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Classic Documentaries Before 1990 · page 91
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.
- No. 2251195022 min
Grandma Moses
by Jerome Hill · United States · English
historyGrandma Moses - No. 225219501 h 6 min
Immer bereit
by Feodor Pappe · Germany · East Germany · German
- No. 225319501 h 23 min
Jungle Beyond
by Per Høst · Norway · Norwegian
- No. 225419501 h 15 min
Kon-Tiki
by Olle Nordemar · Norway · Sweden · Norwegian
Kon-Tiki - No. 22551950
La funivia del Faloria
by Michelangelo Antonioni · Italy · Italian
Alps - No. 225619501 h 26 min
La Vie Commence Demain
by Nicole Védrès · France · French
- No. 225719501 h 40 min
Memories of a Mexican
by Carmen Toscano · Mexico · Spanish
- No. 2258195010 min
Mirror of Holland
by Bert Haanstra · Netherlands · Dutch
- No. 2259195058 min
New Czechoslovakia
by Vladimír Vlček · Soviet Union · Czechoslovakia · Czech
- No. 226019508 min
Niels Bohr
by Jens Henriksen · Denmark
- No. 22611950
No Strangers Here
Director not on record · Australia · English
- No. 2262195018 min
Notturno
by Vittorio Sala · Italy
- No. 22631950
Savage Africa
by Jacques Dupont · France · French, English
- No. 2264195010 min
Sette canne, un vestito
by Michelangelo Antonioni · Italy · Italian
- No. 22651950
Sugawara denju tenarai kagami
by Masahiro Makino · Japan · Japanese
- No. 226619501 h 8 min
The Golden Twenties
Director not on record · United States · English
- No. 2267195015 min
The Hollywood Ten
by John Berry · United States · English
- No. 226819501 h 45 min
The New China
by Sergei Gerasimov · People's Republic of China · Soviet Union · Russian, Chinese
People's Republic of China - No. 226919507 min
The Storstrøm Bridge
by Carl Theodor Dreyer · Denmark · Danish
Storstrøm Bridge - No. 227019501 h 10 min
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo
by Richard Lyford · United States · Germany · English
- No. 22711950
Victory of the Chinese People
by Leonid Varlamov · Soviet Union
- No. 227219502 h 30 min
Westerbork film
Director not on record · Reichskommissariat Niederlande
Westerbork Transit Camp - No. 227319501 h 29 min
Wilhelm Pieck – Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
by Andrew Thorndike · East Germany · German
- No. 2274195052 min
With These Hands
by Jack Arnold · United States · English
- No. 22751950
Wonderful Times
by Günter Neumann · Germany · German
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