The 100 “Greatest” DocumentariesAlready seen the Top 25? Here’s a longer list of the Top 100 films from our “greatest” documentaries poll, as voted by fans of POV in November 2012.
- Grey Gardens (1975)
- Paris is Burning (1990)
- Hoop Dreams (1994)
- The Thin Blue Line (1988)
- Bowling for Columbine (2002)
- Harlan County, USA (1976)
- The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
- Grizzly Man (2005)
- Roger & Me (1989)
- Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
- Man on Wire (2008)
- The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
- The Up Series (1964-)
- Capturing the Friedmans (2003)
- Crumb (1994)
- Jesus Camp (2006)
- Food, Inc. (2008)
- King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
- Salesman (1968)
- Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
- Super Size Me (2004)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
- Woodstock (1970)
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
- American Movie (1999)
- Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard) (1955)
- The Civil War (1990)
- March of the Penguins (2005)
- Titicut Follies (1967)
- Sherman’s March (1986)
- Planet Earth (2006)
- Eyes on the Prize (1987)
- Religulous (2008)
- The Last Waltz (1978)
- Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996)
- Spellbound (2002)
- Born into Brothels (2004)
- Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (1991)
- Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
- The Cove (2009)
- Nanook of the North (1922)
- The Corporation (2003)
- The Celluloid Closet (1995)
- Buena Vista Social Club (1998)
- Sicko (2007)
- Waltz with Bashir (2008)
- Gimme Shelter (1970)
- Stop Making Sense (1984)
- Shoah (1985)
- When We Were Kings (1996)
- Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006)
- Inside Job (2010)
- Hearts and Minds (1974)
- Murderball
- The Gleaners & I (2000)
- Restrepo (2010)
- Bill Cunningham New York (2010)
- Sans Soleil (Sunless) (1983)
- Dont Look Back (1967)
- Touching the Void (2003)
- Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2010)
- Baraka (1992)
- This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
- Tongues Untied (1989)
- Brother’s Keeper (1992)
- High School (1968)
- F for Fake (1973)
- Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
- Dark Days (2000)
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
- Cosmos (1980)
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
- Helvetica (2007)
- Why We Fight (2005)
- Winged Migration (2002)
- The Aristocrats (2005)
- Last Train Home (2009)
- The Atomic Cafe (1982)
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)
- Wordplay (2006)
- Burden of Dreams (1982)
- Monterey Pop (1968)
- The Battle of Chile (1975-1979)
- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
- Gasland (2010)
- The Interrupters (2011)
- Catfish (2010)
- The Endless Summer (1966)
- Marwencol (2010)
- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011)
- Triumph of the Will (1934)
- King Corn (2007)
- Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991)
- No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
- Sweetgrass (2009)
- The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)
- The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)
- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control (1997)









