The Top 10 Documentaries of the New Millenium

Recently, in a sort of response to Entertainment Weekly's list of 100 New Classic Films, I put together my own lists of the top 40 films, top 10 documentaries, and 12 most important directors of this millenium. The EW list stretches back to 1982, but given the rapid momentum of pop culture, it seems that films like "Blue Velvet", "Do the Right Thing", "Goodfellas", and even "Pulp Fiction" have been sufficiently venerated as classics for a decade now. On the other hand, the year 1999 seems like a watershed moment for film, a time that showed how new cinematic technologies available in the coming millenium could be used for the power of good, original storytelling ("Being John Malkovich", "Magnolia", "The Matrix", "Run Lola Run", "Fight Club") or for the purpose of pure, mercenary evil and greed ("The Phantom Menace").

Smaller, cheaper, higher quality cameras have certainly been a boon for documentaries this decade, and they make up a large segment of Netflix's Instant Viewing content. These are my 10 favorite docmentaries since the year 2000:

1) Bowling For Columbine (pictured below)
2) The Devil and Daniel Johnston (pictured above)
3) No Direction Home
4) Spellbound
5) Jim Brown: All-American
6) Deliver Us From Evil
7) Capturing the Friedmans
8) Sound and Fury
9) Murderball
10) The Kid Stays in the Picture