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Sight and Sound's Greatest Films of All Time 2022

Every decade the Sight and Sound team asks critics to name the greatest films of all time. Here are the results of the 2022 poll – the largest ever, with 1,639 critics, programmers, curators, archivists and academics each submitting their top ten ballot - and now updated with the complete list.

Check out Sight and Sound for the complete breakdown, including where films received the same number of votes.

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There are 17 documentary films in this list.

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    9

  • Shoah

    27

  • News from Home

    52

  • Sans Soleil

    59

  • The Gleaners and I

    67

  • Histoire(s) du cinéma

    86

  • The House Is Black

    102

  • Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

    167

  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

    173

  • Paris Is Burning

    206

  • One Way or Another

    209

  • Twenty Years Later

    223

  • Harlan County U.S.A.

    225

  • As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    234

  • The Hour of the Furnaces

    238

  • Dream of Light

    245

  • Nostalgia for the Light

    258