{"id":15762,"date":"2014-08-01T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=15762"},"modified":"2014-08-16T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T16:43:34","slug":"sight-and-sound-bfi-greatest-documentaries-list-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2014\/08\/01\/sight-and-sound-bfi-greatest-documentaries-list-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Sight &#038; Sound&#8217;s Greatest Documentaries List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sight-and-Sound-Doc-Poll.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15763\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Sight-and-Sound-Doc-Poll.jpg\" alt=\"Sight and Sound Doc Poll\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/sight-sound-magazine\">Sight and Sound<\/a> have recently released the results of a poll of critics and filmmakers to find the greatest documentaries of all time.<\/p>\n<p>The Critics\u2019 Top 10 documentaries are:<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong>Man with a Movie Camera<\/strong>, dir. Dziga Vertov (USSR 1929)<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Shoah<\/strong>, dir. Claude Lanzmann (France 1985)<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Sans soleil<\/strong>, dir. Chris Marker (France 1982)<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Night and Fog<\/strong>, dir. Alain Resnais (France 1955)<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong>The Thin Blue Line<\/strong>, dir. Errol Morris (USA 1989)<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong>Chronicle of a Summer<\/strong>, dir. Jean Rouch &amp; Edgar Morin (France 1961)<\/p>\n<p>7. <strong>Nanook of the North<\/strong>, dir. Robert Flaherty (USA 1922)<\/p>\n<p>8. <strong>The Gleaners and I<\/strong>, dir. Agn\u00e8s Varda (France 2000)<\/p>\n<p>9. <strong>Dont Look Back<\/strong>, dir. D.A. Pennebaker (USA 1967)<\/p>\n<p>10. <strong>Grey Gardens<\/strong>, dir. Albert and David Maysles, Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer (USA 1975)<\/p>\n<p>The poll report is released in the September edition of Sight &amp; Sound published today, Friday 1st August.<\/p>\n<p>The full lists of all the votes received and films nominated will be available online from 14th August.<\/p>\n<p>You can join in the debate at Twitter using the hashtag #BestDocsEver.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/news-opinion\/sight-sound-magazine\">Sight and Sound<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Documentary_film\">More on documentary film<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sight and Sound have recently released the results of a poll of critics and filmmakers to find the greatest documentaries of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,17,2],"tags":[105,683],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15764,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15762\/revisions\/15764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}