Vanity Fair's 25 Best Documentaries
“Brother’s Keeper,” directed by Joel Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (1992)
“Paris is Burning,” directed by Jennie Livingston (1991)
“Capturing the Friedmans,” directed by Andrew Jarecki (2003)
“Hoop Dreams,” directed by Steve James (1994)
“Crumb,” directed by Terry Zwigoff (1994)
“Gimme Shelter,” directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin (1970)
“The UP Series,” directed by Michael Apted (2007)
“Olympia,” directed by Leni Riefenstahl (1938)
“Man of Aran,” directed by Robert Flaherty (1934)
“Nanook of the North,” directed by Robert Flaherty (1922)
"Point of Order,” directed by Emile de Antonio (1964)
“Triumph of the Will,” directed by Leni Riefenstahl (1935)
“Harlan County USA,” directed by Barbara Kopple (1976)
“The Kid Stays in the Picture,” directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen (2002)
“Bowling for Columbine,” directed by Michael Moore (2002)
“No End in Sight,” directed by Charles Ferguson (2007)
“When We Were Kings,” directed by Leon Gast (1996)
“Hearts of Darkness: a Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,” directed by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola (1991)
“Grey Gardens,” directed by Ellen Hovde and Albert Maysles (1975)
“Shoah,” directed by Claude Lanzmann (1985)
“The Last Waltz,” directed by Martin Scorsese (1978)
“The Sorrow and the Pity,” directed by Marcel Ophuls (1971)
“Sherman's March,” directed by Ross McElwee (1986)
“Don't Look Back,” D.A. Pennebaker (1967)
“Fahrenheit 9/11,” directed by Michael Moore (1994)
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