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The Best Documentary Opening Scenes of All Time

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Christopher Campbell
Mar 05, 2020
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While perusing Film.com’s list of “the 50 best opening scenes of all time,” I was happy to see at least two nonfiction films represented (F For Fake and Man With a Movie Camera). But 1/25th of a list is not great, and it made me wonder and then realize that documentaries don’t often have exceptional or memorable beginnings. A lot of the classics just ju…

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