a good documentary is like watching real life... only in movie form. Does it get any better than that?! Here is a list of all the docs I...

DOCUMENTARIES

a good documentary is like watching real life... only in movie form. Does it get any better than that?! Here is a list of all the docs I've reviewed separated into three groups: Extraordinary (9+, 10s marked with *). Entertaining and/or very interesting (5-8). & Not effective and/or bad (0-4)

TIER 1: THE BEST

American Movie *
All That Breathes
Barefoot: The Mark Baumer Story
Basic Training
Beastie Boys Story
Billy the Kid *
Calabasas 1/26/20
The El Duce Tapes
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
High School
Honeyland
Italianamerican
Nathan for You: Finding Frances *
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Kon-Tiki
Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults
Hospital
Law and Order
Lessons from a Middle Class Artist
Los Angeles Plays Itself
Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God
Man on Wire
A Married Couple
O.J.: Made in America
Our Time Machine
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project
Rembrandt's J'accuse...!
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
Room 237
Room 666
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Shut Up and Play the Hits
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Titicut Follies
The Velvet Underground
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Your Friend Andrew W.K.


TIER 2: THE REST

24 City
20,000 Days on Earth
The Amazing Jonathan Documentary
(A)sexual
The Beatles: Get Back
Behind the Curve
Being Elmo
Best Worst Movie
Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator
Billy Joel – A Matter of Trust: The Bridge to Russia
Boiled Angels: The Trial of Mike Diana
The Breidjing Camp
Burning
The Century of the Self
The Confession of Julien Donkey-Boy
Cool Daddio: The Second Youth of R. Stevie Moore
Cow
Darwin
David Blaine: Above the Below
Death by Design (1995)
Death by Design (2016)
Demon Lover Diary
Dick Johnson is Dead
Dong
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
The Eagle Huntress
The El Duce Tapes
Eraserhead Stories
Everybody's Everything
Fear of Drowning
Film Before Film
The Five Obstructions
Four American Composers, Vol. I: John Cage
Four American Composers, Vol. II: Philip Glass
Four American Composers, Vol. III: Robert Ashley
Four American Composers, Vol. IV: Meredith Monk
Fyre
Fyre Fraud
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash
Gigantic (A Tale of Two Johns)
A Glitch in the Matrix
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
The Greenaway Alphabet
Grey Gardens
Hail Satan?
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
Honeyland
The Hottest August
How to Draw a Bunny
HyperNormalisation
I Wish I Knew
In Search of Darkness
Jacques Rivette, le veilleur
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Jodorowsky's Dune
Junun
Kansas City: Death by Design
Kate Plays Christine
Lenny Cooke
Lessons from a Middle Class Artist
Let It Be
Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art
Man No Run
Matangi/Maya/M.I.A.
Midnight Family
Mike and the Mad Dog: 30 for 30
Mondo Cane
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
Murder Among the Mormons
My Octopus Teacher
The Nightmare
Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
I Am a Genius (And There's Nothing I Can Do About It)
Pretend It's a City
Project Nim
The Punk Singer
R. Stevie Moore: Tape to Disc
Recording Josephine: Magnolia Electric Company at Electrical Audio
The Road Becomes What You Leave
The Russian Woodpecker
Screening Room: Suzan Pitt
Screwed in Houston
Sex and Broadcasting
Shirkers
Silver Jew
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
Slow Century
Some Drinking Implied
Sophie: A Murder in West Cork
Spaceship Earth
The Sparks Brothers
"Sr."
Stairs 1 Geneva
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Tabloid
Teenage
Telemarketers
That's Sexploitation!
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist
Three Identical Strangers
Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru
Towards Mathilde
Truth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia
A TV Dante
Unabomber: In His Own Words
Untold: Malice at the Palace
Useless
What is Democracy?
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage
Wormwood
Yung Lean: In My Mind


TIER 3: DON'T INVEST

'51 Dons
Brian Eno: 1971-1977 – The Man Who Fell to Earth
Does That Hurt You?
The Last Days of Michael Jackson
Particle Fever
Pom Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Rats
We Are Twisted F***ing Sister


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