Logo

Top Documentary Films

“Documentary film” is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to “document” reality. (Wikipedia)

Walking With Dinosaurs

Walking with DinosaursTake the ultimate journey back in time to the reign of the dinosaurs! State-of-the-art digital effects and animatronics by the Emmy Award-winning FrameStore Group (The Odyssey, Merlin, Gulliver’s Travels) combine to form living, breathing images that put you in the scene of a virtual lost world. Using the latest scientific findings, Walking With Dinosaurs examines

Find out more…

The Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair

Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Kill Tony BlairThe Prisoner Or: How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair represents a follow-up to husband-and-wife filmmaking team Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein’s critically-worshipped, defiantly nonpartisan documentary Gunner Palace (2004), on the day-to-day of American soldiers stationed on the Iraqi front. In that earlier picture, Tucker and Epperlein stumble across Yunis Khatayer

Find out more…

The War Tapes

The War TapesThree soldiers offer viewers a close-up and deeply personal view of the war in Iraq in this documentary. Filmmaker Deborah Scranton gave digital video cameras to three National Guard volunteers who were called up for duty in Iraq and asked them to keep a visual diary of what they saw and how they felt about it. The three men who took Scranton up on her offer were Sgt. Zack

Find out more…

Terrorstorm - A History of Government Sponsored Terrorism

Terrorstorm - A History of Government Sponsored TerrorismA filmmaker who is well known for his criticism of the methodology which drives some governments to respond to terrorist attacks by ramping up their combative rhetoric and sending soldiers into battle, Alex Jones takes a closer look at such tragedies as the bombings in London and Madrid to explore how these issues may be better solved by choosing to fight back

Find out more…

Born into Brothels

Born into BrothelsBorn Into Brothels is a documentary about the inspiring non-profit foundation Kids With Cameras, which teaches photography skills to children in marginalized communities. In 1998, New York-based photographer Zana Briski started photographing prostitutes in the red-light district of Calcutta. She eventually developed a relationship with their children, who

Find out more…

Sacco and Vanzetti

Sacco and VanzettiFilmmaker Peter Miller explores the crimes, trial, and execution of notorious 20th-century anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in a documentary that highlights just how this landmark case came to symbolize the injustice and intolerance experienced by immigrants longing to pursue their dreams in the land of the free. It was 1920 when Italian

Find out more…

Welcome Folks!

"Top Documentary Films" is basically "one man show" (driven by one enthusiast) and the content here is created with a passion for documentary films. The site is in open form and it is allowing readers to add comments about documentary films they like or dislike.

In so doing, I hope to provide a valuable resource to those with an interest in documentary films and in future I hope to help independent documentary filmmakers and festival coordinators promote their films and events.

"Top Documentary Films" attempts to provide information on documentaries by quoting reviews from trusted sources and placing links for more info about the documentary films. The site also offers trailers for the documentaries. In case you decide to buy your favorite documentary film, or you want to get some more information there are links to Amazon.com.

The site is running on WordPress platform, therefore it has blog characteristics. Documentaries are classified in categories and you can easily find what you are looking for. If you have any questions you can contact me here.

P.S. On the other hand you can watch free documentaries on-line at FreeDocumentarytFilms.com