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Classic Documentaries Before 1990 · page 35

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. 851197827 min

   Day of the Killer Tornadoes

   Director not on record · United States · English

   Super Outbreak
2. No. 85219781 h 26 min

   El asesino de Pedralbes

   by Gonzalo Herralde · Spain · Spanish

   José Luis Cerveto
3. No. 8531978

   El Capitan

   Director not on record · United States · English

   sport
4. No. 854197830 min

   El domador

   by Joaquín Cortés · Venezuela · Spanish
5. No. 85519781 h 40 min

   Emigration

   by Nino Jacusso · Germany
6. No. 856197850 min

   Estas são as armas

   by Murilo Salles · Mozambique · Portuguese
7. No. 85719781 h 45 min

   Faces of Death

   by John Alan Schwartz · United States · German, English

   human corpsedeath
8. No. 85819784 h 33 min

   Film Novel: Three Sisters

   by István Dárday · Hungary · Hungarian
9. No. 85919781 h 56 min

   Flesh Color

   by François Weyergans · Belgium · France · English

   music
10. No. 86019781 h 27 min

    Follie di notte

    by Joe D'Amato · Italy · Italian
11. No. 8611978

    Gates of Heaven

    by Errol Morris · United States · English

    death
12. No. 8621978

    Gay USA

    by Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. · United States · English
13. No. 86319781 h 55 min

    Genèse d'un Repas (Origins of a Meal)

    by Luc Moullet · France
14. No. 8641978

    George Carlin: Again!

    by Marty Callner · United States
15. No. 86519781 h 59 min

    Germany in Autumn

    by Peter Schubert · Germany · German

    Red Army Factionterrorism
16. No. 8661978

    Gyuri Cséplő

    by Pál Schiffer · Hungary · Hungarian
17. No. 86719781 h 30 min

    Hafia, triple champion d'Afrique

    by Moussa Kémoko Diakité
18. No. 86819785 min

    Imbiss

    by Thomas Heise · Germany
19. No. 86919781 h 28 min

    Kloden Rokker

    by John Menzer · Denmark

    Roskilde Festival 1977
20. No. 87019781 h 25 min

    Koko: A Talking Gorilla

    by Barbet Schroeder · France · French, English

    Koko
21. No. 87119781 h 40 min

    La voix de son maître

    by Gérard Mordillat · France
22. No. 8721978

    Lebanon... Why?

    by Georges N. Chamchoum
23. No. 87319782 h 25 min

    Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense

    by Boris Lehman · Belgium
24. No. 87419781 h 5 min

    Marée noire et colère rouge

    by René Vautier · France · French
25. No. 8751978

    Martha

    by Jürgen Böttcher · East Germany · German

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