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The 50 Best Documentaries of All Time. by malthe-tuxen • Created 7 years ago • Modified 4 months ago. My 50 personal favorite documentary feature films of all time. List activity. 377K views. 1.6K this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 50 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Blackfish. 2013 1h 23m PG-13. 8.1 (73K) Rate.
2 days ago · The best documentaries allow us to see the world with a fresh set of eyes, from social experiments ( Super Size Me) to quirky competitions ( The King of Kong) to political exposés ( Citizenfour)...
View full company info for Consolidated Documentaries. 1. Public Speaking (2010) 84 min | Documentary. 7.6. Rate this. A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous monologues with archival footage and the ... See full summary »
Curated links to watch the very best documentaries online. 200+ links to awe-inspiring films from your favourite channels: Netflix, Prime, YouTube, BBC, Channel 4, Vimeo and more.
- What Happened, Miss Simone?
- 13th
- Amy
- Paris Is Burning
- Formula 1: Drive to Survive
- OJ: Made in America
- Three Identical Strangers
- Going Clear
- Faces Places
- Tickled
Where to watch: Netflix
Director Liz Garbustracks the singer-songwriter Nina Simone’s life as a performer and activist, from her early years as a star musician to her rise in fame as the civil rights movement took hold across the United States. Using archival footage and unreleased recordings, the Oscar-nominated film chronicles the struggle Simone faced as she weighed her burgeoning success with her emergence as an activist.
Where to watch: Netflix
Named for the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States constitution—which outlaws slavery and involuntary servitude, except when used as a punishment for a crime—this film from Ava DuVernay shows how the evolution of the U.S. criminal justice system has essentially allowed for a modern system of legalized slavery. 13thexamines how various racist policies in the U.S. have oppressed and disenfranchised Black Americans, with mass incarceration at the center of it all. Read More: Ava DuVernay on...
Where to watch: Netflix
Released four years after the shocking death of Amy Winehouse, Amy attempts to make sense of the life of the beloved singer, whose struggles with mental health and substance abuse issues made her a target of tabloid coverage. From the filmmaker Asif Kapadia, Amy, which won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, features dozens of interviews with Winehouse’s family and friends to build a lasting, complex portrait of the artist.
Where to watch: Rent on iTunes
The seminal 1990 documentary from director Jennie Livingston delves into New York City’s 1980s-era drag-ball scene. The film, which was added to the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2016, showcases performances from and interviews with many of the central figures of the drag scene from rival fashion houses, who found dignity and purpose in the ballroom scene against the painful backdrop of rampant homophobia and transphobia, violence and the AIDS crisis. Read More: 8...
Where to watch: Netflix
Across two seasons, the documentary series from Formula Onetakes viewers through the daily lives of the drivers racing in the Formula One World Championships. Season one covers the 2018 world championship, while season two tracks the 2019 competition. Its high level of access makes for a deep view into the world of racing, particularly for the uninitiated.
Where to watch: WatchESPN
ESPN’s Emmy- and Oscar-winning five-part documentary from filmmaker Ezra Edelman walks viewers through O.J. Simpson’s life, from his triumphs as a Heisman-winning college football player and later professional athlete to becoming the prime murder suspect in the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman in 1994. Through Simpson’s life, the series explores how race and celebrity play out in the United States, piecing together interviews, archival footage and news coverage. Read More: O.J...
Where to watch: Hulu
Three Identical Strangersfollows the story of a set of triplets—Edward Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran—who found each other later in life after being adopted into three different families as infants. While their coincidental reunion at age 19 was at first joyous and made the trio a media sensation, the men’s quest to find out why exactly they were separated as babies unearths dark secrets that form the crux of the film. Read More: How Documentaries Became the Hottest Genre of the Su...
Where to watch: HBO Now or HBO Go
Based on a book by Lawrence Wright, HBO’s 2015 documentary about Scientology premiered to controversy at the Sundance Film Festival when it dropped several bombshells about the secretive church that counts a number of Hollywood stars among its ranks. The film traces the rise of Scientology by exploring the story of the church’s founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and its influence in Hollywood. Revelations in the film include numerous allegations of violence and abusive behavior by church officials and...
Where to watch: Rent on Amazon Prime
The late filmmaker Agnès Varda, known for her influence in the French New Wave, and the French artist JR make for what seems, at first, like an unlikely pairing. In this charming documentary, Varda and JR, with an age difference of more than 50 years, meet out of a mutual admiration for one another’s work and decide to travel through France together for an art project in which they find subjects, make large images of them and paste them onto buildings. The result is both a moving homage to th...
Where to watch: Rent on Amazon Prime
The phenomenon of “competitive endurance tickling” is intriguing enough on its own, but this documentary goes beyond a basic FAQ on such quirky athletic pursuits. After director David Farrier, a New Zealand-based TV journalist, learns about the existence of endurance tickling competitions, he digs a little more only to be stonewalled by the producers behind videos of men tickling each other. As he researches further, his exploration of what seemed like a silly pastime becomes a gripping and i...
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Top 100 Documentaries Of All Time. by rivetbadtz • Created 13 years ago • Modified 13 years ago. A list of 50 documentaries that either blew me or away or I found completely engrossing.
Nature, sports, crime, music and so much more. These critically acclaimed documentaries showcase a wide range of stories that are as captivating as they are true.
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