Top 10: Best documentaries reviewed by Film Excess to date

1. The Look of Silence (2014) - Joshua Oppenheimer

2. Let the Fire Burn (2013) - Jason Osder

3. Amy (2015) - Asif Kapadia
 

4. Finding Vivian Maier (2013) - John Maloof, Charlie Siskel

5. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) - Alison Klayman

6. Secrets of the Tribe (2010) - José Padilha

7. Burma VJ/Burma VJ: Reporter i et Lukket Land/Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country (2008) - Anders Østergaard
 

8. 20 Feet from Stardom (2013) - Morgan Neville

9. Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011) - Alex Stapleton 

10. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) - Alex Gibney

Other masterpiece documentary reviewed by Film Excess to date:

The Cove (2009) - Louie Psihoyos

Other great documentaries reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order):

A World Not Ours (2012) - Mahdi Fleifel
The Act of Killing/Jagal (2012) - Joshua Oppenheimer
Alive Inside/Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory (2014) - Michael Rossato-Bennett
Armadillo (2010) - Janus Metz
The Bengali Detective (2011) - Philip Cox
Crumb (1994) - Terry Zwigoff
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2000, TV) - Leon Ferguson
Earth (2007) - Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Family (2001) - Phie Ambo, Sami Saif
The Five Obstructions/De Fem Benspænd (2003) - Jørgen Leth, Lars von Trier 
GasLand (2010) - Josh Fox
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) - Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov
Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) - Stanley Nelson

Good, recommendable documentaries reviewed by Film Excess to date (in alphabetical order):

Danmark (1935) - Poul Henningsen
East Side Story (1997) - Dana Ranga 
F for Fake (1973) - Orson Welles, Gary Graver, Oja Kodar, François Reichenbach 
The Imposter (2012) -Bart Layton
Searching for Sugar Man (2012) - Malik Bendjelloul

Mediocre, poor and/or failed documentary reviewed to date:

Man With a Movie Camera/Человек с киноаппаратом (1929) - Dziga Vertov

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20 Feet from Stardom (2013) - The uplifting, soulful crowdpleaser

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Glamour and intense emotions radiate from the poster for Morgan Neville's 20 Feet from Stardom

QUICK REVIEW:

Background singers are an overlooked group in the music industry, who have more than just contributed to some of the greatest hits of the last many decades. - They have invoked soul into them. 20 Feet from Stardom takes a look at some of these passionate women.

This is an irresistible documentary from Morgan Neville (Johnny Cash (2008)). It spoils us, the audience, with lots of soulful singers, magnificent music and some incredible anecdotes. The beautiful women singers are the entire show here in this ambitious and handsomely erected winner, which moves and inspires.
20 Feet from Stardom is a spiritual and soulful treat, not to be missed!

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Another 2014 Best Documentary Oscar nominee: The Act of Killing/Jagal (2012) or, The Violence of Indonesia Part I

Watch the trailer for the film here

Cost: 1 mil. $
Box office: 5.8 mil. $
= Huge hit
[20 Feet premiered at Sundance and enjoyed a successful run of several other festivals. It grossed 4.8 mil. $ (83 % of the total gross) in North America, received great reviews and won the Best Documentary Oscar, ahead of The Act of Killing (2012), Cutie and the Boxer (2013), Dirty Wars (2013) and The Square (2013).]

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