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Esquire’s 38 Documentaries That Will Change Your Life

Esquire Magazine’s list of 38 documentaries that “will change your life” as compiled by Emma Carey and Brady Langmann. Published on February 26, 2021. (Source)

Note: “The Up Series” was included as one entry.

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  • When We Were Kings
  • March of the Penguins
  • Minding the Gap
  • Won't You Be My Neighbor?
  • Free Solo
  • The Last Waltz
  • Grey Gardens
  • Paris Is Burning
  • 13th
  • Amy
  • Three Identical Strangers
  • Honeyland
  • The Work
  • Pina
  • The Act of Killing
  • The Central Park Five
  • Man on Wire
  • Cobain: Montage of Heck
  • The Overnighters
  • Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...
  • I Am Not Your Negro
  • Capturing the Friedmans
  • Gleason
  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi
  • Life, Animated
  • The Fog of War
  • Sound and Fury
  • Koyaanisqatsi
  • Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
  • Bill Cunningham New York
  • How to Survive a Plague
  • O.J.: Made in America
  • The Times of Harvey Milk
  • Harlan County U.S.A.
  • The Thin Blue Line
  • Hoop Dreams
  • Seven Up!
  • 7 Plus Seven
  • 21 Up
  • 28 Up
  • 35 Up
  • 42 Up
  • 49 Up
  • 56 Up
  • 63 Up