Monday, December 19, 2011 at 12:21PM Reflections on 2011: Documentaries
In the spirit of my book wrap-up for 2011 (Rob is putting together his own list!), we've put together a rather long list of all of the documentaries we watched this year. Rob and I love documentaries. Not to be cliche, but truth is always stranger and more entertaining/interesting than fiction.
The documentaries that we watched this year were amazing. If we absolutely had to pick our top three they would look something like this:
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Kate's Top 3
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Rob's Top 3
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And because we're total nerds, here is our version of the Oscars:
Most breathtaking cinematography: Visual Acoustics
WTF Award: Tabloid
Should have been boring, but was awesome: Helvetica (um, about a font!)
Most heartwarming: Buck
Most depressing: Waiting for Superman or Inside Job
Cutest old guy: Bill Cunningham New York
Most batshit crazy premise: Tie: Man on Wire and Running the Sahara
Here's the complete list, with links out to IMDB so that you can learn more about them:
- Man on Wire
- Running the Sahara
- Helvetica
- The Wildest Dream
- Tabloid
- Prohibition
- Buck
- Visual Acoustics
- Bill Cunningham New York
- Dying to Have Known
- American: The Bill Hicks Story
- Ascent of Money
- Page One: Inside the New York Times
- Waiting for Superman
- Inside Job
- Random History Documentaries...
- Andrew Jackson
- Teddy Roosevelt
- Dolly Madison
Since Man on Wire made both of our Top 3 lists, we leave you with the trailer...which gave us both goosebumps the first time that we saw it!
