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These documentaries have stood the test of time and remain the benchmark against which others are measured.
I trust the former slightly more than the latter, although every so often a glimpse behind the curtain reveals thatDocumentary filmmaking isn’t without a sense of the contrived. When you train a camera on somebody, their behaviour usually changes and cutting and splicing in the editing room will also work its magic.
We’re going to skip ahead and look at three of the top 10, starting with Errol Morris’ 1988 masterpiece,A little after midnight on Nov. 28, 1976, Dallas police officers Robert Wood and Teresa Turko made a routine traffic stop for a car driving without headlights. When Wood approached the vehicle, the driver pulled a handgun and shot him five times. The car sped off into the night while Turko fired hopelessly in its wake and Wood died at her feet. A cop killer was on the loose in Dallas.
Leave it to Werner Herzog to take on a subject as peculiar and tragic as that of Timothy Treadwell, the bear enthusiast who, along with his girlfriend, was killed by his wild obsession in 2003. A sing-songy, pleasant, dangerously deluded man who believed his beloved grizzly companions knew and trusted him, Treadwell, over the course of 13 summers spent in Alaskan national parks, approached bears with both a religious reverence and folksy casualness—the latter of which arguably cost him his life.
The documentary labeled by none other than Roger Ebert as the single best film of the 1990s is alternatingly beautiful and crushing, an intense profile of life in inner city Chicago and dreams of escape through basketball—of all things.
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