Classic Documentaries
1922, Nanook of the North - Robert Flaherty
1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City - Walter Ruttmann
1929, Drifters - John Grierson
1932, Land without Bread - Luis Bunuel
1934, Man of Aran - Robert Flaherty
1934, Triumph of the Will - Leni Reifenstahl
1936, The Plow That Broke the Plains - Pare Lorentz
1942, Why We Fight (series) - Frank Capra
1948, Louisiana Story - Robert J. Flaherty
1955, Night and Fog - Alain Resnais
1955, The Mad Masters - Jean Rouch
1961, Chronicle of a Summer Jean Rouch
1964, Seven Up! (The UP Series) - Paul Almond
1965, Tokoyo Olympiad - Kon Ichikawa
1967, Jaguar - Jean Rouch
1967, Don't Look Back - DA Pennebaker
1967, Titicut Follies - Frederick Wiseman
1968, High School - Frederick Wiseman
1969, The Sorrow & the Pity - Marcel Ophüls
1971, Reminiscenes of a Journey to Lithuania - Jonas Mekas
1973, Harlan County, USA - Barbara Kopple
1974, Hearts and Minds - Peter Davis (II)
1975, The Ax Fight - Asch & Chagnon
1975, Cannibal Tours - Dennis O'Rourke
Contemporary Docs
1980, Gates of Heaven - Errol Morris
1980, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe - Les Blank
1982, Vernon, Florida - Errol Morris
1982, Atomic Café - Loader, Rafferty, etc.
1983, Koyaanisqatsi - Godfrey Reggio
1985, Shoah - Claude Lanzmann
1986, Forest of Bliss - Robert Gardner
1986, Sherman's March - Ross McElwee
1988, The Thin Blue Line - Errol Morris
1989, Surname Viet Given Name Nam - T. Minh-ha Trinh
1989, For All Mankind - Al Reinert
1989, Roger & Me Michael Moore
1992, Baraka - Godfrey Reggio
1995, Crumb - Terry Zwigoff
1996, When We Were Kings - Leon Gast
1997, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control - Errol Morris
1998, Little Deiter Needs To Fly - Werner Herzog
1999, Keep The River on Your Right - David Shapiro
1999, Buena Vista Social Club - Wim Wenders
1999, American Movie - Chris Smith
2001, Home Movie - Chris Smith
2002, Lost in La Mancha - Keith Fulton
2002, Dogtown and Z Boys - Stacy Peralta
2002, Spellbound - Jeffrey Blitz
2002, Bowling For Columbine - Michael Moore
2003, Capturing the Friedmans - Andrew Jarecki
2004, Farenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore
2004, What the #$*! Do We Know? - Arntz, Chasse, etc.
2004, The White Diamond - Werner Herzog
2005, Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog
2005, Mad Hot Ballroom - Marilyn Agrelo
2005, The Farmer's Wife - David Sutherland
5 comments:
Greetings fellow flicker watchers. This is your humble Documentary Moderator. I’ll be along for the ride, catching up on any of this films I haven’t seen and eagerly reading your comments.
One thing to think about when we launch into this category is: what exactly is documentary or, better yet, what is not documentary? I think you’ll find that this list offers more than the “talking-heads” definition that we’ve come to take for granted. There are documentaries that show not tell, there are documentaries that invent, and there are documentaries that makes us think about documenting. I would argue that there are even narrative films that can be considered documentary.
So as we begin our journey, let’s not only enjoy these films and take in what they say, let’s also try to think about how they say it too.
Oh, and don’t forget to have fun.
When We Were Kings- ohhh buddy I have this video just bc it’s that awesome, now that it’s back history month I’ve been trying to get some of my friends to look at it…Ali is amazing and this video just captures him at his prime best line ever when he’s telling a store about how fast he is and he said he’s so fast that he hits the light switch and gets in bed before the light turn off…that’s pure D fiya!!!
Anyways anybody who hasn’t seen dis doc I recommend it!
Dogtown and Z Boys- this is just one of those movies that you watch because nothing else is on…I mean really it’s alright it’s about the under dog making big…and bc it’s based on a true story it kinda kool that these kids came from suck meager beginnings and were able to make so much, a skate line etc. and just how the were all friends and from the same neighborhood but dats about it …it was an okay film
Bowling For Columbine- who hasn’t seen this doc, I mean good grief…poor kid that survived the columbine shooting is picketing Wal-Mart… other scene kid walks up to a table wearing a t-shirt and baggy pants and he is concealing like 30 guns that’s insanely profound urgh… I mean really and the title based on the last activity the to gunmen did bf killing there fellow class mates, gym a bowing class.
Capturing the Friedmans- okay this doc, I don’t even know why I watched it I think it was on showtime or something…this family is F-ed up, and this guy who is talking about this family is F-ed up as well, like I believe he is a clown by profession, and he was saying how hard it was for him to have this job based on the fact that his family has a bad history…and it’s like, he tried to kill himself, and his bother and father were molesting all these kids… and all this crazy stuff, I mean honestly after you watched this doc, you may think your family is crazy or bad, but nothing is as F-ed as this
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