50 Films to See Before You Die was a programme shown on Channel 4 on Saturday July 22, 2006, to celebrate the relaunch of Film4 as a free-to-air channel available to digital terrestrial, digital satellite and cable homes in the United Kingdom. It consisted of a countdown of, as the name suggests, a list of 50 films to see before you die, compiled by various film critics, experts and personalities. Each film was supposed to be "chosen as a paragon of a particular genre or style".