This is it. The end of the lists. Finally! So the other day I posted the best documentaries of the decade as selected by a group of acclaimed documentary filmmakers. Now, we’ve got The Documentary Blog’s own top 50 docs of the decade. I was originally aiming for 25 but I just couldn’t cut it down, so 50 will have to do. Let me stress that this list represents my own personal opinion and nothing more. Hopefully some people can use this as a starting point to check out some great films. Feel free to share your own lists in the comments and let me know what I missed! One thing’s for sure; it has been a great decade for documentaries!

50. Rize (LaChapelle, 2005) — Trailer

49. The Smashing Machine (Hyams, 2002) — Trailer

48. Lost in La Mancha (Fulton & Pepe, 2002) — Trailer

47. Dig! (Timoner, 2004) — Trailer

46. Protagonist (Yu, 2007) — Trailer

45. Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story (Berger & Klores, 2005) — Trailer

44. Bowling for Columbine (Moore, 2002)

43. Rank (Hyams, 2006) — Trailer

42. Our Daily Bread (Geyrhalter, 2005) — Trailer

41. Helvetica (Hustwit, 2007) — Trailer

40. New World Order (Meyer & Neel, 2009) — Trailer

39. Best Worst Movie (Stephenson, 2009) — Trailer

38. The Cove (Psihoyos, 2009) — Trailer

37. Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Schnack, 2006) — Trailer

36. Tyson (Toback, 2008) — Trailer

35. Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Gervasi, 2008) — Trailer

34. When the Levee’s Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Lee, 2006)

33. Bus 174 (Padilha & Lacerda, 2002)

32. God Grew Tired of Us (Quinn & Walker, 2006) — Trailer

31. The Bridge (Steel, 2006) — Trailer

30. Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (Kuenne, 2008) — Trailer

29. 9/11 (Hanlon, Klug & Naudet, 2002) — Clip

28. The White Diamond (Herzog, 2004) — Clip

27. Deep Water (Osmond & Rothwell, 2006) — Trailer

26. Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Nelson, 2006) — Trailer

25. Murder on a Sunday Morning (de Lestrade, 2001)

24. Hell House (Ratliff, 2001) — Trailer

23. Dark Days (Singer, 2000) — Trailer

22. Billy the Kid (Venditti, 2007) — Trailer

21. Crazy Love (Klores & Stevens, 2007) — Trailer

20. Young @ Heart (Walker & George, 2007) — Trailer

19. Fog of War (Morris, 2003) — Trailer

18. Zoo (Devor, 2007) — Trailer

17. Stevie (James, 2002) — Trailer

16. Man on Wire (Marsh, 2008) — Trailer

15. Spellbound (Blitz, 2002) — Trailer

14. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Gordon, 2007) — Trailer

13. This American Life (Series) (Glass, 2007) — Trailer

12. Standard Operating Procedure (Morris, 2008) — Trailer

11. Touching the Void (Macdonald, 2003) — Trailer

10. Lake of Fire (Kaye, 2006) — Trailer

9. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (Berlinger & Sinofsky, 2004) — Trailer

8. Encounters at the End of the World (Herzog, 2007) — Trailer

7. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) (Kohn, 2007) — Trailer

6. The Staircase (de Lestrade, 2004) — Clip

5. Capturing the Friedmans (Jarecki, 2003) — Trailer

4. The English Surgeon (Smith, 2007) — Trailer

3. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (Berlinger & Sinofsky, 2000) — Clip

2. The Devil and Daniel Johnston (Feuerzeig, 2005) — Trailer

1. Grizzly Man (Herzog, 2005) — Trailer