What`s the best documentary you`ve ever seen?

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Late entry here -

I don't know about best I've ever seen, but I like these a lot -
(in no particular order - except the first one)

The Times of Harvey Milk (possibly the best I've ever seen)

Touching the Void

Man with the Movie Camera

To Be and To Have

Dark Days

Sister Helen

Murder on a Sunday Morning

OT: Our Town

The Nomi Song

Murderball

Brother's Keeper

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Grizzly Man

My Best Fiend: Klaus Kinski

Grey Gardens

Southern Comfort

Best Boy

The Same River Twice

New York Doll

Speaking in Strings: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter

The Cockettes

A Certain Kind of Death

Gray Matter

Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven

American Dream

Mayor of the Sunset Strip

In the Realms of the Unreal

Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle

and I'm really looking forward to seeing Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
 
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Paradise Lost works because of great storytelling. It's a film that keeps revealing for over 2 hours. Watch it, then watch the sequel. Both films will keep you guessing.
 
Zed said:
Watch it, then watch the sequel. Both films will keep you guessing.
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Yeah, but I wasn't as impressed with the second film. I don't think it had the same element of discovery to it - it was mostly just more of the crazy father with both the filmmakers and the audience already convinced that he was guilty in some way. I'm not sure that much new information was included in the second film. But it's been a while since I've seen it, so correct me if I'm wrong.
 
Streetwise
Crumb
American Movie
Harlan County USA
Lost in La Mancha

This year's "Who Killed the Electric Car?" was fantastic as well.
 
1. Paradise Lost (how pissed were you after you saw that?)
2. American Movie (how much fun was that?)
3. Gates Of Heaven
4. Capturing The Friedmans
5. Best Boy
 
NewYorkLion said:
I just saw, a letter to true. great film if you love dogs
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Wow, here's the Netflix description. I'm, um...intrigued!

In this valentine to his beloved golden retrievers, writer-director Bruce Weber dishes up a collage of his passions, structured as a series of missives to his youngest dog, True. Interlaced in the homage are canine-related yarns about actors Dirk Bogarde and Elizabeth Taylor; poetry readings by Julie Christie and singer Marianne Faithfull; an aside about Haitian refugees; and a passage from a Martin Luther King Jr. speech, among other things.
 
Hype!

Hype!

FlintMI said:
Hype!
after you dismiss the obvious choices, it's the best music doc

FlintMi - I fully agree, it seems to be the best music doc so far.
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I'm not sure in what universe Man With A Movie Camera is a documentary, but it is a fine film.

Most of the films I would cite have already been listed, but I think Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control has not! Such a fascinating movie.
 
SHOAH
most powerful film I've ever seen.
It always makes by top ten film list.
i think it justifies the existence of film.
 
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Only one person liked "The times of Harey Milk"?
You people need to see an academy award winning doc.
Also I like "the Boys of 42nd street".
 
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Wow, here's the Netflix description. I'm, um...intrigued!

In this valentine to his beloved golden retrievers, writer-director Bruce Weber dishes up a collage of his passions, structured as a series of missives to his youngest dog, True. Interlaced in the homage are canine-related yarns about actors Dirk Bogarde and Elizabeth Taylor; poetry readings by Julie Christie and singer Marianne Faithfull; an aside about Haitian refugees; and a passage from a Martin Luther King Jr. speech, among other things.
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It's a rediculously beautiful movie.
 
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