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. 　　1 Up Series 1964 United Kingdom 　　2 Touching The Void 2003 United Kingdom 　　3 Bowling For Columbine 2002 United States 　　4 The World At War 1973 United Kingdom 　　5 Capturing The Friedmans 2003 United States 　　6 The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off 2004 United Kingdom 　　7 Life on Earth: A Natural History by David Attenborough 1979 United Kingdom 　　8 Fahrenheit 911 2004 United States 　　9 When We Were Kings 1996 United States 　　10 Faking It 2000 United Kingdom 　　11 Hoop Dreams 1994 United States 　　12 This Week: Death on the Rock 1988 United Kingdom 　　13 The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife 1991 United Kingdom 　　14 One Day in September 1999 Switzerland / Germany / United Kingdom 　　15 Fourteen Days in May 1987 United Kingdom 　　16 The Family 1974 United Kingdom 　　17 Night Mail 1936 United Kingdom 　　18 The Nazis: A Warning from History 1997 United Kingdom 　　19 Super Size Me 2004 United States 　　20 The Death of Yugoslavia 1995 United Kingdom 　　21 Walking With Dinosaurs 1999 United Kingdom 　　22 Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer 2003 United Kingdom 　　23 Beyond the Clouds 1994 United Kingdom 　　24 Omnibus: Cracked Actor 1975 United Kingdom 　　25 The Secret Policeman 2003 United Kingdom 　　26 QED: John's Not Mad 1989 United Kingdom 　　27 Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days 1989 United Kingdom 　　28 The Thin Blue Line 1988 United States 　　29 Wife Swap 2003 United Kingdom 　　30 A History Of Britain 2000 United Kingdom 　　31 The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear 2004 United Kingdom 　　32 Spellbound 2002 United States 　　33 The War Game 1965 United Kingdom 　　34 Signs of the Times 1992 United Kingdom 　　35 An Impossible Job: Graham Taylor 1993 United Kingdom 　　36 Woodstock 1970 United States 　　37 People's Century 1995 United Kingdom 　　38 Beneath the Veil 2001 United Kingdom 　　39 Feltham Sings 2002 United Kingdom 　　40 The Human Body 1998 United Kingdom 　　41 World in Action: In the Interests of Justice 1985 United Kingdom 　　42 Driving School 1997 United Kingdom 　　43 Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 1991 United States 　　44 Nanook of the North 1922 United States / France 　　45 Home From the Hill 1987 United Kingdom 　　46 Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark 1969 United Kingdom 　　47 Fred Dibnah: Steeplejack 1979 United Kingdom 　　48 Malcolm & Barbara: A Love Story 1999 United Kingdom 　　49 The Fog of War 2003 United States 　　50 Louis Theroux: When Louis Met Jimmy 2000 United Kingdom