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Top 10 Most Influential Documentaries of All Time
Documentary filmmaking at its most powerful does not merely record reality -- it reshapes it. These ten films provoked legislation, toppled corporate giants, sparked global environmental movements, and forced the world to confront atrocities it preferred to ignore. Spanning six decades and five continents, they represent the documentary form at its most urgent and most transformative: cinema not as escapism but as a weapon for change.
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