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Classic Documentaries Before 1990 · page 64

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. 15761968

   Mexico Mexico

   by François Reichenbach · France
2. No. 15771968

   Mingus: Charlie Mingus 1968

   by Thomas Reichman · United States · English
3. No. 15781968

   Monte Carlo: C'est La Rose

   by Michael Pfleghar · United States · English
4. No. 157919681 h 19 min

   Monterey Pop

   by D. A. Pennebaker · United States · Denmark · English

   music
5. No. 1580196825 min

   Near Heaven, Near Earth

   by Ole John · Denmark
6. No. 158119681 h 30 min

   O Gigante, a Hora e a Vez do Cinegrafista

   by Mario Civelli · Brazil · Portuguese
7. No. 1582196828 min

   Pink Floyd London '66–'67

   by Peter Whitehead · United Kingdom
8. No. 15831968

   Revolution

   by Jack O'Connell · United States · English

   San Francisco
9. No. 15841968

   San Francisco

   by Anthony Stern · United Kingdom

   San Francisco
10. No. 158519681 h 31 min

    Sex and the Law

    by Gabriel Axel · Denmark · Danish
11. No. 158619681 h 30 min

    Sheshet Hayamim

    by Alfred Steinhardt · Israel · Hebrew

    war
12. No. 158719681 h 1 min

    Skazy Uralskih Gor

    by Olgerd Vorontsov · Soviet Union · Russian
13. No. 158819681 h 37 min

    Snows of Grenoble

    by Jacques Ertaud · France
14. No. 15891968

    Still a Brother

    by William Greaves · United States
15. No. 159019681 h 27 min

    Sweden: Heaven and Hell

    by Luigi Scattini · Italy · Italian
16. No. 15911968

    Symbiopsychotaxiplasm

    by William Greaves · United States · English
17. No. 159219681 h 50 min

    Sympathy for the Devil

    by Jean-Luc Godard · France · United Kingdom · English
18. No. 159319684 h 24 min

    The Hour of the Furnaces

    by Octavio Getino · Argentina · Spanish

    historyneocolonialism
19. No. 159419681 h 21 min

    The Miracle of Love

    by Franz Josef Gottlieb · Germany · German
20. No. 159519681 h 45 min

    The Nile and the Life

    by Youssef Chahine · Egypt · Russia · Egyptian Arabic, Russian

    history
21. No. 15961968

    The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde

    by Larry Buchanan · United States · English

    crime
22. No. 1597196815 min

    The Photography of Inhabitants of One House

    by Dušan Trančík · Czechoslovakia
23. No. 159819681 h 8 min

    The Queen

    by Frank Simon · United States · English
24. No. 159919681 h 50 min

    The River Schooners

    by Pierre Perrault · Canada · French

    schooners of the Saint Lawrence River
25. No. 16001968

    The Secret of Michelangelo

    by Malcolm Collett · United States

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