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  • American Roots Music
  • Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
  • Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Red River Blues
  • That Rhythm, Those Blues
  • Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five

f) Rock & Roll Documentaries, Features & Concert films: 1940s thru the 1980s (incl. R&B / Soul / Folk)

594 films 34 5 Edit

  • The Cave of the Yellow Dog
  • The Spirit of the Beehive
  • In America
  • The Stolen Children
  • Eve's Bayou

c) other stories

51 films 4 Edit

  • What is Cinema?
  • The Story of Film: An Odyssey
  • Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
  • The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
  • Precious Images

a) Documentaries about Film

1,138 films 154 2 Edit

  • Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema
  • Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché
  • The Lost Garden: The Life and Cinema of Alice Guy-Blache
  • Reel Herstory: The REAL Story of Reel Women, hosted by Jodie Foster
  • Yours Sincerely, Lois Weber

b) Women Make Film ~ A Documentary List

142 films 7 Edit

All these are included on the “Documentaries about Film” list ~ I’ve made this second list to make them easier…

  • Shadows
  • Pull My Daisy
  • The Savage Eye
  • The Connection
  • The Exiles

d) American Independents

290 films 7 Edit

  • The Best Years of Our Lives
  • The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
  • American Experience: Truman
  • German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
  • Nazi Concentration Camps

e) Documentaries on American Politics & Culture, Post-War to 1980, following roughly the order that things happened

956 films 56 Edit

  • The Devil On Wheels
  • So Young, So Bad
  • Hot Rod
  • The Wild One
  • The Fast and the Furious

g) Hollywood & England cope with the counterculture (Feature Films)

356 films 2 Edit

  • A Generation
  • Kanal
  • Ashes and Diamonds
  • The Fat and the Lean
  • Knife in the Water

h) The Eastern European New Wave

29 films 2 Edit

  • The Cow
  • Where Is My Friend's House?
  • Life, and Nothing More...
  • Through the Olive Trees
  • Close-Up

i) Iranian Film

30 films 4 1 Edit

  • Wadjda
  • Wedding in Galilee
  • The Syrian Bride
  • The Silences of the Palace
  • Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

j) Arabic / Islamic // Turkish Film

19 films 1 1 Edit

  • The Beginning or the End
  • A Foreign Affair
  • The Woman on Pier 13
  • Five
  • I Was a Communist for the FBI

k) Cold War, Nuclear War & Vietnam Features

44 films 1 Edit

  • Enchanted April
  • Last Summer in the Hamptons
  • Déjà Vu
  • My Father's Glory
  • My Mother's Castle

l) Enchanted Summer, plus two Autumn films

11 films 1 Edit