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IDA"S 25 Best Documentaries Of All-Time

post #1 of 12
10/9/07 at 7:19pm
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http://www.documentary.org/resources...&articleID=389

Shitty list, surprising, considering the source (though it is sponsored by Netflix).

Most surprising? THEY HATE DZIGA VERTOV.
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post #2 of 12
10/9/07 at 7:22pm
This list might be worse than EW's Most Violent Movies list. Really terrible.
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post #3 of 12
10/9/07 at 7:25pm
It would have been nice to see Document of the Dead on there. Seriously, An Inconvient Truth in the Top 10? Seriously!?!
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post #4 of 12
10/9/07 at 7:35pm
It's nice to see Titicut Follies on there. Most people seem to have forgotten about it, while others don't know how horrible it truly is.

Still, it's relevant and it belongs on there. I don't have a problem with the rest of the list for the most part. A lot of shit is ranked way, way too high.

But, that's about it.
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post #5 of 12
10/9/07 at 7:40pm
Hmmm...
Night and Fog all the way down at #24. What a crock.
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post #6 of 12
10/9/07 at 7:40pm
Kind of surprised they didn't have the Harvey Milk documentary up there.
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post #7 of 12
10/9/07 at 8:38pm
Not enough Holocaust docs on there.
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post #8 of 12
10/9/07 at 9:20pm
Are you guys upset by the content or the order?
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post #9 of 12
10/9/07 at 9:34pm
Regardless of anything else on the list, I think they picked a solid number 1.
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post #10 of 12
10/9/07 at 9:37pm
Some notable omissions, just off the top of my head (and I concede that the English-language bias is still too strong):

-Man With a Movie Camera: Dziga Vertov
-Nanook of the North: Robert Flaherty (for the historical significance alone)
-Hearts of Darkness: George Hickenlooper
-7-Up: Michael Apted
-Hearts and Minds: Peter Davis
-Olympia and Triumph of the Will: Leni Riefenstahl (I'd choose the former)
-The Sorrow and the Pity: Marcel Ophuls
-The War Game: Peter Watkins (though I understand why some would contest this)
-When We Were Kings: Leon Gast
-Primary: Robert Drew

The 10 I would lose to make room for these:

Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens (One Maysles is enough, and Salesman is it), Fog of War (one Morris is enough), F911, Bowling for Columbine (seriously, is there anything about Moore, his concerns or his style that you can't understand from Roger and Me?), Super Size Me (probably the least deserving film on the list), Woodstock (too many music docs already, and this loses to Don't Look Back), Spellbound, Inconvenient Truth, and Capturing the Friedmans (all three too recent).
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post #11 of 12
10/9/07 at 11:18pm
No Paradise Lost. List invalid.
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post #12 of 12
10/11/07 at 2:33am
I can't believe they left off Murderball.
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