Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries 2011: The Countdown

[Bondo]

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Directed by Kurt Kuenne (2008)
I set off on a quest to bring your dad back to life.
— Kurt Kuenne
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
22	6.45	6.398	91

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
2	-	1	2	3	1	5	3	1	4

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
8	79	20

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The Elephant Will Never Forget
Directed by John Krish (1953)
We'll remember the rattle and the clang and the sway – and how snug it was to be inside when it was raining outside.
— Narrator
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
6	7.83	6.409	90

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
-	-	-	-	-	-	3	1	2	-

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
1	15	151

[Bondo]

An Inconvenient Truth
Directed by Davis Guggenheim (2006)
You know, more than 100 years ago, Upton Sinclair wrote this, that "it's difficult to get
a man to understand something if his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
— Al Gore
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
19	6.53	6.429	89

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
-	-	-	2	1	5	7	4	-	-

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
6	24	94

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The House Is Black
Directed by Forugh Farrokhzad (1963)
On this screen will appear an image of ugliness...a vision of pain no caring human being should ignore.
To wipe out this ugliness and to relieve the victims...is the motive of this film and the hope of its makers.
— Narrator
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
7	7.57	6.444	88

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
-	-	1	-	-	-	-	4	2	-

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
3	17	132

[Bondo]

Catfish
Directed by Henry Joost & Ariel Schulman (2010)
I mean, she must be pretty awesome. At least, from Facebook.
— Nev Schulman
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
16	6.63	6.452	87

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
-	-	1	-	1	7	3	2	1	1

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
2	16	142

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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Directed by Alex Gibney (2005)
Oh I can't help myself. You know what the difference is between the state of California and the Titanic?
(And this is being webcast. I know I'm going to regret this.) At least when the Titanic went down, the lights were on.
— Jeffrey Skilling
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
15	6.67	6.457	86

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
-	-	-	-	3	3	5	4	-	-

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
2	13	166

[Bondo]

Ryan
Directed by Chris Landreth (2004)
What? There's nothing I enjoy more than a good glass of cold beer.
Am I supposed to give that up for, like, tea or something? No, can't do that.
— Ryan Larkin
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
9	7.22	6.498	85

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
-	-	-	-	1	3	1	1	3	-

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
2	16	142

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Dogtown and Z-Boys
Directed by Stacy Peralta (2001)
On one hand it's kinda sad that we were all bought out. On the other
hand, what does a kid do when you put a candy bar in front of him?
— Wentzle Ruml
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
9	7.22	6.498	84

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
-	-	-	-	1	2	2	2	2	-

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
3	26	88

[Bondo]

Restrepo
Directed by Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger (2010)
It’s sad to me that, as much as Captain Kearney would go down there and conduct different shuras and
tell 'em about the positives about what we can do to help them, it seemed like it didn’t go anywhere.
It seemed like we took one step forward and it seemed like they took two steps backwards.
— First Sergeant LaMonta Caldwell
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
20	6.60	6.518	83

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
-	1	-	1	1	3	10	3	1	-

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
4	21	101

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Koyaanisqatsi
Directed by Godfrey Reggio (1982)
One of the most rapturous and riveting film experiences, an absolute enthralling sensory
overload of sights and sounds that melt back and forth into each other, building and flowing.
— James Ewing, Cinema Sights
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
11	7.00	6.525	82

Vote Distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
-	-	-	1	2	2	1	1	4	-

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
6	53	39