Current, the US-based documentary channel, recently put out a list called the 50 documentaries to see before you die. Challenge accepted! I suppose i should be noted that I’ve already seen 32 of them, but I look forward to knocking off the other 18. Maybe I’ll put a dent in the list on the flight to Sydney.

Here it is, in order:

1. Hoop Dreams
2. The Thin Blue Line
3. Roger and Me
4. Waltz with Bashir
5. Super Size Me
6. The War Room
7. The Celluloid Closet
8. An Inconvenient Truth
9. Trouble the Water
10. Grizzly Man
11. Paris is Burning
12. Bowling for Columbine
13. The Fog of War
14. Dark Days
15. Crumb
16. Bus 174
17. Street Fight
18. Food, Inc
19. Touching the Void
20. Capturing the Friedmans
21. Exit Through the Gift Shop
22. Shut Up and Sing
23. The Eyes of Tammy Faye
24. Paradise Lost
25. Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room
26. Murderball
27. Tarnation
28. Gasland
29. Man on Wire
30. Farenheit 9/11
31. Jesus Camp
32. Dogtown and Z Boys
33. Tongues Untied
34. Brother’s Keeper
35. Paragraph 175
36. Taxi to the Dark Side
37. Inside Job
38. March of the Penguins
39. Biggie and Tupac
40. When We Were Kings
41. The King of Kong
42. Catfish
43. When the Levees Broke
44. Burma VJ
45. The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
46. Little Dieter Needs to Fly
47. One Day in September
48. The Kid Stays in the Picture
49. Madonna: Truth or Dare
50. Spellbound