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767 documentaries · ordered 26 October 2026 · How we order lists

Newest first: the year each film was released, from the open film record (Wikidata), then the order the list has always had. Every film’s page names its source.

1. No. 5511982

   Blue Collar America

   Director not on record · Sweden · English
2. No. 55219821 h 28 min

   Blue Planet

   by Franco Piavoli · Italy · Italian
3. No. 55319821 h 35 min

   Burden of Dreams

   by Les Blank · United States · English
4. No. 554198255 min

   Coming Soon

   by John Landis · United States · English
5. No. 555198252 min

   Constellation of Rifleman

   by Juris Podnieks · Soviet Union · Russian
6. No. 55619821 h 18 min

   Ebba the Movie

   by Johan Donner · Sweden · Swedish
7. No. 5571982

   Elia Kazan Outsider

   by Annie Tresgot · France
8. No. 55819821 h 22 min

   Field Diary

   by Amos Gitai · France · Israel
9. No. 55919821 h 2 min

   Frida Kahlo

   Director not on record · Germany

   history
10. No. 56019821 h

    From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today

    by Helena Solberg · United States · English
11. No. 56119821 h 30 min

    Genocide

    by Arnold Schwartzman · United States · English

    historywar
12. No. 56219821 h 37 min

    Half a Life

    by Romain Goupil · France · French
13. No. 56319821 h 30 min

    Iconoclasm

    by Johan van der Keuken · Netherlands · Dutch

    Melkweg
14. No. 5641982

    Image Changing: Letter to the beloved

    by Jean-Luc Godard · France · French
15. No. 5651982

    Impressions de France

    by Rick Harper

    France
16. No. 56619821 h

    In Our Water

    by Meg Switzgable · United States · English
17. No. 5671982

    In the King of Prussia

    by Emile de Antonio · United States · English
18. No. 56819821 h 20 min

    It Came from Hollywood

    by Andrew Solt · United States · English
19. No. 56919821 h 32 min

    Jacques Brel

    by Frédéric Rossif · France · French
20. No. 570198252 min

    Journal inachevé

    by Marilú Mallet · Canada · French
21. No. 5711982

    Koncert

    by Michał Tarkowski · Poland · Polish
22. No. 57219821 h 25 min

    Koyaanisqatsi

    by Godfrey Reggio · United States

    Watch free
23. No. 57319822 h 8 min

    La bête lumineuse

    by Pierre Perrault · Canada · French

    moose hunting
24. No. 5741982

    Land of Look Behind

    by Alan Greenberg · United States · English
25. No. 5751982

    La Operación

    by Ana María García · United States · English, Spanish

    woman

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