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50 Greatest Documentaries

In 2005, Channel 4 conducted a poll to determine what the British public considered to be the 50 greatest documentary films. The final result was broadcast in October 2005.

—I stopped compiling the list as I found a number of the entries were television series and I didn’t want to pollute the AllConsuming database.
1. The Up Series (Seven Up / 7 Plus Seven / 21 Up / 28 Up / 35 Up / 42 Up)  
2. Touching the Void
by Kevin Macdonald
  
3. Bowling for Columbine  
4. The World at War (30th Anniversary Edition)
by John Pett
  
5. Capturing the Friedmans
by Andrew Jarecki
  
6.
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 The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off  
7.
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 Life on Earth  
8. Fahrenheit 9/11  
9. When We Were Kings
by Leon Gast
  
10.
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 Faking It  
11. Hoop Dreams - Criterion Collection  
12.
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 This Week: Death on the Rock  
13.
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 The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife
by Nick Broomfield
  
14. One Day in September
by Kevin Macdonald
  
15.
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 Fourteen Days in May  
16. Super Size Me  
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Created by Chris Nolan.ca on Oct 05, 2006.