100 documentary films /
One hundred documentary films Hundred documentary films
Barry Keith Grant & Jim Hillier.
- viii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- BFI screen guides .
- BFI screen guides. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction A Propos de Nice, Jean Vigo, France -- The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes, Stan Brakhage, US -- The Atomic Cafe, Jane Loader /Kevin Rafferty, US -- The Battle of Chile /La Batalla de Chile, Patricio Guzman, Venezuela-France-Cuba 1975-1979) -- Berlin: Symphony of a Great City /Berlin: Die Sinfonie der GroSSstadt, Walter Ruttmann, Germany -- Bowling for Columbine, Michael Moore, US -- A British Picture: Portrait of an Enfant Terrible (Ken Russell, UK 1989) -- British Sounds, Jean-Luc Godard / Jean-Henri Roger, UK -- Bus 174, Jose Padilha, Brazil -- Cane Toads: An Unnatural History, Mark Lewis, Australia -- Le Chagrin et la pitie /The Sorrow and the Pity, Marcel Ophu -- Ls, Fr-Switz-W Ger -- Chronique d'un ete /Chronicle of a Summer, Jean Rouch /Edgar Morin, France -- Close Up, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran -- Coal Face, Alberto Cavalcanti, UK -- Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment, Robert Drew, US -- Daughter Rite, Michelle Citron, US -- David Holzman's Diary, Jim McBride, US -- Dead Birds, Robert Gardner, US -- A Diary for Timothy, Humphrey Jennings, UK -- Dont Look Back, D.A. Pennebaker, US -- The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, Hara Kazuo, Japan -- Etre et avoir, Nicolas Philibert, France -- The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty, Esfir Shub, USSR -- Farrebique, ou les quatres saisons, Georges Rouquier, France -- Fast, Cheap and Out of Control, Errol Morris, US -- For Freedom, Hossein Torabi, Iran -- Forgotten Silver, Peter Jackson, NZ -- Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse /TheGleaners and I, Agnes Varda, France -- Grey Gardens, Albert & David Maysles /Ellen Hovde /Muffie Meyer, US -- Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog, US -- Handsworth Songs, John Akomfrah -- Happy Mother's Day, Richard Leacock /Joyce Chopra, US -- Harlan County USA, Barbara Kopple, US -- Harvest of Shame, David Lowe, US -- Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam, Nick Broomfield, UK -- Hoop Dreams, Steve James, US -- Hour of the Furnaces /La Hora de los hornos, Octavio Getino /Fernando E. Solanas, Argentina -- Housing Problems, Edgar Anstey /Arthur Elton, UK -- Las Hurdes /Land Without Bread, Luis Bunuel, Spain -- I for India, Sandhya Suri, UK-Germany -- In the Year of the Pig, Emile De Antonio, US -- Jazz, Ken Burns, US -- Kon Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl, Norway -- Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, Godfrey Reggio, US -- Lessons in Darkness /Lektionen in Finisternis, Werner Herzog, Ger-France-UK -- Let There Be Light, John Huston, US -- The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter, Connie Field, US -- Lonely Boy, Wolf Koenig /Roman Kroiter, Canada -- Lost Lost Lost, Jonas Mekas, US -- Lumiere programme, Auguste & Louis Lumiere, France -- Les Maitres Fous /The Mad Masters, Jean Rouch, France -- Manhatta, Charles Sheeler /Paul Strand, US -- The Man with a Movie Camera, Dziga Vertov, USSR -- Man of Aran, Robert Flaherty, UK -- March of the Penguins /La Marche de l'empereur, Luc Jacquet, France -- A Married Couple, Allan King, Canada -- Minamata, Tsuchimoto Noriaki, Japan -- My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin, Canada -- Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, US -- Native Land, Leo Hurwitz /Paul Strand, US -- Necrology, Standish Lawder, US -- New Earth /Nieuwe gronden, Joris Ivens, Netherlands -- News from Home, Chantal Akerman, France-Belgium-West Germany -- North Sea, Harry Watt, UK -- Nuit et brouillard /Night and Fog, Alain Resnais, France -- Not a Love Story: A Film about Pornography, Bonnie Sherr Klein, Canada -- One Man's War /La Guerre d'un seul homme, Edgardo Cozarinsky, France -- Paris is Burning, Jennie Livingston, US -- People on Sunday /Menschen am Sonntag, Robert Siodmak, Edgar G.Ulmer, Germany -- The Plow that Broke the Plains, Pare Lorentz, US -- Portrait of Jason, Shirley Clarke, US -- Primary, Robert Drew, US -- Primate, Frederick Wiseman, US -- Les Racquetteurs /The Snowshoers, Michel Brault /Gilles Groulx, Canada -- Roger and Me, Michael Moore, US -- Salesman, Albert & David Maysles /Charlotte Zwerin, US -- Le Sang des betes, Georges Franju, France -- Sans soleil /Sunless, Chris Marker, France -- Shipyard, Paul Rotha, UK -- Shoah, Claude Lanzmann, France -- El Sol del membrillo /The Quince Tree Sun /The Dream of Light, Victor Erice, Spain 1992) -- The Spanish Earth, Joris Ivens, US -- Surname Viet Given Name Nam, Trinh T. Minh-ha, US -- Talking Heads, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland -- The Thin Blue Line, Errol Morris, US -- This is Spinal Tap, Rob Reiner, US -- Time Indefinite, Ross McElwee, US -- Titicut Follies, Frederick Wiseman, US -- Tongues Untied, Marlon Riggs, US -- Triumph of the Will /Triumph des Willens, Leni Riefenstahl, Germany -- Truth or Dare, Alek Keshishian, US -- Turksib, Victor A. Turin, USSR -- Very Nice, Very Nice, Arthur Lipsett, Canada -- Waiting for Fidel, Michael Rubbo, Canada -- The War Game, Peter Watkins, UK -- We Are the Lambeth Boys, Karel Reisz, UK -- When the Levees Broke, Spike Lee, US -- Why We Fight: Prelude to War, Frank Capra, US -- Woodstock, Michael Wadleigh, US -- Zidane: a 21st Century Portrait, Douglas Gordon /Philippe Parreno.
'100 Documentary Films' provides concise & authoritative analysis of 100 key non-fiction films of world cinema, from the Lumiere brothers to Michael Moore. The volume features an introduction to the history & concerns of documentary film-making, as well as cross-referencing & a wealth of images from the films discussed.