Best Documentaries by Rank
81
1
1929
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
136
2
1985
Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
Documentary / War / History
France
English
322
3
1990
Abbas Kiarostami
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Hossain Sabzian, Abolfazl Ahankhah
Documentary / Drama
Iran
Persian
469
4
1970
Michael Wadleigh
Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
Documentary / Music
USA
English
485
5
1935
Leni Riefenstahl
Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Documentary / Experimental / War
Germany
German
491
6
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
518
7
1994
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
525
8
1994
Steve James
William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
531
9
1969
Marcel Ophüls
Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Documentary / War / History
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
544
10
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Rolf Wernicke, Glenn Morris
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
633
11
1922
Robert J. Flaherty
Nanook, Nyla, Cunayou, Allee, Allegoo
Documentary / Drama / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
662
12
1988
Errol Morris
Randall Adams, David Harris III, Gus Rose, Jackie Johnson, Marshall Touchton
Documentary / Crime / Biography
USA
English
719
13
2002
Abbas Kiarostami
Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Roya Arabshahi, Katayoun Taleidzadeh
Drama / Documentary / Experimental
France / Iran / USA
Persian
774
14
1970
Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts
Documentary / Music
USA
English
806
15
1978
Martin Scorsese
Robbie Robertson, Muddy Waters, Van Morrison, Dr. John
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
836
16
1955
Alain Resnais
Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher
Documentary / Short / History / War
France
French
856
17
1983
Chris Marker
Florence Delay, Arielle Dombasle
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
896
19
2000
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda, François Wertheimer, Bodan Litnanski
Documentary / Biography
France
French
918
20
1931
F.W. Murnau, Robert J. Flaherty
Anne Chevalier, Matahi
Documentary / Drama / Romance
USA
English
925
21
2014
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Roman Madyanov
Drama / Documentary
Russia
Russian
952
22
1983
Godfrey Reggio
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English (No Dialogue)
1032
23
1984
Jonathan Demme
David Byrne, Alex Weir, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth
Documentary / Music
USA
English
1051
24
1967
D.A. Pennebaker
Bob Dylan, Albert Grossman, Bob Neuwirth, Joan Baez, Alan Price, Tito Burns
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
1091
25
1993
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Tianlu Li, Giong Lim, Chung Lin, Yang Liyin, Xin Shufen
Drama / Documentary / Biography
Taiwan
Mandarin
1129
26
1986
Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee, Burt Reynolds, Charleen Swansea
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1146
27
2004
Michael Moore
Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Khalil Bin Laden
Documentary / War
USA
English
1198
28
1965
Peter Watkins
Michael Aspel, Peter Graham
Drama / Sci-Fi / War / Documentary
UK
English
1202
29
1979
Ira Wohl
Zero Mostel, Christine O'Connor, Frances Reiss, Philip Wohl
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1241
30
1969
David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
Jamie Baker, Paul Brennan, Melbourne I. Feltman
Documentary
USA
English
1259
32
2005
Werner Herzog
Timothy Treadwell, Werner Herzog, Franc G. Fallico, Amie Huguenard
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1268
33
1993
François Girard
Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan, Devon Anderson
Documentary / Drama / Music / Biography
Portugal / Canada / Finland / Netherlands
English
1286
34
1948
Robert J. Flaherty
Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc, E. Bienvenu
Documentary / Drama
USA
English
1326
35
2003
Andrew Jarecki
Arnold Friedman, Elaine Friedman, David Friedman, Seth Friedman, Jesse Friedman
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1387
37
1999
Chris Smith
Mark Borchardt, Mike Schank, Ken Keen, Tom Schimmels
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1390
38
1991
Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1433
39
1922
Benjamin Christensen
Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt, Tora Teje
Documentary / Horror
Denmark / Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
1441
40
2003
Errol Morris
Robert McNamara, Fidel Castro, Barry Goldwater, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy
Documentary / Biography / War
USA
English
1446
41
2003
Kevin Macdonald
Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, Richard Hawking, Ollie Ryall, Joe Simpson
Drama / Documentary / Sports
UK
English
1460
42
1988
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls, Klaus Barbie, Claude Lanzmann
Documentary / History / Biography / War
France / USA
French
1495
43
2002
Michael Moore
Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Matt Stone, Marilyn Manson, Dick Clark
Documentary
Canada / USA / Germany
English
1620
44
1974
Orson Welles
Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten
Documentary / Experimental / Biography
France / Iran / West Germany
English
1632
45
1974
Peter Davis
Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker, Kay Dvorshock, Daniel Ellsberg
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
1633
46
2008
Sacha Gervasi
Steve 'Lips' Kudlow, Robb Reiner, Kevin Goocher, Glenn Gyorffy, Chris Tsangarides
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
1637
47
1934
Robert J. Flaherty
Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane
Documentary
UK
English
1690
48
2003
Nathaniel Kahn
Nathaniel Kahn, Louis I. Kahn, Harriet Pattison, Sue Ann Kahn, Alexandra Tyng
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1694
49
1965
Kon Ichikawa
Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, Hirohito
Documentary / Sports / History
Japan
Japanese
1768
52
1994
Abbas Kiarostami
Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
Drama / Documentary
France / Iran
Persian
1770
53
1992
Víctor Erice
Antonio López García, Marina Moreno, Enrique Gran
Documentary / Drama
Spain
Spanish
1783
54
1997
Errol Morris
Dave Hoover, George Mendonça, Ray Mendez, Rodney Brooks
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1805
55
1999
Wim Wenders
Lázaro Villa, Manuel 'Puntillita' Licea, Alberto 'Virgilio' Valdés
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / USA / UK / France / Cuba
English
1815
56
2021
Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Daniel Karimyar, Fardin Mijdzadeh, Milad Eskandari, Belal Faiz
Documentary / Animation
Denmark / France / Sweden / Norway / USA / Slovenia / Estonia / Spain / Italy / Finland
English
1825
57
2005
Alex Gibney
John Beard, Jim Chanos, Carol Coale, Peter Coyote, Gray Davis, Joseph Dunn
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1849
58
2001
Stacy Peralta
Sean Penn, Jay Adams, Tony Alva, Jeff Ament, Bob Biniak, Steve Caballero
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1849
58
1996
Leon Gast
Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Mobutu Sese Seko
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1867
59
2019
Alexander Nanau
Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag, Catalin Tolontan, Tedy Ursuleanu, Vlad Voiculescu
Documentary
Romania / Luxembourg / Germany
Romanian
1873
60
1990
Jennie Livingston
Dorian Corey, Pepper LaBeija, Danny Xtravaganza, Sol Pendavis
Documentary
USA
English
1878
61
2005
Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
Joe Soares, Mark Zupan, Keith Cavill, Andy Cohn, Scott Hogsett, Christopher Igoe
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1883
62
1930
Curt Siodmak, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer, Fred Zinnemann
Erwin Splettstößer, Brigitte Borchert, Wolfgang von Waltershausen
Documentary / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
1895
64
1998
Jean-Luc Godard
Alain Cuny
Short / Documentary / Experimental
France / Switzerland
French
1907
65
1985
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
1908
66
1927
Walter Ruttmann
Documentary / Experimental
Germany
German (Silent)
1925
67
1992
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Delbert Ward, Connie Chung, John Teeple, Lyman Ward
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
1942
68
1943
Humphrey Jennings
Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton
Documentary / Drama / History / War
UK
English
1953
69
1962
Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, Franco Prosperi
Rossano Brazzi, Stefano Sibaldi
Documentary
Italy
Italian
1961
70
1996
Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Kristin Scott Thomas
Documentary / Family
France / Switzerland / Italy
English
1965
71
1974
Jack Haley Jr.
Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, Peter Lawford, Liza Minnelli
Documentary / Family / Musical / Biography
USA
English
1969
72
2012
Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno
Documentary / Crime / History
Denmark / Norway / UK
Indonesian
1972
73
2007
Alex Gibney
Alex Gibney, Carlotta Gall, Moazzam Begg, Willie Brand, Jack Cloonan
Documentary / War / Crime
USA
English
1975
74
1959
Aram Avakian, Bert Stern
Thelonious Monk, Dinah Washington, Louis Armstrong
Documentary / Music
USA
English
1975
74
1956
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Alberto Falco, Frederic Duman
Documentary
Italy / France
French
1984
75
2002
Nicolas Philibert
Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel, Guillaume, Jessie, Johan, Johann, Jonathan
Documentary / Family / Biography
France
French
1986
76
1980
Errol Morris
Lucille Billingsley, Zella Graham, Cal Harberts, Dan Harberts
Documentary
USA
English
1988
77
1997
Spike Lee
Maxine McNair, Chris McNair, Helen Pegues, Queen Nunn, Arthur Hanes Jr.
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
1989
78
1982
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Experimental / Drama / Documentary
France
German
1998
79
1968
William Greaves
Patricia Ree Gilbert, Don Fellows, Bob Rosen, Susan Anspach, Jonathan Gordon
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2001
80
1933
Luis Buñuel
Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Short / Documentary / Drama / Experimental
Spain
French
2006
81
1961
Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin
Jean Rouch, Marceline Loridan Ivens, Marilù Parolini
Documentary
France
French
2006
81
1977
Michael Apted
Susan Sullivan, Peter Davies, Charles, Bruce Balden
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2010
82
1991
Errol Morris
Stephen Hawking, Isobel Hawking, Janet Humphrey, Mary Hawking
Documentary / Biography
UK / Japan / USA
English
2014
83
1963
Jean-Daniel Pollet, Volker Schlöndorff
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
2031
84
1932
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Sergei Bondarchuk, Grigori Aleksandrov
Documentary / Experimental / Romance
Soviet Union / USA / Mexico
Russian (Silent)
2037
85
2014
Joshua Oppenheimer
Documentary / War / History / Biography
Denmark / Finland / Norway / Indonesia / UK
Indonesian
2038
86
1926
Robert J. Flaherty
Fa'amgase, Pe'a, Ta'avale, T'ugaita
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2040
87
1945
John Huston
Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2043
88
1972
Jonas Mekas
Peter Kubelka, Annette Michelson
Documentary / Biography
UK / West Germany
English
2048
89
2004
Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
Shanti Das, Avijit, Suchitra, Manik, Gour, Puja Mukerjee, Tapasi, Mamuni
Documentary
India / USA
Bengali
2051
90
2007
Michael Moore
Michael Moore, George W. Bush, Reggie Cervantes, John Graham, William Maher
Documentary
USA
English
2052
91
1966
Bruce Brown
Michael Hynson, Robert August, Bruce Brown
Documentary / Sports / Cult
USA
English
2057
92
1975
Ellen Hovde, Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Muffie Meyer
Edith Bouvier Beale, Edith 'Little Edie' Bouvier Beale, Jack Helmuth
Documentary / Biography / Cult
USA
English
2060
93
1976
Marcel Ophüls
Joan Baez, Karl Dönitz, Hermann Göring
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA / France / West Germany
French
2062
94
2002
Jeffrey Blitz
Harry Altman, Angela Arenivar, Ted Brigham, April DeGideo, Neil Kadakia
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2065
95
1989
Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens
Henxiang Han, Joris Ivens, Guilian Liu, Zhuang Liu, Hong Wang
Documentary / Comedy / Drama
France / UK / West Germany / Netherlands
French
2085
96
1976
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman
Documentary / Drama / Experimental
Belgium / France / West Germany
French
2120
100
1994
Michael J. Sheridan, Bud Friedgen
Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Cyd Charisse, Lena Horne, Debbie Reynolds
Documentary / Family / Musical
USA
English
2124
101
2021
Questlove
Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight and the Pips
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2126
102
2006
Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck
Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Simon Renshaw, Emily Robison
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2127
103
2001
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
Philippe Labro, Jacques Perrin
Documentary / Family
France / Italy / Germany / Spain / Switzerland
English
2132
104
2007
David Sington
Buzz Aldrin, Edgar D. Mitchell, Alan Bean, Jim Lovell, Michael Collins
Documentary / History / Biography
UK / USA
English
2132
104
2008
James Marsh
Philippe Petit, Ardis Campbell, David Demato, David Frank, Aaron Haskil
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2146
105
1982
George T. Nierenberg
Willie May Ford Smith, Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2148
106
2000
Mark Jonathan Harris
Judi Dench, Lorraine Allard, Lory Chan, Mariam Cohen, Hedy Epstein, Kurt Fuchel
Documentary / History / War
UK / USA
English
2154
107
1982
Jim Brown
Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Arlo Guthrie, Mary Travers
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2189
109
1982
Les Blank
Jason Robards, Claudia Cardinale, Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2196
110
2008
Martin Scorsese
The Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Jack White, Christina Aguilera, Bill Clinton
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA / UK
English
2202
111
2000
Fernando Trueba
Michel Camilo, Tito Puente, Gato Barbieri, Eliane Elias
Documentary / Music / Biography
Spain / France / Italy
French
2208
112
2003
Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
Jane Akre, Ray Anderson, Maude Barlow, Chris Barrett, Smedley Darlington Butler
Documentary / History
Canada
English
2222
113
1952
Merian C. Cooper, Gunther von Fritsch, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Michael Todd Jr.
Lowell Thomas
Documentary
USA
English
2226
114
2004
Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
Elliot Lovett, Nick Moncrief, Stuart Wilf, Devon Dixon, Javorn Drummond
Documentary / War / Biography
USA
English
2226
114
1919
Frank Hurley
Ernest Shackleton, Captain F. Worsley, Lieutenant J. Stenhouse, Captain L. Hussey
Documentary / Adventure
Australia / UK
English (Silent)
2244
115
2006
Jonathan Demme
Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham, Rick Rosas, Karl Himmel
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2251
116
1965
Richard Kaplan
Frances Cole, Archibald Macleish, Eric Sevareid
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2253
117
1990
Barbara Kopple, Cathy Caplan, Thomas Haneke, Lawrence Silk
Jesse Jackson, Ray Rogers
Documentary / Biography
USA / UK
English
2277
118
1953
George Lowe
Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay
Documentary / History / Sports / Adventure / Biography
UK
English
2299
119
1992
Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield, Aileen Wuornos, Arlene Pralle, Steven Glaser
Documentary / Biography / Crime
UK
English
2299
119
1968
Emile de Antonio
Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2305
120
1937
Michael Powell
Belle Chrystall, Niall MacGinnis, John Laurie, Eric Berry
Drama / Documentary
UK
English
2314
121
2007
Charles Ferguson
Nir Rosen, Campbell Scott
Documentary / War
USA
English
2316
123
1977
George Butler, Robert Fiore
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lou Ferrigno, Matty Ferrigno, Mike Katz, Franco Columbu
Documentary / Sports / Biography / Cult
USA
English
2330
125
1925
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison
Documentary / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2330
125
1970
Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2330
125
1968
D.A. Pennebaker
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, 'Mama' Cass Elliot, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2330
125
1973
Mel Stuart
The Staple Singers, Richard Pryor, Rufus Thomas, Kim Weston, Johnnie Taylor
Documentary / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2342
127
1998
James Moll
Bill Basch, Alice Lok Cahana, Renee Firestone, Tom Lantos, Irene Zisblatt
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA
English
2377
128
2011
Wim Wenders
Pina Bausch, Regina Advento, Malou Airaudo, Ruth Amarante, Jorge Puerta Armenta
Documentary / Music / Biography
Germany / France / UK
German
2382
129
1999
Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Martin Goldman, Harry Keitt, Randy Little, Tyrene Manson, Mickey Marcello
Documentary / Drama / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2384
130
2022
Laura Poitras
Nan Goldin, Marina Berio, Robert Suarez
Biography / Documentary
USA
English
2386
131
1961
Kent MacKenzie
Homer Nish, Tom Reynolds, Yvonne Williams
Documentary / Drama
USA
English
2393
132
1964
Emile de Antonio
Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph N. Welch
Documentary / History
USA
English
2398
133
1994
Jean Bach
Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
2402
134
1998
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2402
134
1970
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2402
134
1964
Paul Almond
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Short
UK
English
2402
134
1991
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2403
135
2006
Patricia Foulkrod
Charles Anderson, Robert Acosta, Kelly Dougherty, Herod Noel, Aidan Delgado
Documentary / War
USA
English
2408
137
1956
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Pablo Picasso
Documentary / Biography
France
French
2410
138
2017
JR, Agnès Varda
Jean-Luc Godard, JR, Laurent Levesque, Agnès Varda
Documentary
France
French
2411
139
2003
Jonathan Demme
Jean Dominique, Aboudja, Ronald Reagan, Michele Montas, Raoul Labuchin
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2411
139
2005
Ward Serrill
Ludacris, Devon Crosby Helms, Maude Lepley, Bill Resler, Darnellia Russell
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2411
139
2006
Tony Kaye
Nat Hentoff, Dallas Blanchard, Norma McCorvey, Noam Chomsky, Alan Dershowitz
Documentary / Religion
USA
English
2411
139
2002
Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
Hugo Chavez, Pedro Carmona, Jesse Helms, Colin Powell, George Tenet
Documentary / History / War
Ireland / Netherlands / USA / Germany / Finland / UK
English
2411
139
2004
Stacy Peralta
Greg Noll, Jeff Clark, Darrick Doerner, Laird John Hamilton, Dave Kalama
Documentary / Sports / Biography
USA / France
English
2411
139
2002
Steve James
Steve James, Stephen Fielding, Tonya Gregory, Bernice Hagler, Verna Hagler
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2411
139
1992
Stuart Samuels, Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Andrew Glassman
Ernest R. Dickerson, Michael Chapman, Allen Daviau, Caleb Deschanel
Documentary / History
USA / Japan
English
2413
140
2012
Amy Berg
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., Lorri Davis, Peter Jackson
Documentary / History / Crime
New Zealand / USA
English
2418
141
1982
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2420
142
1927
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Kru, Chantui, Nah, Ladah, Bimbo the Monkey
Adventure / Documentary / History
USA
English (Silent)
2421
143
2014
Steve James
Roger Ebert, Gene Siskel, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Errol Morris
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2428
144
2013
Morgan Neville
Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Táta Vega, Judith Hill
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2430
145
2003
Rick McKay
Gwen Verdon, Chita Rivera, Angela Lansbury, Marlon Brando, Shirley MacLaine
Documentary / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2431
146
2007
Seth Gordon
Walter Day, Billy Mitchell, Todd Rogers, Steve Sanders, Doris Self
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2443
147
2012
Kevin Macdonald
Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Cedella Marley, Rita Marley
Documentary / Biography / Music / History
USA / UK
English
2457
148
2002
Paul Justman
Richard 'Pistol' Allen, Jack Ashford, Bob Babbitt, Benny 'Papa Zita' Benjamin
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2458
149
2003
Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
Claus Nissen, Majken Algren Nielsen, Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier
Documentary
Denmark / Switzerland / Belgium / France
Danish
2458
149
2012
Rodney Ascher
Bill Blakemore, Geoffrey Cocks, Juli Kearns, John Fell Ryan, Jay Weidner
Documentary
USA
English
2480
151
2010
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste, Carole Fritz
Documentary / History
Canada / USA / France / Germany / UK
English
2480
151
2007
Guy Maddin
Louis Negin, Darcy Fehr, Amy Stewart, Ann Savage, Cory Cassidy
Documentary
Canada
English
2484
152
2009
Kenny Ortega
Michael Jackson, Orianthi Panagaris, Tommy Organ, Bashiri Johnson, Jonathan Moffett
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2486
153
2006
Christopher Dillon Quinn, Tommy Walker
Nicole Kidman, John Dau, Daniel Abul Pach
Documentary
USA
English
2492
154
1945
André Malraux, Boris Peskine
Andrés Mejuto, Julio Peña, Pedro Codina, Miguel Del Castillo
Documentary / Drama / War
Spain / France
French
2493
155
2003
Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe
Tony Grisoni, Philip A. Patterson, René Cleitman, Terry Gilliam
Documentary
UK / USA
English
2494
156
2008
Errol Morris
Christopher Bradley, Sarah Denning, Joshua Feinman, Jeff L. Green, Merry Grissom
Documentary / War / History / Crime
USA
English
2497
157
1954
Nancy Hamilton
Helen Keller, Polly Thompson, Katharine Cornell, Dwight D. Eisenhower
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2503
158
1974
Thom Andersen, Morgan Fisher, Fay Anderson
Eadweard Muybridge, Dean Stockwell
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2504
159
2000
Julien Temple
John Lydon, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock, Sid Vicious, Malcolm McLaren
Documentary / Music / Biography
UK / USA
English
2509
161
2010
Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
Joan Rivers, Kathy Griffin, Dr. Joy Browne, Melissa Rivers, Jon Stewart
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2511
162
1955
Robert L. Bendick, Philippe De Lacy
Betty Marsh, John Marsh, Beatrice Troller, Fred Troller
Documentary
USA
English
2514
164
2018
Morgan Neville
Fred Rogers, Joanne Rogers, Jim Rogers, John Rogers, Bill Clinton
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2527
165
2014
Laura Poitras
Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum, Ewen MacAskill
Documentary / Biography
Germany / USA
English
2527
165
2014
Gabe Polsky
Scotty Bowman, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Anatoli Karpov, Alexei Kasatonov, Ken Kurtis
Documentary / Biography / History / Sports
USA / Russia
English
2531
166
2015
Kent Jones
Alfred Hitchcock, François Truffaut, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich
Documentary
France / USA
English
2531
166
2013
Teller
Tim Jenison, David Hockney, Martin Mull, Penn Jillette, Philip Steadman
Documentary
USA
English
2533
167
1967
Shirley Clarke
Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2539
169
2010
Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim
Vik Muniz, Fabio Ghivelder, Sebastiao Carlos Dos Santos
Documentary / Biography
Brazil / UK
Portuguese
2543
170
1995
Jon Blair
Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Anne Frank, Miep Gies, Edith Frank, Ashley Johnson
Documentary / Biography / History
UK / USA / Netherlands
English
2543
170
1996
Hugo Van Lawick
John Gielgud
Documentary / Family
USA / Netherlands
English
2546
171
1961
Robert Youngson
Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Houdini
Adventure / Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English
2546
171
1957
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2546
171
1963
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Documentary / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2546
171
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2546
171
1984
Jim Brown
Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Hoyt Axton, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2554
173
1948
Sidney Meyers
Gary Merrill, Donald Thompson, Clarence Cooper
Documentary / Drama
USA
English
2554
173
1956
Carlos Velo
Luis Procuna, Consuelo Procuna, Ángel Procuna
Documentary / Drama
Mexico
Spanish
2558
174
2011
Constance Marks, Philip Shane
Kevin Clash, Whoopi Goldberg, Frank Oz, Cheryl Henson, Rosie O'Donnell
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2563
175
1936
Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg
Short / Documentary
UK
English
2567
176
2004
Ondi Timoner
Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion, Matt Hollywood, Peter Holmstrom
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2578
177
1985
Ken Burns
Huey Long, David McCullough, Russell Long
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2578
177
1958
Bill Colleran, Louis De Rochemont III
Yngvar Kjelstrup, Niels Arntsen, Nils Hermansen
Documentary
USA
English
2579
178
2023
Mstyslav Chernov
Mstyslav Chernov, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Liudmyla Amelkina
Documentary / War
Ukraine
Ukrainian
2580
179
1895
Louis Lumière
Documentary / Short
France
French (Silent)
2582
180
1979
Jeff Margolis
Richard Pryor
Comedy / Documentary
USA
English
2584
181
2005
Michael Apted
Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield, John Brisby
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2586
182
2005
Eugene Jarecki
Wilton Sekzer, Chalmers Johnson, William Solomon, Charles Lewis, Richard Perle
Documentary / History / War
USA / France / UK / Canada / Denmark
English
2590
183
1995
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard, Denis Jadót, Elisabeth Kaza
Documentary / Drama / Experimental
France
French
2591
184
1995
Mark Rappaport
Mary Beth Hurt, Jean Seberg
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2591
184
1988
Charlotte Zwerin
Jimmy Cleveland, Harry Colomby, John Coltrane, Ray Copeland
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2591
184
1984
Rob Epstein
Harvey Milk, Harvey Fierstein, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Tom Ammiano
Documentary / Biography / History / Crime
USA
English
2597
186
1972
unknown
Rusty Sachs, Joe Bangert, Scott Shimabukuro, Kenneth Campbell, Scott Camil
Documentary / War
USA
English
2605
188
1967
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Stuart Whitman
Documentary / War / History / Biography
France
French
2605
188
2005
Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Irina Baronova, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne Craig, Frederic Franklin, Alan Howard
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
2002
André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
Traudl Junge
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Austria
German
2605
188
1977
Robert Dornhelm, Earle Mack
Grace Kelly, Angelina Armeiskaya, Michaela Cerna, Galina Mezenzewa
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
1987
Taylor Hackford
Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Little Richard, Bo Diddley
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2605
188
2002
Christian Charles
Jerry Seinfeld, Greg Giraldo, Sherrod Small, Jim Norton, Allan Havey, Colin Quinn
Documentary / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2605
188
1992
Jonathan Demme
Robert W. Castle
Documentary / Biography / Religion
USA / Spain
English
2605
188
1997
Dana Ranga
Margarita Andrushkovich, Chris Doerk, Erich Gusko, Helmut Hanke, Barbara Harnisch
Documentary / Musical / History
France / Germany
English
2605
188
1995
Carlos Saura
La Paquera de Jerez, Merche Esmeralda, Manolo Sanlúcar
Documentary / Music
Spain
Spanish
2605
188
1981
Murray Lerner
David Golub, Isaac Stern, Tan Shuzhen
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
2605
188
1983
Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills
Ruth Davidow, Studs Terkel, Bill McCarthy, Ed Balchowsky, Steve Nelson
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2605
188
1982
David Leivick, Frederick A. Ritzenberg
James Cleveland, Walter Hawkins, Twinkie Clark, Shirley Caesar
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
1962
Paul Killiam, Harvey Cort, Saul J. Turell
Buster Keaton, Douglas Fairbanks, Lillian Gish, William S. Hart, Mack Sennett
Documentary / Action / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent Scenes)
2605
188
1995
Michel Negroponte
Maggie Cogan, Katina Pendleton
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
2004
Antoine Fuqua
B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Macy Gray, Buddy Guy
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
1996
Susan Warms Dryfoos
Al Hirschfeld, Lauren Bacall, Carol Channing, Joan Collins, Robert Goulet
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
1997
Mark Jonathan Harris
Morgan Freeman, Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2605
188
1996
Al Pacino
Al Pacino, Harris Yulin, Penelope Allen, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Spacey
Documentary / Drama / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
1994
Michael Apted
Lu Li, Jin-Ming Zhang, Yi-Ming Huang, Yi-fen Kan, Ke-Hsi Hsiang, Tsung-cheng Hou
Documentary / Biography
UK / Canada
English
2605
188
1999
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Claudia Cardinale
Documentary / Biography
UK / Germany / Finland / USA
German
2605
188
2006
Laura Poitras
David Brancaccio, María Hinojosa
Documentary / Biography / War
USA
English
2605
188
1998
Matthew Diamond
Paul Taylor, Ted Thomas
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
2002
Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Ian Holm, Kurt Gerron, Robby Lantz, Eleonore Hertzberg, Lone Koppel
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA / Canada / Germany / UK
English
2605
188
2001
Carlos Bolado, Justine Shapiro, B.Z. Goldberg
Moishe Bar Am, Faraj Adnan Hassan Husein, Mahmoud Mazen Mahmoud Izhiman
Documentary / Biography / War
USA
English
2605
188
1997
Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
C.R. 'Tiny' Boland, Charley Bull, Rene Champion, Peggy De Hart, John Fawcett
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
1962
Louis Clyde Stoumen
Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / Biography / War / History
USA
English
2605
188
1973
Stan Lathan
Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Bill Withers, Roberta Flack, Sammy Davis Jr.
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2605
188
2001
Chris Hegedus, Jehane Noujaim
Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Tom Herman, Kenneth Austin, Tricia Burke, Roy Burston
Documentary
USA
English
2605
188
2003
Byambasuren Davaa, Luigi Falorni
Janchiv Ayurzana, Chimed Ohin, Amgaabazar Gonson, Zeveljamz Nyam
Documentary / Drama / Biography
Germany / Mongolia
Mongolian
2605
188
1984
Steve Binder, Larry Peerce, David Winters
Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
1976
Gene Kelly
Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor
Documentary / Family / Musical / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
1993
Ross McElwee
Ross McElwee, Charleen Swansea
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2605
188
2006
Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan
Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Howard Zinn, Andrew Egendorf, Robert Fellmeth
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2605
188
1988
Nigel Noble
Leleti Khumalo, Baby Cele, Pat Mlaba, Miriam Makeba
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2610
189
2016
Raoul Peck
Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Dick Cavett
Documentary / History
France / USA
English
2612
190
1895
Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière
Short / Documentary
France
French (Silent)
2623
192
2018
John Chester
John Chester, Molly Chester
Documentary
USA
English
2625
193
2005
Marilyn Agrelo
Tara Devon Gallagher, Madeleine Hackney, Charlotte Jorgensen, Rodney Lopez
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2633
194
2003
various
Andrea Arnold, Stephen Daldry, Mike Leigh, Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott
Short / Documentary / Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2633
194
2017
Matthew Heineman
Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, Hamoud, Hassan, Hussam, Naji Jerf, Mohamad
Documentary / War
USA
English
2633
194
2020
Spike Lee
David Byrne, Chris Giarmo, Tendayi Kuumba, Karl Mansfield, Angie Swan
Documentary / Music / Musical
USA
English
2633
194
1983
Bruce Gowers
Eddie Murphy, James Argiro, Gus Loundermon, Brian O'Neal, Kevin O'Neal
Documentary / Comedy
USA
English
2633
194
2012
Bart Layton
Frédéric Bourdin, Adam O'Brian, Carey Gibson, Anna Ruben
Documentary / Biography / Crime
UK
English
2633
194
1938
Len Lye, Norman McLaren, William Coldstream, Pat Jackson, Lotte Reiniger, Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Evelyn Corbett, Dwight Godwin, Charlotte Leigh
Documentary / Musical / Animation / Short / Experimental / Comedy / Romance
UK / Canada
English
2633
194
2014
Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Hugo Barbier
Documentary / Biography
France / Brazil / Italy
French
2633
194
2004
Peter Raymont
Roméo Dallaire
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Canada
English
2633
194
1938
Ben Sharpsteen, Clyde Geronimi, Dick Lundy, Jack King, Jeff Kurtti
Florence Gill, Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Billy Bletcher, Cliff Edwards
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English
2633
194
2006
Spike Lee
Harry Belafonte, Terence Blanchard, Kathleen Blanco, Wynton Marsalis
Documentary
USA
English
2633
194
2018
Mark Cousins
Tilda Swinton, Adjoa Andoh, Jane Fonda, Sharmila Tagore, Kerry Fox
Documentary
UK
English
2639
195
2008
Kurt Kuenne
Kurt Kuenne, Zachary Andrew, David Bagby, Dr. Andrew Bagby, Kathleen Bagby
Documentary / Biography / Crime
USA
English
2645
197
2010
Richard Press
Anna Wintour, Bill Cunningham, Tom Wolfe, Edita Sherman, Annette de la Renta
Documentary / Biography
USA / France
English
2646
198
2008
Chris Bell
Carl Lewis, Barry Bonds, Christian Boeving, Mark 'Smelly' Bell, Mike 'Mad Dog' Bell
Documentary / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2648
199
2019
A.J. Eaton
David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Neil Young, Roger McGuinn
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2649
200
2011
Werner Herzog
Jason Burkett, Werner Herzog, Michael Perry, Jeremy Richardson, Adam Stotler
Documentary / Crime
Germany / Canada
English
2650
201
2012
Malik Bendjelloul
Rodriguez, Clarence Avant, Malik Bendjelloul, Dennis Coffey, Eva Rodriguez
Documentary / Biography / Music
Sweden / UK
English
2653
202
2010
Errol Morris
Kent Gavin, Joyce McKinney, Jackson Shaw, Peter Tory, Troy Williams
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2658
204
2011
Jon Foy
Justin Duerr, Colin Smith, Steve Weinik
Documentary
USA
English
2659
205
2003
Jonathan Caouette
Renee Leblanc, Jonathan Caouette, Adolph Davis, Rosemary Davis, David Sanin Paz
Documentary / Biography / Experimental
USA
English
2660
206
2002
Bing Wang
Documentary / Biography
China / Netherlands
Mandarin
2663
207
2009
Louie Psihoyos
Richard O'Barry, Simon Hutchins, Mandy-Rae Cruikshank, Kirk Krack, Dave Rastovich
Documentary
USA
English
2663
207
2007
Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens
Jimmy Breslin, Burt Pugach, Linda Riss Pugach, Rusty Goldberg, Bob Janoff
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2663
207
2019
Matt Tyrnauer
Roy Cohn, Barbara Walters, Roger Stone, Ken Auletta, Anne Roiphe, Donald Trump
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2664
208
2007
Werner Herzog
Ryan Andrew Evans, Ryan Andrew Evans
Documentary
USA
English
2664
208
2008
Patrick Creadon
James Arredy, Robert Bixby, William Bonner, Warren Buffet, David Chia, Kent Conrad
Documentary
USA
English
2665
209
1989
Pat O'Neill
Beth Block, George Lockwood, Joel Loriman
Documentary / Experimental
USA
English
2666
210
2003
Ron Mann
Woody Harrelson, Ken Kesey, Bob Weir, Natalie Merchant
Documentary / Comedy / Animation
Canada
English
2666
210
1983
Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Charles Chaplin, James Mason, Edna Purviance, Albert Austin
Documentary / Biography / Comedy / Family
UK
English (Silent Scenes)
2669
211
2019
Todd Douglas Miller
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Jim Lovell, Walter Cronkite
Documentary / History
USA
English
2670
212
2018
Alex Holmes
Tracy Edwards, Jeni Mundy, Mikaela Von Koskull
Documentary / Sports / Biography
UK
English
2671
213
2017
Ai Weiwei
Israa Abboud, Hiba Abed, Rami Abu Sondos, Asmaa Al-Bahiyya, Eman Al-Masina
Documentary
Germany
English
2672
214
2009
Edmon Roch
Rupert Allason, José Antonio Escoriza, Aline Griffith, Juan Kreisler
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Spain
Spanish
2674
215
2005
Martin Scorsese
Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, Woody Guthrie, D.A. Pennebaker
Documentary / Music / Biography
UK / USA / Japan
English
2676
216
2012
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Angela Black, Calvin O. Butts III, Natalie Byfield, David Dinkins, Jim Dwyer
Documentary / History
USA
English
2676
216
1987
Bill Couturié
Robert De Niro, Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Sheen
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2676
216
1995
Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield, Heidi Fleiss, Madam Alex, Cookie, Ivan Nagy
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2676
216
2011
Bill Haney
William Sadler, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Bill Raney, Bo Webb, Maria Gunnoe
Documentary
USA
English
2676
216
1984
Martin Bell
Kim, Lulu, Dewayne, Lillie, Munchkin, Patti, Rat, Shadow, Shellie
Documentary
USA
English
2676
216
2011
Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin
Bill Courtney, O.C. Brown, Montrail 'Money' Brown, Chavis Daniels
Documentary / Biography / Sports
USA
English
2676
216
2009
Don Hahn
Roy Edward Disney, Michael Eisner, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tim Burton, Don Bluth
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2677
217
2012
David France
Peter Staley, Garance Franke-Riuta, Mark Harrington, Spencer Cox, Larry Kramer
Documentary / History
USA
English
2681
218
2010
Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel
Kevin Coval, Adam Gottlieb, Elizabeth Graf, Kevin Harris, John Hood
Documentary
USA
English
2682
219
1992
Abbas Kiarostami
Farhad Kheradmand, Pouya Payvar, Behrouz Abedini, Shahin Abzan, Ziba Babayi
Documentary / Drama / Adventure
Iran
Persian
2684
220
2002
Nanette Burstein, Brett Morgen
Robert Evans, Eddie Albert, William Castle, Francis Ford Coppola
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2687
221
2008
Alex Gibney
Hunter S. Thompson, Johnny Depp, Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, Jann Wenner
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2687
221
2004
Mark Wexler
Peter Bart, Verna Bloom, Billy Crystal, Michael Douglas, Jane Fonda, Milos Forman
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2688
222
1972
Robert Frank
The Rolling Stones, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Bianca Jagger, Dick Cavett
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2688
222
1988
Penelope Spheeris
Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Alice Cooper, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Lemmy
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2688
222
2003
Jim Fields, Michael Gramaglia
Marky Ramone, Johnny Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Tommy Ramone, Joey Ramone
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2688
222
1997
Andrew Kotting
Andrew Kotting, Eden Kotting, Gladys Morris
Documentary
UK
English
2688
222
1980
Julien Temple
Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, John Lydon, Ronald Biggs
Documentary / Drama / Comedy / Music / Biography
UK
English
2689
223
1939
Pat Jackson, Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt
Short / Documentary / War
UK
English
2689
223
1921
Vladimir Gardin, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Documentary
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2689
223
1926
Francisco Gómez Hidalgo
Francisco Franco, Millán Astray, José Sanjurjo, Juan Belmonte
Documentary
Spain
Spanish (Silent)
2689
223
1927
Wadad Orfi
Aziza Amir, Assia Dagher, Ahmed Galal, Wadad Orfi, Stephan Rosti
Documentary
Egypt
Arabic (Silent)
2689
223
1942
Roman Karmen, N. Komarevtsev, Valeri Solovtsov, Yefim Uchitel
Documentary / War
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
223
1940
Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt
Quentin Reynolds, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Documentary / War / Short
UK
English
2689
223
1984
Maximilian Schell
Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Annie Albers, Bernard Hall, Marta Rakosnik
Documentary / Biography
West Germany
English
2689
223
1920
Lev Kuleshov
Aleksandra Khokhlova, Lev Kuleshov, Leonid Obolensky, A. Reich
Documentary
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2689
223
1956
Tay Garnett, Paul Mantz, Andrew Marton, Ted Tetzlaff, Walter Thompson
Lowell Thomas, Paul Mantz
Documentary / History
USA
English
2689
223
1926
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
223
1934
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
223
2003
Lauren Lazin
Tupac Shakur, Rappin' 4-Tay, Conrad Bain, Bill Bellamy, William J. Bennett
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2689
223
1950
Sergei Gerasimov, Ivan Dukinsky
Documentary / War
China / Soviet Union
Russian
2689
223
2010
Davis Guggenheim
Geoffrey Canada, The Esparza Family, The Hill Family, The Jones Family
Documentary
USA
English
2691
224
2002
Carlos Bosch, Josep Maria Domenech
Guillermo Armas, Maria Celeste Arraras, Rafael Cano, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton
Documentary
Spain
Spanish
2691
224
1968
Dusan Makavejev
Dragoljub Aleksic, Ana Milosavljevic, Vera Jovanovic, Bratoljub Gligorijevic
Documentary / Experimental / Drama
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2691
224
2001
Claude Lanzmann
Yehuda Lerner
Documentary / History / War / Biography
France
French
2691
224
2001
Sandi Simcha Dubowski
Naomi Mark, Tamar, Shlomo Ashkinazy, Michelle, Rabbi Nathan Lopes
Documentary / Religion
Israel / France / USA
English
2693
226
2017
Alexandre O. Philippe
Alfred Hitchcock, Peter Bogdanovich, Marli Renfro, Jamie Lee Curtis, Oz Perkins
Documentary
USA
English
2693
226
2016
Keith Maitland
Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson, Monty Muir, Chris Doubek
Documentary / Animation / Crime / History
USA
English
2695
227
2006
Patrick Creadon
Will Shortz, Merl Reagle, Jon Stewart, Ken Burns, Indigo Girls, Bill Clinton
Documentary
USA
English
2696
228
2010
Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
Megan Faccio, Melody C. Roscher, Ariel Schulman, Yaniv Schulman
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2696
228
2013
Chiemi Karasawa
Elaine Stritch , Alec Baldwin, Rob Bowman, Tina Fey, James Gandolfini
Documentary / Comedy / Biography
USA
English
2696
228
2018
Peter Medak
Peter Sellers, Peter Medak, Joe Dunne, Simon van der Borgh, Spike Milligan
Documentary
Cyprus
English
2696
228
2011
Morgan Spurlock
Morgan Spurlock, Ralph Nader
Documentary / Comedy
USA
English
2696
228
2016
Justin Bare, Matthew Miele
Harry Benson
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2696
228
2016
Roger Ross Williams
Jonathan Freeman, Gilbert Gottfried, Owen Suskind, Ron Suskind
Documentary / Animation / Family / Biography
France / USA
English
2696
228
2014
Ethan Hawke
Seymour Bernstein, Jiyang Chen, Ethan Hawke, Junko Ichikawa, Marcus Ostermiller
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2696
228
2012
Christopher Kenneally
Keanu Reeves, James Cameron, David Fincher, Robert Rodriguez, Martin Scorsese
Documentary
USA
English
2696
228
2010
Amir Bar-Lev
Pat Tillman
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2697
229
1970
Madeline Anderson
Ralph Abernathy, Leon Davis, Coretta Scott King
Documentary / History / Short
USA
English
2698
230
2015
Asif Kapadia
Amy Winehouse, Yasiin Bey, Mark Ronson, Tony Bennett, Pete Doherty
Documentary / Biography / Music
UK / USA
English
2701
231
2011
Rodman Flender
Conan O'Brien, Andy Richter, Jimmy Vivino, Scott Healy, Mike Merritt
Documentary / Music / Biography / Comedy
USA
English
2702
232
2003
James Cameron
Bill Paxton, Dr. John Broadwater, Dr. Lori Johnston, Charles Pellegrino
Documentary / Family / History
USA
English
2705
233
2015
Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow
Brian De Palma, Noah Baumbach
Documentary
USA
English
2708
235
1953
unknown
Laurence Olivier, Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip
Documentary / Biography
UK
English
2708
235
1950
Richard Lyford, Robert J. Flaherty, Curt Oertel
Fredric March
Documentary / Biography
Switzerland / West Germany
English
2708
235
1945
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
2711
237
2010
Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger
Dan Kearney, Lamonta Caldwell
Documentary / War
USA
English
2713
238
2010
John Davies
Cedric the Entertainer, Jamie Foxx, Steve Harvey, Bill Bellamy, Earthquake
Documentary / Comedy
USA
English
2716
239
2010
J. Clay Tweel
Siphiwe Fangase, Hiroki Hara, Bill Koch, Krystyn Lambert, Derek McKee
Documentary
USA / Japan / South Africa
English
2724
241
1968
Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, Santiago Álvarez
María de la Paz, Fernando E. Solanas
Documentary
Argentina
Spanish
2726
242
2011
Danfung Dennis
Documentary / Action / History / War
USA / UK / Afghanistan
English
2727
243
2010
Patricio Guzmán
Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez
Documentary / Drama / History
Chile / Spain / France / Germany / USA
Spanish
2730
244
2008
Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda, André Lubrano, Blaise Fournier, Vincent Fournier
Documentary / Biography
France
French
2730
244
1993
Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin
Documentary / War / History
Canada
English
2732
245
2016
Bill Morrison
Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Bill O'Farrell, Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo
Documentary / History
USA
English
2732
245
2016
Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg
Anthony Weiner
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2733
246
1993
Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman, John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton
Documentary / Drama / Experimental
UK
English
2736
247
1996
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, Jessie Miskelly, Jason Baldwin
Documentary / Crime / Biography
USA
English
2737
248
1960
Robert Drew, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2737
248
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
2740
249
1966
Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Sergio Rossi
Documentary / Experimental
Italy
Italian
2740
249
1957
Jerome Hill
Fredric March, Albert Schweitzer, Burgess Meredith, Phillip Eckert
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2740
249
1939
Herbert Kline, Hans Burger, Alexander Hammid
Leif Erickson
Documentary / War
USA
English
2740
249
1964
Peter Baylis
Orson Welles, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Healy
Documentary / War / History / Biography
UK
English
2740
249
1964
Mel Stuart
Richard Basehart, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2740
249
1966
Bruce Herschensohn
Gregory Peck, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Earl Warren
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2740
249
1950
Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg
Documentary / Adventure
Norway / Sweden
Norwegian
2740
249
2020
Maite Alberdi
Petronila Abarca, Romulo Aitken, Sergio Chamy, Zoila Gonzalez, Marta Olivares
Documentary
Chile / Netherlands / Spain / Germany / USA
Spanish
2740
249
1948
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2740
249
1937
Joris Ivens
Ernest Hemingway, Jean Renoir
Documentary / War
USA
English
2740
249
1934
Friedrich Dalsheim, Knud Rasmussen
Thorvald Stauning
Romance / Drama / Documentary
Denmark
Danish
2741
250
2019
Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
Waad Al-Kateab, Hamza Al-Khateab, Sama Al-Khateab
Documentary / War
UK / Syria
Arabic
2742
251
1995
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Azadeh Zanganeh, Maryam Keyhan, Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Documentary / Drama
Iran
Persian
2742
251
1989
Harun Farocki
Documentary / War / History
West Germany
German
2744
252
1999
Errol Morris
Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, Caroline Leuchter
Documentary / Biography / History
UK / USA
English
2749
253
2011
Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Jafar Panahi
Jafar Panahi
Documentary
Iran
Persian
2751
254
2010
Clio Barnard
Manjinder Virk, Christine Bottomley, Monica Dolan, Jimi Mistry, Natalie Gavin
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Experimental
UK
English
2752
255
2000
Jonas Mekas
Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton
Documentary / Biography / Experimental
USA
English
2753
256
1971
Stan Brakhage
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2753
256
1963
Vera Chytilová
Jirí Kodet, Eva Bosáková
Documentary / Drama / Sports
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2756
257
1974
Jill Godmilow, Judy Collins
Dr. Antonia Brico, Judy Collins
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2756
257
1974
Cinda Firestone
John Andrini, Herman Badillo, L.D. Barkley, Roger Champen, Flip Crawley
Documentary / Crime / History
USA
English
2756
257
1943
Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
257
1944
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Douglas MacArthur
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
257
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
257
1984
Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg
Rita Mae Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bruce Nugent, Harry Otis, Donna Smith
Documentary / History
USA
English
2756
257
1913
Edwin Middleton, T. Hayes Hunte
Bert Williams, Sam Lucas, J. Leubrie Hill, Emma Reed, Billy Harper
Documentary / Music
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1893
William K.L. Dickson
Charles Kayser, John Ott
Short / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1979
Concepcion Bohulano, Delfin Bohulano
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
Documentary / History
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2756
257
1975
Mimi Pickering
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2756
257
1951
Cab Calloway, Zulme Calloway
Cab Calloway, Zulme Calloway
Documentary / Music
USA
English
2756
257
1979
Sylvia Morales
Carmen Zapata, Alicia Escalante, Francisca Flores, Dolores Huerta
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2756
257
1976
Les Blank
Los Alegres De Teran, Flaco Jiménez, Lydia Mendoza
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2756
257
1939
Ralph Steiner, Willard Van Dyke
Morris Carnovsky
Documentary / Short
USA
English
2756
257
1939
Ray Dowidat, Esther Dowidat
'Old Man' Guettler, Hans Guettler, Bill Guettler
Short / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1940
Zora Neale Hurston, Jane Belo
Documentary / Short / Religion
USA
English
2756
257
1897
Enoch J. Rector
James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Billy Madden, George Siler, John L. Sullivan
Documentary / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1963
Robert Drew
John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy, Vivian Malone, James Hood
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2756
257
1972
Duane Kubo
Peter Hata, David Iwataki, June Karamoto, Dan Kuramoto, Johnny Mori
Documentary / Music / History / Short
USA
English
2756
257
1959
Edward Bland
Sun Ra, John Gilmore, Julian Priester
Documentary / Music / Short
USA
English
2756
257
1969
Robert M. Fresco, Denis Sanders
Alexander Dubcek
Documentary / Short
USA
English
2756
257
1981
Penelope Spheeris
Black Flag, The Germs, X, Alice Bag Band, The Circle Jerks, Catholic Discipline
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2756
257
1994
Lourdes Portillo
Ofelia Almeida, Jesus de la Torre
Documentary / Mystery
Mexico / USA
Spanish
2756
257
1956
Robbins Barstow, Meg Barstow
Mary Barstow, David Barstow, Daniel Barstow, Robbins Barstow, Meg Barstow
Documentary / Family
USA
English
2756
257
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
257
1908
Joseph K. Dixon, Roland Dixon
Plenty Coups
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1988
Sarah Elder, Leonard Kamerling
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
2756
257
1894
William K.L. Dickson
Fred Ott
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1903
Alfred C. Abadie
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1970
Jerome Hill
Brigitte Bardot, Ernest Borgnine, Cyd Charisse, Jerome Hill
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2756
257
1928
unknown
Daniel Joseph Jenkins
Documentary / Short / Music
USA
English
2756
257
1973
Caroline Mouris, Frank Mouris
Frank Mouris
Animation / Short / Documentary / Biography
USA
English
2756
257
2010
Stanley Nelson
Raymond Arsenault, Genevieve Houghton, Gordon Carey, Derek Catsam, John Lewis
Documentary / History
USA
English
2756
257
1930
Alfred Ames, Howard Kahn
Tim Sample
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1930
Antonio Rodríguez Fuentes, Josefina Barrera Fuentes
Documentary
USA
Spanish (Silent)
2756
257
1980
Les Blank
Antzonini Del Puerto, Kathleen Bendel, Harrod Blank, Mary T. Brown
Documentary
USA
English
2756
257
1946
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2756
257
1937
C. Allen Alexander
George Washington Carver
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
257
1937
unknown
Herbert Morrison
Short / Documentary / History
USA
English
2756
257
1970
Frederick Wiseman
Eugene Friedman M.D., Stanley Friedman M.D., Robert Schwartz M.D.
Documentary
USA
English
2756
257
1957
Robert Gardner, John Marshall
John Marshall
Documentary / Adventure
USA
English
2756
257
1914
Edward S. Curtis
Maggie Frank
Documentary / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1984
Victor Masayesva Jr.
Ross Macaya
Documentary / History / Experimental
USA
Hopi
2756
257
1910
unknown
James J. Jeffries, Jack Johnson
Documentary / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1967
Charlie 'Brown' Davis, David 'Bat' Williams, Jimmy 'Country' Robinson
Short / Documentary / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2756
257
1980
Connie Field
Wanita Allen, Gladys Belcher, Lyn Childs, Lola Weixel
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA
English
2756
257
1911
Winsor McCay, J. Stuart Blackton
John Bunny, Winsor McCay, George McManus
Short / Animation / Documentary / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1921
Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler
Short / Experimental / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1938
Jack Glenn
Jackson Beck, Adolf Hitler, Fritz Kuhn
Documentary / Short / War
USA
English
2756
257
1939
unknown
Marian Anderson
Music / Documentary
USA
English
2756
257
1944
unknown
Martha Graham
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1994
Freida Lee Mock
Maya Lin
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2756
257
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
257
1939
Robert R. Snody
Marjorie Lord, Jimmy Lydon, Ruth Lee, Harry Shannon, Adora Andrews, Douglas Stark
Drama / Documentary
USA
English
2756
257
1968
Thomas Reichman
Charles Mingus, Walter Bishop, Charles McPherson, Carolyn Mingus, Dannie Richmond
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2756
257
1921
Paul Fenton
Documentary / Animation / Short
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2756
257
1971
Howard Alk
Fred Hampton, Rennie Davis, Skip Andrew, Edward Hanrahan, Deborah Johnson
Documentary / Biography / Crime / History
USA
English
2756
257
1966
Johnny Nelson
Documentary / Short / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2756
257
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
