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

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