Here’s some documentaries that stood out to me, listed in no particular order.
- 24 City (Jia, 2008)
- Bitter Lake (Curtis, 2015)
- Mayor Pete (Moss, 2021)
- Big Men (Boynton, 2013)
- Tell Spring Not To Come This Year (McAllister, Francis, 2015)
- Land of the Enlightened (De Pue, 2016)
- Afghanistan: The Great Game (Scollay, Lambert, 2012)
- Crude Independence (Hulton, 2009)
- Law and Order (Wiseman, 1969)
- Public Housing (Wiseman, 1997)
- Vernon, Florida (Morris, 1981)
- Putin vs. The West (BBC, 2023)
- Once Upon a Time in Iraq (BBC, 2020)
- Trump Takes On The World (BBC, 2021)
- Boys State (Moss, McBaine, 2020)
- By the People: The Election of Barack Obama (Sams, Lynch, 2009)
- Welfare (Wiseman, 1975)
- American Factory (Reichert, Bognar, 2019)
- Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? (Pelosi, 2016)
- Rich Hill (Tragos, Palermo, 2014)
- Into The Abyss (Herzog, 2011)
- Titicut Follies (Wiseman, 1967)
- Lessons of Darkness (Herzog, 1992)
- Into the Inferno (Herzog, 2016)
- Standard Operating Procedure (Morris, 2008)
- Shattered Dream Of Peace (PBS, 2002)
- The Oslo Diaries (2017)
- Netanyahu, America and the Road to War (PBS, 2023)
- Netanyahu at War (PBS, 2016)
- The Overnighters (Moss, 2014)
- 900 Days (Gorter, 2012)
- Journeys With George (Pelosi, 2002)
- 20 Days in Mariupol (Chernov, 2023)
- All Watched Over By Machines (Curtis, 2011)
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (Herzog, Vasyukov, 2010)
- Hypernormalization (Curtis, 2016)
- The Fog of War (Morris, 2003)
- Waltz With Bashir (Folman, 2008)
- Escape from Kabul (Roberts, 2022)
- We Come As Friends (Sauper, 2014)
- Power of Nightmares (Curtis, 2004)
- High School (Wiseman, 1968)
- Around the World With Joseph Stiglitz (Sarasin, 2009)
- Roger & Me (Moore, 1989)
- State Legislature (Wiseman, 2007)
- Jackson Heights (Wiseman, 2015)
- Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005
- Warrendale (King, 1967), 2023)
- Examined Life (Taylor, 2008)
- Bitter Melons (Gardner, 1971)
- The Age of Easy Money (Frontline, 2023)
- Ex-Libris: New York Public Library (Wiseman, 2017)
- Lo and Behold (Herzog, 2016)
- Manufactured Landscapes (Baichwal, 2006)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in The Room (Gibney, 2005)
- The Hunters (Gardner, 1957)
- Holy Land (Cohn, 2012)
- Disturbing The Peace (Solomon, Alpert, 2016)
- Arithmetic, Population and Energy (Bartlett, 1994)
- The Ax Fight (Chagnon, Asch, 1975)
- White Helmets (von Einsiedel, 2016)
- Supreme Revenge: Battle for the Supreme Court (Frontline, 2019)
- Trump’s Trade War (Frontline, 2019)
- Last Days of Vietnam (Kennedy, 2014)
- Korengal (Junger, 2014)
- No End in Sight (Ferguson, 2007)
- Where to Invade Next (Moore, 2016)
- The Death of Yugoslavia (BBC, 1995)
- Point and Shoot (Curry, 2014)
- The Unknown Known (Morris, 2013)
- Mitt (Whiteley, 2014)
- Five Broken Cameras (Burnat, Davidi, 2011)
- America and The Taliban (Frontline, 2023)
- Monrovia, Indiana (Wiseman, 2018)
- Tabloid (Morris, 2010)
- Mayor (Osit, 2020)
- From One Second To The Next (Herzog, 2013)
- Night and Fog (Resnais, 1956)
- Surviving Progress (Crooks, Roy, 2011)
- Grey Gardens (Maysles, Maysles, Hovde, Meyer, 1975)
- The Hidden Life of The Cell (BBC, 2012)
- Sans Soleil (Marker, 1983)
- Shoah (Lanzmann, 1985)
- Gates of Heaven (Morris, 1978)
- Nostalgia for the Light (Guzmán, 2010)
- Restrepo (Hetherington, Junger, 2010)
- Koyaanisqatsi (Reggio, 1982)
- The Times of Harvey Milk (Epstein, 1984)
- Four Hours at the Capital (HBO, 2021)
- Wonders of Life (BBC, 2013)
- E-Team (Chevigny, Kauffman 2014)
- Iraq In Fragments (Longley, 2006)
- Tickled (Farrier, Reeve, 2016)
- Salesman (Maysles, Maysles, Zwerin, 1969)
- The War Room (Hegedus, Pennebaker, 1993)
- The Putin Interviews (Stone, 2012)