Good documentary films?

I watched Countdown to Zero a few nights back and really enjoyed it. Very good look at nuclear proliferation.
 
If you've got any interest in films, check out a doc called Operation Filmmaker. The subtitle should be "Or how a wonderful idea turned to ****".

Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a young and charismatic film student, Muthana Mohmed, stands in the rubble of the city's film school and explains to an American television audience that his dream of becoming a filmmaker has been destroyed - first by Saddam Hussein, then by American bombs. This brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes Muthana's life forever. Watching in the United States, actor/director Liev Schreiber stops channel surfing, utterly captivated. Feeling guilty about a war he opposed, Schreiber decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime - to come to Prague to work on an American movie, Everything is Illuminated. On set, frustrated expectations complicate the relationship between Muthana and his American benefactors in what becomes a cross-cultural endeavor gone awry. Filmmaker Nina Davenport becomes increasingly entangled in the young Iraqi's life as his visa is about to expire and the threat of returning to Baghdad looms. Operation Filmmaker, revealing on several levels, addresses the power dynamics between the American filmmaker and her Iraqi subject, unfolding as an engaging parable about the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Watched Dogtown and it's very interesting even for someone like me who detests the 'Duuuuude' culture of skaters and ski bums.

There was a programme on a few weeks ago about a girls school in Syria. Very interesting as the Presidents wife visited (who is a smart, modern business woman) and talked to the girls who are struggling between being trying to be modern in an islamic culture and still comply with the brainwashing of the party state.
 
Another vote for 'Touching the Void', an amazing tale. I also saw 'The Wildest Dream - Conquest of Everest' on TV the other day and that's also worth seeing.

'March of the Penguins' is worth watching if only for the fantastic narration by Morgan Freeman.
 
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