To watch
- The One Percent
- The City Dark -- recommended by Gabe
- The People vs. George Lucas
- The Tillman Story
- Status Anxiety
- The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities
- Space Tourists
- The Unknown Known by Errol Morris
- Sound City - Amazon recommendation
- 20 Feet from Stardom
- More Than Honey - why are bees facing extinction
- Cracked Not Broken - "A glimpse into the lifestyle of a highly intelligent drug addict- and her search for redemption" (meth)
- May I Be Frank - man turns vegan in SF
- The Act of Killing - amazon recommendation
- All Aboard: East Coast Trains
- Another Day In Paradise - from the same people as Carrier
- Sailor (TV series) - Like Carrier, but British Navy in 1976
- Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade
- Utopia - John Pilger
- The Square
- Imelda
- Print the Legend - http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/03/print-the-legend-documentary-clip/ (not out yet)
- North Face: http://www.amazon.co.uk/NORTH-FACE-Benno-x44C-rmann/dp/B00IKBX8AU The incredible story behind the first ever attempted scaling of the North Face of the infamous Eiger.
- The Notorious Mr. Bout - will be on Storyville next year
- Cutie and the Boxer - was on storyville
- Fed up
- The flat
To watch (2023-03-04)
- MH370: The Plane That Disappeared
- Attica (2021) - prison riot
- Lily Topples the World (2021) - dominos
More ideas: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/best-documentaries-netflix-uk-bbc-youtube
Seen
- The White Diamond - Werner Herzog 4 / 5
- Grizzly Man - Werner Herzog 4.5 / 5
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly - Werner Herzog 4 / 5
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams - Werner Herzog 4 / 5
- Encounters at the End of the World - Werner Herzog 3.5 / 5
- Into the Abyss - Werner Herzog 3.5 / 5
- First Person (series) - Errol Morris 5 / 5
- Mr. Death: The Rise & Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. - Errol Morris
- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control - Errol Morris
- The Thin Blue Line - Errol Morris
- Vernon, Florida - Errol Morris
- Tabloid - Errol Morris 2.5 / 5
- Fahrenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore
- Roger & Me - Michael Moore
- Bowling for Columbine - Michael Moore
- Capitalism: A Love Story - Michael Moore
- Herb and Dorthy
- Helvetica 3 / 5
- Bigger, Stronger, Faster* 4.5 / 5
- Inside Job 4.5 / 5
- Carrier 5 / 5
- 7up
- The Bridge 3.5 / 5
- The Botany of Desire
- Capturing the Friedmans
- Super Size Me 3 / 5
- Mad Hot Ballroom 4 / 5
- Spellbound 3 / 5
- Anvil: The Story of Anvil 5 / 5
- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill unrated
- Man on Wire 4 / 5
- Wordplay 5 / 5
- Word Wars 5 / 5
- Confessions of a Superhero 5 / 5
- The King of Kong 5 / 5
- Air Guitar Nation 5 / 5
- Who Killed the Electric Car? 2 / 5
- Shadow Company
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy
- Triumph of the Nerds
- March of the Penguins
- BBC: Human Planet 5 / 5
- BBC: Frozen Planet 5 / 5
- The Corporation
- Touching the Void
- One Day in September
- Control Room
- Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media
- The KGB, the Computer and Me
- Born Rich
- Strictly Baby Disco 5 / 5
- If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front 5 /5
- Life on Earth
- Hoop Dreams
- Wonders of the Solar System
- Wonders of the Universe
- Men Who Swim 5 / 5
- Yellowstone 4.5 / 5
- BBC: South Pacific 5 / 5
- Good Hair 5 / 5
- The Most Dangerous Man in America
- Michael Wood: The Story of India - BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007xwdc also on PBS 4.5 / 5
- Jesus Camp 3.5 / 5
- The English Surgeon
- The Power of Nightmares
- The Century of the Self
- Cocaine Cowboys
- Life in Cold Blood
- Pumping Iron
- Meth
- The Cove 2.5 / 5
- The September Issue 3 / 5
- The Take
- The Virgin Daughters - Cutting Edge - Channel 4
- Bulletproof Salesman 4 / 5
- Planet Earth
- Surviving progress (Storyville)
- American: The Bill Hicks Story 3.5 / 5
- Waste Land 5 / 5
- Collapse 3.5 / 5
- Urbanized
- Pablo's Hippos 4 / 5
- The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer 4.5 / 5
- BBC: The Eiger: Wall of Death 4 / 5
- BBC: Amazon - Bruce Parry 4 /5
- BBC: The London Markets
- BBC: Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity 4 / 5
- BBC: The Tube - 6 parts 5 / 5
- BBC: Empire 3.5 / 5
- Transcendent Man 2.5 / 5
- Dark Days 5 / 5
- The Man Who Would Be Polka King 5 / 5
- Following Sean 2 / 5
- Guerrilla: The Taking Of Patty Hearst (Storyville) 2 / 5
- Between the Folds
- Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey 4 / 5
- Grey Gardens
- Murder on a Sunday Morning 4.5 / 5
- Exit through the gift shop 5 / 5
- Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? 3.5 /5
- Restrepo 5 / 5
- Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope 2.5 / 5
- The Interrupters
- Tetris: From Russia with Love 5 / 5
- America's Animal Hoarder: Horror at the Zoo
- Senna 5 / 5
- Not Yet Rated
- Kurt & Courtney
- His Big White Self
- Dive! The Film - Living Off America's Waste
- Unraveled (UK Title: The $750 Million Thief) 3.5 / 5
- Dumbstruck
- The Boy Who Can't Forget: Channel 4
- The Men Who Jump Off Buildings: Channel 4 3.5 / 5
- Bobby Fischer Against the World unrated
- You've Been Trumped 5 / 5
- Gypsy Blood
- Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die 3 / 5
- Project Nim 4 / 5
- Requiem for Detroit? 4.5 / 5
- Bomb It - graffiti and street art documentary
- The Kids Who Play With Fire (Wonderland)
- All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - Adam Curtis
- Why the Industrial Revolution Happened Here - BBC
- The House I Live In 5 / 5
- Duck Beach to Eternity 3 / 5
- TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball 4.5 / 5
- Detropia
- Nazi Pop Twins / America's Hate Rock Twins
- The Great Global Warming Swindle
- The Ambassador 5 / 5
- The Queen of Versailles 5 / 5
- Wonders of Life
- Wild Arabia 4 / 5
- Sons of Perdition 3 / 5
- How to Get to Heaven with the Hutterites 4 / 5
- Gypsy Blood
- Beyond the mat 4 / 5
- Like Water: Anderson Silva 3.5 / 5
- Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man
- Birders: The Central Park Effect 1 / 5
- First Position 2.5 / 5
- McLibel
- The Aristocrats
- Chasing Ice 2.5 / 5
- Rich Hall's You Can Go to Hell, I'm Going to Texas
- Searching for Sugar Man 4 / 5
- Legally High - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/legally-high/4od
- BURN: One Year on the Front Lines of the Battle to Save Detroit 3 / 5
- Fire In The Night - Piper Alpha by Anthony Wonke 5 / 5
- Crack House USA by Anthony Wonke 2.5 / 5
- Racing Dreams 3 / 5
- Moon for Sale - BBC Horizon
- Preppers UK, National Geographic
- Buck: The Real Horse Whisperer 4 / 5
- Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic 2.5 / 5
- The great hip hop hoax 5 / 5
- Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams. Presented by Professor Simon Schaffer 4 / 5
- The Great British Year: Wildlife Through the Seasons - four part BBC series: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01db10t
- The Box that changed Britain - BBC Four: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00scpzn
- Blackfish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish_(film) 5 / 5
- The Crash Reel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crash_Reel 3.5 / 5
- Light and Dark
- Victorian Farm
- Tudor Monastery Farm
- Edwardian Farm
- Victorian Pharmacy
- Doggy Styling 4 / 5
- The Elephant in the Living Room
- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 2 / 5
- Endeavour: Everest - By Canoe 4.5 / 5
- Endeavour: Everest - Without Oxygen 2 / 5
- Endeavour: Everest - By Balloon 3 / 5
- BBC: The Route Masters: Running London's Roads - 6 parts 4.5 / 5
- The Summit / Storyville: K2: The Killer Summit 3 / 5
- BBC: Welcome to India 4 / 5
- Informant (2012) 4 / 5
- Cage Fighting Women 2.5 / 5
- Beware of Mr. Baker 5 / 5
- Arctic with Bruce Parry
- The Union: The Business Behind Getting High
- Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (2012) 4 / 5
- Hotel Folly – Folie A Deux 5 / 5
- Flipping Out - Israel's Drug Generation 4 / 5
- Legally High: True Stories 4 / 5
- Madness on Wheels: Rallying's Craziest Years 2 / 5
- Wonderland: Two Jews on a Cruise
- Wonderland: My Child the Rioter 4 / 5
- Wonderland: A Hasidic Guide to Love, Marriage and Finding a Bride
- Wonderland: Virgin Swimmers 3 / 5
- Wonderland: I won university challenge 5 / 5
- Wonderland: The 92 Year Old Danger Junkie
- Wonderland: The Man Who Eats Badgers and Other Strange Tales
- We Are Legion (Storyville) 2.5 / 5
- Girl Model (Storyville) 1 / 5
- When China Met Africa (Storyville)
- On Death Row (Werner Herzog) 4 / 5
- Coach Zoran and His African Tigers, BBC Four 4.5 / 5 2014-02-28
- Bill Bailey's Jungle Hero 5 / 5
- Which Way Home 5/5
- Small Town Ecstasy 3.5 / 5
- How to make money selling drugs 3.5 / 5
- Storyville: Big foot 3 / 5
- Storyville: Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
- 9/11: The Falling Man
- Bernie Madoff: $65 Billion Swindle
- Four Horsemen 5 / 5
- Rise of the continents - http://www.amazon.co.uk/America/dp/B00FZUYHL8
- The Real Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
- Come Fly with Me: The Story of Pan Am ???
- An Honest Liar https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/220588101/an-honest-liar-the-amazing-randi-story
- Wonders of the Monsoon
- Human Universe
- African Railway
Seen since more recently
- Tim's Vermeer
- Kedi
- Amy
- BBC: Africa
- The Social Dilemma
- The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst
- Secrets Of Silicon Valley
- The Fog of War
- BBC: The Century of the Self
- Free Solo
- Honeyland
- Citizenfour
- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
- Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
- The Great Hack
- Tickled
- Meru
- The Dawn Wall
- The Rescue
- 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible (2021)
- Return to Space (2022)
- Tiger King
- Dave Not Coming Back
- Last Breath
- The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway
- The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
- Leaving Neverland
- Sour Grapes (2016) by Jerry Rothwell, Reuben Atlas: about wine fraudster Rudy Kurniawan
- American Factory
- Icarus
- Wild Wild Country
- Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened
- My Octopus Teacher
- The Vow
- McMillion$
- Torn: about climber Alex Lowe
- BBC: Why Buildings Collapse
- Four Hours at the Capitol
- BBC: The Elon Musk Show
- BBC: Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland
- AlphaGo
- Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
- Zero Days (2016)
- 2023-10-26: The Way I See It: 2020 documentary directed and produced by Dawn Porter, revolving around Pete Souza, the former Chief Official White House Photographer
- 2023-10-27: Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art
- 2023-10-28: Won't You Be My Neighbor?
- 2023-10-29: White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
- 2023-10-29: Minimalism: A Documentary About the Important Things
- 2023-10-30: Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016)
- 2023-11-06: Dirty Money: Payday 5/5
Utopian documentaries
- one day everything will be free documentary
- the big little farm
- wild wild country