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This is a list of documentary films, arranged in alphabetical order. The year of release and directors of the films are listed in parentheses.
- 1 More Hit (2007, Shauna Garr)
- 4 Little Girls (1997, Spike Lee)
- The 6th Marine Division on Okinawa (1945, N/A)
- 5 Girls (2001, Maria Finitzo)
- 7 Plus Seven (1970, Michael Apted)
- 7 Up in South Africa (1992, Angus Gibson)[1]
- 10 MPH (2007, Hunter Weeks)
- The 11th Hour (2007, Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen)
- 14 Up in America (1998, Phil Joanou)[2]
- 14 Up in South Africa (1999, Angus Gibson)[3]
- 14 Up Born in the USSR (1998, Sergei Miroshnichenko)[4]
- 16 Days in Afghanistan (2007, Anwar Hajher)
- 21 Up (1977, Michael Apted)
- 21 Up South Africa (2007, Angus Gibson)[5]
- 28 Up (1984, Michael Apted)
- 35 Up (1991, Michael Apted)
- 42 Up (1998, Michael Apted)
- 49 Up (2005, Michael Apted)
- 51 Birch Street (2005, Doug Block)
- About Baghdad (2003, Sinan Antoon, Bassam Haddad, Maya Mikdashi, Suzy Salamy, and Adam Shapiro)
- An Act of Conscience (1997, Robbie Leppzer)
- After Stonewall (1999, John Scagliotti)
- Age 7 in America (1991, Phil Joanou)[6]
- Age 7 in the USSR (1990, Sergei Miroshnichenko)[7]
- Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1994, Nick Broomfield)
- Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003, Nick Broomfield)
- Aliens of the Deep (2005, James Cameron and Steven Quale)
- All Aboard! Rosie's Family Cruise (2006, Shari Cookson)
- All in This Tea (2007, Les Blank and Gina Leibrecht)
- Alpha Company: Iraq Diary (2006, Gordon Forbes)
- America's Heart and Soul (2004, Louis Schwartzberg)
- America: Freedom to Fascism (2006, Aaron Russo)
- American Bellydancer (2005, Jonathan Brandeis)
- American Dream (1990, Barbara Kopple)
- American Hardcore (2006, Paul Rachman)
- American Jobs (2004, Greg Spotts)
- American Movie (1999, Chris Smith)
- American Pimp (1999, Albert Hughes and Allen Hughes)
- American Zeitgeist (2006, Rob McGann)
- The American Ruling Class (2005, John Kirby)
- Andrew and Jeremy Get Married (2004, Don Boyd)
- The Animal World (1956, Irwin Allen)
- Anne Frank Remembered (1995, Jon Blair)
- Answering the Call: Ground Zero's Volunteers (2006, Lou Angeli)
- Anti-Semitism in the 21st Century: The Resurgence (2007, Andrew Goldberg)
- Arakimentari (2004, Travis Klose)
- Are the Kids Alright? (2003, Ellen Spiro)
- Area 51: The Alien Interview (1997, Jeff Broadstreet)
- The Aristocrats (2005, Paul Provenza)
- Arlington West: The Film (2006, Peter Dudar and Sally Marr)
- Atomic Ed and the Black Hole (2002, Ellen Spiro)
- Baghdad ER (2006, Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill)
- Baseball (1994, Ken Burns)
- Basic Training (1971, Frederick Wiseman)[8]
- The Battle of San Pietro (1945, John Huston)
- The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit (2003, Albert and David Maysles)
- Beautiful Losers (2007, Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard)
- Beaver Valley (1950, James Algar)[9]
- Before Stonewall (1984, John Scagliotti and Greta Schiller)
- Before the Music Dies (B4MD) (2006, Andrew Shapter)
- Best Boy (1979, Ira Wohl)
- Best Friend Forgotten (2004, Julie Lofton)
- Beyond Belief (2007, Beth Murphy)
- Beyond Hatred (2005, Olivier Meyrou)
- Beyond the Call (2006, Adrian Belic)
- Beyond the Gates of Splendor (2004, Jim Hanon)
- Biggie and Tupac (2002, Nick Broomfield)
- The Big One (1998, Michael Moore)
- Bitter Jester (2003, Maija Di Giorgio)
- Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1962, Louis Clyde Stoumen)
- Black Tar Heroin: The Dark End of the Street (1999, Steven Okazaki)
- Blank Generation: The Birth of Punk (1976, Amos Poe and Ivan Kral)
- The Blood of Yingzhou District (2006, Ruby Yang)
- Blue Vinyl (2002, Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand)
- Body of War (2007, Ellen Spiro and Phil Donahue)
- BookWars: Life on the Streets of New York (2000, Jason Rosette)
- Border (2007, Chris Burgard)
- Born in the USSR: 21 Up (2005, Sergei Miroshnichenko)
- Born into Brothels (2004, Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman)
- Bowling for Columbine (2002, Michael Moore)
- A Boy Named Sue (2000, Julie Wyman)
- A Brief History of Time (1991, Errol Morris)
- Bring on the Night (1985, Michael Apted)
- Brooklyn Bridge (1981, Ken Burns)
- Bugs Bunny: Superstar (1975, Larry Jackson)
- Buy Bye Beauty (2001, Pål Hollender)
- The California Reich (1975, Keith F. Critchlow and Walter Parkes)
- Calle 54 (2000, Fernando Trueba)
- Calling from Tehran (2008, Matthew Nicolau)
- Captain Mike Across America (2007, Michael Moore)
- Capturing the Friedmans (2003, Andrew Jarecki)
- Castro Street (1966, Bruce Baillie)
- The Cats of Mirikitani (2006, Linda Hattendorf)
- The Celluloid Closet (1996, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman)
- Chain Camera (2001, Kirby Dick)
- Chang (1927, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack)
- Checkpoint (2004, Yoav Shamir)[10]
- Chernobyl Heart (2003, Maryann DeLeo)
- Chicken Ranch (1983, Nick Broomfield)
- China 21 (2002, Ruby Yang)[11]
- China Blue (2005, Micha Peled)
- Chronicle of a Summer (1960, Edgar Morin)
- Citizen Hong Kong (1999, Ruby Yang)[12]
- Citizen Shane (2004, Ron Tibbett)[13]
- City of Water (2007, Jasper Goldman)
- The City (1939, Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke)
- The Civil War (1990, Ken Burns)
- Cocksucker Blues (1972, Robert Frank)
- Comic Book Confidential (1988, Ron Mann)
- The Conquest of Everest (1953, George Lowe)
- Control Room (2004, Jehane Noujaim)
- The Corporation (2003, Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar)
- Cosmic Voyage (1996, Bayley Silleck)
- Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1980, Adrian Malone)
- Courting Condi (2008, Sebastian Doggart)
- Crumb (1994, Terry Zwigoff)
- The Daddy of Rock 'N' Roll (2003, Daniel Bitton)
- Dalai Lama Renaissance (2007, Khashyar Darvich)
- Darius Goes West (2007, Logan Smalley)
- Dark Planet: Visions of America (2004, Jason "Molotov" Mitchell)
- Darwin's Nightmare (2004, Hubert Sauper)
- The Day the Universe Changed (1985, James Burke)
- Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero (2008, Rusty Nails)
- Death Faces (1988, Countess Victoria Bloodhart and Steve White)
- The Decline of Western Civilization (1981, Penelope Spheeris)
- The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988, Penelope Spheeris)
- The Decline of Western Civilization III (1998, Penelope Spheeris)
- Destination Hitchcock: The Making of North by Northwest (2000, Peter Fitzgerald)
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006, Jeff Feuerzeig)
- Diana’s Hair Ego (1991, Ellen Spiro)
- A Diary for Timothy (1945, Humphrey Jennings)
- Divine Trash (1998, Steve Yeager)
- Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006, Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck)
- DJ Domination: World Domination (2003, DJ Domination)
- Don't Look Back (1967, D.A. Pennebaker)
- Down and Out in America (1986, Lee Grant)
- Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11 (2006, Heidi Dehncke Fisher)
- Faces of Death (1978, Conan Le Cilaire)
- Faces of Death II (1981, John Alan Schwartz)
- Faces of Death III (1985, John Alan Schwartz)
- Faces of Death IV (1990, John Alan Schwartz, Susumu Saegusa and Andrew Theopolis)
- Faces of Death V (1995, John Alan Schwartz, Susumu Saegusa and Andrew Theopolis)
- Faces of Death VI (1996, John Alan Schwartz)
- Faces of Gore (1999, Todd Tjersland)
- Facing Sudan (2007, Bruce David Janu)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004, Michael Moore)
- FahrenHYPE 9/11 (2004, Alan Peterson)
- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (1997, Errol Morris)
- Favela Rising (2006, Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary)
- The Fearless Freaks (2005, Bradley Beesley)
- Festival Express (2003, Bob Smeaton)
- Final Score (2007, Soraya Nagasuwan)
- Finding Kraftland (2006, Richard Kraft and Adam Shell)
- Fires Were Started (1943, Humphrey Jennings)
- Flying Padre (1951, Stanley Kubrick)
- The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003, Errol Morris)
- For the Bible Tells Me So (2007, Daniel G Karslake)
- Forbidden Fruit (2000, Sue Maluwa-Bruce)
- Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1992, Lynne Fernie and Aerlyn Weissman)
- Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894, William K.L. Dickson)
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon (2001, Bart Sibrel)
- The Future of Food (2004, Deborah Koons)
- Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980, Les Blank)
- The Gate of Heavenly Peace (1995, Richard Gordon and Carma Hinton)
- Gay Sex in the 70s (2005, Joseph Lovett)
- Gaza Strip (2002, James Longley)
- Gente di Roma (2003, Ettore Scola)
- Ghosts of the Abyss (2003, James Cameron)
- Gimme Shelter (1970, Albert and David Maysles)
- Giuliani Time (2006, Kevin Keating)
- God On My Side (2006, Andrew Denton)
- Great Old Amusement Parks (1999, Rick Sebak)
- Greetings from Out Here (1993, Ellen Spiro)
- Grey Gardens (1976, Albert and David Maysles)
- Grizzly Man (2005, Werner Herzog)
- Gunner Palace (2005, Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein)
- Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary (1997, S.R. Bindler)
- Harlan County, USA (1976, Barbara Kopple)
- Hearts and Minds (1974, Peter Davis)
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991, Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper)
- Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1996, Nick Broomfield)
- Heima (2007, Dion DeBlois)
- Here Is Always Somewhere Else (2006, Rene Daalder)
- High School (1969, Frederick Wiseman)
- Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (2006, Byron Hurt)
- Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Featured Films (2007, Arthur Dong)
- Home of the Brave (2004, Paola di Florio)
- Hoop Dreams (1994, Steve James)
- Hope In Heaven (2006, Meredith Ralston)
- Huey Long (1986, Ken Burns)
- In Bad Taste (2000, Steve Yeager)
- In Search of the Second Amendment (2006, David T. Hardy)
- In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914, Edward S. Curtis)
- Imagine: John Lennon (1988, Andrew Solt)
- Incident at Oglala (1992, Michael Apted)
- Innocence (2005, Areeya Chumsai and Nisa Kongsri)
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006, Davis Guggenheim)
- Inside Deep Throat (2005, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato)
- Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006, Robert Greenwald)
- Iraq in Fragments (2007, James Longley)
- An Islamic History of Europe (2005, Rageh Omaar)[14]
- Leading to War (2008, Barry J. Hershey)
- Let's Get Lost (1998, Bruce Weber)
- Licensed to Kill (1997, Arthur Dong)
- The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998, Aviva Kempner)
- A Life in the Death of Joe Meek (2008, Howard S. Berger and Susan Stahmann)
- Life in the Freezer (1993, David Attenborough)
- Listen to Britain (1942, Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister)[15]
- The Living Desert (1953, James Algar)
- London Can Take It (1940, Harry Watt)[16]
- Looking for Richard (1996, Al Pacino)
- Loose Change (2007, Dylan Avery)
- Lord of the Universe (1974, Michael Shamberg)
- Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads (2006, Hector Galán)
- Lost in La Mancha (2002, Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe)
- Louisiana Story (1948, Robert J. Flaherty)
- Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991, Alek Keshishian)
- Mad Hot Ballroom (2005, Marilyn Argrelo)
- Man of Aran (1934, Robert J. Flaherty)
- Manson (1973,Robert Hendrickson)
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov)
- Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick)
- March of the Penguins (2005, Luc Jacquet)
- A Married Couple (1969, Allan King)[17]
- The Memory of Justice (1976, Marcel Ophüls)
- Mojados: Through the Night (2004, Tommy Davis)
- Moana (1926, Robert J. Flaherty)
- Murderball (2005, Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro)
- My Flesh and Blood (2003, Jonathan Karsh)
- Salesman (1969, Albert and David Maysles)
- Scared Straight! (1978, Arnold Shapiro)
- Seal Island (1948, James Algar)[25]
- The Seine Meets Paris (1957, Joris Ivens)
- Seoul Train (2005, Jim Butterworth)
- Seven Up (1964, Paul Almond)
- Sex Slaves (2005, Ric Esther Bienstock)
- The Shame of a City (2006, Tigre Hill)
- Sharkwater (2007, Rob Stewart)
- Shikashika (2008, Stephen James Hyde)
- Shoah (1985, Claude Lanzmann)
- Sicko (2007, Michael Moore)
- The Silent World (1956, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle)[26]
- The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr (2002, John Hyams)
- Soldier Girls (1981, Nick Broomfield)
- Song of Ceylon (1934, Basil Wright)
- The Sorrow and the Pity (1971, Marcel Ophuls)
- Spellbound (2002, Jeffrey Blitz)
- Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002, Paul Justman)
- Super Size Me (2004, Morgan Spurlock)
- Surplus (2003, Erik Gandini)
- Target for Tonight (1941, Harry Watt)
- Tarnation (2003, Jonathan Caouette)
- Taxi to the Dark Side (2007, Alex Gibney)
- The Thin Blue Line (1988, Errol Morris)
- This Is Elvis (1982, Malcom Leo and Andrew Salt)
- The Times of Harvey Milk (1984, Rob Epstein)
- Titicut Follies (1967, Frederick Wiseman)
- Touching the Void (2003, Kevin Macdonald)
- Trembling Before G-d (2001, Sandi Simcha DuBowski)
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002, Alex Gibney)
- Triumph of the Will (1934, Leni Riefenstahl)
- Troop 1500 (2005, Ellen Spiro)
- Tupac: Resurrection (2003, Lauren Lazin)
- Typhoons' Last Storm (2000, Lawrence Bond)[27]
- Tyson (2008, James Toback)
- War/Dance (2007, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine)
- Warrendale (1967, Allan King)
- Welfare (1975, Frederick Wiseman)[29]
- When the Levees Broke (2006, Spike Lee)
- When We Were Kings (1996, Leon Gast)
- Who Killed The Electric Car (2006, Chris Paine)
- Why We Fight (2005, Eugene Jarecki)
- Winged Migration (2001, Jacques Cluzaud and Jacques Cluzaud)
- Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
- The World's Best Prom (2006, Ari Vena and Chris Talbott)
- The World Without US (2008, Mitch Anderson)
- Wrath of Gods (2007, Jon Gustafsson)
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