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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. 70119801 h 13 min

   A Wives' Tale

   by Sophie Bissonnette · Canada
2. No. 70219801 h 37 min

   Blue Suede Shoes

   by Curtis Clark · United Kingdom · English
3. No. 703198037 min

   Bohuslav Martinu (movie)

   by Jaromil Jireš · Czechoslovakia

   historyBohuslav Martinů
4. No. 7041980

   Challenger: An Industrial Romance

   by Michael Rubbo · Canada · English
5. No. 70519801 h 25 min

   Comme si c'était hier

   by Esther Hoffenberg · Belgium
6. No. 7061980

   Deep Hearts

   by Robert Gardner · United States
7. No. 70719801 h 30 min

   Demon Lover Diary

   by Joel DeMott · United States · English
8. No. 70819803 h 12 min

   Description of an Island

   by Cynthia Beatt · Germany · German
9. No. 709198036 min

   Die drei anderen Jahreszeiten

   by Kurt Tetzlaff · East Germany · German
10. No. 71019801 h 50 min

    Dirty Laundry

    by Giuseppe Bertolucci · Italy · Italian
11. No. 7111980

    Dis-moi

    by Chantal Akerman · France · French
12. No. 71219801 h 35 min

    Divine Madness

    by Michael Ritchie · United States · English

    music
13. No. 71319801 h 30 min

    D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage

    by Lech Kowalski · United States · English

    music
14. No. 7141980

    Don't Mess with Bill

    by Pen Densham · United States · English
15. No. 7151980

    Ellis Island Revisited

    by Georges Perec · France · French

    Non-PlaceJewish identity
16. No. 71619801 h 20 min

    El Salvador: El pueblo vencerà

    by Diego de la Texera · El Salvador · Spanish
17. No. 71719801 h 45 min

    Faces of Death

    by John Alan Schwartz · United States · German, English

    human corpsedeath
18. No. 7181980

    Filmen om Anton Nilsson. Till arbetarklassens barn

    by Maj Wechselmann · Sweden · Swedish
19. No. 71919801 h 54 min

    From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

    by Murray Lerner · United States · English

    People's Republic of China
20. No. 720198051 min

    Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

    by Les Blank · United States
21. No. 7211980

    Gates of Heaven

    by Errol Morris · United States · English

    death
22. No. 72219801 h 25 min

    Germany Private 1 - Ethnologist of a People

    by Erwin Kneihsl · Germany · German
23. No. 7231980

    Get Rollin'

    by J. Terrance Mitchell · United States · English
24. No. 7241980

    Gilda Live

    by Mike Nichols · United States · English
25. No. 72519801 h 43 min

    Harlan County, USA

    by Barbara Kopple · United States · English

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