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I've been wanting to see Coffee and Cigarettes, but haven't made the time to do so yet.

Here are a couple documentaries that I've enjoyed watching:

Spellbound - Follows a groupd of kids as they prepare for and compete in a spelling bee.

Capturing the Friedman's - How the Friedman family deals with some child molestation charges against the father/son.

Stevie - Director Steve James returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an 'Advocate Big Brother' to ten years earlier.

American Movie - An amateur film maker is obsessed with making a movie.

Dark Days - Director follows a group of street people and they show him this underground community where they live. The commentary is worth checking out as well.

War Photographer - Film crew follows James Nachtwey as he photographs war scenes. A movie camera is attached to his camera for shots that are too dangerous for a film crew.

Devil's Playground - Follows a group of Amish children during the Amish rite of passage known as Rumspringa.

Cinemania - A documentary about five obsessive film buffs living in NYC. (And I thought I was bad.)

That's all I can think of right now. Most of these can be rented from Netflix.

EDIT: Hell House and Fog of War are also very good.

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