Documentaries that made a difference

VERY good call. National Review, of all publications, had a "Global Warming is Happening" cover in its most recent issue. I doubt that happens without Gore's movie.

 

I think these people are trying to sugarcoat with the title of the list, when they really mean "best documentaries of all time." That's how Triumph and Civil War make the list. If they truly mean "best," then Hoop Dreams should be on there, no?

 

Right, dools. They must have meant best. Good call.

 

Damn good point. How did IT not make the list?

 

I would add: "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room".

I'd also add the fabulous "The Sorrow and the Pity",

Whatever you think of Fahrenheit 9/11, it suddenly made docs very trendy

And as far as TV docs go, there isn't anybody who does it better than CBC and the #1 guy as far as I'm concerned is Linden MacIntyre who I elevated to God status when he humiliated Anne Coulter in an interview. And he smiled the whole time.

 

I bet An Inconvenient Triumph of the Will would be an awesome mashup.

 

It hardly takes a deity to make Ann Coulter look bad.

Hell, Ann Coulter does it all the time.

And Fahrenheit 9/11 made documentaries "trendy?" Really? More than Supersize Me or Fast Food Nation or Bowling for Columbine or Roger and Me or An Inconvenient Truth?

And really, how trendy are documentaries?

 

Supersize Me

 

Gentlemen, start your Photoshops.

 

If we're talking about best, rather than influential, I feel compelled to mention "The Up Series." Really fascinating (Ebert loves them, too).

 

I'm sure it is.
That must be why the war is so popular today, and why the president's even more popular than that.
I'd put both it and Roger and Me on the list if only because they proved that independently financed docs could make money, thereby inspiring studios to bankroll more of them.
Also, Woodstock? Monterey Pop? Hello?

 

Or how about The Thin Blue War Room?