Best Documentaries of 2012

The genre of documentary continues to gain traction in widespread, longtail audience appeal, versus Hollywood films. The Toronto HotDocs festival - perhaps the leading documentary festival in the world - recently put out a twitter call for people's favourite docs of the year. The list is long and diverse and attests to the genre's depth. How many of the following titles have you heard of? 

Room 237

Samsara

Brother Number One

TREEPLANTERLAND

Brooklyn Castle

The Impostor

Call Me Kuchu

Portrait of Wally

Central Park 5

Camp 14

Ai Wei Wei Never Sorry

Kumare

Shut up & play the hits

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Kings of Pastry

World Before Her

Under African Skies

Invisible War

Searching for Sugarman

The Bastard sings the sweetest song. 

Detropia

Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone

Marley

Reportero

Beware of Mr Baker

Vivan LasAntipodas

Queen of Versailles

Planet of Snail

Over My Dead Body

Beauty is Embarrassing

Stories We Tell

We are Wisconsin

Only the Young. 

tchoupitoulas

United in Anger: A history of Act Up

Entre Les Bras

Alone up there

Chasing Ice

Leviathan

Life in the Hidden Zone

The Act of Killing

Herman's House

The house I live in

The City Dark

Splinters

Windfall

Last Days Here

Unraveled

This is not a Film

How to Grow a Band

Crazy Horse

First Position

Never Stand Still

Head Games

China Heavyweight

Fake it So Real

The Other Dream Team

Chimpanzee

5 broken cameras

The law in these parts

Last Call at the Oasis

The Island President

West of Memphis

WE are legion. Story of the Hacktivists.

Side by Side

How to survive a plague

the loving story

tahrir liberation square

photographic memory

only the young

Camp 14: Total Control Zone

Dreams of a life

2016

Supernova.