Channel 4 asked a number of documentary filmmakers to name their favourite documentaries of all time. This two and a half hour programme goes through the top 50 in detail.

Google Vid links, complete, in 2 parts
WATCH Part 1
WATCH Part 2

veoh links
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v149068262nmKrwHs part 1
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14906847GBkd4MMb part 2
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14906845KR3A8Gtp part 3
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14906843Qp7gtZWB part 4
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14906840WseFPkMj part 5
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v14906839gQb672WC part 6

The top 50 list with links : (please add more if you see them around) - thanks to smarrie for finding missing links

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 911 (Thanks smarrie)
9. - When We Were Kings
10. - Faking It
11. - Hoop Dreams
12. - This Week: Death on the Rock (thanks smarrie)
13. - The Leader, The Driver and The Driver's Wife (thanks smarrie)
14. - One Day in September
15. - 14 Days in May
16. - The Family
17. - Night Mail
18. - The Nazis : A Warning From History
19. - Super Size Me
20. - The Death of Yugoslavia 12345
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 (thanks smarrie)
25. - The Secret Policeman OR http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=122284
26. - John's Not Mad
27. - Around the World in 80 Days
28. - The Thin Blue Line (thanks smarrie)
29. - Wife Swap
30. - A History Of Britain
31. - The Power Of Nightmares
32. - Spellbound
33. -The War Game
34. - Signs of the Times
35. - An Impossible Job - Graham Taylor
36. - Woodstock (see below for links from smarrie)
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 - A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
44. - Nanook Of The North
45. - Home From the Hill
46 - Civillisation with Kenneth Clarke
47. - Fred Dibnah; Steeplejack
48. - Malcolm and Barbara: A Love Story
49. - The Fog of War
50. - Louis Theroux - When Louis Met Jimmy

13. The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146983/

http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=122346

replacement link 02/09

Thanks Smarrie, will add link to list

top man been wanting to watch these for a while now as i aint seen them in years

hopefully you can find the feltham sings docu i've also seen that but would like another look

24. Cracked Actor: David Bowie (1975)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0377047/

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=kwijib...e+cracked+actor
or
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4...ur=3&st=day

replacement link 02/09

25. The Secret Policeman
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=122284

28. 'The Thin Blue Line (1988)
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=122665

12. This Week, Death on the Rock (1988)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_the_Rock

http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=122343

Alt veoh link Fahrenheit 9/11
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v3295907NZ7kN4ED

Part 1 http://www.veoh.com/videos/v149068262nmKrwHs?rank=8& 22 min

"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."

What became of horsehead's original post and all the work he put into linking the majority of the 'Greatest Docs' - 80-90% of the list?

it's here, someone didn't search...

/merged

he he, forgot to update this,
thanks for all the links smarrie, will add to list,
37 out of 50 is not bad eh?

OK! now I can watch the rest of Stage9 in mindful peaceableness (I also did an initial 'search' including hitme's and had no luck)

adding alternative links for the original doc.

#14 'Fourteen Days in May' http://www.veoh.com/videos/v15287553QAAPtG...p;viewType=user

The Secret Policeman, new link annainitally QSS posting:
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php...mp;#entry472491

any chance anyone knows where i can find the actual original doc of fred dibnah as it is not on the links
thanks guys probly the best post ever

replacement link

link added
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php...mp;#entry597975

Just want to say thanks....good post.
any channel 4 programmes are good for me....

lovin Louis Theroux at the moment....brilliant.

new links

#46 Civilisation: A Personal View (1969) Kenneth Clark
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=130822

thanks for new links smarrie,
esp. the new Kenneth Clarke doc, never seen it before, good find

# 12 This Week: Death on the Rock (1988) replacement playlist
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B8FFF3016DDF294F

The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife (1991) Nick Broomfeld (replacement link)
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=149619

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Michael Moore
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=153933

alt. links, veehd divx

part1 - http://veehd.com/video/1715211
part2 - http://veehd.com/video/1715212

36.Woodstock
http://ipb.quicksilverscreen.com/index.php?showtopic=64805