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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
5
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
8
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola • Starring: Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Samuel Bottoms
Biography • Documentary • Female-Directed Film
9
Abbas Kiarostami • Starring: Hossein Sabzian, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Abolfazl Ahankhah
Courtroom Drama • Crime • Docudrama
10
Martin Scorsese • Starring: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond
Biography • Concert Film • Documentary
11
Kurt Kuenne • Starring: Kurt Kuenne, Andrew Bagby, David Bagby
Biography • Documentary • History
12
Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn • Starring: Haji Anif, Syamsul Arifin, Sakhyan Asmara
Culture and Society • Documentary • Foreign Language Film
13
Claude Lanzmann • Starring: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
Documentary • Foreign Language Film • History
14
Werner Herzog • Starring: Werner Herzog, Kathleen Parker, Timothy Treadwell
Animal Picture • Biography • Documentary
15
Chris Smith • Starring: Mark Borchardt, Tom Schimmels, Monica Borchardt
Biography • Documentary • Media Documentary
16
Banksy • Starring: Rhys Ifans, Banksy, Shepard Fairey
Culture and Society • Documentary
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Seth Gordon • Starring: Billy Mitchell, Steve Wiebe, Mark Alpiger
18
Terry Zwigoff • Starring: Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb
19
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin • Starring: The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, The Flying Burrito Brothers
Concert Film • Culture and Society • Documentary
20
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
22
D.A. Pennebaker • Starring: Donovan, Joan Baez, Alan Price
23
James Marsh • Starring: Philippe Petit
24
Chris Marker • Starring: Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle, Riyoko Ikeda
25
Barbara Kopple • Starring: John Corcoran, John O'Leary, Norman Yarborough
Americana • Biography • Documentary
26
Les Blank • Starring: Huerequeque Enrique Bohorquez, Claudia Cardinale, Carmen Correa
27
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky • Starring: Damien Wayne Echols, Jessie Miskelly, Jason Baldwin
Biography • Documentary • Law and Crime
28
Ari Folman • Starring: Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman
Animation • Anti-War Film • Avant-garde / Experimental
29
Andrew Jarecki • Starring: Arnold Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman
30
Leon Gast • Starring: James Brown, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman
31
Jennie Livingston • Starring: Pepper Labeija, Danny Xtravaganza, Brooke
Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending • Culture and Society • Documentary
32
Errol Morris • Starring: Lucille Billingsley, Zella Graham, Cal Harberts
33
Rob Epstein • Starring: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg
Biography • Documentary • Gay and Lesbian Film
34
Michael Moore • Starring: Bob Eubanks, Roger B. Smith, Anita Bryant
Culture and Society • Documentary • Social Issues
35
Robert J. Flaherty • Starring: Berry Kroeger
Documentary • History • Silent Film
36
Al Reinert • Starring: Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan
Documentary • History
37
Sarah Polley • Starring: Andrew Church, Peter Evans, Justin Goodhand
Biography • Culture and Society • Docudrama
38
Jeffrey Blitz • Starring: Angela Arenivar, Neil Kadakia, Nupur Lala
39
Bart Layton • Starring: Adam O'Brian, Anna Ruben, Ken Appledorn
40
Michael Apted • Starring: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
41
Peter Davis • Starring: Richard Nixon, Walt Rostow, Robert Kennedy
Anti-War Film • Documentary • Military and War
42
David Gelb • Starring: Jiro Ono
43
Steve James
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Joshua Oppenheimer
46
Paul Almond • Starring: Derek Cooper, Wilfrid Thomas, Bruce Balden
47
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin • Starring: Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt, James Baker
48
Michael Apted • Starring: Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Andrew Brackfield
49
Peter Watkins • Starring: Michael Aspel, Peter Graham
Docudrama • Drama • Mockumentary
50
Charles Ferguson • Starring: Matt Damon
Culture and Society • Documentary • Politics and Government
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