November 21, 2012
The PBS series POV is putting out a call for users to pick the greatest documentaries of all time. Check out the list below and add your vote! The poll closes on Thursday, November 29, 2012, at 5 PM Eastern time.
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January 9, 2012
What are the documentaries that critics liked in 2011? It depends on who you ask. The POV blog has recently uploaded a Best Documentaries of 2011 chart that attempts to track and synthesize information from several critics lists.
We’ve listed the top 10 from the POV chart below with links to the films we currently own or have on order in our catalog:
- The Interrupters
- Nostalgia for the Light
- Project Nim
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams
- The Arbor
- Bill Cunningham New York
- Dragonslayer (unreleased)
- Senna
- Buck
- To Hell and Back Again
There are also several others on the list that the library owns including
Tabloid,
Thunder Soul,
How to Die in Oregon,
If A Tree Falls,
Bombay Beach,
Page One: Inside the New York Times,
Jane’s Journey,
Restrepo,
John Muir in the New World,
Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune,
Zeitgeist: Moving Forward. Some of these movies just received one mention, so keep in mind that they may have less consensus than others at the top of the list.
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September 5, 2011
Current TV ran a five part countdown show in August called 50 Documentaries To See Before You Die. The series consulted with film critics, academics and industry insiders to pick a list of the most entertaining, powerful and influential modern documentaries from the last 25 years. Now that the whole list has been released, we’ve highlighted the documentaries that DBRL has available for checkout in the list below: (more…)
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