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4/30/2019

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

[30 titles in total]

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Which documentaries would be on yours?  
What worthwhile documentaries are missing? 

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