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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.
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  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
  10. 10.
    People On Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1930)
    by Robert Siodmak / Curt Siodmak / Edgar G. Ulmer / Fred Zinnemann
  11. 11.
    Man with the Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov
  12. 12.
    A propos de Nice (1930)
    by Jean Vigo
  13. 13.
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    Douro, Faina Fluvial (Oliveira)

  14. 14.
    Land Without Bread (Las hurdes)
    by Luis Bunuel
  15. 15.
    Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
    by Walter Ruttmann
  16. 16.
    Man of Aran
    by Robert J. Flaherty
  17. 17.
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  18. 18.
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    Song of Ceylon
    by Basil Wright
  19. 19.
    Triumph of the Will (Special Edition)
    by Leni Riefenstahl
  20. 20.
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    Night Mail (short) (1936)
    by Harry Watt & Basil Wright
  21. 21.
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    The Spanish Earth (1937)
    by Joris Ivens
  22. 22.
    The River (1938 documentary short)
    by Pare Lorentz
  23. 23.
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    The 400 Million (Ivens)

  24. 24.
    Olympia (1938)
    by Leni Riefenstahl
  25. 25.
    Listen to Britain (1942)
    by Humphrey Jennings
  26. 26.
    Why We Fight (WWII Capra Series)
    by Anatole Litvak
  27. 27.
    Fires Were Started
    by Humphrey Jennings
  29. 29.
    The Battle of San Pietro (1945)
    by John Huston
  30. 30.
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    A Diary for Timothy
    by Humphrey Jennings
  32. 32.
    Louisiana Story
    by Robert J. Flaherty
  33. 33.
    Blood of the Beasts (Le Sang des Betes)
    by Georges Franju
  34. 34.
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    Hôtel des Invalides (1952)
    by Georges Franju
  35. 35.
    Night and Fog (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais
  36. 36.
    Les Maîtres Fous
    by Jean Rouch
  37. 37.
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    Letter from Siberia [Lettre de Sibérie]
    by Chris Marker
  38. 38.
    Window Water Baby Moving
    by Stan Brakhage
  39. 39.
    Salesman (The Criterion Collection)
    by Charlotte Zwerin
  40. 40.
    Cuba Si!
    by Chris Marker
  41. 41.
    Chronique d'un été (Chronicle of a Summer) (1961)
    by Edgar Morin / Jean Rouch
  43. 43.
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    A Valparaiso (1962)
    by Joris Ivens
  44. 44.
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    Tokyo Olympiad
    by Kon Ichikawa
  45. 45.
    The War Game (1965)
    by Peter Watkins
  46. 46.
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    Now (1965)
    by Santiago Alvarez
  47. 47.
    Titicut Follies (1967)
    by Frederick Wiseman
  48. 48.
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    For the First Time- Cortazar

  49. 49.
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    Hanoi, Tuesday 13th
    by Santiago Alvarez
  51. 51.
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    LBJ (Alvarez)

  52. 52.
    The Hour of the Furnaces
    by Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas
  53. 53.
    In the Year of the Pig

  54. 54.
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    Medium Cool (Wexler)

  55. 55.
    The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter (The Criterion Collection)
    by Albert Maysles
  56. 56.
    The Sorrow and the Pity

  57. 57.
    Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut)
    by Michael Wadleigh
  58. 58.
    Fata Morgana
    by Werner Herzog
  59. 59.
    The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
    by Stan Brakhage
  60. 60.
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    Minamata: The Victims and the World
    by Noriaki Tsuchimoto
  62. 62.
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    The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974)
    by Werner Herzog
  63. 63.
    Grey Gardens (The Criterion Collection)
    by Albert Maysles
  64. 64.
    Harlan County, U.S.A. (The Criterion Collection)
    by Barbara Kopple
  65. 65.
    Powers of Ten (1977 documentary short)
    by Charles Eames & Ray Eames
  66. 66.
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    Battle of Chile (Guzman)

  67. 67.
    Gates of Heaven
    by Errol Morris
  68. 68.
    Burden of Dreams (The Criterion Collection)
    by Les Blank
  69. 69.
    Koyaanisqatsi - Life Out of Balance
    by Godfrey Reggio
  70. 70.
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    Sans Soleil (Marker)

  71. 71.
    ?
    Streetwise
    by Martin Bell
  72. 72.
    Shoah
    by Claude Lanzmann
  73. 73.
    Cane Toads - An Unnatural History

  74. 74.
    Sherman's March

  75. 75.
    ?
    From the Pole to the Equator (Dal polo all'equatore) (1987)
    by Yervant Gianikian / Angela Ricci Lucchi
  76. 76.
    Emperor's Naked Army Marches on
    by Kazuo Hara
  77. 77.
    Working Girls (Widescreen)
    by Lizzie Borden
  78. 78.
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    A Tale of the Wind
    by Joris Ivens
  79. 79.
    ?
    Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
    by Marcel Ophüls
  80. 80.
    The Thin Blue Line
    by Errol Morris
  81. 81.
    ?
    Isle of Flowers (Ilha das Flores)
    by Jorge Furtado
  82. 82.
    Nema-ye Nazdik (Close Up)
    by Abbas Kiarostami
  83. 83.
    ?
    Homework/Mashgh-e Shab
    by Abbas Kiarostami
  85. 85.
    ?
    Lessons of Darkness (1992)

  86. 86.
    Dream of Light/The Quince Tree Sun (1993)
    by Victor Erice
  87. 87.
    ?
    Le Tombeau d'Alexandre (The Last Bolshevik) (1992)
    by Chris Marker
  88. 88.
    ?
    Hoop Dreams
    by Steve James
  89. 89.
    Crumb (Special Edition)
    by Terry Zwigoff
  90. 90.
    Microcosmos
    by Claude Nuridsany
  91. 91.
    When We Were Kings
    by Leon Gast
  92. 92.
    Histoire(s) du cinema
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  93. 93.
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    Public Housing (1997)
    by Frederick Wiseman
  94. 94.
    Buena Vista Social Club
    by Wim Wenders
  95. 95.
    One Day in September
    by Kevin Macdonald
  96. 96.
    Kinski: My Best Fiend
    by Werner Herzog
  97. 97.
    The Gleaners and I
    by Agns Varda
  98. 98.
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    Oporto of my Childhood (Oliveira)

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

  100. 100.
    Bowling for Columbine

  102. 102.
    Être et avoir
    by Nicolas Philibert
  103. 103.
    Bus 174
    by Felipe Lacerda
  104. 104.
    Touching the Void
    by Kevin Macdonald
  105. 105.
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    The Fog of War (Morris)

  106. 106.
    Capturing the Friedmans

  107. 107.
    Fahrenheit 9/11
    by Michael Moore
  109. 109.
    Comandante [Region 2]
    by Oliver Stone
  110. 110.
    Super Size Me

  111. 111.
    The Power of Nightmares
    by Adam Curtis
  112. 112.
    Into Great Silence (2005)
    by Philip Gröning
  113. 113.
    Grizzly Man
    by Werner Herzog
  114. 114.
    ?
    March of the Penguins

  115. 115.
    An Inconvenient Truth
    by Davis Guggenheim
  116. 116.
    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
    by Spike Lee
  118. 118.
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    Sicko (dir. Michael Moore)

  119. 119.
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    Back to Normandy (Philibert)

  120. 120.
    Roger & Me
    by Michael Moore
  121. 121.
    ?
    Sib / The Apple (1999)
    by Samira Makhmalbaf
  122. 122.
    Hearts and Minds (The Criterion Collection)
    by Peter Davis
  123. 123.
    Little Dieter Needs to Fly
    by Werner Herzog
  124. 124.
    The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns
    by Ken Burns
  125. 125.
    Bob Dylan - No Direction Home

  126. 126.
    Mix-Up
    by Francoise Romand
  127. 127.
    Man on Wire
    by James Marsh
  128. 128.
    Sleep furiously
    by Gideon Koppel
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