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The Top 100 'Paste Magazine's 100 Top 100 Documentaries of All Time' Movies
Global
Ranking |
Movie Title |
Release
Year |
Director |
MPAA
Rating |
Your
Ranking |
| 336 |
Stop Making Sense |
1984 |
Jonathan Demme |
NR |
- |
| 481 |
Man with a Movie Camera |
1929 |
Dziga Vertov |
NR |
- |
| 494 |
F for Fake |
1973 |
Orson Welles |
NR |
- |
| 519 |
Night and Fog |
1956 |
Alain Resnais |
R |
- |
| 591 |
Hoop Dreams |
1994 |
Steve James |
PG13 |
- |
| 676 |
The Thin Blue Line |
1988 |
Errol Morris |
NR |
- |
| 802 |
Koyaanisqatsi |
1982 |
Godfrey Reggio |
NR |
- |
| 827 |
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse |
1991 |
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola |
R |
- |
| 853 |
Close-Up |
1990 |
Abbas Kiarostami |
NR |
- |
| 951 |
The Last Waltz |
1978 |
Martin Scorsese |
PG |
- |
| 1060 |
Dear Zachary |
2008 |
Kurt Kuenne |
NR |
- |
| 1150 |
The Act of Killing |
2012 |
Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn |
NR |
- |
| 1182 |
Shoah |
1985 |
Claude Lanzmann |
NR |
- |
| 1229 |
Grizzly Man |
2005 |
Werner Herzog |
R |
- |
| 1243 |
American Movie |
1999 |
Chris Smith |
R |
- |
| 1267 |
Exit Through The Gift Shop |
2010 |
Banksy |
R |
- |
| 1301 |
The King of Kong |
2007 |
Seth Gordon |
PG13 |
- |
| 1330 |
Crumb |
1994 |
Terry Zwigoff |
R |
- |
| 1332 |
Gimme Shelter |
1970 |
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin |
R |
- |
| 1388 |
The Fog of War |
2003 |
Errol Morris |
PG13 |
- |
| 1425 |
Grey Gardens |
1975 |
Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer |
NR |
- |
| 1491 |
Don't Look Back |
1967 |
D.A. Pennebaker |
NR |
- |
| 1518 |
Man on Wire |
2008 |
James Marsh |
PG13 |
- |
| 1524 |
Sans Soleil |
1983 |
Chris Marker |
NR |
- |
| 1527 |
Harlan County U.S.A. |
1976 |
Barbara Kopple |
PG |
- |
| 1604 |
Burden of Dreams |
1982 |
Les Blank |
NR |
- |
| 1608 |
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills |
1996 |
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky |
R |
- |
| 1626 |
Waltz with Bashir |
2008 |
Ari Folman |
R |
- |
| 1814 |
Capturing the Friedmans |
2003 |
Andrew Jarecki |
NR |
- |
| 1829 |
When We Were Kings |
1996 |
Leon Gast |
PG |
- |
| 2030 |
Paris is Burning |
1990 |
Jennie Livingston |
R |
- |
| 2091 |
Gates of Heaven |
1978 |
Errol Morris |
PG |
- |
| 2105 |
The Times of Harvey Milk |
1984 |
Rob Epstein |
NR |
- |
| 2192 |
Roger & Me |
1989 |
Michael Moore |
R |
- |
| 2332 |
Nanook of the North |
1922 |
Robert J. Flaherty |
NR |
- |
| 2337 |
For All Mankind |
1989 |
Al Reinert |
NR |
- |
| 2625 |
Stories We Tell |
2012 |
Sarah Polley |
PG13 |
- |
| 2822 |
Spellbound |
2002 |
Jeffrey Blitz |
G |
- |
| 2823 |
The Imposter |
2012 |
Bart Layton |
NR |
- |
| 2832 |
21 Up |
1977 |
Michael Apted |
NR |
- |
| 2856 |
Hearts and Minds |
1974 |
Peter Davis |
NR |
- |
| 2936 |
Jiro Dreams of Sushi |
2011 |
David Gelb |
PG |
- |
| 2983 |
Life Itself |
2014 |
Steve James |
NR |
- |
| 3127 |
28 Up |
1985 |
Michael Apted |
NR |
- |
| 3152 |
The Look of Silence |
2014 |
Joshua Oppenheimer |
NR |
- |
| 3162 |
Seven Up! |
1964 |
Paul Almond |
NR |
- |
| 3276 |
Salesman |
1969 |
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin |
G |
- |
| 3414 |
35 Up |
1992 |
Michael Apted |
NR |
- |
| 3532 |
The War Game |
1965 |
Peter Watkins |
NR |
- |
| 3533 |
Inside Job |
2010 |
Charles Ferguson |
PG13 |
- |
| 3725 |
Cave of Forgotten Dreams |
2010 |
Werner Herzog |
G |
- |
| 3771 |
Citizenfour |
2014 |
Laura Poitras |
NR |
- |
| 3821 |
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations |
2000 |
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky |
NR |
- |
| 3930 |
7 Plus Seven |
1970 |
Michael Apted |
NR |
- |
| 3996 |
Murderball |
2005 |
Henry Alex Rubin |
R |
- |
| 4246 |
Lessons of Darkness |
1992 |
Werner Herzog |
NR |
- |
| 4273 |
When the Levees Broke |
2006 |
Spike Lee |
NR |
- |
| 4318 |
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory |
2011 |
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky |
NR |
- |
| 4536 |
The Sorrow and the Pity |
1969 |
Marcel Ophüls |
PG |
- |
| 4619 |
Titicut Follies |
1967 |
Frederick Wiseman |
NR |
- |
| 4693 |
Dark Days |
2000 |
Marc Singer |
NR |
- |
| 4856 |
Little Dieter Needs to Fly |
1997 |
Werner Herzog |
NR |
- |
| 4954 |
DiG! |
2004 |
Ondi Timoner |
R |
- |
| 4986 |
49 Up |
2005 |
Michael Apted |
NR |
- |
| 5101 |
Buena Vista Social Club |
1999 |
Wim Wenders |
G |
- |
| 5305 |
42 Up |
1999 |
Michael Apted |
NR |
- |
| 5488 |
The Gleaners and I |
2000 |
Agnès Varda |
NR |
- |
| 6064 |
High School |
1968 |
Frederick Wiseman |
NR |
- |
| 6075 |
Taxi to the Dark Side |
2007 |
Alex Gibney |
R |
- |
| 6208 |
Land Without Bread |
1933 |
Luis Buñuel |
NR |
- |
| 6446 |
Marwencol |
2010 |
Jeff Malmberg |
NR |
- |
| 6539 |
Born Into Brothels |
2004 |
Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman |
R |
- |
| 6811 |
How to Survive a Plague |
2012 |
David France |
NR |
- |
| 7428 |
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One |
1968 |
William Greaves |
NR |
- |
| 7666 |
Room 237 |
2012 |
Rodney Ascher |
NR |
- |
| 7697 |
This Is Not a Film |
2011 |
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi |
NR |
- |
| 7821 |
Los Angeles Plays Itself |
2003 |
Thom Andersen |
NR |
- |
| 8132 |
General Idi Amin Dada |
1974 |
Barbet Schroeder |
NR |
- |
| 8253 |
Bus 174 |
2002 |
José Padilha, Felipe Lacerda |
R |
- |
| 8750 |
Chronicle of a Summer |
1961 |
Edgar Morin, Jean Rouch |
NR |
- |
| 8902 |
Histoire(s) du cinéma |
1998 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
NR |
- |
| 9228 |
In the Year of the Pig |
1968 |
Emile de Antonio |
NR |
- |
| 10514 |
Primary |
1960 |
Robert Drew |
NR |
- |
| 11435 |
Style Wars |
1984 |
Henry Chalfant, Tony Silver |
NR |
- |
| 11579 |
The Square |
2013 |
Jehane Noujaim |
NR |
- |
| 13228 |
Nostalgia for the Light |
2010 |
Patricio Guzmán |
NR |
- |
| 13386 |
Helvetica |
2007 |
Gary Hustwit |
NR |
- |
| 13799 |
Koko, a Talking Gorilla |
1978 |
Barbet Schroeder |
NR |
- |
| 14809 |
Leviathan |
2012 |
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel |
NR |
- |
| 15478 |
Welfare |
1975 |
Frederick Wiseman |
NR |
- |
| 16062 |
Deep Water |
2006 |
Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell |
PG |
- |
| 18275 |
The Hellstrom Chronicle |
1971 |
Walon Green, Ed Spiegel |
NR |
- |
| 19229 |
Calcutta |
1969 |
Louis Malle |
NR |
- |
| 19478 |
The Overnighters |
2014 |
Jesse Moss |
PG13 |
- |
| 21006 |
Muscle Shoals |
2013 |
Greg 'Freddy' Camalier |
NR |
- |
| 23535 |
Brooklyn Castle |
2012 |
Katie Dellamaggiore |
NR |
- |
| 25255 |
Biggie and Tupac |
2002 |
Nick Broomfield |
R |
- |
| 34676 |
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks |
2003 |
Bing Wang |
NR |
- |
| 39994 |
63 Up |
2019 |
Michael Apted |
NR |
- |
| 44295 |
From the East |
1993 |
Chantal Akerman |
NR |
- |
