Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries 2011: The Countdown

[Bondo]

Sicko
Directed by Michael Moore (2007)
Cuba is a little island in the Caribbean with little to no resources. We can do a lot to improve the people's health.
This does not happen in the United States. Why are we able and you are not?
— Aleida Guevara
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
23	7.13	7.078	51

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
9	60	29

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Inside Job
Directed by Charles Ferguson (2010)
The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.
— Christine Lagarde
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
12	7.50	7.081	50

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
2	16	142

[Bondo]

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Directed by Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky (1996)
People are gonna talk about me for years. People in West Memphis will tell their kids stories...
It'll be sorta like I'm the West Memphis boogie man. Little kids will be looking under their beds. "Damien" might be under there.
— Damien Wayne Echols
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
14	7.43	7.146	49

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
7	42	48

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Up the Yangtze
Directed by Yung Chang (2007)
It's hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult
— Shopkeeper
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
12	7.58	7.160	48

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
6	37	59

[Bondo]

Crumb
Directed by Terry Zwigoff (1994)
France isn't, you know, perfect, or anything, but it's just, oh, slightly less evil than the United States.
— Robert Crumb
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
20	7.30	7.209	47

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
11	80	18

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Capturing the Friedmans
Directed by Andrew Jarecki (2003)
"If you're not me, you really shouldn't be watching this... If you're the police, f—k you!"
— David Friedman
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
22	7.32	7.254	46

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
13	150	4

[Bondo]

The Beaches of Agnès
Directed by Agnès Varda (2008)
Cinema is my home. I think I've always lived in it.
— Agnès Varda
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
13	7.62	7.264	45

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
3	29	82

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Spellbound
Directed by Jeffrey Blitz (2002)
I don't think it really helped me, in my love live; my nascent love life. I think that
having won something like that could be regarded as being a significant liability.
— Former Spelling Bee Winner
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
25	7.32	7.282	44

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
10	56	34

[Bondo]

American Movie
Directed by Chris Smith (1999)
No one has ever, ever paid admission to see an excuse.
— Mark Borchardt
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
19	7.42	7.310	43

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
14	111	11

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Dark Days
Directed by Marc Singer (2000)
You'd be surprised what the human body and the human mind can adjust to.
— Greg
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
10	8.00	7.341	42

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
5	65	25