Silent Era
This silent classic by the great Charlie Chaplin chronicles a tramp, with an interest in a blind flower girl.
City Lights
This short film from Alain Resnais documents concentration camps during the holocaust.
Night and Fog
This documentary miniseries documents the story of a football player turned acquitted murder.
OJ: Made In America
This 9.5 hour documentary from Claude Lanzmann, consists only of interviews with holocaust survivors, witnesses, and perpetrators.
Shoah
Directed Inland Empire and Lost Highway
David Lynch
This mammoth drama by D.W. Griffith intertwines four stories, each one form their own point in history.
Intolerance
This untraditional short from Chris Marker, is just a slideshow of images with narration.
La Jetee
The debut feature of Frederick Wiseman which documents the inside of The Prison for the Criminally Insane in Bridgewater Massachusetts.
Titicut Follies
This 8 hour experimental work by Andy Warhol, features the passage of time of a building in New York.
Empire
Directed Crumb and Ghost World
Terry Zwigoff
The first "Best Picture" Winner, of the American Academy Awards
Wings
In this jaw dropping, and cinema defining work from George Melies, a series of men make a voyage to a nearby "planet".
A Trip to the Moon.
This 22 hour long piece by Ken Burns, documents the history of America's favorite pastime.
Baseball
Considered the longest film of all time this experimental work follows a production cycle in reverse order. It also clocks in at a whopping 857 hours, or 35 days.
Logistics
Directed The Last Detail and Being There
Hal Ashby
One of the first documentaries ever made, this documentary follows a cameraman around the streets of the USSR in this masterpiece by Dziga Vertov.
Man With a Movie Camera
An experimental short from Luis Bunuel, with collaboration from Salvador Dali.
Un Chien Andalou
This concert film by Johnathan Demme features the talking heads performing songs from their album "Speaking in Tongues"
Stop Making Sense
The apocalyptic "Ulimate Road Film" by Wim Wenders runs for over 4.5 hours, and spans several countries while a nuclear satellite hovers over the world like a lethal bird of prey.
Until The End Of The World
Directed Valley of the Bees and Marketa Lazarova
Frantisek Vlacil
A 1929 film by G.W. Pabst about a woman names "Lulu"
Pandora's Box
A short documentary from Forugh Farrokhzad, which gives us an up close and personal look at a leper colony.
The House is Black
From Director Ron Fricke, who is accredited to the films Baraka and Samsara, this film was his first foyer in directing.
Chronos
This 2011 art project coming in at 14,400 minutes comprises of decades of decay of a building in Helsinki Finland.
Modern Times Forever
Directed Maidstone and Wild 90
Norman Mailer