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Classic Documentaries Before 1990 · page 54

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. 13261971

   A, B, C, ZH

   by Xhanfize Keko · Albania · Albanian
2. No. 132719711 h 35 min

   Africa Uncensored

   by Alfredo Castiglioni · Italy · Italian
3. No. 1328197150 min

   Alaska Wilderness Lake

   Director not on record · United States · English
4. No. 13291971

   Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary

   by Yolande DuLuart · United States · American English
5. No. 13301971

   Art Is...

   by Julian Krainin · United States · English
6. No. 13311971

   Bald: The Making of THX 1138

   by George Lucas · United States · English

   THX 1138
7. No. 13321971

   Beauty Knows No Pain

   by Elliott Erwitt · United States · English

   dance
8. No. 1333197140 min

   Black Train

   by Pál Schiffer · Hungary · Hungarian
9. No. 133419711 h

   Brazil: A Report on Torture

   by Saul Landau · United States
10. No. 133519711 h 55 min

    Canciones para después de una guerra

    by Basilio Martín Patino · Spain · Spanish
11. No. 13361971

    Ciao Federico! Fellini Directs Satyricon

    by Gideon Bachmann · United States · Italy
12. No. 133719711 h 42 min

    Continental Circus

    by Jérôme Laperrousaz · France · French
13. No. 1338197115 min

    Crni film

    by Želimir Žilnik · Yugoslavia · Serbo-Croatian
14. No. 13391971

    Derby

    by Robert Kaylor · United States · English
15. No. 134019711 h 39 min

    Directed by John Ford

    by Peter Bogdanovich · United States · English

    John Ford
16. No. 134119711 h 34 min

    Er I Bange?

    by Henning Carlsen · Denmark
17. No. 13421971

    Flames of Persia

    Director not on record · Iran

    2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire
18. No. 134319711 h 44 min

    Fuck Off! – Images from Finland

    by Erkki Seiro · Finland · Finnish
19. No. 134419712 h 3 min

    Goodbye Uncle Tom

    by Franco E. Prosperi · Italy · Italian

    slavery in the United States
20. No. 1345197150 min

    Growing Up Female

    by Julia Reichert · United States · English
21. No. 1346197143 min

    Handicapped Future

    by Werner Herzog · Germany · German
22. No. 1347197120 min

    I Miss Sonja Henie

    by Dušan Makavejev · Yugoslavia · Serbian
23. No. 1348197137 min

    Interview with Salvador Allende: Power and Reason

    by Emidio Greco · Italy
24. No. 1349197125 min

    Janie’s Janie

    by Geri Ashur
25. No. 13501971

    Karavan - Omiš

    Director not on record · Serbo-Croatian

    Omiš

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