Which is better, “The United States of Autism” or “The United States of Football?”

Which musicians were the subject of the best documentary — background singers, a white rhythm section from Alabama, a Russian punk band, a legendary songwriter from Brooklyn or a Filipino Journey fan who became the band’s lead singer?

And which Oscar winners deserve another trip to the podium — Alex Gibney, Jonathan Demme, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine or Roger Ross Williams?

Those are some of the questions raised by the formidable list of 151 documentaries that qualified for the Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature category this year, a record total 20 percent more than the previous record set in 2012.

TheWrap obtained the complete list, which ranges from A to Z — that is, from “The Act of Killing” to “Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride” — and from “The Short Game” to “Long Shot,” from “First Comes Love” to “The Last of the Unjust.”

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The record number of submissions suggests that while AMPAS rules designed to hurt made-for-TV docs and qualifying programs like the International Documentary Association’s Docu Weeks did have some effect — the IDA discontinued DocuWeeks in favor of its own screening series — they certainly didn’t reduce the number of qualifying films.

More than a dozen of the films are listed as HBO Documentaries on the cable channel’s website, while dozens of others used self-financed qualifying runs to enter the race.

Only about a third of the qualifying films, 53, are listed by Boxoffice Mojo as having had theatrical releases during 2013.

“Last year DocuWeeks received some blame for increasing the number of films that qualified for the Oscar,” International Documentary Association executive director Michael Lumpkin told theWrap. “In hindsight, I see that DocuWeeks probably helped to keep the Academy’s submissions lower, since our qualifying program was curated. Many that didn’t make our program may have decided it wouldn’t be worth going to the trouble and expense to qualify.”

Lumpkin said that 273 films qualified for this year’s IDA Awards, which do not require an Oscar-style qualifying run. That number was about 50 fewer than the previous year, a dropoff he attributed to the move to an in-house submission system after using Withoutabox in previous years.

The Cinema Eye Honors, the other major award for nonfiction films, has 174 eligible films this year, only 55 of which are also on the Oscar list.

The 151 Oscar-qualifying films include movies from directors represented on the Cinema Eye’s recent list of the 25 most influential docs of all time (Frederick Wiseman’s “At Berkeley,” Claude Lanzmann’s “The Last of the Unjust,” Errol Morris’ “The Unknown Known”), and films from Oscar-winning feature-doc directors (Alex Gibney’s “The Armstrong Lie” and “We Steal Secrets”), Oscar-winning short-doc directors (Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine’s “Life According to Sam,” Roger Ross Williams’ “God Loves Uganda”) and an Oscar-winning narrative-feature director (Jonathan Demme’s “Enzo Avitabile Music Life”).

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There are docs about artists (“Tim’s Vermeer,” “Cutie and the Boxer,” “Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird,” “Herblock: The Black & the White”), docs about musicians (“AKA Doc Pomus,” “Becoming Traviata,” “Don’t Stop Believin': Everyman’s Journey,” “Muscle Shoals,” “My Father and the Man in Black,” “One Direction: This Is Us,” “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer,” “Sound City,” “20 Feet From Stardom,” “12 12 12”), docs about sports figures (“The Crash Reel,” “Linsanity,” “The Short Game,” “The Trials of Muhammad Ali”) and docs about movies (“CinemAbility,” “Jodorowsky’s Dune,” “Liv and Ingmar”).

Two, “More Than Honey” and “The Missing Picture,” are also submissions in the Best Foreign Language Film category, a two-fer also enjoyed by doc nominee “Pina” two years ago.

Two of the qualifying films, “Sound City” and “More Than Honey,” have 100 percent positive ratings on Rotten Tomatoes, while “20 Feet From Stardom” is at 99 percent, “Blackfish” at 98 percent, “The Act of Killing” and “Call Me Kuchu” at 97 percent, “Cutie and the Boxer” at 96 percent, “Stories We Tell,” “Muscle Shoals” and “We Steal Secrets” at 95 percent.

And, to be honest, a large number of the films don’t have much chance of landing on the shortlist, or even of being seen by enough voters to have a shot.

Members of the Documentary Branch now have screeners of all 151, and have been asked to vote for their five favorites to create a 15-film shortlist that will be revealed in December.

Also read: Oscar Documentary Overhaul Creates Screener Overload for Voters (Exclusive)

(Note: The list was given to TheWrap by an intermediary, with a few errors in titles that we tried to correct. We can’t find any record of one of the titles, “The Cinema: A Brief History of World Cinema.”)

Here (take a deep breath before jumping in) is the entire list:

The Act of Killing

After Tiller

AKA Doc Pomus

American Made Movie

American Promise

Approved for Adoption

The Armstrong Lie

At Berkeley

Becoming Traviata

Best Kept Secret

Bettie Page Reveals All

Bidder 70

Big Men

These Birds Walk

Blackfish

Blood Brother

Brave Miss World

Bridegroom

Bridging the Gap

Call Me Kuchu

Casting By

CinemAbility

The Cinema: A Brief History of World Cinema

Cooper and Hemingway: The True Gen

The Crash Reel

Cutie and the Boxer

Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay

Dirty Wars

Don’t Stop Believin': Everyman’s Journey

Downloaded

Enzo Avitabile Music Life

Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie

Far Out Isn’t Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story

Fire In The Blood

First Comes Love

First Cousin Once Removed

For No Good Reason

Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners

Free China: The Courage to Believe

Free The Mind

The Gardener

Gahan Wilson: Born Dead, Still Weird

Gasland II

Generation Iron

The Ghosts In Our Machine

Gideon’s Army

Girl Rising

The Girls in The Band

Glickman

GMO OMG

Go Grandriders

God Loves Uganda

Good Ol’ Freda

Greedy Lying Bastards

Growing Up Refugee

Hava Nagila: The Movie

Hawking

Herblock: The Black & The White

I Am Breathing

Inequality For All

Informant

Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy? An Animated Conversation With Noam Chomsky

It’s Better To Jump

Jodorwsky’s Dune

Koch

The Last of The Unjust

Let The Fire Burn

Letters to Jackie

Leviathan

Life According To Sam

Linsanity

Lion Ark

Liv and Ingmar

Long Shot: The Kevin Laue Story

Married and Counting

Medora

MisLead: America’s Secret Epidemic

The Missing Picture

Mondays With William

Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve

More Than Honey

Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary

Murph: The Protector

Muscle Shoals

The Muslims Are Coming!

My Father and the Man in Black

Narco Cultura

The Network

The New Black

99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film

No Place on Earth

Not Yet Begun to Fight

One Direction: This is Us

One PM Central Standard Time

Our Nixon

Pad Yatra: A Green Odyssey

Pandora’s Promise

The Paw Project

A Place At The Table

Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself

The Prime Ministers: The Pioneers

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

Re-emerging: The Jews of Nigeria

Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust

Revolution

The Revolutionary Optimists

Rising from Ashes

A River Changes Course

Running From Crazy

Salinger

The Second Meeting

Seduced and Abandoned

Shepard & Dark

The Short Game

Six By Sondheim

Sound City

Spark: A Burning Man Story

Spinning Plates

The Square

State 194

Stolen Seas

Stories We Tell

Storm Surfers in 3D

Stuck

The Summit

Sweet Dreams

Symphony of the Soil

Terms and Conditions May Apply

Tim’s Vermeer

The Trials of Muhammad Ali

12 12 12

20 Feet From Stardom

Two: The Story of Roman and Nyro

The Unbelievers

The United States of Autism

The United States of Football

The Unknown Known

Valentine Road

Valentino’s Ghost

Walter: Lessons From The World’s Oldest People

Wampler’s Ascent

War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State

We Came Home

We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks

We The Parents

We Will See Tomorrow

When I Walk

Which Way Is the Front Line From Her? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington

Why We Ride

Winter Nomads

Zipper: Coney Island’s Last Wild Ride