Happy People: A year in Taiga - Herzog with his brother, a lovely doc about trappers in Siberia. Apart from all the classic science, nature, war docs, Jonathan Meades three part doc on France was wonderful (much of it went over me head)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/feb/01/jonathan-meades-france-tv-review. A list of his videos on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/MeadesShrine/videos?sort=dd&view=1&flow=listLoving the Dixon and Italian chef stuff - Italy Unpacked, the Sicily one was great la dolce vita!
The Journey inside the cell (perhaps wrong title recently shown on the beeb about the journey of a virus through the body's defence mechanisms) was excellent -
http://www.bbcactivevideoforlearning.com/1/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleID=24286 .
Jim al-kahlili's - Everything and Nothing. Steven Berkoff - To Infinity and Beyond - about huge numbers.
One I can't wait to watch is the - The House I live In - about America's war on drugs.
China state TV's epic doc about food in all the regions is a must watch, is on YouTube, will find the name: A Bite of China -
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/sep/12/bite-of-china-finest-food-tv-ever.
Ken Burns - America's greatest idea - on the US's national parks.
Enron: the smartest guys in the room. Beggars belief what these c*nts were doing.
Urbanized. Urban development/architecture documentary by Gary Hustwit.
How much does your building weigh, Mr. Foster?
http://www.mrfostermovie.com/ bio of architect Norman Foster.
The Genius of Photography. This is what the beeb is made for.
American: The Bill Hicks story
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (Adam Curtis).
Touching the Void - climbing disaster in the Himalayas.
Bobby Fischer against the world. Nutter.
Cave of forgotten dreams. Herzog on the Chauvet caves in southern France "
the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind". Carl Sagans - Cosmos. Science has moved on but this beautiful series should be shown to all school kids.
Maradona by Kusturica. Emir Kusturica's Che Guevara-esque rendition on Maradona.