What is your favorite documentary of all time? (and can it be streamed now on one of the popular streaming services?)

--just looking for interesting things to watch. Thanks in advance.

So much to choose from and no idea about streaming options, I'll throw out Terry Zwigoff's "Crumb".

I have several, but Cocaine Cowboys comes to mind.

Too many to choose from these days, so here is three:
Making of a Murderer.
The Keepers.
Spitfire.

Hovers between documentary and fiction - but I really like Fatman and Littleboy; about the making of the first atomic bomb.

I also have a couple of DVDs distributed by Y12 weapons plant in Oak Ridge that provide the history of Oak Ridge and uranium enrichment/bomb making.

I also love the cable show "classic album" where they take some great album and walk thru the recording and tracks and little know facts.

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Originally posted by Ripley:
So much to choose from and no idea about streaming options, I'll throw out Terry Zwigoff's "Crumb".

I saw it and might still have he DVD. Bob Crumb was weird. Still alive, too.

'Spitfire - The plane that saved the world'

^^^^^ This one, and one about the Israeli Air Force produced by Steven Spielberg's wife.

"Above and Beyond: The Birth of the Israeli Air Force"

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Originally posted by Pyker:
'Spitfire - The plane that saved the world'

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The Thin Blue line. Suggested by Para. Excellent documentary.

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Bitter Lake by British documentarian Adam Curtis. He's produced several documentaries and they're all fascinating.

Bitter Lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRbq63r7rys

Century of the Self
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

HyperNormalisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyU&t=7047s

I would also recommend all of Werner Herzog's docs. You can probably find most if not all of them on either YouTube or Netflix.