1 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 dir. Dziga Vertov
2 Shoah 1985 dir. Claude Lanzmann
3 Sans soleil 1983 dir. Chris Marker
4 Night and Fog 1956 dir. Alain Resnais
5 The Thin Blue Line 1988 dir. Errol Morris
6 Harlan County U.S.A. 1976 dir. Barbara Kopple
7 Nanook of the North 1922 dir. Robert J. Flaherty
8 Hoop Dreams 1994 dir. Steve James
9 Dont Look Back 1967 dir. D.A. Pennebaker
10 Salesman 1969 dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles
11 The Gleaners & I 2000 dir. Agnes Varda
12 Grizzly Man 2005 dir. Werner Herzog
13 The Sorrow and the Pity 1969 dir. Marcel Ophuls
14 Grey Gardens 1975 dir. Albert Maysles, Ellen Hovde
15 Triumph of the Will 1935 dir. Leni Riefenstahl
16 Titicut Follies 1967 dir. Frederick Wiseman
17 Roger & Me 1989 dir. Michael Moore
18 The Battle of Chile, Parts I, II & III 1975-79 dir. Patricio Guzmán
19 Chronique d’un été (Paris 1960) 1961 dir. Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch
20 Land Without Bread 1933 dir. Luis Buñuel
21 Gimme Shelter 1970 dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles
22 Blood of the Beasts 1949 dir. Georges Franju
23 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 dir. Godfrey Reggio
24 The Act of Killing 2012 dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, anonymous
25 The War Game 1965 dir. Peter Watkins
26 Up Series 1970-2019 dir. Michael Apted
27 West of the Tracks 2002 dir. Wang Bing
28 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1989 dir. Jean-Luc Godard
29 Leviathan 2012 dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
30 Seasons 1975 dir. Artavazd Pelechian
31 Crumb 1994 dir. Terry Zwigoff
32 Welfare 1975 dir. Frederick Wiseman
33 Burden of Dreams 1982 dir. Les Blank
34 Man of Aran 1934 dir. Robert J. Flaherty
35 When We Were Kings 1996 dir. Leon Gast
36 Close Up 1990 dir. Abbas Kiarostami
37 Sherman’s March 1985 dir. Ross McElwee
38 F for Fake 1975 dir. Orson Welles
39 The Fog of War 2003 dir. Errol Morris
40 Waiting for Fidel 1974 dir. Michael Rubbo
41 Capturing the Friedmans 2003 dir. Andrew Jarecki
42 Lessons of Darkness 1992 dir. Werner Herzog
43 The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On 1987 dir. Kazuo Hara
44 The House Is Black 1963 dir. Forough Farrokhzad
45 Woodstock 1970 dir. Michael Wadleigh
46 Quince Tree of the Sun 1992 dir. Victor Erice
47 Primary 1960 dir. Robert Drew
48 A Diary for Timothy 1945 dir. Humphrey Jennings
49 Man on Wire 2007 dir. James Marsh
50 À propos de Nice 1930 dir. Jean Vigo
51 Portrait of Jason 1967 dir. Shirley Clarke
52 Gates of Heaven 1978 dir. Errol Morris
53 Bowling for Columbine 2002 dir. Michael Moore
54 Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory 1895 dir. Louis Lumiere
55 The Hour of the Furnaces 1968 dir. Fernando E. Solanas, Octavio Getino
56 Handsworth Songs 1987 dir. John Akomfrah
57 Belovy 1994 dir. Viktor Kossakovsky
58 Darwin’s Nightmare 2004 dir. Hubert Sauper
59 In the Year of the Pig 1968 dir. Emile de Antonio
60 Stop Making Sense 1984 dir. Jonathan Demme
61 Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997 dir. Werner Herzog
62 Listen to Britain 1942 dir. Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
63 When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts 2006 dir. Spike Lee
64 Tongues Untied 1989 dir. Marlon Riggs
65 O.J.: Made in America 2016 dir. Ezra Edelman
66 Hearts and Minds 1974 dir. Peter Davis
67 Nostalgia for the Light 2010 dir. Patricio Guzmán
68 The Times of Harvey Milk 1984 dir. Rob Epstein
69 Lake of Fire 2006 dir. Tony Kaye
70 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse 1991 dir. Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper
71 Paris is Burning 1990 dir. Jennie Livingston
72 Night Mail 1936 dir. Harry Watt, Basil Wright
73 Los Angeles Plays Itself 2003 dir. Thom Andersen
74 Moi, un noir 1959 dir. Jean Rouch
75 Stories We Tell 2012 dir. Sarah Polley
76 Fahrenheit 9/11 2004 dir. Michael Moore
77 Culloden 1964 dir. Peter Watkins
78 Diaries, Notes and Sketches: Walden 1969 dir. Jonas Mekas
79 D’Est 1993 dir. Chantal Akerman
80 Waltz with Bashir 2008 dir. Ari Folman
81 The Last Waltz 1978 dir. Martin Scorsese
82 Kon-Tiki 1950 dir. Thor Heyerdahl
83 Hitler: A Film from Germany 1977 dir. Hans-Jurgen Syberberg
84 High School 1969 dir. Frederick Wiseman
85 Monterey Pop 1968 dir. D.A. Pennebaker
86 Empire 1964 dir. Andy Warhol
87 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 1896 dir. Auguste & Louis Lumière
88 Baraka 1992 dir. Ron Fricke
89 Metallica: Some Kind of Monster 2004 dir. Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger
90 I for India 2005 dir. Sandhya Suri
91 Point of Order 1964 dir. Emile de Antonio
92 This Is Spinal Tap 1984 dir. Rob Reiner
93 Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927 dir. Walter Ruttman
94 People on Sunday 1930 dir. Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak
95 The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes 1971 dir. Stan Brakhage
96 My Winnipeg 2007 dir. Guy Maddin
97 To Be and to Have 2002 dir. Nicolas Philibert
98 Turksib 1929 dir. Victor A. Turin
99 Les maîtres fous 1955 dir. Jean Rouch
100 David Holzman’s Diary 1967 dir. Jim McBride