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Classic Documentaries Before 1990 · page 36

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. 87619781 h 32 min

   Mistletoes

   by Judit Ember · Hungarian People's Republic · Hungarian
2. No. 877197850 min

   Monsieur René Magritte

   by Adrian Maben · France
3. No. 878197823 min

   O Aleijadinho

   by Joaquim Pedro de Andrade · Brazil · Portuguese
4. No. 87919781 h 25 min

   Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait

   by Ventura Pons · Spain · Spanish

   José Pérez Ocaña
5. No. 8801978

   Portret kompozitora Darka Kraljića

   by Dejan Corkovic

   Darko Kraljić
6. No. 88119781 h 24 min

   Raoni

   by Jean-Pierre Dutilleux · Belgium · France · English

   Raoni Metuktire
7. No. 88219783 h 52 min

   Renaldo and Clara

   by Bob Dylan · United States · English

   historymusic
8. No. 883197822 min

   Rockers

   by Theodoros Bafaloukos · Denmark · Jamaica · English
9. No. 884197852 min

   Scared Straight!

   by Arnold Shapiro · United States · English
10. No. 88519781 h 23 min

    Sexy Night Report n. 2

    by Joe D'Amato · Italy · English
11. No. 88619781 h 25 min

    Tältet

    by Göran du Rées · Sweden · Swedish
12. No. 88719781 h 35 min

    The Bees

    by Alfredo Zacarías · Mexico · English

    science
13. No. 88819781 h 16 min

    The Dead Are Not Silent

    by Walter Heynowski · East Germany · German
14. No. 8891978

    The Divided Trail: A Native American Odyssey

    by Jerry Aronson · United States · English
15. No. 8901978

    The Last Pogo

    by Colin Brunton · Canada · English
16. No. 8911978

    The Last Tasmanian

    Director not on record · Australia · English
17. No. 89219781 h 11 min

    The Lovers' Wind

    by Albert Lamorisse · France · French
18. No. 8931978

    The Universe of Mojica Marins

    by Ivan Cardoso · Brazil · Portuguese
19. No. 8941978

    This Above All

    by Dan Pița · Romania · Romanian
20. No. 895197815 min

    Time is inexorable

    by Věra Chytilová · Czechoslovakia
21. No. 896197831 min

    Utlänningar: Del II - Le Rom

    by Peter Nestler · Sweden · Swedish
22. No. 89719781 h 45 min

    We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire

    by Guy Debord · France · French
23. No. 89819781 h 15 min

    When the women got angry

    by René Vautier · France · French
24. No. 8991978

    Wilmington 10 -- U.S.A. 10,000

    by Haile Gerima · United States · English

    racism in the United States
25. No. 900197855 min

    Winds of the Milky Way

    by Lennart Meri · Hungary · Finland · Estonian

    Finno-Ugric peoples

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