As I’ve noted through the A-to-Z challenge, my choices of documentaries to watch and review was largely informed by what was already in my Netflix queue with a little research to fill in the letters of the alphabet that were missing. Because of my reliance on streaming services, there are a number of documentaries I’d like to watch that just weren’t available. I also was limited to one per letter of the alphabet, of course. Because of this, there’s also a present-day bias to most of the documentaries I’ve reviewed. I think the oldest one was released in 1981, but most are from the 2000s.
Here are number of documentaries that are highly regarded, award-winning, or just plain interest me that I’d like to seek out for the future. Some are hard to find, and I expect some will be hard to watch.
- 20 Feet From Stardom
- Amy
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil
- Bill Cunningham New York
- Blackfish
- The Central Park Five
- Common Threads
- Don’t Look Back
- F for Fake
- The Fog of War
- Grey Gardens
- Grizzly Man
- Harlan County USA
- High School
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Into Great Silence
- King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery To Memphis
- Kon-Tiki
- Koyaanisqatsi
- The Last Waltz
- The Man With a Movie Camera
- The Most Dangerous Man in America
- Murderball
- Muscle Shoals
- Nanook of the North
- Night and Fog
- Pelotero
- Point of Order
- Sans Soleil
- Searching for Sugarman
- Shoah
- The Silent World
- The Square
- The Thin Blue Line
- The Times of Harvey Milk
- Titicut Follies – this is one I think would be very challenging to watch
- Unforgivable Blackness
- Welcome to Leith
- When the Levees Broke – I did actually watch the first two of the four parts of this Spike Lee film about Hurricane Katrina several years ago, but got sidetracked and never completed it.
What documentaries would you recommend watching?
Panorama of the Mountains 