Andrei's 100 Essential Documentaries

This is my own short list. Of course, incomplete.

Joris Ivens Rain
Avant Garde - Experimental Cinema of the 1920s & 1930s

Dziga Vertov
Man With the Movie Camera

Robert Flaherty
Nanook of the North (Criterion Collection Spine #33)

Robert Flaherty
Man of Aran

Walter Ruttmann
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Leni Riffenstahl
OLYMPIA -The LENI RIEFENSTAHL Archival Collection

Alain Resnais
Night and Fog - Criterion Collection

Robert Drew
Primary

Artavadz Pelechian The Seasons

Louis Malle Vive le Tour
Eclipse Series 2 - The Documentaries of Louis Malle (Vive le Tour / Humain, Trop Humain / Place de la Rйpublique / Phantom India / Calcutta / God's Country ... of Happiness) (Criterion Collection)

Patricio Guzman La battala de Chile

Chris Marker
La Jetee/Sans Soleil (Criterion Collection)

Kazuo Hara
Emperor's Naked Army Marches on

Kazuo Hara
Goodbye CP

Marcel Oph�ls
The Sorrow and the Pity

Frederick Wiseman Titicut Follies

Frederick Wiseman High School

Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
Salesman - Criterion Collection

Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Criterion Collection

Charlotte Zwerin, Albert Maysles
5 Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude - A Maysles Films Production

D.A. Pennebaker
Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition)

Herz Frank The Last Judgement

Herz Frank Ten Minutes Older

Ross McElwee Time Indefinite
Time Indefinite

Ross McElwee Sherman's March
The Ross McElwee DVD Collection (Sherman's March / Time Indefinite / Six O'Clock News / Bright Leaves / Backyard / Charleen) (Five-Disc Collector's Edition)

Errol Morris
The Thin Blue Line

Errol Morris
Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.

Errol Morris
The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

Godfrey Reggio
Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance

Barbara Kopple
Harlan County, U.S.A. - Criterion Collection

Micheal Moore
Roger & Me

Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty.
The Atomic Cafe

Wim Wendrers
Buena Vista Social Club

Victor Kossakovsky
The Belovs

Steve James
Hoop Dreams - Criterion Collection

Peter Forgacs
The Maelstrom: A Family Chronicle

Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Brother's Keeper

Werner Herzog
Grizzly Man

Werner Herzog
Encounters at the End of the World

Les Blank
Burden of Dreams - Criterion Collection

Rithy Panh
S21 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

Roko Belic
Genghis Blues

Thomas Riedelsheimer
Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers & Tides

Thomas Riedelsheimer
Touch the Sound - A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie

Lars von Trier
The Five Obstructions

Sergey Bukovsky
Spell Your Name (2006)

Ralph Arlyck Following Sean
Following Sean

Sergei Miroshnichenko
Born in USSR

James Marsh
Man on Wire