A List of Documentaries I Have Seen
Feb 24, 2011: 249-266. A year later and less than 20 watched? I'm so ashamed.
Feb 20, 2010: Updated through 248.
Nov 10th, 2009: Updated list in celebration of glorious website creation. This list was previously posted on Facebook. I'll try to fill in my thoughts on what I've already seen as time goes on.
Apr 20th, 2009: Not a lot to add, but wanted to get over 200. Added 197-212.
Dec 27th, 2008: Decided to update list. Added 159-196
Feb 13th, 2008: So tonight I decided to make a list of the documentaries I've seen, since I know you lie awake wondering. Here is a list of 158 of them in no particular order, mostly culled from my Netflix rental history. I assume I've missed about 10, any ideas as to what I've skipped?
1. My Kid Could Paint That
2. Helvetica
3. The Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Assassinate Tony Blair
4. Crazy Love
5. The Devil Came on Horseback
6. 51 Birch Street
7. The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia
8. You’re Gonna Miss Me
9. The Great Happiness Space
10. Air Guitar Nation
11. A Life Without Pain
12. Maxed Out
13. Trembling Before G-d
14. American Blackout
15. Independent’s Day
16. Thinking XXX
17. The World According to Sesame Street
18. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
19. Nine Good Teeth
20. I Like Killing Flies
21. Nanook of the North
22. To Be and To Have
23. Sound and Fury
24. Diameter of the Bomb
25. Lipstick and Dynamite
26. Cocaine Cowboys
27. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
28. Children of Theatre Street
29. Infamy
30. Romantico
31. Genuine Nerd
32. F**k
33. American Beer
34. Harlan County, USA
35. Hell House
36. Danielson: A Family Movie
37. The Vice Guide to Travel
38. The Education of Shelby Knox
39. The Boys of Baraka
40. Street Fight
41. This Film is Not Yet Rated
42. After Stonewall
43. Superstar in a Housedress
44. The Devil and Daniel Johnson
45. An Inconvenient Truth
46. A State of Mind
47. Punk: Attitude
48. 49 Up
49. 42 Up
50. 35 Up
51. 28 Up
52. 21 Up
53. 7 Plus Seven
54. 7 Up
55. Grass
56. It Was A Wonderful Life
57. Unknown White Male
58. Wordplay
59. The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania
60. Reel Paradise
61. 24 Hours on Craigslist
62. Rize
63. Why We Fight
64. The Agronomist
65. Trekkies
66. Trekkies 2
67. The World’s Best Prom
68. Death In Gaza
69. Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
70. Gunner Palace
71. Rock School
72. Mad Hot Ballroom
73. Tarnation
74. Murderball
75. Buena Vista Social Club
76. Promises
77. Born Into Brothels
78. Winged Migration
79. DiG!
80. How To Draw a Bunny
81. Children Underground
82. Word Wars
83. Unzipped
84. Dark Days
85. I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
86. American Dream
87. Genocide
88. The Times of Harvey Milk
89. Best Boy
90. Best Man
91. Lost Boys of Sudan
92. Bus 174
93. Control Room
94. Hard Core Logo
95. Yeah Right!
96. Amandla: Revolution in Four Part Harmony
97. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
98. The Young and the Dead
99. Educational Archives: Vol 1 Sex & Drugs
100. A Decade Under the Influence
101. Slasher
102. Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control
103. Night and Fog
104. Genghis Blues
105. Home Movie
106. Murder on a Sunday Morning
107. Porn Star: Legend of Ron Jeremy
108. Step Into Liquid
109. High School Boot Camp
110. Mr. Death: The Life and Times of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
111. Scratch
112. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
113. American Movie
114. Devil’s Playground
115. The Fog of War
116. Stevie
117. Party Monster: The Shockumentary
118. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
119. The Atomic Café
120. Go Tigers!
121. Hemp Revolution
122. Capturing the Friedmans
123. Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
124. Spellbound
125. Who the %&*# is Jackson Pollock?
126. Fahrenheit 911
127. Wide Awake: Portrait of the Artist as an Insomniac
128. The Family That Walks on All Fours
129. My Date With Drew
130. Power Trip
131. Jesus Camp
132. Who Are the Debolts? And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?
133. Grizzly Man
134. Confessions of a Superhero
135. H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer
136. Super Size Me
137. Stone Reader
138. Triumph of the Nerds
139. 4 Little Girls
140. Bowling For Columbine
141. The Bridge
142. Thin
143. Steal This Film
144. American Pimp
145. Riding Giants
146. Favela Rising
147. The Yes Men
148. Hoop Dreams
149. Endless Summer
150. Into the Arms of Strangers
151. Paragraph 175
152. The Weather Underground
153. Waco: The Rules of Engagement
154. Dogtown and Z-Boys
155. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
156. My Architect: A Son’s Journey
157. Scared Straight
158. One Day in September
159. Two Days in April
160. Deliver Us From Evil
161. Breasts: A Documentary
162. Gender Rebel
163. King Corn
164. Following Sean
165. Super High Me
166. Living Goddess
167. King of Kong
168. Bingo! The Documentary
169. Paper Dolls
170. In The Womb
171. Methadonia
172. Paris is Burning
173. Overnight
174. Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong
175. God Grew Tired Of Us
176. Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
177. Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
178. Double Dare
179. Red Without Blue
180. Friends of God:...Alexandra Pelosi
181. Show Business: The Road to Broadway
182. The Business of Being Born
183. Bling
184. Small Steps
185. Protagonist
186. Pucker Up
187. Faster
188. Heavy Metal Parking Lot
189. Midnight Movies
190. Fall From Grace
191. Office Tigers
192. Autism: The Musical!
193. Manda Bala
194. What Would Jesus Buy?
195. Jump!
196. Life After Tomorrow
197. The Thin Blue Line
198. Commune
199. The Cruise
200. Salesman
201. Through Deaf Eyes
202. A Touch of Greatness
203. Man On Wire
204. So Much So Fast
205. Grey Gardens
206. Girlhood
207. Crawford
208. When Fried Eggs Fly
209. Frontrunners
210. Kicking It
211. Children Will Listen
212. Surfwise
213. We Are Wizards
214. Cracked Not Broken
215. Year of the Yao
216. Who Killed The Electric Car?
217. Taxi to the Dark Side
218. A Lawyer Walks Into A Bar
219. A/k/a Tommy Chong
220. The Aggressives
221. Big Rig
222. The Take
223. Young @ Heart
224. American Teen
225. Billy the Kid
226. The Beales of Grey Gardens
227. Marathon Challenge
228. America's Drug War: The Last White Hope
229. Coma
230. Art and Copy
231. Bigger Stronger Faster
232. Killer at Large: Why Obesity is America's Greatest Threat
233. Strange Culture: The government accuses an artist of being a terrorist. What's next, yogurt will be banned since it has culture in it? Hulu, 3/5
234. MacHeads: A look at obsessive Mac fans and the rapidly changing Apple identity. Hulu 2.5/5
235. Independent America: Two Canadians travel America seeking Mom & Pop stores and mostly predictable interpretations of corporate America. Mildly endearing. Hulu, 3/5
236. RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Issues of copyright and hip-hop mix in a world where the lines between consumer and producer become increasingly blurred. Hulu, 3.5/5
237. Darkon
238: Bomb It
239: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
240: A Man Named Pearl: A Black man in the South challenges assumptions and draws tourism through self-taught topiary skills and his backyard garden, Netflix, 3/5
241: Spirit of the Marathon
242: Wetlands Preserved
243: Sex: The Annabel Chong Story: Have you ever thought to yourself, I wonder if I can have sex with 300 men in a row and pass it off as some sort of feminist exercise? Annabel Chong has. Netflix, 2/5
244: Gunnin For That #1 Spot: Top high school basketball players come together for a game. I love watching talented athletes, and the movie did a good job of mixing human interest stories, analysis of hypercompetitive youth sports, and the actual game. Also, amazing hip-hop soundtrack, directed by one of the Beastie Boys. 4.5/5, Hulu
245: Google Me: Regular guy goes looking for people who also have his name and their stories. Staged scenes, a lot of focus on the filmmaker..masturbation in documentary form. Hulu, 1/5.
246: Summercamp!: A summer...at a camp. Kids being kids, a mostly lighthearted narrative. 2.5/5
247: Orthodox Stance: An orthodox Jewish boxer. Nuff said. 3.5/5
248: Digital Nation: As the information age draws on, are we learning and teaching in the same ways? We are all deeply immersed in a digital world, but are we drowning? 5/5 (for content more than style)
249: Stupidity: The rise and spread ignorance and active stupidity. Could have been so. much. better. 2/5
250: Only When I Dance: Dancers from Brazilian favelas try and make it out. 3/5
251: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work: I really wish it dwelled more on her early career, but overall a good reminder that there is always more behind the curtain. 4/5
252: Between the Folds: An examination of origami and the surprising roles it plays in our world. 3/5
253: Pageant: A competition documentary tracking a few of the fabulous contestants vying to be Miss Gay America.
254: Prodigal Sons: A transgendered woman returns to her hometown and has to deal with her volatile brother. 3/5
255: More Than A Game: Fun, well-paced doc on a group of high school basketball players, including LeBron. 4/5
256: Objectified: It's a movie about objects. Form, function, design, manufacturing, etc. I wish I liked it more. 2.5/5
257: I Think We're Alone Now: Remember the 80s star Tiffany? The two subjects of this documentary have never forgotten. An autistic guy and a gender..ambivalent? neutral? person have some intense issues, but the doc manages to remain light (in a good way). 5/5
258: Keep the River on the Right: Old guy went native for a while. I don't remember much about this movie, but I think I found it interesting. 2.5/5
259: The September Issue: The real life Devil Wears Prada. It's always fun to peek backstage. 3/5
260: No Impact Man: A man (hemp)ropes his family into living completely naturally in NYC for a year. 2/5
261: We Live in Public: The first 24 hour webcam experiment and the guy behind it. 4/5
262: American Swing: The rise and fall of Plato's Retreat, a sex club in 70s NYC. 3/5
263: The Komediant: A intriguing peek into both a family and the forgotten legacy of Yiddish Theater. 2.5/5
264: Fetishes: From the same director as Chicken Ranch, this weird and oddly amateurish doc was just...weird, but not in the good, fetishy way. 1/5.
265: I'm No Dummy: Interview-focused history of Ventriloquism with some fun archival footage interspersed. Treated it with an appropriate amount of whimsy, but wasn't stupid and revolting. 3/5
266: Haze: College hazing and alcohol abuse following the senseless death of a fratboy. Shockingly well-done. 4/5
Feb 20, 2010: Updated through 248.
Nov 10th, 2009: Updated list in celebration of glorious website creation. This list was previously posted on Facebook. I'll try to fill in my thoughts on what I've already seen as time goes on.
Apr 20th, 2009: Not a lot to add, but wanted to get over 200. Added 197-212.
Dec 27th, 2008: Decided to update list. Added 159-196
Feb 13th, 2008: So tonight I decided to make a list of the documentaries I've seen, since I know you lie awake wondering. Here is a list of 158 of them in no particular order, mostly culled from my Netflix rental history. I assume I've missed about 10, any ideas as to what I've skipped?
1. My Kid Could Paint That
2. Helvetica
3. The Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Assassinate Tony Blair
4. Crazy Love
5. The Devil Came on Horseback
6. 51 Birch Street
7. The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia
8. You’re Gonna Miss Me
9. The Great Happiness Space
10. Air Guitar Nation
11. A Life Without Pain
12. Maxed Out
13. Trembling Before G-d
14. American Blackout
15. Independent’s Day
16. Thinking XXX
17. The World According to Sesame Street
18. The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
19. Nine Good Teeth
20. I Like Killing Flies
21. Nanook of the North
22. To Be and To Have
23. Sound and Fury
24. Diameter of the Bomb
25. Lipstick and Dynamite
26. Cocaine Cowboys
27. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
28. Children of Theatre Street
29. Infamy
30. Romantico
31. Genuine Nerd
32. F**k
33. American Beer
34. Harlan County, USA
35. Hell House
36. Danielson: A Family Movie
37. The Vice Guide to Travel
38. The Education of Shelby Knox
39. The Boys of Baraka
40. Street Fight
41. This Film is Not Yet Rated
42. After Stonewall
43. Superstar in a Housedress
44. The Devil and Daniel Johnson
45. An Inconvenient Truth
46. A State of Mind
47. Punk: Attitude
48. 49 Up
49. 42 Up
50. 35 Up
51. 28 Up
52. 21 Up
53. 7 Plus Seven
54. 7 Up
55. Grass
56. It Was A Wonderful Life
57. Unknown White Male
58. Wordplay
59. The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania
60. Reel Paradise
61. 24 Hours on Craigslist
62. Rize
63. Why We Fight
64. The Agronomist
65. Trekkies
66. Trekkies 2
67. The World’s Best Prom
68. Death In Gaza
69. Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
70. Gunner Palace
71. Rock School
72. Mad Hot Ballroom
73. Tarnation
74. Murderball
75. Buena Vista Social Club
76. Promises
77. Born Into Brothels
78. Winged Migration
79. DiG!
80. How To Draw a Bunny
81. Children Underground
82. Word Wars
83. Unzipped
84. Dark Days
85. I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School
86. American Dream
87. Genocide
88. The Times of Harvey Milk
89. Best Boy
90. Best Man
91. Lost Boys of Sudan
92. Bus 174
93. Control Room
94. Hard Core Logo
95. Yeah Right!
96. Amandla: Revolution in Four Part Harmony
97. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
98. The Young and the Dead
99. Educational Archives: Vol 1 Sex & Drugs
100. A Decade Under the Influence
101. Slasher
102. Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control
103. Night and Fog
104. Genghis Blues
105. Home Movie
106. Murder on a Sunday Morning
107. Porn Star: Legend of Ron Jeremy
108. Step Into Liquid
109. High School Boot Camp
110. Mr. Death: The Life and Times of Fred A. Leuchter Jr.
111. Scratch
112. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
113. American Movie
114. Devil’s Playground
115. The Fog of War
116. Stevie
117. Party Monster: The Shockumentary
118. Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator
119. The Atomic Café
120. Go Tigers!
121. Hemp Revolution
122. Capturing the Friedmans
123. Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
124. Spellbound
125. Who the %&*# is Jackson Pollock?
126. Fahrenheit 911
127. Wide Awake: Portrait of the Artist as an Insomniac
128. The Family That Walks on All Fours
129. My Date With Drew
130. Power Trip
131. Jesus Camp
132. Who Are the Debolts? And Where Did They Get 19 Kids?
133. Grizzly Man
134. Confessions of a Superhero
135. H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer
136. Super Size Me
137. Stone Reader
138. Triumph of the Nerds
139. 4 Little Girls
140. Bowling For Columbine
141. The Bridge
142. Thin
143. Steal This Film
144. American Pimp
145. Riding Giants
146. Favela Rising
147. The Yes Men
148. Hoop Dreams
149. Endless Summer
150. Into the Arms of Strangers
151. Paragraph 175
152. The Weather Underground
153. Waco: The Rules of Engagement
154. Dogtown and Z-Boys
155. Forgiving Dr. Mengele
156. My Architect: A Son’s Journey
157. Scared Straight
158. One Day in September
159. Two Days in April
160. Deliver Us From Evil
161. Breasts: A Documentary
162. Gender Rebel
163. King Corn
164. Following Sean
165. Super High Me
166. Living Goddess
167. King of Kong
168. Bingo! The Documentary
169. Paper Dolls
170. In The Womb
171. Methadonia
172. Paris is Burning
173. Overnight
174. Chop Socky: Cinema Hong Kong
175. God Grew Tired Of Us
176. Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
177. Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
178. Double Dare
179. Red Without Blue
180. Friends of God:...Alexandra Pelosi
181. Show Business: The Road to Broadway
182. The Business of Being Born
183. Bling
184. Small Steps
185. Protagonist
186. Pucker Up
187. Faster
188. Heavy Metal Parking Lot
189. Midnight Movies
190. Fall From Grace
191. Office Tigers
192. Autism: The Musical!
193. Manda Bala
194. What Would Jesus Buy?
195. Jump!
196. Life After Tomorrow
197. The Thin Blue Line
198. Commune
199. The Cruise
200. Salesman
201. Through Deaf Eyes
202. A Touch of Greatness
203. Man On Wire
204. So Much So Fast
205. Grey Gardens
206. Girlhood
207. Crawford
208. When Fried Eggs Fly
209. Frontrunners
210. Kicking It
211. Children Will Listen
212. Surfwise
213. We Are Wizards
214. Cracked Not Broken
215. Year of the Yao
216. Who Killed The Electric Car?
217. Taxi to the Dark Side
218. A Lawyer Walks Into A Bar
219. A/k/a Tommy Chong
220. The Aggressives
221. Big Rig
222. The Take
223. Young @ Heart
224. American Teen
225. Billy the Kid
226. The Beales of Grey Gardens
227. Marathon Challenge
228. America's Drug War: The Last White Hope
229. Coma
230. Art and Copy
231. Bigger Stronger Faster
232. Killer at Large: Why Obesity is America's Greatest Threat
233. Strange Culture: The government accuses an artist of being a terrorist. What's next, yogurt will be banned since it has culture in it? Hulu, 3/5
234. MacHeads: A look at obsessive Mac fans and the rapidly changing Apple identity. Hulu 2.5/5
235. Independent America: Two Canadians travel America seeking Mom & Pop stores and mostly predictable interpretations of corporate America. Mildly endearing. Hulu, 3/5
236. RiP! A Remix Manifesto: Issues of copyright and hip-hop mix in a world where the lines between consumer and producer become increasingly blurred. Hulu, 3.5/5
237. Darkon
238: Bomb It
239: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
240: A Man Named Pearl: A Black man in the South challenges assumptions and draws tourism through self-taught topiary skills and his backyard garden, Netflix, 3/5
241: Spirit of the Marathon
242: Wetlands Preserved
243: Sex: The Annabel Chong Story: Have you ever thought to yourself, I wonder if I can have sex with 300 men in a row and pass it off as some sort of feminist exercise? Annabel Chong has. Netflix, 2/5
244: Gunnin For That #1 Spot: Top high school basketball players come together for a game. I love watching talented athletes, and the movie did a good job of mixing human interest stories, analysis of hypercompetitive youth sports, and the actual game. Also, amazing hip-hop soundtrack, directed by one of the Beastie Boys. 4.5/5, Hulu
245: Google Me: Regular guy goes looking for people who also have his name and their stories. Staged scenes, a lot of focus on the filmmaker..masturbation in documentary form. Hulu, 1/5.
246: Summercamp!: A summer...at a camp. Kids being kids, a mostly lighthearted narrative. 2.5/5
247: Orthodox Stance: An orthodox Jewish boxer. Nuff said. 3.5/5
248: Digital Nation: As the information age draws on, are we learning and teaching in the same ways? We are all deeply immersed in a digital world, but are we drowning? 5/5 (for content more than style)
249: Stupidity: The rise and spread ignorance and active stupidity. Could have been so. much. better. 2/5
250: Only When I Dance: Dancers from Brazilian favelas try and make it out. 3/5
251: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work: I really wish it dwelled more on her early career, but overall a good reminder that there is always more behind the curtain. 4/5
252: Between the Folds: An examination of origami and the surprising roles it plays in our world. 3/5
253: Pageant: A competition documentary tracking a few of the fabulous contestants vying to be Miss Gay America.
254: Prodigal Sons: A transgendered woman returns to her hometown and has to deal with her volatile brother. 3/5
255: More Than A Game: Fun, well-paced doc on a group of high school basketball players, including LeBron. 4/5
256: Objectified: It's a movie about objects. Form, function, design, manufacturing, etc. I wish I liked it more. 2.5/5
257: I Think We're Alone Now: Remember the 80s star Tiffany? The two subjects of this documentary have never forgotten. An autistic guy and a gender..ambivalent? neutral? person have some intense issues, but the doc manages to remain light (in a good way). 5/5
258: Keep the River on the Right: Old guy went native for a while. I don't remember much about this movie, but I think I found it interesting. 2.5/5
259: The September Issue: The real life Devil Wears Prada. It's always fun to peek backstage. 3/5
260: No Impact Man: A man (hemp)ropes his family into living completely naturally in NYC for a year. 2/5
261: We Live in Public: The first 24 hour webcam experiment and the guy behind it. 4/5
262: American Swing: The rise and fall of Plato's Retreat, a sex club in 70s NYC. 3/5
263: The Komediant: A intriguing peek into both a family and the forgotten legacy of Yiddish Theater. 2.5/5
264: Fetishes: From the same director as Chicken Ranch, this weird and oddly amateurish doc was just...weird, but not in the good, fetishy way. 1/5.
265: I'm No Dummy: Interview-focused history of Ventriloquism with some fun archival footage interspersed. Treated it with an appropriate amount of whimsy, but wasn't stupid and revolting. 3/5
266: Haze: College hazing and alcohol abuse following the senseless death of a fratboy. Shockingly well-done. 4/5
