Documentary Channel Announces The 2011 "Best of DOC" Programming Line-Up Airing Every Night This December

Documentary Channel Announces The 2011 "Best of DOC" Programming Line-Up Airing Every Night This December

Public Invited to Vote for 2011 "Audience Award" and Participate in "Best of DOC" Sweepstakes

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Documentary Channel (DOC) will proudly recognize its top documentary film premieres of the year with the 2011 "Best of DOC" line-up, showcasing one film every evening throughout December. Beginning December 1 with the moving Oscar® nominee "Operation Homecoming" (8 p.m. ET/PT), this diverse list of 31 films was voted into the line-up by Documentary Channel staff and includes a stellar selection of Academy Award nominated documentaries, film festival favorites and other noteworthy documentary films from the year.

An annual tradition at Documentary Channel, the "Best of DOC" celebration includes a special online sweepstakes giving the general public a chance to vote for Documentary Channel's 2011 Audience Award and be eligible to win one of a wide variety of prizes for participating, including iPads, a BOSE CineMate System, Sony Bloggie Camcorders, "Best of DOC" DVD packages and more. In addition, a "Best of DOC" Jury Award will be announced for the top film as voted on by a Documentary Channel jury.

Hosted at www.DocumentaryChannel.com/bestofdoc, the 2011 "Best of DOC" sweepstakes begins December 1, 2011 at 9 a.m. ET and ends January 5, 2012 at 4:59 p.m. ET. Participants must be 18 or older, and may enter a maximum of one time per day. A total of 45 winners will be selected through a random drawing on or around January 10, 2012 with winners to be notified starting January 14, 2012. A final list of winners will be posted on the Documentary Channel website in February 2012. Complete sweepstakes details, rules and regulations are available online at www.DocumentaryChannel.com/bestofdoc.

A phenomenal list of remarkable documentaries, this year's "Best of DOC" offers the perfect opportunity to celebrate the power and inspiration of documentary filmmaking and gives viewers the chance to select their favorite DOC film of 2011.

Documentary Channel's exclusive 2011 "Best of DOC" programming line up (all airing at 8 p.m. ET/PT):

Thursday, December 1 "Operation Homecoming"
Friday, December 2 "Honeyboy and the History of the Blues"
Saturday, December 3 "The Story of the Weeping Camel"
Sunday, December 4 "Eat the Sun"
Monday, December 5 "King Crawfish"
Tuesday, December 6 "The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue to Hope"
Wednesday, December 7 "The Chair"
Thursday, December 8 "John Lee Hooker: That's My Story"
Friday, December 9 "Autumn Gold"
Saturday, December 10 "A Good Man"
Sunday, December 11 "Prosecutor"
Monday, December 12 "The Last Days of Shishmaref"
Tuesday, December 13 "The Secret to a Happy Ending"
Wednesday, December
14 "Tell Them Who You Are"
"For the Love of Movies: The Story of
Thursday, December 15 American Film Criticism"
Friday, December 16 "Full Disclosure"
Saturday, December 17 "Ghost Bird"
Sunday, December 18 "Gathering Remnants"
Monday, December 19 "Sing: The Hotel Café Tour"
Tuesday, December 20 "October Country"
Wednesday, December
21 "Burzynski: Cancer is a Serious Business"
Thursday, December 22 "Against the Tide"
Friday, December 23 "Kurt Cobain: About a Son"
Saturday, December 24 "Puppet"
Sunday, December 25 "Space Tourists"
"Crisis: Behind a Presidential
Monday, December 26 Commitment"
Tuesday, December 27 "Beah: A Black Woman Speaks"
Wednesday, December
28 "Killer at Large"
Thursday, December 29 "Trimpin: The Sound of Invention"
"Virtual JFK: Vietnam if Kennedy Had
Friday, December 30 Lived"
Saturday, December 31 "Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea"

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About Documentary Channel®: Documentary Channel (DOC) is the USA's first 24-hour television network exclusively devoted to documentary films and the independent documentary filmmaker, providing viewers with round-the-clock opportunities to see fascinating, eclectic and award-winning documentary films of all lengths and genres. For more information on DOC, visit the network website at www.documentarychannel.com, in addition to www.facebook.com/DocumentaryChannel or www.twitter.com/doc_channel.

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