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Best Documentary Movies of the 1980s
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1

3.0916
29
reviews
Not Rated
Documentary
$56.00
A documentary which argues that Randall Harris was wrongly convicted of the murder of Dallas police ... more about Thin Blue Line, The (1988) starring Randall Adams and David Harris
2

3.0196
34
reviews
PG
Documentary, Music
$18.34
A performance/music documentary which captures the Talking Heads (David Byrne, Chris Frantz and ... more about Stop Making Sense (1984) starring David Byrne and Tina Weymouth
3

3.0114
27
reviews
Not Rated
Biography, Documentary
$9.89
Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone ... more about Times of Harvey Milk, The (1984) starring Anne Kronenberg and Tory Hartmann
4

2.9337
23
reviews
R
Comedy, Documentary
$12.95
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the ... more about Roger & Me (1989) starring Michael Moore and Pat Boone
5

2.9164
30
reviews
Not Rated
Documentary
$24.66
A documentary on the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's epic 'Fitzcarraldo' (qv), showing how ... more about Burden of Dreams (1982) starring Claudia Cardinale and Jason Robards
6

2.9073
31
reviews
Not Rated
Documentary
$2.66
Funny, inspiring, and bizarre, "Gates of Heaven" is the celebrated pet cemeteries documentary that ... more about Gates of Heaven (1980)
7

2.8739
19
reviews
Not Rated
Biography, Documentary, Music
$4.88
This "biography" evolves around the nearly 240 hours of film and videotape fortuitously taken by ... more about Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
8

2.8612
28
reviews
Not Rated
Documentary
$11.16
A compilation of 1960's films about what to do in case of a Nuclear attack and the effects of ... more about Atomic Cafe, The (1982)
9

2.8127
26
reviews
Not Rated
History, Documentary
$29.34
This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two ... more about For All Mankind (1989)
10

2.7634
30
reviews
Not Rated
History, Documentary
$65.00
In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative ... more about Comic Book Confidential (1988) starring Lynda Barry and Sue Coe