Talk:List of documentary films

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I think we need to limit this list a little. Just listing every documentary would be kind of worthless. If you think about it, most shows on the History Channel, Biography, Discovery Channel etc. are documetaries. A massive list of these wouldn't help anyone. How about some amorpous guidelines?: add documentaries you feel are well-known, influential, or significant in some way. user:ike9898

Or anything that we already have an article about.—Eloquence

Yeah, I agree. This list should probably be more inclusive (less selective) than the list in the documentary film article, but still not everything ever made. User:ike9898

What is this article? A "list of documentaries"? Documentary films (it would appear)? What use could this possibly be? There are tens of thousands of documentary films extant. As such, this list could never become nearly comprehensive without becoming redundant and irrelevant. Some kind of editorial guideline must be established: for example, documentary films with theatrical release in the United States. Otherwise this is just way too vague - why not just have a list of all the books ever written, or the name of every person ever born in Denmark? sept 26 2006 Kps2420

I think this list should include only entries of existing articles on documentaries. There is a list for films without article, for red links. Hoverfish 00:27, 9 November 2006 (UTC)\

[edit] Listing

If this article isn't going to list them all, is there another online resource that we could post a link to that would list them all? IMDB? Chadlupkes 00:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

     We can use IMDB for references

[edit] clean-up

I just spent 3hrs cleaning up this wiki page. I did not delete anyone's entrys,I added to a lot of them, and deleted heaps of crap and fixed heaps of wiki links, changed some wrong info etc... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theoneintraining (talk • contribs) 22:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Red Wiki Links

References need to be provided for all documentaries without links to wiki pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theoneintraining (talk • contribs) 08:05, 3 March 2008 (UTC)