My 2017 Documentary List

"Films are always a fiction, not documentary. Even a documentary is a kind of fiction." - Philip Seymour Hoffman

I'm fond of watching documentaries, might be about World War II or how to make a Chinese dragon lantern. So I give myself in 2017 a list of top documentaries:

January

1. Man on Wire (2008)

2. Life Itself (2014)

3. Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013)

4. The Last Waltz (1978)

February

1. Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

2. Blackfish (2013)

3. Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014)

4. Deliver Us from Evil (2006)

March

1. Amy (2015)

2. Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)

3. Inside Job (2010)

4. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012)

April

1. Seymour: An Introduction (2015)

2. The Missing Picture (2014)

3. Project Nim (2011)

4. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)

May

1. Cameraperson (2016)

2. Spellbound (2002)

3. Waste Land (2010)

4. Tower (2016)

June

1. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999)

2. Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words (2015)

3. Afghan Star (2009)

4. Citizenfour (2014)

July

1. The Interrupters (2011)

2. Waltz with Bashir (2008)

3. How to Survive a Plague (2012)

4. Weiner (2016)

5. O.J.: Made in America (2016)

August

1. Sound City (2013)

2. Last Train Home (2010)

3. Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

4. The Act of Killing (2013)

September

1. The Invisible War (2012)

2. Iris (2015)

3. This is Not a Film (2012)

4. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)

5. Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone (2011)

October

1. Nostalgia for the Light (2011)

2. Bus 174 (2003)

3. We were Here (2011)

4. Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

November

1. Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time (2002)

2. Bill Cunningham New York (2011)

3. Bowling for Columbine (2002)

4. The Look of Silence (2015)

December

1. The Overnighters (2014)

2. Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2014)

3. Listen to Me Marlon (2015)

4. 56 Up (2013)

5. March of the Penguins (2005)

These top documentaries are based on the ranking of Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/top_100_documentary_movies/