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Classic Documentaries Before 1990 · page 40

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. 9761977

   Youthquake!

   Director not on record · United States
2. No. 97719761 h 15 min

   Adiós Sui Generis

   by Bebe Kamin · Argentina · Spanish
3. No. 9781976

   A Labor of Love

   Director not on record

   The Last Affair
4. No. 97919761 h 28 min

   All This and World War II

   by Susan Winslow · United States · English
5. No. 9801976

   Altars of the World

   by Lew Ayres · United States · English
6. No. 9811976

   America at the Movies

   by George Stevens, Jr. · United States

   cinema of the United States
7. No. 98219761 h 51 min

   A Sunday in Hell

   by Jørgen Leth · Denmark · Danish, English

   cycling
8. No. 983197635 min

   Beirut Is No Longer Never

   by Jocelyne Saab · Lebanon
9. No. 98419761 h 35 min

   Ce gamin, là

   by Renaud Victor · France
10. No. 9851976

    Chantons sous l'Occupation

    by André Halimi · France · French
11. No. 98619761 h 28 min

    Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol

    by Michel Auder · United States
12. No. 987197647 min

    Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend

    by John Ford · United States · English
13. No. 988197658 min

    Chulas Fronteras

    by Les Blank · United States · Spanish, English
14. No. 98919761 h 39 min

    Die Erschiessung des Landesverräters Ernst S.

    by Richard Dindo · Switzerland · German
15. No. 9901976

    Edith's Shopping Bag

    Director not on record · United States · English
16. No. 99119761 h 37 min

    El desencanto

    by Jaime Chávarri · Spain · Spanish

    history
17. No. 99219768 min

    Elementarz

    by Wojciech Wiszniewski · Poland · Polish
18. No. 99319762 h

    El Grito, México 1968

    by Leobardo López Arretche · Mexico · Spanish
19. No. 99419761 h 25 min

    Exhibition

    by Jean-François Davy · France
20. No. 99519761 h 38 min

    Expropriation

    by Mario Robles · Peru · Venezuela · Spanish
21. No. 99619761 h

    Fatma 75

    by Selma Baccar · Tunisia · Arabic
22. No. 9971976

    Federico García Lorca: Murder in Granada

    by Humberto López y Guerra · Sweden · Swedish, English
23. No. 99819761 h 30 min

    God Speed You! Black Emperor

    by Mitsuo Yanagimachi · Japan · Japanese

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24. No. 9991976

    Hamlet na Savi

    Director not on record
25. No. 100019761 h 43 min

    Harlan County, USA

    by Barbara Kopple · United States · English

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