Blu-ray.com Top 25 Documentaries (vote thread)

[Rodney-2187]

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Blu-ray.com Top 25 Documentaries

Please list you favorite documentaries. The minimum amount to be included will be 10 and the maximum will be 25. All feature-length documentaries will be eligible, including making-of documentaries included in the special features of disc releases. Please only make one list, and do not list a title more than once. The points awarded will be the same as established by previous voting threads.

1. 25 Points
2. 19 Points
3. 18 Points
4. 17 Points
5. 16 Points
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16. 5 Points
17. 4 Points
18. 3 Points
19. 2 Points
20. 1 Point
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21. 1 Point
22. 1 Point
23. 1 Point
24. 1 Point
25. 1 Point

Link to results thread: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=290430

[imsounoriginal]

1. Touching the Void (2003)
2. Making a Murderer (2016)
3. Everything or Nothing (2012)
4. Empire of Dreams (2004)
5. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)
6. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
7. Grizzly Man (2005)
8. Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
9. The Thin Blue Line (1988)
10. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Criterion making-of documentary) (2009)
11. Superior Firepower: The Making of Aliens (2003)
12. Bowling for Columbine (2002)
13. Man on Wire (2008)
14. Under Pressure: Making The Abyss (1993)
15. The Human Factor: Exacting Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
16. The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus (2012)
17. The Beginning (2001)
18. Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)
19. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
20. Indiana Jones: The Making of a Trilogy (2003)
21. The Shark is Still Working (2007)
22. Above and Beyond: Exploring Dark of the Moon (2011)
23. The Jinx (2015)
24. Room 237 (2012)
25. Marvel: Building a Cinematic Universe (2012)

[Al_The_Strange]

Ooh nice idea. I don't think I've seen nearly enough docs, but I should be able to come up with 25.

01: Koyaanisqatsi
02: Baraka
03: Samsara
04: The Man With A Movie Camera
05: Microcosmos
06: Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
07: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
08: Home (2009)
09: Mysteries of the Unseen World
10: One Life
11: Powaqqatsi
12: The Killing of America
13: F For Fake
14: Cosmic Voyage (IMAX)
15: Under Pressure: Making The Abyss
16: Life After People
17: Chronos
18: The Living Sea (IMAX)
19: Michael Jackson's This Is It
20: What Happened Miss Simone?
21: Room 237 (The Shining)
22: Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
23: The Square
24: Catfish
25: Jesus Camp

Others in consideration:

[Show spoiler]Cowspiracy
Fed Up
Food, Inc
For All Mankind
I Am Divine
Lemmy
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

[principehomura]

Are tv documentaries such as Ken Burns' Civil War and Costner's 500 Nations allowed?

[Rodney-2187]

Originally Posted by principehomura

Are tv documentaries such as Ken Burns' Civil War and Costner's 500 Nations allowed?

Absolutely.

[principehomura]

Yeeee!
Then I should come up with something, even if I haven't seen many documentaries.

[imsounoriginal]

Do making-of documentaries, like the ones we get on DVD special features, count?

[ajburke]

I'd like to be in on this. I need to find out if I've even seen enough docs to make a respectable list...

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

Do making-of documentaries, like the ones we get on DVD special features, count?

The OP says yes.

[imsounoriginal]

My reading skillz are da best Thanks!

[Rodney-2187]

1. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
2. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
3. Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
4. Empire of Dreams
5. Life Itself
...............
6. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
7. Inequality For All
8. Terms And Conditions May Apply
9. The Paradise Lost Trilogy
10. West of Memphis
...............
11. Dear Zachary
12. O.J.: Made in America
13. The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
14. Man On Wire
15. Jodorowsky's Dune
...............
16. The Shiek
17. Religulous
18. Citizenfour
19. Making a Murderer
20. Amanda Knox
...............
21. Exit Through The Gift Shop
22. Grey Gardens
23. The People vs George Lucas

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by rodneyfaile

work in progress:

[Show spoiler]
1. Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
2. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
3. Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
4. Life Itself
5. Man On Wire
...............
6. O.J.: Made in America
7. Jodorowsky's Dune
8. Making a Murderer
9. This Film Is Not Yet Rated
10. Terms And Conditions May Apply
...............
11. Inequality For All
12. Religulous
13. Amanda Knox
14. Pumping Iron
15. Exit Through The Gift Shop
...............
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.

Ah yes, Man on Wire, Dangerous Days, Jodorowsky's Dune have been on my to-watch list for a while now.

Religulous is decent.

[Gerby]

01. The Up Series (1964-?)
02. Shoah (1985)
03. American Movie (1999)
04. Touching The Void (2003)
05. Baraka (1992)
06. The Man With A Movie Camera (1929)
07. Samsara (2011)
08. Hoop Dreams (1994)
09. The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters (2007)
10. The Sorrow & The Pity (1969)
11. Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
12. Capturing The Friedmans (2003)
13. Tickled (2016)
14. The Donner Party (1992)
15. Bus 174 (2003)
16. Roger & Me (1989)
17. Sherman's March (1985)
18. Finders Keepers (2015)
19. When We Were Kings (1996)
20. The Devil At Your Heels (1981)
21. Streetwise (1984)
22. The Imposter (2012)
23. Crumb (1994)
24. Big River Man (2009
25. Kenny (2006)

[Red Dragon]

1.) "The Up Series"

2.) "Shoah"

3.) "Triumph of the Will"

4.) "The Sorrow and the Pity"

5.) "Our Hitler: A Film from Germany"

6.) "Night and Fog"

7.) "Deliver us from Evil"

8.) "Jesus Camp"

9.) "Dark Days"

10.) "Paradise Lost"

11.) "Paradise Lost: Revelations"

12.) "Paradise Lost: Purgatory"

13.) "Titicut Follies"

14.) "The Times of Harvey Milk"

15.) "Hearts and Minds"

16.) "Religulous"

17.) "Bowling for Columbine"

18.) "Fahrenheit 9/11"

19.) "Roger and Me"

20.) "An Inconvenient Truth"

21.) "Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures"

22.) "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse"

23.) "Dangerous Days: The Making of Blade Runner"

24.) "Gimme Shelter"

25.) "Room 237"

[Red Dragon]

Originally Posted by Gerby

A work in progress...needs thinning, maybe others adding & re-arranging.

The Up Series (1964-?)
Shoah (1985)
American Movie (1999)
Touching The Void (2003)
Baraka (1992)
The Man With A Movie Camera (1929)
Samsara (2011)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
The Donner Party (1992)
The Dancing Outlaw (1991)
Hands On A Hard Body (1997)
Big River Man (2009)
The Imposter (2012)
Finders Keepers (2015)
Tickled (2016)
When We Were Kings (1996)
Bus 174 (2003)
Roger & Me (1989)
Capturing The Friedmans (2003)
The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Hearts Of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
The Sorrow & The Pity (1969)
Citizenfour (2014)
Crumb (1994)
The King Of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters (2007)
The Devil At Your Heels (1981)
Kenny (2006)
The Act Of Killing (2012)
Little Lady Fauntleroy (2004)
I Think We're Alone Now (2008)
Okie Noodling (2001)

...and then I noticed that our number 1 and number 2 are identical... pretty cool

[Gerby]

Originally Posted by Red Dragon

...and then I noticed that our number 1 and number 2 are identical... pretty cool

I'm probably gonna do quite a bit of rearranging but those 2 will definitely remain 1 & 2.

[Jasonic]

I admit I have not seen a lot.

1. Planet Earth
2. Life
3. The Square
4. The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
5. OJ: Made In America
6. Catfish
7. The Cove
8. Life Itself
9. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
10. Empire of Dreams
11. My Love Don't Cross That River
12. Blackfish
13. Tickled
14. March of the Penguins
15. Koyaanisqatsi
16. Going Clear
17. Super Size Me
18. Dirty Wars
19. 13th
20. Side by Side

[nashcameronn]

1. The Thin Blue Line
2. One Day in September
3. Hoop Dreams
4. Life Itself
5. The Tillman Story
6. Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
7. Gleason
8. Man on Wire
9. Restrepo
10. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
11. Touching the Void
12. Citizenfour
13. The Wolfpack
14. Next Goal Wins
15. Undefeated
16. De Palma
17. Under the Electric Sky
18. Marwencol
19. Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope
20. Cartel Land

I need to see more documentaries.

[esteban²]

Nice. At this point I can't think of ten. But I'm trying to catch up some, could work.

[Talleyrand]

I am woefully negligent in watching this type of thing, but 10 I can manage:

1. The Thin Blue Line
2. O.J.: Made in America
3. Night and Fog
4. Citizenfour
5. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
6. Cartel Land
7. Room 237
8. Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
9. Jodorowksy's Dune
10. Born Rich