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Classic Documentaries Before 1990 · page 79

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. 195119611 h 5 min

   Widerstand - Vom Kampf gegen Hitler in Deutschland 1933-1945

   by Dieter Schiller · Germany
2. No. 19521961

   World by Night No. 2

   by Gianni Proia · Italy · Italian
3. No. 1953196128 min

   Wrestling

   by Claude Jutra · Canada · French
4. No. 1954196022 min

   Abitibi Canyon: Call of the Canyon

   Director not on record · Canada · English

   Abitibi Canyon
5. No. 195519601 h 26 min

   Aku-Aku

   by Thor Heyerdahl · Norway · Sweden · Norwegian

   expeditionarchaeology
6. No. 195619601 h 30 min

   America As Seen by a Frenchman

   by François Reichenbach · France · French

   United States
7. No. 19571960

   Antun Augustinčić

   by Šime Šimatović · Yugoslavia
8. No. 195819601 h 11 min

   Blitz on Britain

   by Harry Booth · United Kingdom
9. No. 19591960

   Come Back, Africa

   by Lionel Rogosin · United States · South Africa · English
10. No. 196019601 h 25 min

    Déjà s'envole la fleur maigre

    by Paul Meyer · Belgium
11. No. 196119601 h 10 min

    Faja Lobbi

    by Herman van der Horst · Netherlands · Dutch
12. No. 19621960

    George Grosz' Interregnum

    by Charles Carey · United States · English
13. No. 19631960

    Golden hands (documentary film)

    by Aleksei Pankratyev · Soviet Union · Ukrainian
14. No. 1964196018 min

    I fratelli Rosselli

    by Nelo Risi · Italy
15. No. 19651960

    I, the Aboriginal

    by Cecil Holmes · Australia · English
16. No. 196619601 h 10 min

    Jungle Cat

    by James Algar · United States · English

    nature
17. No. 1967196021 min

    L'Amour existe

    by Maurice Pialat · France · French
18. No. 196819601 h 30 min

    Le propre de l'homme

    by Claude Lelouch · France · French
19. No. 19691960

    Le sourire

    by Serge Bourguignon · France · French
20. No. 1970196024 min

    Macedonian Wedding

    by Takis Kanellopoulos · Greece · Modern Greek
21. No. 197119601 h 35 min

    Mad Years

    by Henri Torrent · France · French
22. No. 197219602 h 2 min

    Mein Kampf

    by Erwin Leiser · Sweden · Germany · German
23. No. 19731960

    Paris the Beautiful

    by Pierre Prévert · France · French
24. No. 197419601 h

    Primary

    by Robert Drew · United States · English
25. No. 19751960

    Rebel in Paradise

    Director not on record · United States · English

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