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Time Out's 55 Best Documentaries of All Time

Based on the list published here: www.timeout.com/film/best-documentaries-of-all-time

NOTE: The list specified the entire "Up" series at #38, and the entire three-part series of "The Battle of Chile" at #45.

  • Shoah

    1

  • Sans Soleil

    2

  • The Thin Blue Line

    3

  • Night and Fog

    4

  • Harlan County U.S.A.

    5

  • Dont Look Back

    6

  • The War Game

    7

  • Nanook of the North

    8

  • Roger & Me

    9

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    10

  • Salesman

    11

  • Grizzly Man

    12

  • Hearts and Minds

    13

  • Crumb

    14

  • Apollo 11

    15

  • Titicut Follies

    16

  • 13th

    17

  • Stop Making Sense

    18

  • Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    19

  • The Times of Harvey Milk

    20

  • Lake of Fire

    21

  • Gimme Shelter

    22

  • Hoop Dreams

    23

  • Collective

    24

  • High School

    25

  • Empire

    26

  • In the Year of the Pig

    27

  • Bowling for Columbine

    28

  • The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

    29

  • Man on Wire

    30

  • The Gleaners and I

    31

  • Capturing the Friedmans

    32

  • For Sama

    33

  • Grey Gardens

    34

  • Woodstock

    35

  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

    36

  • The Sorrow and the Pity

    37

  • Seven Up!

    38

  • Sherman's March

    39

  • Koyaanisqatsi

    40

  • Burden of Dreams

    41

  • Point of Order!

    42

  • The Fog of War

    43

  • Monterey Pop

    44

  • The Battle of Chile: Part I

    45

  • F for Fake

    46

  • Triumph of the Will

    47

  • The Look of Silence

    48

  • A Grin Without a Cat

    49

  • When We Were Kings

    50

  • An Inconvenient Truth

    51

  • The Last Waltz

    52

  • The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

    53

  • Bisbee '17

    54

  • Fahrenheit 9/11

    55