Earlier today, Indiewire posted the top ten lists of various film industry respondents, including mine. You can see the full list here and my picks here.
As noted there, I’ve restricted my list to non-fiction as a counterbalance, since most of these sorts of year-end rankings tend to only begrudging include one or two documentaries and otherwise heap praise on fiction films. My picks are also limited to official releases in 2017. Various festival favorites which have not yet come to theatres/ancillary will likely make it on next year’s list.
Here are pointers to what I’ve written about my top ten docs of 2017 on what (not) to doc previously. The films are unranked and in alphabetical order. I’ve also named ten additional docs or doc series as a secondary list below.
Top Ten, followed by ten more:
ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL
ALL THIS PANIC
DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
DINA
JANE
KEDI
MOTHERLAND
QUEST
RAT FILM
STRONG ISLAND
BRIMSTONE & GLORY
CITY OF GHOSTS
EX LIBRIS: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
FACES PLACES
ICARUS
THE KEEPERS
LA 92
LAST MEN IN ALEPPO
ONE OF US
WORMWOOD
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