Documentary Recommendations
First the list of documentaries I consider “must-watch”. No ranking.
Then the rest of the documentaries I recently watched.
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Must-watch
DJ Mehdi : Made in France by Thibaut de Longeville
Fantastic Fungi by Ward Farnsworth
What Happened, Miss Simone? by Liz Garbus
The Vietnam War by Ken Burns
Exit Through the Gift Shop by Banksy
Grizzly Man by Werner Herzog
Searching for Sugar Man by Malik Bendjelloul
For Sama by Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
The Dawn Wall by Peter Mortimer, Josh Lowell
ORELSAN: Don't ever show this to anyone by Clément Cotentin, Christophe Offenstein
The Salt of the Earth by Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Paris is Burning by Jennie Livingston
Wild Wild Country by Maclain and Chapman Way
Blackfish by Gabriela Cowperthwaite
The Last Dance by Jason Hehir
The Great Hack by Karim Amer and Jehane Noujaim
Formula 1: Drive to Survive by Martin Webb
Finding Vivian Maier by John Maloof and Charlie Siskel
Writers: 20 ans de graffiti à Paris by Marc-Aurèle Vecchione
Cuba and the Cameraman by Jon Alpert
Isle of Flowers by Jorge Furtado
The Defiant Ones by Allen Hughes
Catfish by Ariel Schulman, Henry Joost
Strip-Tease by Marco Lamensch, Jean Libon
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster by Bruce Sinofsky, Joe Berlinger
La Vida Loca by Christian Poveda
Amy by Asif Kapadia
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer by Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child by Tamra Davis
Watched in 2024
The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer
The Deepest Breath by Laura McGann
My Octopus Teacher by James Reed, Pippa Ehrlich
Watched in 2023
Tiger King by Eric Goode; Rebecca Chaiklin
Free Solo by Jimmy Chin
The Social Dilemma by Jeff Orlowski