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100 Documentaries Worthy of a Watch

I do love a good documentary so here's 100 of them that I personally recommend listed in rough order of preference.

1.Bus 174 2002

★★★★½
2.Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996

★★★★★
3.Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 2008

★★★★★
4.Deep Water 2006

★★★★★
5.The Devil and Daniel Johnston 2005

★★★★★
6.Anvil! The Story of Anvil 2008

★★★★★
7.Touching the Void 2003

★★★★½
8.Senna 2010

★★★★½
9.American Movie 1999

★★★★½
10.The Great White Silence 1924

★★★★½
11.Man on Wire 2008

★★★★½
12.Man with a Movie Camera 1929

★★★★½
13.Koyaanisqatsi 1982

★★★★½
14.The Five Obstructions 2003

★★★★½
15.The Thin Blue Line 1988

★★★★½
16.The House Is Black 1963

★★★★½
17.Exit Through the Gift Shop 2010

★★★★½
18.La Soufrière 1977

★★★★½
19.Woodstock 1970

★★★★½
20.Night and Fog 1956

★★★★½
21.New York Doll 2005

★★★★
22.Marwencol 2010

★★★★
23.Grey Gardens 1975

★★★★
24.Hoop Dreams 1994

★★★★
25.Dig! 2004

★★★★
26.Czech Dream 2004

★★★★
27.Of Time and the City 2008

★★★★
28.Children Underground 2001

★★★★
29.Salesman 1969

★★★★
30.Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory 2011

★★★★
31.Lessons of Darkness 1992

★★★★
32.Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape 2010

★★★★
33.The Cove 2009

★★★★½
34.Waste Land 2010

★★★★
35.Into Eternity: A Film for the Future 2010

★★★★
36.Zoo 2007

★★★★
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37.American: The Bill Hicks Story 2009

★★★★
38.Sans Soleil 1983

★★★★
39.Grizzly Man 2005

★★★★
40.This Is Not a Film 2011

★★★★
41.Nostalgia for the Light 2010

★★★★
42.Triumph of the Will 1935

★★★★
43.Not Quite Hollywood 2008

★★★★
44.Overnight 2003

★★★★
45.Religulous 2008

★★★★
46.Encounters at the End of the World 2007

★★★★
47.Lake of Fire 2006

★★★★
48.No Direction Home: Bob Dylan 2005

★★★★
49.Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus 2003

★★★★
50.Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991

★★★★
51.To Be and to Have 2002

★★★★
52.Stevie 2002

★★★★
53.Dark Days 2000

★★★★
54.Home 2009

★★★★
55.Murderball 2005

★★★★
56.Titicut Follies 1967

★★★★
57.Murder on a Sunday Morning 2001

★★★½
58.The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl 1993

★★★★
59.Black Sun 2005

★★★★
60.Juvenile Liaison 1976

★★★★
61.Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer 2003

★★★★
62.Project Nim 2011

★★★★
63.The Beckoning Silence 2007

★★★★
64.Rivers and Tides 2001

★★★★
65.Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey 2011

★★★★
66.In the Realms of the Unreal 2004

★★★½
67.War Photographer 2001

★★★★
68.Metal: A Headbanger's Journey 2005

★★★★
69.Bill Cunningham New York 2010

★★★½
70.Jesus Camp 2006

★★★½
71.Spellbound 2002

★★★½
72.The Two Escobars 2010

★★★★
73.Paradise Lost 2: Revelations 2000

★★★½
74.José & Pilar 2010

★★★★
75.Crumb 1994

★★★½
76.If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front 2011

★★★½
77.Lost in La Mancha 2002

★★★½
78.Burden of Dreams 1982

★★★½
79.Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997

★★★½
80.The Bridge 2006

★★★½
81.Catfish 2010

★★★½
82.Into the Abyss 2011

★★★★
83.My Kid Could Paint That 2007

★★★½
84.Better This World 2011

★★★★
85.Cocaine Cowboys 2006

★★★½
86.The Filth and the Fury 2000

★★★★
87.The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters 2007

★★★★
88.Koko: A Talking Gorilla 1978

★★★½
89.Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One 1968

★★★½
90.The Atomic Cafe 1982

★★★½
91.Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple 2006

★★★½
92.And Everything Is Going Fine 2010

★★★½
93.I Like Killing Flies 2004

★★★★
94.The Nomi Song 2004

★★★½
95.Culloden 1964

★★★½
96.The People vs. George Lucas 2010

★★★½
97.Dreams of a Life 2011

★★★½
98.Stanley Kubrick's Boxes 2008

★★★½
99.Best Worst Movie 2009

★★★
100.Hell House 2001

★★★

100 Documentaries Worthy of a Watch

1.Bus 174 2002

2.Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996

3.Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father 2008

4.Deep Water 2006

5.The Devil and Daniel Johnston 2005

6.Anvil! The Story of Anvil 2008

7.Touching the Void 2003

8.Senna 2010

9.American Movie 1999

10.The Great White Silence 1924

11.Man on Wire 2008

12.Man with a Movie Camera 1929

13.Koyaanisqatsi 1982

14.The Five Obstructions 2003

15.The Thin Blue Line 1988

16.The House Is Black 1963

17.Exit Through the Gift Shop 2010

18.La Soufrière 1977

19.Woodstock 1970

20.Night and Fog 1956

21.New York Doll 2005

22.Marwencol 2010

23.Grey Gardens 1975

24.Hoop Dreams 1994

25.Dig! 2004

26.Czech Dream 2004

27.Of Time and the City 2008

28.Children Underground 2001

29.Salesman 1969

30.Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory 2011

31.Lessons of Darkness 1992

32.Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape 2010

33.The Cove 2009

34.Waste Land 2010

35.Into Eternity: A Film for the Future 2010

36.Zoo 2007

37.American: The Bill Hicks Story 2009

38.Sans Soleil 1983

39.Grizzly Man 2005

40.This Is Not a Film 2011

41.Nostalgia for the Light 2010

42.Triumph of the Will 1935

43.Not Quite Hollywood 2008

44.Overnight 2003

45.Religulous 2008

46.Encounters at the End of the World 2007

47.Lake of Fire 2006

48.No Direction Home: Bob Dylan 2005

49.Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus 2003

50.Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991

51.To Be and to Have 2002

52.Stevie 2002

53.Dark Days 2000

54.Home 2009

55.Murderball 2005

56.Titicut Follies 1967

57.Murder on a Sunday Morning 2001

58.The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl 1993

59.Black Sun 2005

60.Juvenile Liaison 1976

61.Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer 2003

62.Project Nim 2011

63.The Beckoning Silence 2007

64.Rivers and Tides 2001

65.Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey 2011

66.In the Realms of the Unreal 2004

67.War Photographer 2001

68.Metal: A Headbanger's Journey 2005

69.Bill Cunningham New York 2010

70.Jesus Camp 2006

71.Spellbound 2002

72.The Two Escobars 2010

73.Paradise Lost 2: Revelations 2000

74.José & Pilar 2010

75.Crumb 1994

76.If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front 2011

77.Lost in La Mancha 2002

78.Burden of Dreams 1982

79.Little Dieter Needs to Fly 1997