2008: THE 12 BEST DOCUMENTARY FILMS AL SAW

When asked why he made documentary films, filmmaker Les Blank replied, “I like pointing the camera at things which interest me.”

Here, then, are 12 current documentary films, and 10 more that were made prior to 2004, which Al found to be the best of the ones he saw in 2008
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CURRENT…
The World Stopped Watching
Wild Blue Yonder
Wal-Town: The Film
Up the Yangtze
Remembering Arthur
The Real Dirt on Farmer John
Manufactured Landscapes
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains
Hardwood
Facing the Dead
Documenting the Face of America:
Roy Stryker and the
FSA/OWI Photographers
Billy Bang’s Redemption Song

MADE PRIOR TO 2004
AND VIEWED IN 2008…
The World Stopped Watching
The True Meaning of Pictures:
Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia
Train on the Brain
Strand: Under the Dark Cloth
Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of
Robert S. McNamara
The Exiles
Buster Keaton Rides Again
Burden of Dreams
Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film