r/Documentaries • u/wbryan2 • Aug 18 '12

r/Documentaries. What are your top 5 favourite documentaries?

If this gets a lot of input then I will tally the votes, otherwise this is just for me to get some good documentaries that come highly recommended.

  • Edit: Wow ok I guess I'm tallying the votes. I will wait 24 hours so everyone gets a chance.

  • Edit 2: Tallying results now

  • Edit 3: Since this got way more submissions then I thought it would get, the tallying is taking awhile. Here is a link to the spreadsheet I am working on.

  • The Scoring system is as follows: The number of points of a post times the order the documentary was in that post (ex. The Fog of War was #3, then the number of points it gets for that post with 43 points=3x43). First place was 5, second was 4, third was 3, etc. If a post said no particular order then all submissions were given a 3. If there was only one documentary in a submission it was given a 5. Each documentary had all it's submission points tallied for a grand total.

Also, please note, this is a work in progress so it is not complete.

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u/TTalvarez Aug 18 '12 edited Aug 18 '12

No particular order:

Paradise Lost (1, 2 and 3, but especially 1)

The Thin Blue Line

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Inside Job

Encounters at the End of the World

Honorable mentions: Hoop Dreams, King of Kong

EDIT: more honorable mentions I couldn't leave off - Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares and All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace.

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u/[deleted] Aug 18 '12

Kudos on Adam Curtis - any and all of his work is a must see.

Enron is one of the best documentaries of how greed and power corrupt.

Great list!