![]() | Salesman - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $24.61 Believe me, I would never want to be a door-to-door salesman, but the Maysles' Brothers sure know how to make a delightful documentary out of this mundane subject matter. One of the earliest in the ea
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![]() | BattleGround - 21 Days on the Empire's Edge
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $1.65 The Epitome of Guerilla Film-making. I believe this is an essential viewing for every American. Not only is the subject matter, humanity and emotions great, but the technical side is equally as engagi
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![]() | Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Buy used from: $5.94 A moving documentary bringing to your safe little lives the stories of the children growing up in the hopeless Calcutta Red Light Districts. But the best thing is, the movie and story are not hopeless
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![]() | Kinski: My Best Fiend
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $8.49 My Favorite work by Herzog, hands down his most entertaining and shocking. This is the story of Herzog and Klaus Kinski's rocky relationships. Friends, and creative colleagues, Klaus is insane and rud
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![]() | Word Wars - Tiles and Tribulations on the Scrabble Game Circuit
Buy used from: $4.46 These Scrabble fanatics may very well be viewed as dysfunctional, but since when was dysfunctional not a great film topic? This is the documentary that takes Spellbound to the next level, and to the n
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![]() | In the Realms of the Unreal - The Mystery of Henry Darger
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $11.99 One of the most intriguing people I have ever seen a doc. about! When Henry Darger passed away, he left behind an apartment filled with 2 15,000+ page novels, hundreds of paintings and a enigmatic lif
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![]() | Waco - The Rules of Engagement
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $69.98 Maybe one of the more biased documentaries in the bunch, regardless this film is simply to impacting to ignore. It is important to view at a time right now when we can really see the things our govern
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![]() | Style Wars
Buy new: $24.99 / Used from: $15.84 Just recently re-released on special edition DVD, yep that's right a 20+ year old documentary re-released on DVD! This one was well worth it, a Juggernaut of a film, with some of the greatest footage
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![]() | The Freshest Kids - A History of the B-Boy
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.54 The History of BBoys! Another incredibly pieced together Hip Hop narrative. With the speed and force of a head spinning windmill, you can be thrown into the history of each move, and each 'bboy battle
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![]() | The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $4.35 One of the greatest pieces of non-fiction film ever created, Errol Morris puts his stamp of perfection on this (at times) very disturbing, candid view into the life and times of Robert McNamera. Errol
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![]() | Capturing the Friedmans
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $1.13 A great Non-Fiction mystery thriller, that leaves you feeling lost and not quite sure who to believe. This pushes the boundaries of objectivity, due to the unrelenting bias, the documentary ends on a
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![]() | Burden of Dreams - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $17.93 This film tries to make sense of the chaos and insanity that ensued during Herzog's production of Fitzcarraldo. This movie has it all; Herzog's never say die mentality, entropy at every corner, and Kl
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![]() | The Atomic Cafe
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $10.00 A scrap booked document entirely pieced together from original government propaganda stock footage. You are taken on a nostalgia chronological trip through the beginnings of nuclear experimentation to
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![]() | Scratch
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $8.88 One of my favorite doc. of all, this is another chapter of the Hip Hop Culture captured in the limelight. This time the inspirations, influences and enigma of Dj'ing, Mixing and Scratching are capture
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![]() | Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
Buy used from: $3.75 My personal favorite of Errol Morris' work. Maybe flawed at times, in comparison to In the Fog of War, but what is important is the character which is at the heart of this Biographical account of the
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![]() | A State of Mind
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $14.04 The Mass Games in North Korea make our Olympics/Super Bowl look like a children's muppet shows. We are given the privilege to follow two North Korean girls on a passionate trip of maturity and pride a
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![]() | Control Room
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.75 Al Jazerra is to Iraq what Fox news is to the USA, and that is the simple guidelines to this very sophisticated, expertly comparison of American Press and Iraqi Press. The film is moving and groundbre
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![]() | Startup.com
Buy used from: $3.99 This is a wonderfully captured step by step of a entrepreneurial company, but the kind that is most relevant to our growing communications society: a Dot.com. I loved this documentary, it is filled w
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![]() | 9/11 - The Filmmakers' Commemorative Edition
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $6.50 A very shocking, honest documenting a blow by blow of what happened the day of 9/11. I found my expectations for this film were blown away due to the structure of the documentary, this is not an infor
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![]() | 4 Little Girls
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $9.27 Spike Lee proves that he is a unrivaled director with his attempt at Non-fiction film making. 4 Little Girls is a tragic and moving tale of 1960's civil rights movement. Many can argue that this seems
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![]() | Theremin - An Electronic Odyssey
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.22 A theramin is an electronic instrument that creates sounds by our body's electronic waves and the way they interact with the instrument. Most famously used in the film Ed Wood, and the Beach Boys' son
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![]() | Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $7.94 Where Tokyo Olympiad is a smorgasbord of sporting events, Stoked is the epitome of a narrative documentary. I cannot think of a single more memorable non-fiction narrative than this. You can watch thi
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![]() | Lost in La Mancha
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $4.91 Lost in La Mancha is the requiem ode to Terry Gilliams' film making attempts at the classic story of Don Quoxite. Nearly every attempt to bring the story of Quoxite to the screen ended up in failure,
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![]() | Hell House
Buy used from: $14.97 "This Church Wants to Scare the Hell Out of You", I can't sum it up any better than that! Intriguing and disturbing, some great leftist and right arguments captured on tape. This church has gone overb
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![]() | Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi (2 Pack)
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $16.00 Sheer Brilliance. Pumell your senses with a Visual/Audio overload. The footage is on hyper speed, and the music is on crack! "Life Out of Balance" is the moniker here, and the film is true to it's sub
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