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by gabilichowski | created - 02 May 2012 | updated - 13 Jun 2012 | PublicList of Cool Documentarys.
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1. Tishe! (2003)
82 min | Documentary
The director films the street where he lives in St. Petersburg, for a whole year, documenting the changes caused by the celebration of its 300th anniversary.
Director: Victor Kossakovsky
Votes: 449
2. Récréations (1998)
54 min | Documentary
There is a kind of country, very small, so small that it looks a bit like a theater scene. It is inhabited two or three times a day by its people. The inhabitants are small in size. If they... See full summary »
Director: Claire Simon
Votes: 114
4. Les patients (1990)
75 min | Documentary
Director: Claire Simon | Star: Jean-Marie Bouvier
Votes: 5
5. The Peddler (2010)
84 min | Documentary
Meet Daniel Burmeister, the most prolific filmmaker you've never heard of. Armed with a camera, a lamp for night shoots, and enough charm to persuade entire towns to join in on his dreams, ... See full summary »
Directors: Eduardo de la Serna, Lucas Marcheggiano, Adriana Yurcovich | Star: Daniel Burmeister
Votes: 84
6. Diario Argentino (2007)
78 min | Documentary
"I have a problem. I could never tell my left from my right." Convinced that this inability comes from a childhood trauma, Lupe Pérez García returns to her country of origin, Argentina, ... See full summary »
Director: Lupe Pérez García
Votes: 16
7. The Sky Turns (2004)
110 min | Documentary
One year in the life of a tiny village in northern Spain.
Director: Mercedes Álvarez | Stars: Peio Azketa, Hicham Chate, Cirilo Fernández, José Fernández
Votes: 377
8. Edifício Master (2002)
110 min | Documentary
The daily lives and routine of 37 families living in a huge 12-story building in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro: their drama, aspirations, intimate revelations, loneliness, dreams...
Director: Eduardo Coutinho | Star: Fernando José
Votes: 1,685
9. Yo no sé qué me han hecho tus ojos (2003)
65 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary on the life of Ada Falcón, one of the great legends of Argentine tango history. After seventy years of silence she finally tells her story.
Directors: Lorena Muñoz, Sergio Wolf | Stars: Ada Falcon, Miguel Ciacci, Aníbal Ford, Rolando Goyaud
Votes: 127
10. Lumière and Company (1995)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Drama
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Peter Greenaway, Lasse Hallström, Hugh Hudson, Gaston Kaboré, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Bigas Luna, Sarah Moon, Arthur Penn, Lucian Pintilie, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Jerry Schatzberg, Nadine Trintignant, Fernando Trueba, Liv Ullmann, Jaco Van Dormael, Régis Wargnier, Wim Wenders, Yoshishige Yoshida, Yimou Zhang, Merzak Allouache, Gabriel Axel, Michael Haneke, James Ivory, Patrice Leconte, David Lynch, Ismail Merchant, Claude Miller, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Jacques Rivette | Stars: Pernilla August, Max von Sydow, Merzak Allouache, Jeffe Alperi
Votes: 3,352
11. The 10th Judicial Court: Judicial Hearings (2004)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary
The proceedings of a Paris courtroom are the grist for this documentary. Drawn from over 200 appearances before the same female judge, the director chooses a dozen or so varied misdemeanor ... See full summary »
Director: Raymond Depardon | Star: Michèle Bernard-Requin
Votes: 638
12. Titicut Follies (1967)
Unrated | 84 min | Documentary
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Votes: 5,112
13. High School (1968)
Not Rated | 75 min | Documentary
Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students.
Director: Frederick Wiseman
Votes: 2,239
14. To Be and to Have (2002)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary, Family
A documentary portrait of a one-room school in rural France, where the students (ranging in age from 4 to 11) are educated by a single dedicated teacher.
Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Georges Lopez, Alizé, Axel Thouvenin, Guillaume
Votes: 8,419 | Gross: $0.78M
15. In the Land of the Deaf (1992)
Unrated | 99 min | Documentary
With unerring curiousity and sensitivity, director Philbert portrays the difficulties and joys of being deaf, offering vivid portraits of people of all ages coping with and surmounting their challenges.
Director: Nicolas Philibert | Stars: Jean-Claude Poulain, Abou Bakar, Anh Tuan, Betty
Votes: 373
16. Every Little Thing (1997)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary. The tranquil woods of the Loire Valley embrace the La Borde psychiatric clinic, an asylum in the truest sense of the word, where patients find sanctuary and repose. Patients ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Philibert
Votes: 216
19. Biografía de una lengua (1999 TV Movie)
30 min | Documentary
Director: Gloria Ribe | Stars: Julián Pastor, Óscar Yoldi
22. Roberto Rossellini: appunti biografici (1964 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Giulio Macchi | Stars: Roberto Rossellini, Giulio Macchi
23. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
Not Rated | 107 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.
Director: Andrew Jarecki | Stars: Arnold Friedman, Jesse Friedman, David Friedman, Elaine Friedman
Votes: 27,140 | Gross: $3.12M
24. RR (2007)
111 min | Documentary
American trains, known to the director from trips across the country, are seen in motion in 43 shots from a fixed perspective.
Director: James Benning
Votes: 248
26. 13 Lakes (2004)
135 min | Documentary
Shots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
Director: James Benning
Votes: 368
27. Reporters (1981)
90 min | Documentary
This documentary traces the unrewarding, cynical and difficult world of photographers.
Director: Raymond Depardon | Stars: Ursula Andress, Francis Apestéguy, Raymond Barre, Jean-Gabriel Barthélémy
Votes: 160
28. Shoah (1985)
Not Rated | 566 min | Documentary, History, War
Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.
Director: Claude Lanzmann | Stars: Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaïdl, Hanna Zaïdl
Votes: 10,559 | Gross: $0.02M
29. The Battle of Chile: Part I (1975)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, History
The chronicle of the political tension in Chile in 1973 and of the violent counter revolution against the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Votes: 1,614
30. Estamira (2004)
121 min | Documentary
Documentary about Estamira, a 63-year-old woman who's been working for over 20 years at a landfill in Rio de Janeiro. Schizophrenic, but very charismatic, she's the leader of a small ... See full summary »
Director: Marcos Prado | Star: Estamira
Votes: 746
31. I Killed My Mother (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A semi-autobiographical story about Hubert as a young homosexual at odds with his mother.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan, François Arnaud, Suzanne Clément
Votes: 31,424
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