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Classic Documentaries Before 1990 · page 51

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. 125119731 h 33 min

   Swastika

   by Philippe Mora · United Kingdom · German
2. No. 12521973

   Tears of Buddha

   by Elliott Hong · United States · South Korea · English
3. No. 125319731 h 20 min

   The Black Moses of Soul

   Director not on record
4. No. 125419731 h 30 min

   The First Year

   by Patricio Guzmán · Chile · Spanish
5. No. 125519731 h 29 min

   The Great American Cowboy

   by Kieth Merrill · United States · English
6. No. 125619731 h 30 min

   The London Rock and Roll Show

   by Peter Clifton · United Kingdom · Australia · English
7. No. 125719731 h 26 min

   The Long Lament

   by Max Willutzki · Germany · German
8. No. 125819731 h 31 min

   The Society of the Spectacle

   by Guy Debord · France · French

   spectacle
9. No. 12591973

   Viggen 37

   by Maj Wechselmann · Sweden · Swedish
10. No. 126019731 h 50 min

    Visions of Eight

    by Yuri Ozerov · United States · Germany · English

    sportOlympic Games
11. No. 126119731 h 43 min

    Wattstax

    by Mel Stuart · United States · English
12. No. 1262197328 min

    Who's Out There?

    by Robert Drew · United States
13. No. 12631973

    Woodcutters of the Deep South

    by Lionel Rogosin · United States · English
14. No. 126419721 h 44 min

    12 dicembre

    by Pier Paolo Pasolini · Italy
15. No. 12651972

    A Dancer's Life

    by William Richert · United States · English
16. No. 1266197254 min

    Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization

    by James Ivory · United Kingdom · English
17. No. 12671972

    A Point in Time

    Director not on record · United States
18. No. 126819721 h 54 min

    Argentinísima

    by Héctor Olivera · Argentina · Spanish

    music
19. No. 126919721 h 13 min

    Arruza

    by Budd Boetticher · United States · English

    Carlos Arruza
20. No. 12701972

    Asylum

    by Peter Robinson · United Kingdom · English
21. No. 127119721 h 30 min

    Ben Gurion Zoher

    by Simon Hesera · Israel
22. No. 1272197220 min

    Betty Tells Her Story

    by Liane Brandon · United States · English
23. No. 1273197211 min

    Between Wrocław and Zielona Góra

    by Krzysztof Kieślowski · Poland · Polish
24. No. 127419721 h 18 min

    Bilder aus einem fremden Land - Deutschland 1945

    by Jochen Bauer · Germany
25. No. 12751972

    Black Fantasy

    by Lionel Rogosin · United States · English

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