dolphin abuse in a cove near Taiji, Japan)
2. Puskás Hungary - (Tamás Almási) (Hungarian football hero of the 1950s)
3. Crude - (Joe Berlinger) (Ecuadorans against Chevron for contamination of the Amazon)
4. My Neighbor, My Killer - (Anne Aghion) (The people of Rwanda attempt to reconcile)
5. Iron Maiden: Flight 666 - (Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen) (Iron Maiden's 2008 world tour)
6. Home - (Yann Arthus-Bertrand) (Aerial footage of Earth's problems)
7. Food, Inc. - (Robert Kenner) (Inside America's corporate controlled food industry)
8. Anvil - The Story of Anvil - (Sacha Gervasi) (Canadian metal band Anvil)
9. Unmistaken Child - (Nati Baratz) (A Tibetan monk's search for the reincarnation of his teacher)
10. Capitalism: A Love Story - (Michael Moore) (Corporate dominance on our everyday lives)
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