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Filmmakers’ Greatest Documentaries of All Time

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). In 2014 it asked critics and filmmakers to vote for their greatest documentaries ever. 103 directors voted and below is the top 30. Critic’s list.

1. Man with a Movie Camera Dziga Vertov, USSR 1929

2. Sans soleil Chris Marker, France 1982

3. The Thin Blue Line Errol Morris, USA 1989

=4. Shoah Claude Lanzmann, France 1985

=4. Night and Fog Alain Resnais, France 1955

=6. Salesman Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, USA 1968

=6. Titicut Follies Frederick Wiseman, USA 1967

=8. Dont Look Back D.A. Pennebaker, USA 1967

=8. Man of Aran Robert Flaherty, UK 1934

=8. Nanook of the North Robert Flaherty, USA 1922

=11. Belovy Viktor Kossakovsky, Russia 1994

=11. Chronicle of a Summer Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, France 1961

=11. Grey Gardens Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, USA 1975

=14. Burden of Dreams Les Blank, USA 1982

=14. Darwin’s Nightmare Hubert Sauper, Austria/Germany/Belgium/France/Netherlands 2004

=14. Hoop Dreams Steve James, USA 1994

=14. Le Sang des bêtes Georges Franju, France 1948

=14. Seasons Artavazd Pelechian, USSR/Armenia 1975

=19. The Battle of Chile Patricio Guzméan, Chile/Cuba 1975-78

=19. The Gleaners and I Agnès Varda, France 2000

=19. Grizzly Man Werner Herzog, USA 2005

=19. Koyaanisqatsi Godfrey Reggio, USA 1983

=19. Roger & Me Michael Moore, USA 1989

=19. Sherman’s March Ross McElwee, USA 1985

=19. Triumph of the Will Leni Riefenstahl, Germany 1935

=19. Welfare Frederick Wiseman, USA 1975

=19. When We Were Kings Leon Gast, USA 1996

=28. The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn and anonymous, Denmark/Finland/UK/Germany/Netherlands/Norway/Poland/Sweden  2012

=28. Gimme Shelter Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin, USA 1970

=28. Harlan County U.S.A. Barbara Kopple, USA 1976

=28. Land without Bread Luis Buñuel, Spain 1933

=28. Leviathan Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel, France/UK/USA 2012

=28. Little Dieter Needs to Fly Werner Herzog, UK/Germany 1997

=28. The Sorrow and the Pity Marcel Ophüls, Switzerland 1969

=28. West of the Tracks Wang Bing, China 2002

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The Godfather (BFI Film Classics) (book)
A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ (BFI Silver) (book)
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In the Mood for Love (BFI Film Classics) (book)
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Sight & Sound Top Ten Director’s Poll 2002

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list and in 1992, directors were invited to participate in a separate poll.

All the films which received more than 4 votes from directors.

Film Votes Rank
Citizen Kane (Welles) 42 1
THE GODFATHER PART 1 & 2 (Coppola) 28 2
8½ (Fellini) 19 3
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) 16 4
Dr. Strangelove (Kubrick) 14 5
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) 13 6
Raging Bull (Scorsese) 13 6
Vertigo (Hitchcock) 13 6
La Régle du jeu (Renoir) 12 9
Rashomon (Kurosawa) 12 9
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) 12 9
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 11 12
Sunset Boulevard (Wilder) 11 12
The Apartment (Wilder) 10 14
La dolce vita (Fellini) 10 14
Mirror (Tarkovsky) 9 16
Psycho (Hitchcock) 9 16
Tokyo Story (Ozu) 9 16
Apocalypse Now (Coppola) 8 19
Casablanca (Curtiz) 8 19
City Lights (Chaplin) 8 19
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) 8 19
Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 8 19
Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) 7 24
L’Avventura (Antonioni) 7 24
Chinatown (Polanski) 7 24
La Grande Illusion (Renoir) 7 24
Some Like It Hot (Wilder) 7 24
La Strada (Fellini) 7 24
The Searchers (Ford) 7 24
Amarcord (Fellini) 6 31
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 6 31
Breathless (Godard) 6 31
Jules and Jim (Truffaut) 6 31
Children of Paradise (Carné) 6 31
On The Waterfront (Kazan) 6 31
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) 6 31
The Seventh Seal (Bergman) 6 31
Taxi Driver (Scorsese) 6 31
Touch of Evil (Welles) 6 31
The Conformist (Bertolucci) 5 41
Once upon a Time in the West (Leone) 5 41
Persona (Bergman) 5 41
Pickpocket (Bresson) 5 41
Ran (Kurosawa) 5 41
Sunrise (Murnau) 5 41
Sweet Smell Of Success (Mackendrick) 5 41
The Third Man (Reed) 5 41
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Huston) 5 41
The Wizard of Oz (Fleming) 5 41

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On the Waterfront (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Touch of Evil (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ (BFI Silver) Paperback
Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Chinatown (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
The Wizard of Oz (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
City Lights (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
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Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll 2002 Critic’s Results

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list and in 1992, directors were invited to participate in a separate poll.

All the films which received more than four votes from critics.

Title Votes Rank
Citizen Kane (Welles) 46 1
Vertigo (Hitchcock) 41 2
La Régle du jeu (Renoir) 30 3
Godfather / Godfather: Part II (Coppola) 23 4
Tokyo Story (Ozu) 22 5
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick) 21 6
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) 19 7
Sunrise (Murnau) 19 7
8½ (Fellini) 18 9
Singin’ in the Rain (Kelly, Donen) 17 10
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa) 15 11
The Searchers (Ford) 15 11
Rashomon (Kurosawa) 14 13
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer) 12 14
Breathless (Godard) 11 15
L’Atalante (Vigo) 11 15
The General (Keaton) 11 15
Touch of Evil (Welles) 11 15
Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson) 10 19
Jules and Jim (Truffaut) 10 19
L’avventura (Antonioni) 10 19
Le Mépris (Godard) 9 22
Pather Panchali (Ray) 9 22
La dolce vita (Fellini) 8 24
M (Lang) 8 24
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums (Mizoguchi) 8 24
Barry Lyndon (Kubrick) 7 27
Les Enfants du paradis (Carné) 7 27
Ivan the Terrible (Eisenstein) 7 27
Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov) 7 27
Metropolis (Lang) 7 27
Some Like It Hot (Wilder) 7 27
Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi) 7 27
Wild Strawberries (Bergman) 7 27
Andrei Roublev (Tarkovsky) 6 35
The 400 Blows (Truffaut) 6 35
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman) 6 35
La Grande Illusion (Renoir) 6 35
The Magnificent Ambersons (Welles) 6 35
Modern Times (Chaplin) 6 35
Psycho (Hitchcock) 6 35
The Seventh Seal (Bergman) 6 35
Taxi Driver (Scorsese) 6 35
The Third Man (Reed) 6 35
Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) 5 45
Blade Runner (Scott) 5 45
City Lights (Chaplin) 5 45
Greed (von Stroheim) 5 45
Intolerance (Griffith) 5 45
Lawrence of Arabia (Lean) 5 45
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Ophuls) 5 45
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (Ford) 5 45
Mirror (Tarkovsky) 5 45
Ordet (Dreyer) 5 45
Pierrot le fou (Godard) 5 45
Rio Bravo (Hawks) 5 45
Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi) 5 45
Shoah (Lanzmann) 5 45
The Travelling Players (Angelopoulos) 5 45
Two or Three Things I Know about Her (Godard) 5 45

The Godfather (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ (BFI Silver) Paperback
2001: A Space Odyssey (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Touch of Evil (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
La dolce vita (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
City Lights (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Vertigo (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
La Grande Illusion (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
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The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1992

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list. 1992 was the first poll which included top ten choices for directors as well as critics.

Directors’ poll

Critcs’ poll

    • 1. Citizen Kane (Welles)
    • 2. La Regle du Jeu (Renoir)
    • 3. Tokyo Story (Ozu)
    • 4. Vertigo (Hitchcock)
    • 5. The Searchers (Ford)
    • 6. L’Atalante (Vigo)
    • 6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer)
    • 6. Pather Panchali (Ray)
    • 6. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
    • 10. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick)

The Godfather (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Vertigo (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
2001: A Space Odyssey (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
L’Atalante (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
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The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1982 Critics’ poll

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list.

        • The Searchers (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
          Singin’ in the Rain (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
          The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema (Paperback)
          Seven Samurai (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
          Vertigo (BFI Film Classics) Paperback

 




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The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1972 Critics’ poll

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Since 1952, Critics have been asked to provide a top ten list.

 

 

    • The Searchers (BFI Film Classics) Paperback

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The Sight & Sound Top Ten Poll: 1952 Critics’ poll

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every decade, Sight & Sound asks an international group of film professionals to vote for their greatest film of all time. Here are the results from first ever Sight & Sound critics poll in 1952.

 

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Sight & Sound’s 50 Greatest Films of All Time 2012

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI). Every ten years since 1952 they have polled film directors and critics to put together a list of the greatest films of all time (See the results from the first critic’s poll). Notably for the first time since ‘Citizen Kane’ topped the list in 1962, Welles’s masterpiece has been knocked off top spot and replaced by Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’ a film that continues to age remarkably well.

Below’s list is the top fifty from the results of the top ten ballots of critics, programmers, academics, distributors and writers.

1. Vertigo – Alfred Hitchcock, 1958 (191 votes)

2. Citizen Kane – Orson Welles, 1941 (157 votes)

3. Tokyo Story – Ozu Yasujiro, 1953 (107 votes)

4. La Règle du jeu – Jean Renoir, 1939 (100 votes)

5. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans – FW Murnau, 1927 (93 votes)

6. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Stanley Kubrick, 1968 (90 votes)

7. The Searchers – John Ford, 1956 (78 votes)

8. Man with a Movie Camera – Dziga Vertov, 1929 (68 votes)

9. The Passion of Joan of Arc – Carl Dreyer, 1927 (65 votes)

10. 8½ – Federico Fellini, 1963 (64 votes)

11. Battleship Potemkin – Sergei Eisenstein, 1925 (63 votes)

12. L’Atalante – Jean Vigo, 1934 (58 votes)

13. Breathless – Jean-Luc Godard, 1960 (57 votes)

14. Apocalypse Now – Francis Ford Coppola, 1979 (53 votes)

15. Late Spring – Ozu Yasujiro, 1949 (50 votes)

16. Au Hasard Balthazar – Robert Bresson, 1966 (49 votes)

17= Seven Samurai – Kurosawa Akira, 1954 (48 votes)

17= Persona – Ingmar Bergman, 1966 (48 votes)

19. Mirror – Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974 (47 votes)

20. Singin’ in the Rain – Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1951 (46 votes)

21= L’Avventura – Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960 (43 votes)

21= Le Mépris – Jean-Luc Godard, 1963 (43 votes)

21= The Godfather – Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 (43 votes)

24= Ordet – Carl Dreyer, 1955 (42 votes)

24= In the Mood for Love – Wong Kar-wai, 2000 (42 votes)

26= Rashomon – Kurosawa Akira, 1950 (41 votes)

26= Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966 (41 votes)

28. Mulholland Dr. – David Lynch, 2001 (40 votes)

29= Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979 (39 votes)

29= Shoah – Claude Lanzmann, 1985 (39 votes)

31= The Godfather Part II – Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 (38 votes)

31= Taxi Driver – Martin Scorsese, 1976 (38 votes)

33. Bicycle Thieves – Vittoria De Sica, 1948 (37 votes)

34. The General – Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926 (35 votes)

35= Metropolis – Fritz Lang, 1927 (34 votes)

35= Psycho – Alfred Hitchcock, 1960 (34 votes)

35= Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (English Subtitled) – Chantal Akerman, 1975 (34 votes)

35= Satantango – Béla Tarr, 1994 (34 votes)

39= The 400 Blows – François Truffaut, 1959 (33 votes)

39= La Dolce Vita – Federico Fellini, 1960 (33 votes)

41. Journey to Italy – Roberto Rossellini, 1954 (32 votes)

42= Pather Panchali – Satyajit Ray, 1955 (31 votes)

42= Some Like It Hot – Billy Wilder, 1959 (31 votes)

42= Gertrud – Carl Dreyer, 1964 (31 votes)

42= Pierrot Le Fou – Jean-Luc Godard, 1965 (31 votes)

42= Playtime – Jacques Tati, 1967 (31 votes)

42= Close-Up – Abbas Kiarostami, 1990 (31 votes)

48= The Battle of Algiers – Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966 (30 votes)

48= Histoire(s) Du Cinema – Jean-Luc Godard, 1998 (30 votes)

50= City Lights – Charlie Chaplin, 1931 (29 votes)

50= Ugetsu – Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953 (29 votes)

50= La Jetee – Chris Marker, 1962 (29 votes)

Critics top 250
Directors top 100
All the films
All the voters
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Sight & Sound ~ May 2018 ~ BFI Film Magazine 120 BPM Lean on Pete Woodfall Films
A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ (BFI Silver) Paperback
2001: A Space Odyssey (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
The Searchers (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Vertigo (BFI Film Classics) Paperback
Sight & Sound (Kindle Tablet Edition)

 




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