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IDA 25 Best Documentaries - Intl Documentary Association

	Hoop Dreams [DVD] Buy used from: £39.00 Follows two African American teenage basketball prodigies as they move through high school with long-shot dreams of the NBA
	The Thin Blue Line [DVD] [1988] Buy new: £4.98 Should have been number 1. Reconstruction of the murder of Dallas policeman Robert Wood in 1976, through film clips, interviews
	Bowling For Columbine [DVD] [2002] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.19 Moore's diatribe about gun proliferation in America. Highlight is his confrontation with NRA president Charlton Heston.
	Spellbound [DVD] [2003] Buy used from: £1.59 "Who would have thought that a documentary about US spelling US spelling bee contestants could be as suspense-filled as a Hitchcock thriller?"
	Harlan County [DVD] [1976] Buy new: £11.38 A tense Oscar winning documentary chronicling coal miner's strike in Kentucky,
	An Inconvenient Truth [DVD] [2006] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.30 Al Gore tries to save the planet. Pity he didn't think about it when he was in power.
	Crumb [DVD] [1995] Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £4.47 Biopic of the cartoonist with insightful look into creativity and dysfunction family relationships.
	The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter [DVD] [1970] Buy new: £8.97 Best rock documentary of all time according to Mark Kermode. 1970 Rolling Stones concert. Maysles directs.
	The Fog Of War [DVD] [2004] Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £4.00 2004 best documentary Oscar. Captivating look at late Robert McNamara. Wonderful score by Philip Glass
	Roger and Me [1989] [DVD] [1990] Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £2.12 Moore turns his anger on General Motors Chairman Roger B Smith after a local plant is closed.
	Super Size Me [DVD] [2004] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.83 Morgan Spurlock's polemic against the fast food industry using himself as guinea pig
	Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back [DVD] [1965] Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.21 The Gospel for Dylan fans. Chronicles his 1965 UK tour. "Judas!". In BW.
	Salesman [Masters of Cinema] [1968] [DVD] Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £11.25 1968. The lives of traveling Bible salesmen as recorderd by Gimme Shelter directors.
	Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi [DVD] [1983] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.13 Breathtaking experimental time-lapse photography and Philip Glass score. A travesty that it got ranked below An Inconvenient Truth.
	Sherman's March [DVD] [1986] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £13.99 "After his girlfriend leaves him, filmmaker Ross McElwee takes a voyage along the original route followed by Civil War General William Sherman.
	Grey Gardens [Masters of Cinema] [1976] [DVD] Buy new: £9.88 / Used from: £9.00 Maysles' portrait of aunt and first cousin of Jackie Onassis and their unusual life together
	Capturing The Friedmans [2004] [DVD] Buy new: £12.88 / Used from: £3.38 Another dysfuctional family, captured on their own film."The resulting story will haunt you long after the end-credits roll"
	Born Into Brothels [DVD] [2007] Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £10.45 Story of children.from Calcutta's red light district. The power of art to survive despite abject poverty, abuse, despair, tragedy and heartbreak.
	Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing by F Wiseman Buy new: £16.49 / Used from: £15.74 Not on DVD
	Buena Vista Social Club [1999] [DVD] Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £4.91 Moving portrait of Cuban musicians by Wim Wenders and Ry Cooder.
	Fahrenheit 9/11 [DVD] [2004] Buy new: £4.88 / Used from: £1.79 Michael Moore on George Bush and his Saudi connections and alleged draft dodging.
	Winged Migration [DVD] [2003] [NTSC] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.99 Film about bird migration with breathtaking photography and hypnotic music. If you liked Koyaanisqatsi...
	Grizzly Man [2005] [DVD] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.10 No one does obsession like Werner Herzog. (Burden of Dreams should have been on this list)
	Night And Fog [DVD] [1955] Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £4.99 Astonishinging Holocaust documentary, only thirty minutes long, but worth 10 Schindler's Lists
	Woodstock [DVD] [1969] Buy new: £11.98 'Don't take the brown acid.'