Top 9 Docs (couldn't come up with 10)

Top 10 Documentaries
Since I’ve been on this Documentary trip for about 9 months now I should probably list my 10 favourite Docs of all time. As you can see, overt politics has no place in Documentaries for me. When you take out the topical you get to the deeper truths. I dare you to show me an Iraq Doc that can compare to any of these for pure entertainment value alone.

These are in no particular order:

Grey Gardens : Maysles Brothers – The ultimate mother daughter team. So glad they made a Broadway musical out of it.
Gates of Heaven: Errol Morris – Why do dogs make people so crazy?
American Movie: Bad Horror + Headbangin’ Director = Funny as shit doc. This is the movie Fubar was trying to be. You can’t fake a Mike Schank (god knows I’ve tried).
Cinema Verite: Defining the Moment: Peter Wintonick – A great doc about the history of documentaries.
Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus – Exploring the virtues of the deep south through the lens of a Brit with Jim White (alt country star) as our guide. Great structure to this offbeat film.
Half Japanese: The band who would be King – A great story of perseverance over lack of musical talent. This strangely moving tale of a couple of naïve brothers who made serious waves in the early days of indie rock.
Project Grizzly: Peter Lynch – On man’s vision to build the ultimate Bear-proof suit for wildlife preservation---I don’t think so. This guy is one f—ed up cookie but highly watchable. He’s Kind of the Hobbit version of Patrick Swayze.
Hell House – For Christians and those of the secular world this movie has something for you. It can be viewed as anti or pro depending on your faith. Essentially it is a tale of a famous Haunted house that is set up every year in Texas, to literally scare the hell out of impressionable Christian teens, thus leading them onto the path of redemption and salvation. Mel Gibson must have got the idea for the Passion of the Christ from this little movie (at least the gore elements).
Grizzly Man: Werner Herzog – Why do bears make people so crazy?