Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries 2011: The Countdown

[Bondo]

Encounters at the End of the World
Directed by Werner Herzog (2007)
McMurdo has climate-controlled housing facilities, there's a radio station,
a bowling alley, and abominations such as an aerobic studio and yoga classes.
— Werner Herzog
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
24	6.71	6.667	71

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
7	39	55

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Man of Aran
Directed by Robert Flaherty (1934)
In this desperate environment the Man of Aran, because his independence is the most
precious privilege he can win from life, fights for his existence, bare though it may be.
— Prologue
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
5	8.60	6.690	70

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
4	35	69

[Bondo]

The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
Directed by Adam Curtis (2004)
But the fear will not last, and just as the dreams that politicians once promised turned out to be illusions, so, too, will the nightmares;
and then our politicians will have to face the fact that they have no visions, either good or bad, to offer us any longer.
— Narrator
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
5	8.60	6.690	69

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
4	38	58

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Directed by Jeff Feuerzeig (2005)
All geniuses are crazy, but this was someone we knew and cared about.
— Louis Black
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
11	7.18	6.695	68

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
5	37	62

[Bondo]

Hearts and Minds
Directed by Peter Davis (1974)
We weren't on the wrong side. We were the wrong side.
— Daniel Ellsberg
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
9	7.44	6.698	67

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
7	46	45

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Super Size Me
Directed by Morgan Spurlock (2004)
You start getting the McTummy. You get the McGurgles in there. You get the McBrick, then you get the McStomachache.
— Morgan Spurlock
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
26	6.73	6.701	66

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
11	77	21

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A Time for Burning
Directed by Barbara Connell & Bill Jersey (1967)
You realize as a church we’re behind business. What a ridiculous thing for a church, as a Christian body, to say on a moral issue "We’re behind business."
— Program Proponent
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
4	9.25	6.737	65

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
3	33	77

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Shoah
Directed by Claude Lanzmann (1985)
In the 35 years after the war, I don't go back. I have been a teacher for 25 years. I never mention the
Jewish problem to my students. I understand this film is for historical record, so I will try to do it.
— Jan Karski
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
4	9.25	6.737	64

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
3	35	70

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This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Directed by Kirby Dick (2006)
We don't disclose that.
— Ratings Board Chairperson
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
21	6.81	6.739	63

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
8	57	32

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The Kid Stays in the Picture
Directed by Nanette Burstein & Brett Morgen (2002)
Any man who thinks he can read the mind of a woman is a man who knows nothing.
— Robert Evans
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
13	7.08	6.751	62

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
5	33	74