The Almost Definitive Guide to Video Game Documentaries

Huh, cool. Thanks for the compilation brosephene

Dunno if its been suggested yet but check out "Going Cardboard" for your "other gamer type" docs. Covers pretty well the boardgame scene.

@Nikral: Thanks a lot for that list. Seriously, much appreciated!

I have King of Kong, and it is indeed a great movie.

Great list! Here's that Thumb Candy documentary - one of my favourites.
  

Anyone know how to watch I got Next other than Hulu? I am not in the US so I cannot watch it:(

Rise of the Video Game is really good but so hard to track down nowadays it seems. If anyone knows where I can see it, please let me know!

Great list. Just got done watching Indie Game: The Movie today and it was amazing.

Great list. Race to world first was also a great raiding doc. http://www.racetoworldfirst.com/

Yeah, I'll bookmark this and watch some later on. Nice work!

Holy shit this is a great convenient compilation, too bad it has gone mostly unnoticed at the time. Gonna keep this on note to watch later.

Reformat the Planet is a pretty good documentary about the chiptune scene, and the BBS Documentary (from the same guy who did Get Lamp) is a fascinating look at everything relating to early BBS technology. Not strictly gaming, but related to gaming, and very informative.

Wow, okay this post went unnoticed for quite awhile and now there has been a giant resurgence of comments and suggestions. Thanks for all the recommendations to put up, tonight or tomorrow I will spend some time sorting through everything and update this list.

Thanks!

Edit: Which ones are available on Netflix Streaming?

There is a documentary in the works that should fit this post perfectly. It's called "Video Games: The Movie" and it's currently under production by a legitimate studio, Mediajuice. Check it out: http://facebook.com/VideoGamesTheMovie

Update June 26

-Added new movies to both video game documentaries and other games list.

Thanks everyone who have recommended movies to add. Some I didn't feel fit, but I still appreciate recommending them.

I am trying to keep this as strict as possible when it comes to what movies to put up. I think if I were to be a little more open this list could get out of hand.

Looking at the list now I think someday soon I'll devote some time to properly organize this list either alphabetical or by year created.

hey there,

you should definitely add this documentary for all street fighter fans: "i am street fighter - 25th anniversary documentary" ->

Indie Game: The Movie is absolutely effing brilliant. As an artist in another field (music) the way the meat boy guys start coming apart at the seams (especially the skinny dude) really resonated with me and reflects a lot of my experiences in making my band's first album. That documentary captures dudes in the throes of artistic insanity better than any other that I've seen.

Any artists in any field should watch it!

Edit: The "All Your History" series on Machinima's youtube channel is also excellent. They do multi-part, short documentaries on the history of various developers, game franchises, publishers, etc. Very informative stuff.

Wow, this is really really well done. Congratulations on compiling all of this, and thanks!

I gotta start watching some of these. I was scared off a bit by Indie Game being complete garbage that shat on it's very subject matter, and I haven't seen another one, so my experience with the genre so far: all bad.