Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries 2011: The Countdown

[Bondo]

Blood of the Beasts
Directed by Georges Franju (1949)
The others follow obediently, bleating, like condemned men who sing yet know their song to be useless.
— Narrator
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
10	7.40	6.790	61

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
2	19	118

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Young@Heart
Directed by Stephen Walker (2007)
Our marriage was built on faith and trust. She had no faith in me, and I didn't trust her.
— Fred Knittle
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
14	7.07	6.802	60

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
6	40	53

[Bondo]

In the Shadow of the Moon
Directed by David Sington (2007)
My father was born shortly after the Wright Brothers. He could barely believe that I went to the Moon.
But my son, Tom, was five. And he didn't think it was any big deal.
— Charlie Duke
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
8	7.75	6.804	59

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
4	62	28

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Stevie
Directed by Steve James (2002)
I don't have a mother, I never had one, and on the day she dies, I'm gonna go, and I'm gonna laugh at her!
— Stephen 'Stevie' Fielding
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
7	8.00	6.809	58

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
3	16	139

[Bondo]

Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Directed by Sacha Gervasi (2008)
Everything on the tour went drastically wrong. But at least there was a tour for it to go wrong on.
— Steve 'Lips' Kudlow
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
23	6.87	6.819	57

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
11	76	22

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Lost in La Mancha
Directed by Keith Fulton & Louis Pepe (2002)
At least if we're going to be f—ked, let's know we're f—ked ahead of time.
— Terry Gilliam
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
12	7.33	6.924	56

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
7	27	85

[Bondo]

The Cove
Directed by Louie Psihoyos (2009)
If you aren't an activist you're an inactivist.
— Richard O'Barry
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
22	7.05	6.984	55

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
6	43	47

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Baseball
Directed by Ken Burns (1994)
It is played everywhere. In parks and playgrounds and prison yards. In back alleys and farmers' fields.
By small children and old men. Raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed.
The only game in which the defense has the ball.
— Narrator
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
9	7.78	6.998	54

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
2	20	109

[Bondo]

My Kid Could Paint That
Directed by Amir Bar-Lev (2007)
All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something. I mean, all art in some ways is a lie.
It looks like a picture of something, but it isn't that thing, it's a representation of that thing... Your documentary is itself going to be a lie.
It's a construction of things, it's how you wish to represent the truth and how you've decided to tell a particular story.
— Michael Kimmelman
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
16	7.19	7.000	53

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
8	48	43

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Baraka
Directed by Ron Fricke (1992)
I like to imagine Tarsem watching Baraka and thinking, "Hmm, not bad, but it needs more people running around in silly costumes."
— duder
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
13	7.38	7.044	52

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
8	51	41