Far too many to mention really but a few come to mind:
FROZEN PLANET
I love all of this "little" BBC series. The Blue Planet, Planet Earth, Frozen Planet. Some incredible shots, and just about anything David Attenborough touches is gold.
THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING
A group of muslim comedians travel around the US offering little more than humour and interaction to challenge stereotypes and prejudice. I really loved this. It's open and honest and at times quite heart warming.
LAST DAYS HERE
So when I sat down and started to watch this I was concerned. Mostly due to the feeling I had that there were many ways in which to tell or spin the story of Pentagram frontman Bobby Liebling, and that after 20 or 30 minutes I feared I had a pretty good feeling which route they had taken; the old, washed up, reclusive, socially inept man desperately clinging on to days of former semi-glory and reasonable successes. Thankfully however this was ultimately proven somewhat inaccurate.
It is arguably unbiased (only to a point, of course) in its presentation. It depicts Bobby at his weakest, his saddest, his most vulnerable. However this wasnt the story of a washed up old man who never made it but desperately clings to the old days. It is the story of a man who learns lessons, grows as a man, rebuilds, reinvents and has the courage aswell as the confidence, convinction and belief in Pentagram, what Pentagram was and a vision of what Pentagram could still be, to put himself back in the spotlight on the road to making the current version of Pentagram the most commercially successfully version to date. As a fan this makes me very happy.
STEPHEN FRY: SECRET LIFE OF THE MANIC DEPRESSIVE
As a man living with bipolar disorder, who has on numerous occasions attempted to take his own life, who has the platform on which to be heard, and also happens to make cracking documentaries, this was a no brainer but was without doubt also pretty courageous. Through opening up publicly about his own experiences, struggles and feelings while also inviting other people with the condition to do the same, including a few celebrities such as Carrie Fisher, Robbie Williams and Richard Dreyfuss, he succeeds in shining a little bit of a light on what manic depression is, through not only a medical definition of a complex condition but through the sharing of experiences and accounts from many people who all feel slightly different in their attitude towards their condition. Some are intensely suicidal, some are taking medication, some refuse medication, and some love their condition, for all the highest highs make the lowest lows worth enduring.