My Top 10 Documentarians

My Top 10 All-Time Favorite Documentary Filmmakers

1. Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line — The Fog of War)

2. Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God)

3. Nick Broomfield (Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer — Tales of the Grim Sleeper)

4. Michael Moore (Bowling for Columbine Roger & Me)

5. Steve James (Hoop Dreams The Interrupters)

6. Ken Burns (Civil War  Not for Ourselves Alone)

7. Spike Lee (4 Little Girls — When the Leeves Broke)

8. Orlando Bagwell (Citizen King Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History)

9. Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone? — Bobby Fischer Against the World)

10. Ezra Edelman (O.J.: Made in America — Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals)

NOTABLE SNUBS:

  • Stanley Nelson (The Murder of Emmett Till — Freedom Riders)
  • Raoul Peck (Lumumba, the death of a prophet — Fatal Assistance)
  • Kevin Macdonald (One Day in September — Marley)
  • Mark Achbar (The Corporation — Manufacturing Consent)
  • Jehane Noujaim (Control Room — The Square)
  • Morgan Spurlock (Super Size Me — The Greatest Movie Ever Sold)
  • Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA — American Dream)
  • Brett Morgen (Crossfire Hurricane — Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck)
  • Eugene Jarecki (The Trials of Henry Kissinger — Why We Fight)
  • Michael Kirk (Money, Power & Wall Street — League of Denial)
  • Andrew Rossi (Page One — Ivory Tower)
  • Davis Guggenheim (He Named Me Malala — An Inconvenient Truth)
  • Jonathan Hock (Survive and Advance — Through the Fire)
  • Albert Maysles (Grey GardensSalesman)
  • Charles Ferguson (Inside JobNo End In Sight)
  • Kirby Dick (Twist of Faith — The Invisible War)
  • Chris Hegedus (Startup.com — The War Room)
  • Robert Greenwald (Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers — Outfoxed)
  • Andrew Jarecki (Capturing the Friedmans — The Jinx)
  • D.A. Pennebaker (The War Room — Dont Look Back)
  • Rory Kennedy (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib — Last Days in Vietnam)
  • Werner Herzog (The Grizzly Man — The White Diamond)
  • Ric Burns (New York — Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film)
  • Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom — Best of Enemies)

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