| Title | Other Genre | Country | Contributed By | Comments | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Movie | Usa | Ellen Woodall | excellent, hilarious, poignant documentary about an amateur filmaker trying to produce his vision - a horror movie. | Top 10 | |
| Big One, The | Comedy | uk usa | Wade Blackman | Top 10 | |
| Catch-22 | Comedy Horror War | usa | Jerry Carlton | True WWII events - The most accurate war film/novel ever! | Top 10 |
| Control Room | documentary | usa | Gary Fairbanks | Top 20 | |
| Crumb | Biography | Usa | Rich Jackson | Brilliant biography of Robert Crumb, cartoonist of Zap Comics | Top 20 |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb | Comedy Horror | usa | Jerry Carlton | There's a reason there are three Kubrick films on this list. | Top 20 |
| Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | usa | Scott Ventura | Another Errol Morris documentary, but significantly more upbeat than Mr. Death or Thin Blue Line. | Top 10 | |
| Five Obstructions, The | Animation Drama | Belgium Denmark France Switzerland | Ellen Woodall | A filmmaker challenges his friend to remake his short film "The Perfect Human" five times, with a different obstruction each time. Brilliant | Top 10 |
| Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara, The | Usa | Gary Fairbanks | Top 10 | ||
| Girlhood | documentary | usa | Colleen Parks | Directed by Liz Garbus. | Top 10 |
| Hoop Dreams | usa | Christopher Kam | Top 10 | ||
| Koyaanisqatsi | usa | Rob Haskins | Artsy; music by Philip Glass. | Top 10 | |
| Craig Brozinsky | No dialogue, no actors, excellent visuals. hmmm... sounds mysteriously like The Mummy Returns. | Top 20 | |||
| Microcosmos | france switzerland italy | Scott Ventura | Bugs. Lots and lots of bugs. Amazing cinematography. | Top 10 | |
| Mystère Picasso, Le | France | Timothy King | Top 20 | ||
| Pink Floyd Live at Pompei | belgium westgermany france | Jim Magnuson | Top 10 | ||
| Project Grizzly | canada | Carla Hudson | Top 10 | ||
| Riding Giants | documentary | usa france | Gary Fairbanks | Top 20 | |
| Roger and Me | Comedy | usa | Wade Blackman | Top 10 | |
| Salesman | usa | Noah Bernstein | Artsy | Top 10 | |
| Sound and Fury | uk usa | Dan Koo | Top 10 | ||
| Step Into Liquid | documentary | usa | Gary Fairbanks | Top 10 | |
| Stone Reader, The | Drama | Usa | Gary Fairbanks | Top 10 | |
| Thin Blue Line | usa | Scott Ventura | Heartbreaking drama in a documentary about a man wrongly sentenced to death. | Top 10 | |
| Unchained Melodies: Readings from the Slave Narratives | documentary | usa | Colleen Parks | Directed by Ed Bell and Thomas Lennon. | Top 10 |
| Vérités et mensonges | documentary | france iran westgermany | Ryan Ward | Top 10 | |
| Wild Style | Drama Music | Usa | Hieronymous Maguire | Top 10 | |
| Winged Migration | france | Jessica Maye | Absolutely spectacular! You'll feel like you're flying. Try to ignore the cheesy soundtrack. | Top 20 | |
| Zelig | Comedy | usa | David Hirschfield | Top 10 | |
| Sam Danthine | Top 20 |
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