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Favorite Documentary Films

My Personal Top Ten Recommendations

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Here, in alphabetical order, are my ten favorite documentaries. I highly recommend each of them, and hope you'll list them among your favorites, too.

1. Bowling for Columbine (2002), directed by Michael Moore

2. The Fog of War (2003), directed by Errol Morris

3. Grizzly Man (2005), directed by Werner Herzog

4. Harlan County USA (1976), directed by Barbara Kopple

5. An Inconvenient Truth (2006), directed by Davis Guggenheim

6. Jesus Camp (2006), directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing

7. Nanook of the North (1922), directed by Robert J. Flaherty

8. Spellbound (2002), directed by Jeffrey Blitz

9. Tootie's Last Suit (2006), directed by Lisa Katzman

10. Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006), directed by Chris Paine

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