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2,921 documentaries · ordered 27 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. 5761982

   Let's Spend the Night Together

   by Hal Ashby · United States · English

   music
2. No. 57719821 h 35 min

   Lettres d'amour en Somalie

   by Frédéric Mitterrand · France · French
3. No. 57819821 h 29 min

   Mientras el cuerpo aguante

   by Fernando Trueba · Spain · Spanish
4. No. 5791982

   Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle

   by Paul Wagner · United States
5. No. 580198240 min

   Miss Universo en el Perú

   by Grupo Chaski · Peru · Spanish
6. No. 58119821 h 17 min

   Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl

   by Ian MacNaughton · United Kingdom · English
7. No. 582198258 min

   Mural Murals

   by Agnès Varda · United States · France · French
8. No. 5831982

   Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki

   by Pekka Lehto · Finland · Finnish

   Helsinki
9. No. 58419821 h 9 min

   Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography

   by Bonnie Sherr Klein · Canada · English
10. No. 5851982

    One Man's War

    by Edgardo Cozarinsky · France · French
11. No. 58619821 h 45 min

    Our Voice of Earth, Memory and Future

    by Jorge Silva · Colombia · Spanish
12. No. 587198222 min

    Partido Alto (documentary)

    by Leon Hirszman · Brazil · Portuguese
13. No. 58819821 h 20 min

    Picasso, Pablo

    by Frédéric Rossif · France
14. No. 5891982

    Poetry in Motion

    by Ron Mann · Canada · English
15. No. 5901982

    Ramses and the Dreams

    by Heikki Partanen · Finland · Finnish
16. No. 5911982

    Rokk í Reykjavík

    by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson · Iceland · Icelandic
17. No. 592198245 min

    Room 666

    by Wim Wenders · France · Germany · German, French

    film industry
18. No. 59319821 h 30 min

    San Clemente

    by Raymond Depardon · France
19. No. 5941982

    Say Amen, Somebody

    by George Nierenberg · United States
20. No. 595198254 min

    Scénario du film 'Passion'

    by Jean-Luc Godard · Switzerland · France
21. No. 596198238 min

    Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections

    by Jonas Mekas · United States
22. No. 59719821 h 23 min

    Sexy Holocaust

    by Bruno Mattei · Italy
23. No. 59819821 h 36 min

    Shocking Africa

    by Angelo Castiglioni · Italy · Italian
24. No. 5991982

    Sing My Brother, Help Me to Sing

    Director not on record · Mozambique
25. No. 600198257 min

    Standing Alone

    by Colin Low · Canada · English

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