Best of 2008 (25-21)

25 VIRTUAL JFK: VIETNAM IF KENNEDY HAD LIVED
Fascinating "what if?" documentary that draws interesting parallels between then and now, and offers an insight into exactly what the title suggests.

24 DREAMS WITH SHARP TEETH
Science fiction's angry man Harlan Ellison gets the biography treatment in this insightful and amusing documentary.

23 OF TIME AND THE CITY
Terrence Davies offers a love song and eulogy to the city of Liverpool to coincide with its year as City of Culture, mixing music, archive footage and his own portentous voiceover about growing up there.

22 SHETLAND LONE STAR
Part of BBC's "Scotland's History" strand, this one-off documentary was a wonderfully entertaining look at the life and career of Thomas Fraser, a man who sung country songs in his spare time in a remote village in Shetland, only to become a country music star thirty years after his death.

21 THE WAVE
German film based on a true life experiment from the sixties in which a bunch of kids are taught a practical lesson about the power of fascism, only for the teacher to lose control as the experiment goes too far.