I've only seen a couple. Loose Change was interesting but a little too controversial for me. It seems like they have become more popular lately.

Super Size Me was very funny, informative, and riveting at the same time.

Documentaries have definately become more popular in the past decade. I'd say mainly thanks to people like Michael Moore and Morgan Spurlock, with their ability to enfuse humour with shocking information.

However, highlights for me include Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room, Capturing The Freemans (although, it is quite grim viewing), Spellbound, Grizzly Man and An Inconvenient Truth (who'd have thought that someone like myself would end up supporting something by one of the Gore clan?).

ANother one that often gets overlooked is Hoop Dreams, a fantastic insight into highschool basketball and how it affects the people (two inparticular) involved.

One Day In September, a documentary about the kidnapping of Israeli athletes at the Munich olympics in 1972.

500 Nations, a story of the native American tribes and their fall to the Europeans and later Americans. With contributions from the likes of Native actors like Wes Studi (feckin legend), and Eric Schweig, and narrated by Kevin Costner.

Good call, I'd forgotten about that one. The book is really good as well. Definately recomended if you liked Munich.

I forgot about Murderball. That was a cool documentary.

Of the few I've seen, thes are my fave:

5. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse - With events like rented military helicoptors being called off during a scene of Apocalypse Now, so they can go engage in an actual combat for an actual war that was going on at the time & then Martin Sheen having a heart attack between shooting scenes, all happening during the filming of this movie, the true story of how this movie was made is almost as surreal & engaging as actual the movie itself.

4. Jesus Camp - Back when I was a kid, I was sent to a Jesus camp for one summer.
I even earned a badge for being able to whistle thru my stigmatas.

3. Streetwise - An emotionally wrenching ending, because it's real life & not a script. This film focuses those who are easily forgotten & brings to the surface their reality & all the drama & emotion that the world of escapism entertainment can never really compare to.

2. 42 & Up - Taking the film segments of the various people chosen for this project as children & watching 'em up against the segments of them as adults, it's almost spooky on it's perspective & can beg the question, at what point in life do humans lose the expressionisms of freespiritness than naturally comes with being a child & become the more restrained walking representive of a crushed spirit that many adults can easily end up as?

1. Anne Frank Remembered - As with everyone else, sometimes, it gets pretty easy for me to forget how good I really have it in life. Every time I watch this movie, & hear the part when Anne writes in her diary of her waiting for things to get back to normal, as a viewer who knows that for her it never will, it serves as a great reminder to me that not taking things for granted is an act of appreciation that should never wait until tomorrow. The footage included that is the only existing footage of Anne, only serves to enhance the importance of this lesson of gratitude.

gonna have to add a couple of brilliant documentaries to this list

Heima: doc about the band Sigur Ros going back to Iceland to play a tour of tiny venues both indoor and outdoor for their homeland fans...cut with some of the most jaw dropping scenery in the world

night and fog: the greatest and most powerful doc made about the holocaust...it is the one which all other docs about the holocaust steal their footage from...filmed directly in the aftermath of the liberation of auchwitz...

Are you feeling OK anomaly? that post has capital letters in it.

Anywho, joking aside, a doc I really enjoyed was Communism & Football, a BBC documentary about the effect of communism on football in eastern Europe during the cold war, including how Ferenc Puskas (possibly the greatest striker ever) was forced from Hungarian football or how Eduard Streltsov (the Russian Pele) was sent to a Gulag on trumped up rape charges because he refused to sign for CSKA Moscow or Dinamo Moscow (the KGB and Red Army backed teams) from his beloved Torpedo Moscow, and how the Torpedo ground is now named after him. It's a documentary of how the sport I love and that is now full of prima donnas and losing its soul once meant so much to so many people.

Zeitgeist

When The Levees Broke

Journey of Man


Watch all of these, they are brilliant.