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troydavis
These aren’t necessarily the best I’ve seen, but, as requested, they’re the most mind blowing:

Restrepo

Citizenfour

Grizzly Man

Up

The Farmer’s Wife

BLKNSLVR
Chasing Ice

The timelapse imagery towards the end is existentially distressing.

stephen82
Anything by Gary Hustwit, really.

I have seen "Objectified", "Helvetica", and "Urbanized"; it blew my mind and changed my perspective on so many things I was taking for granted for years, especially around design.

lewisflude
He has a new documentary out soon all about Dieter Rams, called "Rams". https://www.hustwit.com/rams/
stephen82
Oh my God, I want to see it right now; I just love Dieter!

When I first saw him in Objectified I went nuts by what has he done with his design, how he has impacted the world we live in today.

Thanks for letting me know mate, I will check it as soon as possible.

Cheers +1!

ilove_banh_mi
Anything by Werner Herzog [1]. These are my three favorites:

- Encounters at the End of the World (2007)

- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)

- Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog#Documentary_feat...

daodedickinson
My faves are:

Into the Abyss

Grizzly Man

How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck?

browsercoin
just saw Death Row

kinda changed my perspective on death penalty.

frabbit
Adam Curtis's Bitter Lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRbq63r7rys

Monty Don's Italian Gardens series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY413RwBzB0

The original Cosmos (Carl Sagan). https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKSi40WEKtMxykDBP8_vr...

browsercoin
half way through bitter lake....shit is gold. this is why i created this thread. thanks.
frabbit
Glad you like it. He has about 4 more "Power of Nightmares", "Hypernormalization", "The Mayfair Set" . He has been criticized for lacking precision and rigor, but I am willing to forgive that for the experience and the overall argument: that old models of describing the world have lost their power.
browsercoin
immediately started watching mayfair set. i love documentaries like this.
anon4738383
- The Cove

- Requiem for the American Dream

- VICE s02e01 Afghan Money Pit

- VICE s02e02 Greenland is Melting

yesenadam
Great question!

Patricio Guzman: La batalla de chile, Nostalgia de la luz, El boton de nacar (i.e. everything I've seen so far)

Bob Connolly & Robin Anderson - First Contact, Joe Leahy's Neighbours, Black Harvest (Trilogy about a half-white, half-native New Guinean farmer)

Werner Herzog - (apart from those already mentioned) Lessons of Darkness, Les Blank's Burden of Dreams

Everything by Scott Noble - watch on metanoia-films.org/

Bus 174, Harlan Country USA, How To Start A Revolution, Silenced (2014), War on Whistleblowers, The Century of the Self

Man with a Movie Camera, Man on Wire, Dark Days, Kumaré, Dear Zachary, Children Full of Life (2003)

yesenadam
*Harlan County

(Well, I didn't expect to get downvoted for that list! I have no idea why. Sorry I bothered.)

browsercoin
no idea why somebody downvoted you. hn can be a strange place
l33tbro
'The Act of Killing' is arguably the most forward-thinking documentary of the last 20 years. Heavy going, but unflinching.

That both Erol Morris and Werner Herzog executive produced after Oppenheimer made it should tell you how formally important it is.

illwrks
"the century of the self". It's a 4 part documentary by Adam Curtis about the development of Public Relations and persuasion in advertising.
drakonka
I've seen two documentaries that really have stuck with me. One is Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (watched in multiple long parts from memory); the other is Icarus.