Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year where everyone loves to assemble top-ten lists of all sorts. In this bonus episode, we each discuss our top ten documentaries of this year and the general trends we are seeing in 2018 doc films. Please note that ANY documentary that we profiled on our podcast is worth watching, even if it didn’t make the Top 10! As always, you can find the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available. Enjoy!
Our next bonus episode will air sometime in January, with reviews of films playing at the 2019 Sundance and Slamdance film festivals. A few weeks after that, we will launch our fifth season, with interviews conducted in Park City, UT, at those two film festivals, featuring the directors whose films we will have reviewed in the January bonus episode. Stay tuned!
Here are our lists:
Bart’s Top 10 List (in alphabetical order):
- 209 Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, 10ème – The Neighbours / 2018 (Director:Ruth Zylberman)
- 306 Hollywood / 2018 (Directors:Elan Bogarin & Jonathan Bogarin)
- Bisbee ‘17 / 2018 (Directors: Robert Greene)
- Minding the Gap /2018 (Director: Bing Liu)
- Our New President / 2018 (Directors: Maxim Podorovkin)
- RBG / 2018 (Directors / Producers: Julie Cohen & Betsy West)
- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead /2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Wild Wild Country / 2018 (Creators: Chapman Way & Maclain Way)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? / 2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Yours in Sisterhood / 2018 (Director: Irene Lusztig)
Chris’ Top 10 List (in alphabetical order):
- The Dawn Wall /2018 (Directors: Josh Lowell & Peter Mortimer)
- Free Solo /2018 (Directors: Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi)
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening /2018 (Director: RaMell Ross)
- Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. / 2018 (Director: Stephen Loveridge)
- Our New President / 2018 (Director: Maxim Pozdorovkin)
- RBG / 2018 (Directors: Julie Cohen & Betsy West)
- Science Fair /2018 (Directors: Cristina Costantini & Darren Foster)
- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead /2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Three Identical Strangers /2018 (Director: Tim Wardle)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? / 2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
Summre’s Top 10 List (in alphabetical order):
- 209 Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, 10ème – The Neighbours / 2018 (Director:Ruth Zylberman)
- Ingrid / 2018 (Director: Morrisa Maltz)
- The King / 2018 (Director:Eugene Jarecki)
- Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End / 2018 (Director: Pablo Bryant)
- RBG / 2018 (Directors: Julie Cohen & Betsy West)
- They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead /2018 (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Three Identical Strangers /2018 (Director: Tim Wardle)
- United Skates / 2018 (Directors: Dyana Winkler & Tina Brown)
- Won’t You Be My Neighbor? / (2018) USA (Director: Morgan Neville)
- Yours in Sisterhood / 2018 (Director: Irene Lusztig)
