The 50 Greatest Documentaries was a Channel 4 television programme which was broadcast on 9 October 2005 and was narrated by British actress, Zoë Wanamaker. The number one position was held by the on-going Up Series. The list was compiled based on the nominations submitted to Channel 4 by a series of factual filmmakers, amongst who included Paul Watson, Nick Broomfield and Molly Dineen. 1Up Series1964 United Kingdom 2Touching The Void2003 United Kingdom 3Bowling For Columbine2002 United States 4The World At War1973 United Kingdom 5Capturing The Friedmans2003 United States 6The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off2004 United Kingdom 7Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough1979 United Kingdom 8Fahrenheit 9112004 United States 9When We Were Kings1996 United States 10Faking It2000 United Kingdom 11Hoop Dreams1994 United States 12This Week: Death on the Rock1988 United Kingdom 13The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife1991 United Kingdom 14One Day in September1999 Switzerland / Germany / United Kingdom 15Fourteen Days in May1987 United Kingdom 16The Family1974 United Kingdom 17Night Mail1936 United Kingdom 18The Nazis: A Warning from History1997 United Kingdom 19Super Size Me2004 United States 20The Death of Yugoslavia1995 United Kingdom 21Walking With Dinosaurs1999 United Kingdom 22Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer2003 United Kingdom 23Beyond the Clouds1994 United Kingdom 24Omnibus: Cracked Actor1975 United Kingdom 25The Secret Policeman2003 United Kingdom 26QED: John's Not Mad1989 United Kingdom 27Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days1989 United Kingdom 28The Thin Blue Line1988 United States 29Wife Swap2003 United Kingdom 30A History Of Britain2000 United Kingdom 31The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear2004 United Kingdom 32Spellbound2002 United States 33The War Game1965 United Kingdom 34Signs of the Times1992 United Kingdom 35An Impossible Job: Graham Taylor1993 United Kingdom 36Woodstock1970 United States 37People's Century1995 United Kingdom 38Beneath the Veil2001 United Kingdom 39Feltham Sings2002 United Kingdom 40The Human Body1998 United Kingdom 41World in Action: In the Interests of Justice1985 United Kingdom 42Driving School1997 United Kingdom 43Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse1991 United States 44Nanook of the North1922 United States / France 45Home From the Hill1987 United Kingdom 46Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark1969 United Kingdom 47Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack1979 United Kingdom 48Malcolm & Barbara: A Love Story1999 United Kingdom 49The Fog of War2003 United States 50Louis Theroux: When Louis Met Jimmy2000 United Kingdom