Filmspotters' Top 100 Documentaries 2011: The Countdown

[Bondo]

High School
Directed by Frederick Wiseman (1968)
And I think that you should prove yourself, you should show that you can take a detention when given it.
— The Dean
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
8	8.38	7.352	41

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
6	38	57

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Nanook of the North
Directed by Robert Flaherty (1922)
The tiny igloo Nanook made for the puppies has kept them warm all night and safe from the hungry jaws of their big brothers.
— Intertitle
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
15	7.60	7.361	40

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
9	51	40

[Bondo]

Little Dieter Needs to Fly
Directed by Werner Herzog (1998)
I don't think of myself as a hero. No, only dead people are heroes.
— Dieter Dengler
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
15	7.60	7.361	39

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
8	75	23

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Murderball
Directed by Henry Alex Rubin & Dana Adam Shapiro (2005)
We had been calling it Murderball, but you can't market Murderball to corporate sponsors.
— Mark Zupan
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
16	7.56	7.365	38

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
10	50	42

[Bondo]

When We Were Kings
Directed by Leon Gast (1996)
I done something new for this fight. I done wrestled with an alligator. That's right.
I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail. That's bad!
Only last week I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalized a brick! I'm so mean I make medicine sick!
— Muhammad Ali
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
12	7.83	7.396	37

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
6	33	73

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Sans soleil
Directed by Chris Marker (1983)
He wrote me: curiosity of course, and the glimmer of industrial espionage in the eye –
I imagine them bringing out within two years time a more efficient and less expensive version of Catholicism –
but there's also the fascination associated with the sacred, even when it's someone else's.
— Narrator
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
9	8.22	7.398	36

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
4	41	51

[Bondo]

The Gleaners & I
Directed by Agnès Varda (2000)
A clock without hands is my kind of thing.
— Agnès Varda
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
9	8.22	7.398	35

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
5	48	44

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Streetwise
Directed by Martin Bell (1984)
I love to fly. The only bad thing about flying is having to come back down to the f—king world.
— Rat
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
7	8.71	7.417	34

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
5	55	35

[Bondo]

Wordplay
Directed by Patrick Creadon (2006)
I've always been intrigued by the letter Q.
— Norman Payne
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
15	7.67	7.425	33

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
4	17	130

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Lake of Fire
Directed by Tony Kaye (2006)
These are the hardest questions. These are questions that are impossible of solution in the abstract.
— Alan Dershowitz
Final Voting

Votes	Avg	Score	Rank
12	7.92	7.474	32

Vote Distribution

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

Shortlist Voting

Votes	Points	Rank
3	15	147