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As a teacher and writer on non-fiction, my personal engagement with cinema has to do not only with visual pleasure but also with epistephilia. So the following list is a highly subjective one, composed of ten great films – most are documentaries that not only fascinated me but also made me think, and still doi, about the realm of the real and its cinematographic interrogation. Each one, in its own way, combines risk and passion, formal experimentation and the commitment of pushing and expanding the limits of the cinematographic language. Since the history of cinema is a (hopefully) never-ending story, a continuous work, or revision and rewriting, I would like to add a recent production, a number 11 to suggest the openness character of history and the eye we should have to the future. For its experimentation with digital technology, its auto-ethnography vocation, and its lyrical qualities, I choose Dress Rehearsal for Utopia by Andrés Duque (2012) as the extra movie for this ongoing celebration of cinema.