The Guardian, günümüzün önde gelen 10 belgesel yönetmenine beşer tane favori belgeselini sormuş. Ortaya 50 filmlik "izlenmesi gereken belgeseller" listesi çıkıvermiş. 2000'lerdeki favori belgesellerimi saysam mutlaka koyacağım Bowling For Columbine, The Queen of Versailles, Grizzly Man, Man on Wire, Five Broken Cameras gibi filmleri burada bulmak güzel. Listeler birbirinden bağımsız da olsa ortaya çıkan toplam, klasiklerden modernlere kadar uzanan oldukça kapsayıcı ve derli toplu bir sonuç olmuş. Liste aşağıda, ama yönetmenlerin yaptığı açıklamaların da olduğu halini görmek için şuraya tıklayabilirsiniz.
Joshua Oppenheimer
Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995)
Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1978)
Loss Is to Be Expected (Ulrich Seidl, 1992)
The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavia Getino & Fernando e Solanas, 1968)
Lucy Walker
Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984)
The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier & Jorgen Leth, 2003)
The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda, 2000)
Up (Michael Apted, 1964)
Alex Gibney
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)
When We Were Kings (Leon Gast, 1996)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
Kim Longinotto
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee, 1986)
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield, 2014)
Solar Mamas (Jehane Noujaim & Mona Eldaief, 2012)
Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014)
Five Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, 2011)
James Marsh
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Le Sang des Bêtes (Georges Franju, 1949)
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)
The Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzman, 1975, 1976, 1979)
Primate (Frederick Wiseman, 1974)
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Amy (Asif Kapadia, 2015)
Iraq in Fragments (James Longley, 2006)
Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders, 1999)
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)
Franny Armstrong
Global Report (Peter Armstrong, 1981)
The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield, 2012)
Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite, 2013)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1995)
Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 2004)
Khalo Matabane
When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee, 2006)
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Pirjo Honkasalo, 2004)
Pina (Wim Wenders, 2011)
Molly Dineen
Into Eternity (Michael Madsen, 2010)
Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme, 1963)
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill, 2003)
The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis, 2004)
Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotto, 2006)
Angus Macqueen
Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1998)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
Pandora's Box (Adam Curtis, 1992)
China: Beyond the Clouds (Phil Agland, 1994)
Joshua Oppenheimer
Salaam Cinema (Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1995)
Close Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
Gates of Heaven (Errol Morris, 1978)
Loss Is to Be Expected (Ulrich Seidl, 1992)
The Hour of the Furnaces (Octavia Getino & Fernando e Solanas, 1968)
Lucy Walker
Hoop Dreams (Steve James, 1994)
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984)
The Five Obstructions (Lars von Trier & Jorgen Leth, 2003)
The Gleaners and I (Agnes Varda, 2000)
Up (Michael Apted, 1964)
Alex Gibney
Night and Fog (Alain Resnais, 1955)
Gimme Shelter (Albert & David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1970)
When We Were Kings (Leon Gast, 1996)
Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)
Waltz With Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008)
Kim Longinotto
Sherman's March (Ross McElwee, 1986)
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield, 2014)
Solar Mamas (Jehane Noujaim & Mona Eldaief, 2012)
Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel, 2014)
Five Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi, 2011)
James Marsh
Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
Le Sang des Bêtes (Georges Franju, 1949)
The War Game (Peter Watkins, 1965)
The Battle of Chile (Patricio Guzman, 1975, 1976, 1979)
Primate (Frederick Wiseman, 1974)
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Amy (Asif Kapadia, 2015)
Iraq in Fragments (James Longley, 2006)
Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders, 1999)
The Thin Blue Line (Errol Morris, 1988)
Bowling For Columbine (Michael Moore, 2002)
Franny Armstrong
Global Report (Peter Armstrong, 1981)
The Queen of Versailles (Lauren Greenfield, 2012)
Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite, 2013)
Lessons of Darkness (Werner Herzog, 1995)
Some Kind of Monster (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky, 2004)
Khalo Matabane
When the Levees Broke (Spike Lee, 2006)
Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003)
Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (Pirjo Honkasalo, 2004)
Pina (Wim Wenders, 2011)
Molly Dineen
Into Eternity (Michael Madsen, 2010)
Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker & Pierre Lhomme, 1963)
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (Nick Broomfield & Joan Churchill, 2003)
The Power of Nightmares (Adam Curtis, 2004)
Sisters in Law (Kim Longinotto, 2006)
Angus Macqueen
Man on Wire (James Marsh, 2008)
Little Dieter Needs to Fly (Werner Herzog, 1998)
Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
Pandora's Box (Adam Curtis, 1992)
China: Beyond the Clouds (Phil Agland, 1994)