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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.

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

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    South - Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance Expedition
    by Frank Hurley

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    Manhatta (1921 short film)
    by Paul Strand

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

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    Moana (1926)
    by Robert Flaherty

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

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    Man With the Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov

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    A propos de Nice (J. Vigo, 1930)

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    Douro, Faina Fluvial (Oliveira)

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    Land Without Bread (Las hurdes)
    by Luis Bunuel

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    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
    by Walter Ruttmann

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    Man of Aran
    by Robert J. Flaherty

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    Song of Ceylon
    by Basil Wright

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    Triumph of the Will
    by Leni Riefenstahl

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

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    The Spanish Earth (1937)
    by Joris Ivens

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    The River (1938 documentary short)
    by Pare Lorentz

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    The 400 Million (Ivens)

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    Olympia (1938)
    by Leni Riefenstahl

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    Listen to Britain (1942)
    by Humphrey Jennings

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    Why We Fight (WWII Capra Series)
    by Anatole Litvak

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    Fires Were Started
    by Humphrey Jennings

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    Jammin' the Blues

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    The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
    by John Huston

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    A Diary for Timothy
    by Humphrey Jennings

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    Louisiana Story
    by Robert J. Flaherty

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

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    Hôtel des Invalides (1952)
    by Georges Franju

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    Night and Fog - Criterion Collection
    by Alain Resnais

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    Les Maîtres Fous
    by Jean Rouch

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    Letter from Siberia [Lettre de Sibérie]
    by Chris Marker

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    Window Water Baby Moving
    by Stan Brakhage

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    Salesman - Criterion Collection
    by Charlotte Zwerin

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    Cuba Si!
    by Chris Marker

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

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    A Valparaiso (1962)
    by Joris Ivens

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    Tokyo Olympiad
    by Kon Ichikawa

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    The War Game (1965)
    by Peter Watkins

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    Now (1965)
    by Santiago Alvarez

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    Titicut Follies (1967)
    by Frederick Wiseman

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    For the First Time- Cortazar

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    Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
    by Santiago Alvarez

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    LBJ (Alvarez)

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

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    In the Year of the Pig
    by Emile de Antonio

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    Medium Cool (Wexler)

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    The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter - Criterion Collection
    by Albert Maysles

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    The Sorrow and the Pity

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

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    Fata Morgana
    by Werner Herzog

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

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    Minamata: The Victims and the World
    by Noriaki Tsuchimoto

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    The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition)
    by John Pett

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

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    Grey Gardens - Criterion Collection
    by Albert Maysles

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

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    Battle of Chile (Guzman)

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    Gates of Heaven
    by Errol Morris

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    Burden of Dreams - Criterion Collection
    by Les Blank

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    Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance
    by Godfrey Reggio

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    Sans Soleil (Marker)

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    Streetwise
    by Martin Bell

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    Shoah

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    Cane Toads - An Unnatural History
    by Mark Lewis (VII)

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    Sherman's March

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

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    Emperor's Naked Army Marches on
    by Kazuo Hara

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    Working Girls (Widescreen)
    by Lizzie Borden

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    A Tale of the Wind
    by Joris Ivens

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

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    The Thin Blue Line
    by Errol Morris

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    Isle of Flowers (Ilha das Flores)
    by Jorge Furtado

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    Nema-ye Nazdik (Close Up)
    by Abbas Kiarostami

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    Homework/Mashgh-e Shab
    by Abbas Kiarostami

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    Lessons of Darkness (1992)

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

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    Le Tombeau d'Alexandre (The Last Bolshevik) (1992)
    by Chris Marker

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    Hoop Dreams
    by Steve James (II)

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    Crumb (Special Edition)
    by Terry Zwigoff

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    Microcosmos
    by Claude Nuridsany

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    When We Were Kings
    by Leon Gast

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    Histoire(s) du cinema
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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    Public Housing (1997)
    by Frederick Wiseman

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    Buena Vista Social Club
    by Wim Wenders

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    One Day in September
    by Kevin Macdonald

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    Kinski: My Best Fiend

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    The Gleaners and I

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    Oporto of my Childhood (Oliveira)

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    My Journey in Italy (Scorsese)

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    Bowling for Columbine

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    Être et avoir
    by Nicolas Philibert

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    Bus 174
    by José Padilha

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    Touching the Void
    by Kevin Macdonald

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    The Fog of War (Morris)

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    Capturing the Friedmans
    by Andrew Jarecki

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    Fahrenheit 9/11
    by Michael Moore

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    Comandante

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    Super Size Me

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    The Power of Nightmares
    by Adam Curtis

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    Into Great Silence (2005)
    by Philip Gröning

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    Grizzly Man

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    March of the Penguins

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    An Inconvenient Truth
    by Davis Guggenheim

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

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    Sicko (dir. Michael Moore)

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    Back to Normandy (Philibert)

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    Roger & Me

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    Sib / The Apple (1999)
    by Samira Makhmalbaf

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    Hearts and Minds - Criterion Collection
    by Peter Davis (II)

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    Little Dieter Needs to Fly
    by Werner Herzog

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    The Civil War

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    Bob Dylan - No Direction Home

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    Mix-Up
    by Francoise Romand

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    Man on Wire
    by James Marsh

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    Sleep furiously
    by Gideon Koppel

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