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mizoguchi's "100+ Documentaries"

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Year order (late additions to be put in right place). I’ve no doubt forgotten a few, will add in due course.

  1. 1.
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    Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory
    by Louis Lumière

  2. 2.
    The Arrival of a Train (1895)
    by Auguste Lumière & Louis Lumière

  3. 3.
    ?

  4. 4.
    South - Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition
    by Frank Hurley

  5. 5.
    Manhatta (1921 short film)
    by Paul Strand

  6. 6.
    Nanook of the North (1922)
    by Robert J. Flaherty

  7. 7.

  8. 8.
    Moana (1926)
    by Robert Flaherty

  9. 10.
    People On Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1930)
    by Robert Siodmak / Curt Siodmak / Edgar G. Ulmer / Fred Zinnemann

  10. 11.
    Man with the Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov

  11. 12.
    A propos de Nice (1930)
    by Jean Vigo

  12. 13.
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    Douro, Faina Fluvial (Oliveira)

  13. 14.
    Land Without Bread (Las hurdes)
    by Luis Bunuel

  14. 15.
    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
    by Walter Ruttmann

  15. 16.
    Man of Aran
    by Robert J. Flaherty

  16. 17.
    ?

  17. 18.
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    Song of Ceylon
    by Basil Wright

  18. 19.
    Triumph of the Will (Special Edition)
    by Leni Riefenstahl

  19. 20.
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    Night Mail (short) (1936)
    by Harry Watt & Basil Wright

  20. 21.
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    The Spanish Earth (1937)
    by Joris Ivens

  21. 22.
    The River (1938 documentary short)
    by Pare Lorentz

  22. 23.
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    The 400 Million (Ivens)

  23. 24.
    Olympia (1938)
    by Leni Riefenstahl

  24. 25.
    Listen to Britain (1942)
    by Humphrey Jennings

  25. 26.
    Why We Fight (WWII Capra Series)
    by Anatole Litvak

  26. 27.
    Fires Were Started
    by Humphrey Jennings

  27. 29.
    The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
    by John Huston

  28. 30.
    ?
    A Diary for Timothy
    by Humphrey Jennings

  29. 32.
    Louisiana Story
    by Robert J. Flaherty

  30. 33.
    Blood of the Beasts (Le Sang des Betes)
    by Georges Franju

  31. 34.
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    Hôtel des Invalides (1952)
    by Georges Franju

  32. 35.
    Night and Fog (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais

  33. 36.
    Les Maîtres Fous
    by Jean Rouch

  34. 37.
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    Letter from Siberia [Lettre de Sibérie]
    by Chris Marker

  35. 38.
    Window Water Baby Moving
    by Stan Brakhage

  36. 39.
    Salesman (The Criterion Collection)
    by Charlotte Zwerin

  37. 40.
    Cuba Si!
    by Chris Marker

  38. 41.
    Chronique d'un été (Chronicle of a Summer) (1961)
    by Edgar Morin / Jean Rouch

  39. 43.
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    A Valparaiso (1962)
    by Joris Ivens

  40. 44.
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    Tokyo Olympiad
    by Kon Ichikawa

  41. 45.
    The War Game (1965)
    by Peter Watkins

  42. 46.
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    Now (1965)
    by Santiago Alvarez

  43. 47.
    Titicut Follies (1967)
    by Frederick Wiseman

  44. 48.
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    For the First Time- Cortazar

  45. 49.
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    Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
    by Santiago Alvarez

  46. 51.
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    LBJ (Alvarez)

  47. 52.
    The Hour of the Furnaces
    by Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas

  48. 53.
    In the Year of the Pig

  49. 54.
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    Medium Cool (Wexler)

  50. 55.
    The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (The Criterion Collection)
    by Albert Maysles

  51. 56.
    The Sorrow and the Pity

  52. 57.
    Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut)
    by Michael Wadleigh

  53. 58.
    Fata Morgana
    by Werner Herzog

  54. 59.
    The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
    by Stan Brakhage

  55. 60.
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    Minamata: The Victims and the World
    by Noriaki Tsuchimoto

  56. 62.
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    The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
    by Werner Herzog

  57. 63.
    Grey Gardens (The Criterion Collection)
    by Albert Maysles

  58. 64.
    Harlan County, U.S.A. (The Criterion Collection)
    by Barbara Kopple

  59. 65.
    Powers of Ten (1977 documentary short)
    by Charles Eames & Ray Eames

  60. 66.
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    Battle of Chile (Guzman)

  61. 67.
    Gates of Heaven
    by Errol Morris

  62. 68.
    Burden of Dreams (The Criterion Collection)
    by Les Blank

  63. 69.
    Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance
    by Godfrey Reggio

  64. 70.
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    Sans Soleil (Marker)

  65. 71.
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    Streetwise
    by Martin Bell

  66. 72.
    Shoah
    by Claude Lanzmann

  67. 73.
    Cane Toads - An Unnatural History

  68. 74.
    Sherman's March

  69. 75.
    ?
    From the Pole to the Equator (Dal polo all'equatore) (1987)
    by Yervant Gianikian / Angela Ricci Lucchi

  70. 76.
    Emperor's Naked Army Marches on
    by Kazuo Hara

  71. 77.
    Working Girls (Widescreen)
    by Lizzie Borden

  72. 78.
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    A Tale of the Wind
    by Joris Ivens

  73. 79.
    ?
    Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
    by Marcel Ophüls

  74. 80.
    The Thin Blue Line
    by Errol Morris

  75. 81.
    ?
    Isle of Flowers (Ilha das Flores)
    by Jorge Furtado

  76. 82.
    Nema-ye Nazdik (Close Up)
    by Abbas Kiarostami

  77. 83.
    ?
    Homework/Mashgh-e Shab
    by Abbas Kiarostami

  78. 85.
    ?
    Lessons of Darkness (1992)

  79. 86.
    Dream of Light/The Quince Tree Sun (1993)
    by Victor Erice

  80. 87.
    ?
    Le Tombeau d'Alexandre (The Last Bolshevik) (1992)
    by Chris Marker

  81. 88.
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    Hoop Dreams
    by Steve James

  82. 89.
    Crumb (Special Edition)
    by Terry Zwigoff

  83. 90.
    Microcosmos
    by Claude Nuridsany

  84. 91.
    When We Were Kings
    by Leon Gast

  85. 92.
    Histoire(s) du cinema
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  86. 93.
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    Public Housing (1997)
    by Frederick Wiseman

  87. 94.
    Buena Vista Social Club
    by Wim Wenders

  88. 95.
    One Day in September
    by Kevin Macdonald

  89. 96.
    Kinski: My Best Fiend
    by Werner Herzog

  90. 97.
    The Gleaners and I
    by Agns Varda

  91. 98.
    ?
    Oporto of my Childhood (Oliveira)

  92. 99.
    ?
    My Journey to Italy (Scorsese)

  93. 100.
    Bowling for Columbine

  94. 102.
    Être et avoir
    by Nicolas Philibert

  95. 103.
    Bus 174
    by Felipe Lacerda

  96. 104.
    Touching the Void
    by Kevin Macdonald

  97. 105.
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    The Fog of War (Morris)

  98. 106.
    Capturing the Friedmans

  99. 107.
    Fahrenheit 9/11
    by Michael Moore

  100. 109.
    Comandante [Region 2]
    by Oliver Stone

  101. 110.
    Super Size Me

  102. 111.
    The Power of Nightmares
    by Adam Curtis

  103. 112.
    Into Great Silence (2005)
    by Philip Gröning

  104. 113.
    Grizzly Man
    by Werner Herzog

  105. 114.
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    March of the Penguins

  106. 115.
    An Inconvenient Truth
    by Davis Guggenheim

  107. 116.
    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    by Spike Lee

  108. 118.
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    Sicko (dir. Michael Moore)

  109. 119.
    ?
    Back to Normandy (Philibert)

  110. 120.
    Roger & Me
    by Michael Moore

  111. 121.
    ?
    Sib / The Apple (1999)
    by Samira Makhmalbaf

  112. 122.
    Hearts and Minds (The Criterion Collection)
    by Peter Davis

  113. 123.
    Little Dieter Needs to Fly
    by Werner Herzog

  114. 124.
    The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns
    by Ken Burns

  115. 125.
    Bob Dylan - No Direction Home

  116. 126.
    Mix-Up
    by Francoise Romand

  117. 127.
    Man on Wire
    by James Marsh

  118. 128.
    Sleep furiously
    by Gideon Koppel

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