
Op basis van een poll onder verschillende filmmakers is een overzicht samengesteld van de 50 beste documentaires ooit gemaakt.
1. - 7 to 49 Up series
2. - Touching the Void
3. - Bowling For Columbine
4. - The World At War
5. - Capturing the Friedmans
6. - The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off
7. - Life On Earth
8. - Fahrenheit 9/11
9. - When We Were Kings
10. - Faking It
11. - Hoop Dreams
12. - This Week: Death on the Rock
13. - The Leader, His Driver and the
Driver's Wife
14. - One Day in September
15. - 14 Days in May
16. - The Family
17. - Night Mail
18. - The Nazis: A Warning From History
19. - Supersize Me
20. - Th Death of Yugoslavia
21. - Walking With Dinosaurs
22. - Aileen: Life and Death of a
Serial Killer
23. - Beyond the Clouds
24. - Omnibus: Cracked Actor: A Film
About David Bowie
25. - The Secret Policeman
26. - John's Not Mad
27. - Around the World in 80 Days
28. - The Thin Blue Line
29. - Wife Swap
30. - Simon Schama's A History of
Britain
31. - The Power of Nightmares
32. - Spellbound
33. - The War Game
34. - Signs of the Times (About taste,
ie style not food. Don't remember
this one.)
35. - An Impossible Job (Graham Taylor,
England manager)
36. - Woodstock
37. - People's Century
38. - Beneath the Veil
39. - Feltham Sings
40. - The Human Body
41. - World in Action: In the Interests
of Justice (about the Birmingham 6)
42. - Driving School
43. - Hearts of Darkness
44. - Nanook of the North
45. - Home From the Hill
46 - Civilisation
47. - Fred Dibnah, Steeplejack
48. - Malcolm and Barbara: A Love Story
49. - The Fog of War
50. - When Louis Met Jimmy – Theroux meets Saville