Senna (2010, Asif Kapadia)

BAFTA 2012. No talking heads — pure archive. Changed sports documentary form. Essential for football fans.

Senna — while technically a motorsport documentary — is included here because it defines the form for all sports documentaries and is required viewing for any sports documentary student. Asif Kapadia's film about Ayrton Senna uses only archive footage and audio, with no talking-head interviews, to construct a genuinely cinematic tragedy about genius, mortality, and institutional corruption. It won the BAFTA for Best Documentary in 2012. Every football documentary made since 2010 has been influenced by its structure.

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