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Official Top 250 Documentary Films

A companion piece to Dave Vis' list of here. It will be updated on a monthly basis and is an official list progress project on all-time stats pages for Pro and Patron . (See all films that have entered.)

ELIGIBILITY RULES:
• Documentaries must be feature-length (more than 40 minutes), with a theatrical and/or festival release in its entirety.
• TV series, miniseries, and episodes are excluded but docs listed as 'TV movie' on IMDb are eligible. Exceptions made for series and episodes that also had a limited theatrical release.
• No behind-the-scenes featurettes unless theatrically distributed, even if feature-length (featurettes are marked…

There are 32 films in this list released in the 1990s.

  • Paris Is Burning

    3

  • Hoop Dreams

    8

  • Baraka

    15

  • Black Is… Black Ain’t

    34

  • A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

    51

  • Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    57

  • Kanehsatake, 270 Years of Resistance

    59

  • American Movie

    62

  • Crumb

    81

  • Belfast, Maine

    82

  • Blue

    94

  • Children of Shatila

    96

  • The Amazonian Angel

    107

  • Lessons of Darkness

    109

  • Shinjuku Boys

    122

  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

    124

  • When We Were Kings

    132

  • Microcosmos

    152

  • Dream of Light

    156

  • Instrument

    162

  • In the Name of God

    171

  • Safe Journey

    177

  • 42 Up

    186

  • The Last Days

    190

  • Sink or Swim

    198

  • Nitrate Kisses

    207

  • My Voyage to Italy

    212

  • Central Park

    220

  • 35 Up

    225

  • Nobody's Business

    226

  • BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes, and Sadomasochism

    248

  • Lou Reed and John Cale: Songs for Drella

    249