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
Close-Up
Collapse
The El Duce Tapes
Essene
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight
High School
Honeyland
Hospital
Italianamerican
Juvenile Court
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
Tell Me
Titicut Follies
The Velvet Underground
Welfare
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Your Friend Andrew W.K.
Zizek!


TIER 2: THE REST

24 City
20,000 Days on Earth
The Amazing Jonathan Documentary
American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince
(A)sexual
Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives.
Basic Training
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
Boys State
Branson
The Breidjing Camp
Burning
Canal Zone
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
The Disappearance of Madeliene McCann
Dong
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon
The Dynasty: New England Patriots
The Eagle Huntress
The Eighties
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
Halloween: The Inside Story
Hell's Highway: The True Story of the Highway Safety Film
Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore
Hollywood Con Queen
Honeyland
The Hottest August
How to Draw a Bunny
HyperNormalisation
I Wish I Knew
In Search of Darkness
In Search of Darkness, Part II
Jacques Rivette, le veilleur
Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
Jim Henson Idea Man
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.
Meat 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
News from Home
The Nightmare
On Tour with Pina Bausch
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
Primate
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
Street Scenes
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
Time
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
Wham!
What is Democracy?
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love and Rage
Wormwood
The Yes Men
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?
Girls State
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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