Documentaries

British war propaganda

Battle of the Somme (1916)

Nanook of the North (1923)

Early Soviet documentaries

ESFIR SHUB: Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927)

SERGEI EISENSTEIN: October (1927)

DZIGA VERTOV: Cinema Eye (1924), A Sixth Part of the World (1926), Man and the Movie Camera
(1929), Three Songs About Lenin (1934)

Major city symphonies

CHARLES SHEELER & PAUL STRAND: New York the Magnificent → Manhattan (1920)

WALTER RUTTMANN: Berlin - die Symphonie einer Grosstadt (1927)

ALBERTO CAVALCANTI: Rien que les heures (1926)

JEAN VIGO: À propos de Nice (1930)

Spanish civil war in Documentaries

STRAND & HURWITZ: Heart of Spain (1937)

JORIS IVENS: The Spanish Earth (1937)

ESFIR SHUB (ROMAN KARMEN): Ispanija (1939)

Leni Riefenstahl
Sieg des Glaubens (1933)

Triumph des Willens (1935)

Olympia I-II (1938)

German war time documentaries

HANS BERTRAM: Feuertaufe (1940)

FRITZ HIPPLER: Feldzug in Poland (1940), Der ewige Jude (1940). Sieg im Westen (1941), Rund
um die Freiheitsstatue – Ein Spaziergang durch die USA (1941)

Gentlemen (1940)

British war documentaries

HARRY WATT & HUMPHREY JENNINGS: London Can Take It (1940)

JENNINGS: Listen to Britain (1942), The Silent Village (1943) A Diary for Timothy (1945)

WATT: Target for Tonight (1944)

ROY BOULTINGING: Desert Victory (1943).

CAROL REED & GARSON KANIN: The True Glory (1945)

ALBERTO CAVALCANTI: Yellow Caesar (1940)

CHARLES RIDLEY: Lambeth Walk (1941)

American war documentaries

FRANK CAPRA & ANATOLE LITVAK: Why We Fight series: Prelude to War (1942), The Nazis
Strike (1942), Divide and Conquer (1943), The Battle of Britain (1943), The Battle of Russia (1943),
The Battle of China (1944), War Comes to America (1945).

JOHN FORD: The Battle of Midway (1944)

WILLIAM WYLER: Memphis Belle (1944)

JOHN HUSTON: Report from the Aleutians (1942), The Battle of San Pietro (1944), Let There be
Light (1945)

After the war: Documentaries as prosecution

ROMAN KARMEN: Sud naradov (1946)

LORENTZ & STUART SCHULBERG: Nürnberg (1948)

ANDREW & ANNELIE THORNDIKE: Du und mancher kameraden (1955), Urlaub auf Sylt (1957)
Unternehmen Teutonenschwerdt (1958)

Holocaust documentaries
HANUS BURGER /BILLY WILDER: Die Todesmühlen - Dokumentation über die
Konzentrationslager (1945)

SIDNEY BERNSTEIN: Memory of the Camps (shot in 1945, compiled in 1985)

ALAIN RESNAIS: Nuit et brouillard (1955)

JERZY BOSSAK & WACŁAW KAZIMIERCZAK: Rekviem dla 500 000 (1963)
CLAUDE LANZMANN: Shoah (1985)

German Concentration Camps Factual Survey (based on the material shot by Bernstein, 2014)

Nature documentaries
ARNE SUCKSDORFF: Augustirapsodi (1940), En sommarsaga (1941)

GEORGES ROQUIER: Farrebique (1946)

Disney studios: Seal island (1948), Beaver Valley (1950), The Living Desert (1953)

JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU: Le Monde du Silence (1956), Le Monde sans soleil (1964)

Compilation films
NICOLE VÉDRÈS: Paris 1900 (1947)

CARLO INFASCELLI: Cavalcade di mezzo secolo (1951)

EDWARD R. MURROW: Report on Senator McCarthy ("See It Now" on CBS - March 9, 1954)

COLIN LOW & WOLF KOENIG: City of Gold (1957)

Free Cinema
GUY BRENTON & LINDSAY ANDERSON: Thursday's Children (1953)

ANDERSON: O Dreamland (1953), Every Day Except Christmas (1957)

KAREL REISZ & TONY RICHARDSON: Momma Don't Allow (1955)

KAREL REISZ: We are the Lambeth Boys (1959)

Direct Cinema films

ALBERT & DAVID MAYSLES: Showman (1963), Whats happening! The Beatles in the U.S.A (1964),
Salesman (1969)

FRED WISEMAN: The Titicut Follies (1967), High School (1968), Law and Order (1969), Hospital
(1970), Basic Training (1971)

ROBERT DEW & RICHARD LEACOCK: Primary (1960), Yanki No! (1960), The Chair (1963)

D.A. PENNEBAKER: Dont Look Back (1967) Monterey Pop (1968)

Cinéma vérité – before, during and after

(1969)

Jean Rouch: Les maîtres fous (1955), Moi, un noir (1958), Chronique d'un été (1961), Petit à petit

Chris Marker: Lettre de Sibérie (1957), Le jolie mai (1963), Loin du Vietnam (1967), Sans soleil
(1983)

Some notable etnografical films

JEAN ROUCH: Les mâitres fous (1954)

JOHN MARSHALL: The Hunters (1963), N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman (1980)

MORT RANSEN: You Are on Indian Land (1969)

ROBERT GARDNER: Altar of Fire (1976)

TRINH MINH-HA: Reassemblage (1982)

Major Vietnam documentaries

Why Vietnam (1965)

IVENS: 17e parallèle (1967)

HEYNOWSKI & SCHEUMANN: Der Job (1967)

MARKER, GODARD, IVENS, RESNAIS etc: Loin de Vietnam (1967)

GREENE: North Vietnam (1968)

DE ANTONIO: In the Year of the Pig (1968)

STRICK: Interview with My Lai Veterans (1971)

DAVIS: The Selling of the Pentagon (1971)

Emile de Antonio
Point of Order (1964)

Rush to Judgment (1967)

In the Year of the Pig (1968)

Millhouse (1971)

Painters Painting (1972)

Mr. Hoover and I (1989)

Michael Moore
Roger and Me (1989)

Bowling for Columbine (2002)

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

RICK CAINE, DEBBIE MELNYK: Manufacturing Dissent

Reflexive mode: some films

DZIGA VERTOV: Tšelovek s kinoapparatom (1929)

[MITCHELL BLOCK: No Lies (1975)]

JILL GODMILOW: Far From Poland (1984)

ERROL MORRIS: The Thin Blue Line (1988)

MICHAEL MOORE: Roger and Me (1989), Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Performative mode: some films

TRINH MINH-HA: Surname Viet Given Name Nam (1989)

ISAAC JULIEN: Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996)

SHAMIR: What Makes a Hero (2012)

Film essays
CHRIS MARKER: Sans Soleil (1982)

WERNER HERZOG: Lessons of Darkness (1992)

SUSANNA HELKE & VIRPI SUUTARI: Synti – dokumentti jokapäiväisistä rikoksista (1996)

Subjective Documentaries
KREINES: The Plaint of Steve Kreines As Recorded by His Younger Brother Jeff (1974)

WOHL: Best Boy (1979), Best Man: 'Best Boy' and All of Us, 20 Years Later (1997)

BERLINGER: Nobody’s Business (1996), The Sweetest Sound (2001)

KOISO-KANTTILA: Isältä pojalle (2004)

Ninni’s choice:
Frantz Fanon Documentary - Black Skin, White Mask (1998)

Hypernormalisation (2016)

The Thin Blue Line (1988)

The Cove (2009)

Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)

The Acts of Killing (2012)

The Apple (1998) Samira Makhmalbaf

Minamata: The Victims and Their World (Minamata: Kanja-san to sono sekai) (no cert) Japan,
1972, dir Noriaki Tsuchimoto, 105min

McLibel (PG) UK, 2005, dir Franny Armstrong, 84min

Death of a Nation - The Timor Conspiracy (no cert) 

Network First BBC, 1994, dir David Munro and John Pilger, 74min

Michael Buerk's BBC report on Ethiopia (no cert) 

UK, 1984, 9mins

For Freedom (Baray-e Azadi) (no cert)

Iran, 1980, dir Hussein Torabi, 110min

The Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens: Das Dokument vom Reichsparteitag) (no cert) 

Germany, 1936, dir Leni Riefenstahl, 110min

The Sorrow and the Pity (Le Chagrin et la pitié) (12A) 

Fr-Switz-W Ger, 1970, dir Marcel Ophuls, 248min

Heshang - The River Elegy (no cert) 

China, 1988, dir Xia Jun

The Buena Vista Social Club

Spellbound

Capturing The Friedmans

Être Et Avoir

The Fog Of War

The Finland phenomenon

Pedros choices:

ABC da Greve

Estamira

Janela da Alma

Tarja Branca

Andarilho

Cabra Marcado pra Morrer

Mc Cullin

Da Servidäo Moderna

Man on wire

Patricio Guzman Julio Verne

La Hora de los Hornos

Sociedade do Espetaculo Guy Debord

Sntiago Alvarez

Fernando Solanas

Eduardo Coutinho

Dzi Croquettes

Brasilia, Contradicoes de uma cidade nova

Serras da Desordem

Tucumaco Pacifico

Por Que Quebrou Mc Donalds

Waltz With bashir

Baraka

A Revolucao Nao sera televisionada

Revolucao dos Cocos

Fasinpat

Doutrina de Choque

Onibus 174

Homem Urso

The Take



Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary

Mark Cousins, Kevin Macdonald

Faber & Faber, 2006 - Documentary films - 468 pages