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Louis Malle • Starring: Louis Malle
Culture and Society • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Nick Broomfield • Starring: Nick Broomfield, Suge Knight, Biggie Smalls
Biography • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Michael Moore • Starring: Bob Eubanks, Roger B. Smith, Anita Bryant
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social Issues
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Robert J. Flaherty • Starring: Berry Kroeger
Documentary • History • Silent Film
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Chantal Akerman
Culture and Society • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Rodney Ascher • Starring: Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Juli Kearns
Documentary • Media Documentary
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Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel • Starring: Declan Conneely, Johnny Gatcombe, Adrian Guillette
Avant-garde / Experimental • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Gary Hustwit • Starring: David Carson, Michael Bierut, Neville Brody
Culture and Society • Documentary
9
Luis Buñuel • Starring: Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Culture and Society • Documentary • Essay Film
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Walon Green, Ed Spiegel • Starring: Lawrence Pressman
Animal Picture • Documentary
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Henry Chalfant, Tony Silver • Starring: Cap, Daze, Dondi
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Emile de Antonio • Starring: Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger
Culture and Society • Documentary • History
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Katie Dellamaggiore
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Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch
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William Greaves • Starring: William Greaves, Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows
Avant-garde / Experimental • Docudrama • Documentary
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Patricio Guzmán
Documentary • History • Social History
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Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
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Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell • Starring: Donald Crowhurst, Clare Crowhurst, Santiago Franchessie
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Robert Drew • Starring: John F. Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy
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Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
Culture and Society • Documentary • Prostitution Film
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Greg 'Freddy' Camalier • Starring: Rick Hall
Biography • Documentary • History
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Jeffrey Blitz • Starring: Angela Arenivar, Neil Kadakia, Nupur Lala
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Henry Alex Rubin • Starring: Keith Cavill, Mark Zupan, Joe Soares
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Alex Gibney • Starring: Carlotta Gall, Scott Horton, Carl Levin
Culture and Society • Documentary • Law and Crime
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Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky • Starring: Damien Wayne Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Miskelly
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Thom Andersen • Starring: Encke King
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Godfrey Reggio
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Jeff Malmberg
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Barbet Schroeder • Starring: Idi Amin
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Martin Scorsese • Starring: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond
Biography • Concert Film • Documentary
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Frederick Wiseman
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Wim Wenders • Starring: Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Ry Cooder
Biography • Documentary • Music
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Jehane Noujaim • Starring: Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour, Ahmed Hassan
Culture and Society • Documentary • Politics and Government
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herzog
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • History
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herzog, Dieter Dengler, Eugene Deatrick
Biography • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
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Laura Poitras
Documentary • Female-Directed Film
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Jean-Luc Godard, Julie Delpy, Sabine Azéma
Documentary • Essay Film • Foreign Language Film
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Jesse Moss • Starring: Keegan Edwards, Jay Reinke
Culture and Society • Documentary • Sociology
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herog, Charles Fathy
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Errol Morris • Starring: Lucille Billingsley, Zella Graham, Cal Harberts
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Charles Ferguson • Starring: Matt Damon
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Barbet Schroeder • Starring: Koko, Penny Patterson, Saul Kitchener
Documentary • Social Issues
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Marc Singer • Starring: Marc Singer
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Bart Layton • Starring: Adam O'Brian, Anna Ruben, Ken Appledorn
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José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda • Starring: Anonymous, Maria Aparecida, Captain Batista
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Paul Almond • Starring: Derek Cooper, Wilfrid Thomas, Bruce Balden
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Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin • Starring: Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt, James Baker
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Chris Marker • Starring: Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Riyoko Ikeda
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Andrew Jarecki • Starring: Arnold Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman
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Errol Morris • Starring: Robert S. McNamara
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Agnès Varda • Starring: Bodan Litnanski, Agnès Varda, Francois Wertheimer
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Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herzog, Kathleen Parker, Timothy Treadwell
Animal Picture • Biography • Documentary
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Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi • Starring: Jafar Panahi
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Peter Watkins • Starring: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham
Docudrama • Drama • Mockumentary
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Michael Apted • Starring: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
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Barbara Kopple • Starring: John Corcoran, John O'Leary, Norman Yarborough
Americana • Biography • Documentary
59
David France • Starring: David Barr, Gregg Bordowitz, Jim Eigo
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Marcel Ophüls • Starring: Pierre Mendes-France, Christian de la Maziere, Anthony Eden
Documentary • History • Made-for-Television
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Steve James
Biography • Documentary • Media Documentary
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Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky • Starring: Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Miskelly, Jason Baldwin
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Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer • Starring: Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Brooks Hyers
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Steve James • Starring: Spike Lee, Sheila Agee, Gene Pingatore
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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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Peter Davis • Starring: Richard Nixon, Walt Rostow, Robert Kennedy
Anti-War Film • Documentary • Military and War
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Terry Zwigoff • Starring: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb
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Michael Apted • Starring: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Andrew Brackfield
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Seth Gordon • Starring: Billy Mitchell, Steve Wiebe, Mark Alpiger
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Sarah Polley • Starring: Andrew Church, Peter Evans, Justin Goodhand
Biography • Culture and Society • Docudrama
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Abbas Kiarostami • Starring: Hossein Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah
Courtroom Drama • Crime • Docudrama
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Rob Epstein • Starring: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg
Biography • Documentary • Gay and Lesbian Film
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Ari Folman • Starring: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman
Animation • Anti-War Film • Avant-garde / Experimental
75
Ondi Timoner • Starring: Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion
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David Gelb • Starring: Jiro Ono
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D.A. Pennebaker • Starring: Donovan, Joan Baez, Alan Price
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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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Jennie Livingston • Starring: Pepper Labeija, Danny Xtravaganza, Brooke
Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending • Culture and Society • Documentary
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Chris Smith • Starring: Mark Borchardt, Tom Schimmels, Monica Borchardt
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Al Reinert • Starring: Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan
Documentary • History
83
Michael Apted • Starring: Tony Walker, Bruce Balden, Andrew Brackfield
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Banksy • Starring: Rhys Ifans, Banksy, Shepard Fairey
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Joshua Oppenheimer
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Leon Gast • Starring: James Brown, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman
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Errol Morris • Starring: Randall Adams, David Harris, Dale Holt
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Claude Lanzmann • Starring: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
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James Marsh • Starring: Philippe Petit
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Les Blank • Starring: Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez, Claudia Cardinale, Carmen Correa
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Alain Resnais • Starring: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler
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Biography • Documentary • Law and Crime
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Kurt Kuenne • Starring: Kurt Kuenne, Andrew Bagby, David Bagby
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Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn • Starring: Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara
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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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