This project is for working on the genealogies of people who have been featured in notable documentaries, including full-length films and special series.

Criteria

Thousands of documentaries are produced worldwide each year. It would be impossible and impractical to include everyone in this project.

Therefore, we focus on the subjects of notable documentaries -- ones that received critical acclaim, high viewership, or otherwise made their way into the public consciousness.
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Some examples of the sorts of documentaries we're focusing on include:

• Nominees and winners of major awards, like the Academy Awards and IDA Documentary Awards
• Critical consensus choices, like those on the Rotten Tomatoes top-reviewed documentaries list
• Features from longstanding documentaries series, like PBS American Masters and BBC Panorama

Many public features, including world leaders, have been the subjects of countless documentaries by virtue of their positions. We're looking for cases where the documentaries themselves became notable in some way, too.

Included

• Iris Apfel - Iris (2015)
• Eileen Atkins - Tea with the Dames (2018)
• James Baldwin - I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
• Judi Dench - Tea with the Dames (2018)
• Eddy Galland - Three Identical Strangers (2018)
• Roger Ebert - Life Itself (2014)
• Joe Exotic - Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (2020)
• Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (2019)
• David Kellman - Three Identical Strangers (2018)
• J. Robert Oppenheimer - The Day After Trinity (1981)
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Knock Down the House (2019)
• Joan Plowright - Tea with the Dames (2018)
• Fred Rogers - Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
• Robert Shafran - Three Identical Strangers (2018)
• Jackie Siegel - The Queen of Versailles (2012)
• David A. Siegel - The Queen of Versailles (2012)
• Maggie Smith - Tea with the Dames (2018)
• Roger Stone - Get Me Roger Stone (2017)
• Anthony Weiner - Weiner (2016)
• Amy Winehouse - Amy (2015)

To Include

• Seymour Bernstein - Seymour: An Introduction (2015)
• Cori Bush - Knock Down the House (2019)
• Tracy Edwards - Maiden (2019)
• Alex Honnold - Free Solo (2018)
• Steve "Lips" Kudlow - Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)
• Alexander McQueen - McQueen (2018)
• Oliver O'Grady - Deliver Us from Evil (2006)
• Jiro Ono - Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012)
• Philippe Petit - Man on Wire (2008)
• Robb Reiner - Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009)
• Edward Snowden - Citizenfour (2014)
• Paula Jean Swearengin - Knock Down the House (2019)
• Amy Vilela - Knock Down the House (2019)

Top 50 Biography Documentaries