Random Best Oscar-Winning Documentaries (34 items)

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  (#1) Woodstock

  • Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Pete Townshend, Jerry Garcia, Keith Moon, Carlos Santana, Joe Cocker, Roger Daltrey, Joan Baez, Grace Slick, David Crosby, John Entwistle, Johnny Winter, Stephen Stills, Richie Havens, Graham Nash, Arlo Guthrie, John Sebastian, Bill Graham

  The watershed cultural and music festival in New York.
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  (#2) American Dream

  • Jesse Jackson, Juan Muñoz

  An unsuccessful strike in the heartland of America against Hormel Foods
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  (#3) An Inconvenient Truth

  Global warming
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  (#4) Undefeated

  The struggles of a high school football team in Memphis
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  (#5) Hearts and Minds

  The Vietnam War
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  (#6) Citizenfour

  • Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum
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  (#7) 20 Feet from Stardom

  The lives of background singers for some of music's most famous acts
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  (#8) White Wilderness

  • Winston Hibler

  Nature documentary noted for its propagation of the misconception of lemming suicide
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  (#9) The True Glory

  • Peter Ustinov

  Victory on the Western Front, from Normandy to the collapse of the Third Reich
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  (#10) The Ten-Year Lunch

  • Helen Hayes, Ruth Gordon, Margalo Gillmore, Heywood Hale Broun

  The Algonquin Road Table, group of writers and artists during the 1920s in New York
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  (#11) When We Were Kings

  • George Foreman, B.B. King, Don King, George Plimpton

  The "Rumble in the Jungle" fight between Muhammed Ali and George Foreman
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  (#12) Scared Straight!

  • Danny Glover, Peter Falk

  A group of juvenile delinquents and their three-hour session with actual convicts
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  (#13) The Great American Cowboy

  • Larry Mahan

  The battle between two rodeo stars for the world championship
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  (#14) The Last Days

  Hungarian Jews during WWII and their struggle in the concentration camps
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  (#15) In the Shadow of the Stars

  • Ruth Ann Swenson, Frederick Matthews, Christine Lundquist, Shelly Sietz

  The San Francisco opera and its big stars
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  (#16) The Long Way Home

  • Morgan Freeman, Sean Astin, Ed Asner, Helen Slater, Michael York, Miriam Margolyes, David Paymer, Nina Siemaszko

  Jewish refugees after WWII and their establishment of Israel
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  (#17) Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt

  • Dustin Hoffman, Vito Russo, Tracy Torrey

  The story of the NAMES Project AIDS memorial quilt
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  (#18) Inside Job

  • Matt Damon

  Corruption in the United States financial services industry
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  (#19) The Silent World

  The ocean depths, shot aboard the ship Calypso
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  (#20) March of the Penguins

  • Romane Bohringer, Charles Berling, Jules Sitruk

  The yearly journey of the emperor penguins of Antarctica
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  (#21) The Vanishing Prairie

  Pioneers on the Oregon Trail
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  (#22) The Secret Land

  • Robert Montgomery

  An American expedition to explore Antarctica code-named "Operation High Jump"
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  (#23) The Sea Around Us

  Based on the book by Rachel Carson this documentary reveals the science and poetry of the sea while ranging from its primeval beginnings to the latest scientific probings.
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  (#24) The Living Desert

  The everyday lives of desert animals in the southwestern U.S.
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  (#25) Best Boy

  • Zero Mostel, Ira Wohl, Philip Wohl

  Mentally handicapped Philly Wohl, who lived with his parents until he was 52
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  (#26) Searching for Sugar Man

  • Dennis Coffey, Malik Bendjelloul, Clarence Avant, Rian Malan, Steve Rowland, Mike Theodore, Eva Rodriguez, Regan Rodriguez, Sandra Rodriguez-Kennedy, Willem Möller, Steve Segerman, Ilse Assmann, Steve M. Harris, Jerome Ferretti, Craig Bartholomew-Strydrom, Dan Dimaggio, Robbie Mann, Rick Emmerson

  Two Cape Town fans in the late 1990s and the rumored death of Sixto Rodriguez
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  (#27) Anne Frank Remembered

  • Glenn Close, Kenneth Branagh, Joely Richardson, Hannah Pik-Goslar, Bloeme Evers-Emden, Frieda Menco

  Diarist Anne Frank
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  (#28) Harlan County, USA

  The "Brookside Strike" against the Duke Power Company
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  (#29) The Battle of Midway

  • Henry Fonda, Donald Crisp, Jane Darwell

  WWII's Battle of Midway and its strategic importance.
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  (#30) Journey into Self

  • Stanley Kramer

  A 16-hour group-therapy session for eight well-adjusted people who had never met
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  (#31) Desert Victory

  • Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

  Struggle between General Erwin Rommel and Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery during WWII 
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  (#32) Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got

  • Buddy Rich, Mel Tormé, Artie Shaw

  Clarinetist Artie Shaw.
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  (#33) One Day in September

  The murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics
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  (#34) Helen Keller in Her Story

  • Helen Keller, Katharine Cornell

  Biographical documentary about Helen Keller with footage of her visits with Eisenhower and Martha Graham
  
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  (#35) The Horse with the Flying Tail

  The palomino horse, Nautical, who won team gold at the 1959 Pan American Games
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  (#36) The Man Who Skied Down Everest

  Yuichiro Miura, a Japanese alpinist who skied down Mt. Everest in 1970
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  (#37) American Factory

  A Chinese company takes over a factory in suburban Ohio.
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  (#38) He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'

  Jacques d'Ambroise noted American ballet star 
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  (#39) Free Solo

  • Alex Honnold
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  (#40) Man on Wire

  • Paul McGill, Robert Sciglimpaglia, Jr., Joel Ney, Laurence Gates, David Roland Frank, Megan Delay, David Demato, Ardis Campbell, Aaron Haskell, Shawn Dempewolff-Barrett

  Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers
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  (#41) The Anderson Platoon

  The VIetnam War
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  (#42) The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara

  Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara
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  (#43) The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

  • Eleanor Roosevelt, Archibald MacLeish, Eric Sevareid, Corinne Alsop Cole

  Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt
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  (#44) Prelude to War

  WWII, the first film of Frank Capra's "Why We Fight" propaganda series
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  (#45) Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids

  The children of prostitutes in Sonagachi, Kolkata's red light district
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  (#46) The Cove

  Dolphin hunting practices in Japan
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  (#47) Down and Out in America

  Film that critiques Reganomics by showing examples of poverty in America.
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  (#48) Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision

  Maya Lin, who created the Washington DC Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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  (#49) The Titan: Story of Michelangelo

  The life and works of artist Michelangelo Buonarroti
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  (#50) The Times of Harvey Milk

  The political career of Harvey Milk, San Francisco's first openly gay supervisor

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