Best documentaries 1961 – 1970 - Charts
Best documentaries 1961 – 1970
1. Woodstock (1970)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Michael Wadleigh
Cast: Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
2. Let It Be (1970)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Cast: The Beatles, John Lennon
3. Triumph Over Violence (1965)
Soviet Union, Documentary
Directed by: Mikhail Romm
Cast: Mikhail Romm, Marlene Dietrich
4. Monterey Pop (1968)
USA, Music / Documentary
Directed by: D.A. Pennebaker
Cast: Scott McKenzie, Art Garfunkel
6. Gimme Shelter (1970)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Albert Maysles, David Maysles
Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
7. Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Denis Sanders
Cast: Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis Jr.
9. Chariots of the Gods (1970)
West Germany, Documentary / Sci-fi
Directed by: Harald Reinl
Cast: Thor Heyerdahl, Hans Domnick
12. The Lovely Month of May (1963)
France, Documentary
Directed by: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme
Cast: Chris Marker, Simone Signoret
13. The Best of Laurel and Hardy (1967)
USA, Documentary / Comedy
Directed by: James L. Wolcott
Cast: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
14. Africa Addio (1966)
Italy, Documentary
Directed by: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco E. Prosperi
Cast: Sergio Rossi
15. Kashmir: Once in a Paradise (1961)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary
Directed by: Jiří Hanzelka, Miroslav Zikmund
Cast: Václav Voska, Miroslav Doležal
16. The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy (1967)
USA, Comedy / Documentary
Directed by: Robert Youngson
19. Elective Affinities (1968)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary
Directed by: Karel Vachek
Cast: Marta Kubišová, Iva Janžurová
21. The Love Goddesses (1965)
USA, Documentary
Directed by: Saul J. Turell
Cast: Ruby Keeler, Jeanette MacDonald
22. Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun (1964)
France / Italy, Documentary
Directed by: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
23. Mediterranean Holiday (1962)
West Germany, Documentary
Directed by: Hermann Leitner, Rudolf Nussgruber
Cast: Burl Ives
24. The Anger (1963)
Italy, Documentary
Directed by: Giovanni Guareschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Queen Elizabeth II, Yuri Gagarin
25. Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
USA, Adventure / Comedy
Directed by: Robert Youngson
Cast: Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin
26. Indiánské léto (1968)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary
Directed by: Rudolf Krejčík
Cast: Otakar Brousek st., Zdeněk Munzar
27. Nový příběh staré řeky (1962)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary
Directed by: Zdeněk Kopáč
Cast: Vítězslav Vejražka
28. Festival (1967)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Murray Lerner
Cast: Joan Baez, Theodore Bikel
29. Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968)
USA, Documentary
Directed by: William Greaves
Cast: William Greaves, Don Fellows
31. Far from Vietnam (1967)
France, Documentary / Drama
Directed by: Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker
Cast: Bernard Fresson, Karen Blanguernon
32. Mexico 68 (1968)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary / Sports
Directed by: František Papoušek
Cast: Richard Honzovič, Vladimír Fišer
33. V srdci Evropy (1968)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Drahoslav Holub
Cast: Otakar Brousek st., Jaromír Spal
35. Life of Adolf Hitler (1961)
West Germany, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Paul Rotha
Cast: Leo Genn, Adolf Hitler
37. Devět kapitol ze starého dějepisu (1969)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary
Directed by: Pavel Háša
Cast: Miloš Kopecký, Luděk Munzar
38. The Time We Are Living (1968)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary
Directed by: Ivan Húšťava, Vlado Kubenko
Cast: Pavol Hammel, Gustáv Husák
39. The Hour of the Furnaces (1968)
Argentina, Documentary
Directed by: Fernando E. Solanas, Octavio Getino
Cast: Fernando E. Solanas, Mao Zedong
41. Aktion J (1961)
East Germany / Czechoslovakia, Documentary
Directed by: Walter Heynowski
Cast: Jan Víšek, Miroslav Dubský
42. Diaries Notes & Sketches (1969)
USA, Documentary / Experimental
Directed by: Jonas Mekas
Cast: Ed Emshwiller, Jack Smith
43. Salesman (1969)
USA, Documentary
Directed by: David Maysles, Albert Maysles
Cast: Paul Brennan, Charles McDevitt
44. In the Year of the Pig (1968)
USA, Documentary / Historical
Directed by: Emile de Antonio
Cast: Gerald Ford, Dwight D. Eisenhower
46. Camera Rolling (1961)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary / Comedy
Directed by: Eduard Hofman
Cast: Miroslav Horníček, Karel Höger
47. The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)
Switzerland / West Germany, Documentary / War
Directed by: Marcel Ophüls
Cast: Marcel Ophüls, Reinhard Heydrich
48. A Man Vanishes (1967)
Japan, Documentary / Drama
Directed by: Shôhei Imamura
Cast: Shôhei Imamura
52. Psychodráma (1964)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary
Directed by: Jozef Zachar
Cast: Viktor Vrabec, Jiří Brož
53. Král komiků (1963)
Czechoslovakia, Comedy / Documentary
Directed by: Vladimír Sís, Rudolf Jaroš
Cast: Vlasta Burian, Jiří Štuchal
55. Muž, který rozdával smích (1970)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary
Directed by: Vladimír Sís
Cast: Martin Frič, Věra Ferbasová
56. Helga - Vom Werden des menschlichen Lebens (1967)
West Germany, Documentary
Directed by: Erich F. Bender
Cast: Ruth Gassmann, Ilse Zielstorff
57. Sympathy for the Devil (1968)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
59. A Dog's Life (1962)
Italy, Documentary
Directed by: Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti
Cast: Rossano Brazzi
60. Empire (1964)
USA, Documentary
Directed by: John Palmer, Andy Warhol
Cast: Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol