The polls
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Critics’ 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time
The greatest documentaries as nominated by 237 critics, curators and academics.
Friday 1 August 2014 -
Filmmakers’ Greatest Documentaries of All Time
The greatest documentaries ever made, as voted by 103 directors.
Friday 1 August 2014 -
The Greatest Documentaries of All Time – all the votes
Browse all the votes and comments in our poll of 340 documentary critics, curators, academics and filmmakers.
Video
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Dear John Grierson: A Postscript to The Story of Film (rough cut)
All aboard the good train cinephilia, as Mark Cousins conducts us to lesser-visited stations around the documentary globe.
Friday 1 August 2014 -
Robert Greene essays a love letter to the “magical imitation of reality”.
Thursday 7 August 2014 -
What was documentary? An elegy for Robert Gardner
Is it time to put away this mirage of ‘nonfiction’ cinema, asks Kevin B. Lee?
Thursday 28 August 2014
Features
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The 10 Greatest Documentaries – writing from the S&S archives
With a countdown of the top ten films from our 2014 Documentary Poll screening at the BFI Southbank through July and August, we put together this browsable dossier of writings about the films from our archives.
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Top ten nonfiction lessons – for those who take the time…
Instead of voting in our Documentary Poll, the Austrian Film Museum’s director Alexander Horwath sent us this proposal for a screening programme…
Wednesday 27 August 2014 -
Kevin B. Lee’s letter to the late filmmaker, written on the occasion of his 70th birthday tribute programme Searching Images at the Nightingale Cinema, Chicago.
Thursday 28 August 2014
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