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Jonathan Demme • Starring: Alex Weir, Steve Scales, David Byrne
Concert Film • Documentary • Music
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Dziga Vertov • Starring: Mikhail Kaufman
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Culture and Society
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Orson Welles • Starring: Joseph Cotten, Richard Wilson, Orson Welles
Avant-garde / Experimental • Biography • Con Artist / Hustler
4
Alain Resnais • Starring: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary • Essay Film • Foreign Language Film
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Steve James • Starring: Spike Lee, Sheila Agee, Gene Pingatore
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
6
Errol Morris • Starring: Randall Adams, David Harris, Dale Holt
7
Godfrey Reggio
Avant-garde / Experimental • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola • Starring: Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Samuel Bottoms
Biography • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Benjamin Christensen • Starring: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio
Docudrama • Documentary • Drama
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond
Biography • Concert Film • Documentary
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Kurt Kuenne • Starring: Kurt Kuenne, Andrew Bagby, David Bagby
Biography • Documentary • History
12
Claude Lanzmann • Starring: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • History
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Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn • Starring: Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara
Culture and Society • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herzog, Kathleen Parker, Timothy Treadwell
Animal Picture • Biography • Documentary
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Chris Smith • Starring: Mark Borchardt, Tom Schimmels, Monica Borchardt
Biography • Documentary • Media Documentary
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Banksy • Starring: Rhys Ifans, Banksy, Shepard Fairey
Culture and Society • Documentary
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Seth Gordon • Starring: Billy Mitchell, Steve Wiebe, Mark Alpiger
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Asif Kapadia • Starring: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Frank Williams
Biography • Documentary • Sports and Recreation
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Terry Zwigoff • Starring: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb
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Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin • Starring: The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers
Concert Film • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Errol Morris • Starring: Robert S. McNamara
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Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer • Starring: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers
23
Ron Fricke
Avant-garde / Experimental • Documentary
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Michael Wadleigh • Starring: Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, The Who
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D.A. Pennebaker • Starring: Donovan, Joan Baez, Alan Price
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James Marsh • Starring: Philippe Petit
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Chris Marker • Starring: Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Riyoko Ikeda
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Barbara Kopple • Starring: John Corcoran, John O'Leary, Norman Yarborough
Americana • Biography • Documentary
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Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky • Starring: Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Miskelly, Jason Baldwin
Biography • Documentary • Law and Crime
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Les Blank • Starring: Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez, Claudia Cardinale, Carmen Correa
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Morgan Neville • Starring: Joanne Rogers, Yo-Yo Ma, Joe Negri
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Andrew Jarecki • Starring: Arnold Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman
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Leon Gast • Starring: James Brown, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman
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Ezra Edelman • Starring: O.J. Simpson
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Malik Bendjelloul • Starring: Malik Bendjelloul, Rodriguez
Biography • Documentary • Music
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Jennie Livingston • Starring: Pepper Labeija, Danny Xtravaganza, Brooke
Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Rob Epstein • Starring: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg
Biography • Documentary • Gay and Lesbian Film
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Errol Morris • Starring: Lucille Billingsley, Zella Graham, Cal Harberts
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Michael Moore • Starring: Bob Eubanks, Roger B. Smith, Anita Bryant
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social Issues
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Al Reinert • Starring: Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan
Documentary • History
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger
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Robert J. Flaherty • Starring: Berry Kroeger
Documentary • History • Silent Film
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Ken Burns • Starring: David McCullough, Sam Waterston, Morgan Freeman
Documentary • History • Made-for-Television
44
Kevin Macdonald • Starring: Simon Yates, Joe Simpson, Nicholas Aaron
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Culture and Society
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Louie Psihoyos • Starring: Louie Psihoyos, Richard O'Berry, Isabel Lucas
Documentary
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Michael Moore • Starring: Charlton Heston, Matt Stone, Marilyn Manson
Culture and Society • Documentary • Law and Crime
47
Ken Burns • Starring: John Chancellor
Documentary • Made-for-Television • Mini-Series
48
Sarah Polley • Starring: Andrew Church, Peter Evans, Justin Goodhand
Biography • Culture and Society • Docudrama
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Jeffrey Blitz • Starring: Angela Arenivar, Neil Kadakia, Nupur Lala
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Bart Layton • Starring: Adam O'Brian, Anna Ruben, Ken Appledorn
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Michael Apted • Starring: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
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Peter Davis • Starring: Richard Nixon, Walt Rostow, Robert Kennedy
Anti-War Film • Documentary • Military and War
53
Sacha Gervasi • Starring: Kevin Goocher, Glenn Gyorffy, William Howell
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Tim Hetherington • Starring: Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell, Kevin Rice
Culture and Society • Documentary • Military and War
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David Gelb • Starring: Jiro Ono
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Steve James
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D.A. Pennebaker • Starring: Scott McKenzie, The Mamas & The Papas, Simon & Garfunkel
Concert Film • Documentary • History
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Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi • Starring: Alex Honnold
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Joshua Oppenheimer
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Paul Almond • Starring: Derek Cooper, Wilfrid Thomas, Bruce Balden
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, John Cassavetes
Documentary • Media Documentary
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Ava DuVernay • Starring: Cory Booker, Angela Davis, Henry Louis Gates
Documentary • Female-Directed Film • Law and Crime
64
Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Animal Picture • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Barry W. Blaustein • Starring: Jesse Ventura, Mick Foley, Dwayne Johnson
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Bob Smeaton, Geoff Wontor, Kevin Godley • Starring: Ringo Starr, George Martin, George Harrison
Biography • Documentary • Made-for-Television
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Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin • Starring: Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt, James Baker
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Asif Kapadia • Starring: Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, Mark Ronson
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Michael Apted • Starring: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Andrew Brackfield
70
Walter Ruttmann
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Documentary
71
Jeff Feuerzeig • Starring: Daniel Johnston, Kathy McCarty, Gibby Haines
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George Butler • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Franco Columbu
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Robert Guenette • Starring: Mark Hamill, George Lucas, Irvin Kershner
Documentary • Made-for-Television • Media Documentary
74
Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herzog, Isabelle Adjani, Claudia Cardinale
Biography • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
75
Frank Pavich • Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky, H.R. Giger, Nicolas Winding Refn
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Werner Herzog • Starring: David Ainley, Samuel S. Bowser, Regina Eisert
Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Charles Ferguson • Starring: Matt Damon
Culture and Society • Documentary • Politics and Government
79
Guy Maddin • Starring: Ann Savage, Darcy Fehr, Amy Stewart
Avant-garde / Experimental • Biography • Docudrama
80
Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herog, Charles Fathy
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Laura Poitras
Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe • Starring: Bernard Bouix, René Cleitman, Johnny Depp
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Penelope Spheeris • Starring: Alice Bag Band, Fear, The Germs
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Stacy Peralta • Starring: Sean Penn, Jay Adams, Jeff Ament
Biography • Documentary • Social History
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Errol Morris • Starring: Ray Mendez, Rodney Brooks, George Mendonca
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Jack Haley Jr. • Starring: Peter Lawford, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire
Biography • Dance Film • Documentary
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Henry Alex Rubin • Starring: Keith Cavill, Mark Zupan, Joe Soares
90
Alex Gibney • Starring: Lawrence Wright, Mike Rinder, Marty Rathbun
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Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen • Starring: Robert Evans
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Larry Charles • Starring: Bill Maher
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Raoul Peck • Starring: Samuel L. Jackson
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social History
94
Jeff Tremaine • Starring: Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Ryan Dunn
Based-on-Television • Comedy • Documentary
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Alex Gibney • Starring: Peter Coyote
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Paul Jay • Starring: Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Brian Pillman
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Kirby Dick • Starring: Kimberly Peirce, Kevin Smith, Matt Stone
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Spike Lee • Starring: Darleen Asevedo, Jay Asevedo, Shelton 'Shakespeare' Alexander
Culture and Society • Documentary • Made-for-Television
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Michael Moore • Starring: Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Al Gore
100
Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herzog
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