Ira Wohl films his cousin Philly, fifty-two and intellectually disabled, learning to live without his parents.
Juvenile offenders spend an afternoon with lifers at Rahway prison; the film that invented the format.
One California family, nineteen adopted children, most of them disabled or refugees from Vietnam.
Yuichiro Miura skis eight thousand feet down the Lhotse Face on a parachute, and does not entirely stop.
Peter Davis on Vietnam, cutting between the men who ordered the war and the people it was fought on.
A season on the rodeo circuit, following a world champion and the young rider chasing him.
Marjoe Gortner lets a crew film his last revival tour and explains the con between sermons.
A fictional entomologist argues that insects will inherit the earth, over real macro photography that makes the case.
The pianist at eighty, playing and talking, filmed across Europe and America.
Sixteen hours of a Carl Rogers encounter group cut to ninety minutes; group therapy as it was actually practised.
Six weeks with an American platoon in Vietnam, filmed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, who had been a prisoner at Dien Bien Phu.
Peter Watkins films a nuclear strike on Kent as if it were news; the BBC banned it for twenty years.
The First Lady and delegate, from Hyde Park to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Cousteau’s Conshelf II: six men living for a month in a steel house on the floor of the Red Sea.
The poet at eighty-eight, teaching and reciting, in the last year of his life.
Hitler told through Goethe’s Reynard the Fox, in woodcuts and archive, narrated by Marlene Dietrich.
A French expedition crosses New Guinea on foot in 1959 and films the first contact along the way.
A palomino called Nautical goes from a New Mexico ranch to the Olympic show-jumping team.
Bernhard and Michael Grzimek count the herds from a zebra-striped aeroplane to argue for the park’s borders.
Disney in the Arctic - and the film whose staged lemming sequence created a myth that outlived it.
The Nobel laureate at his hospital in Lambarene, filmed in Gabon in his eighties.
Cousteau and Louis Malle invent the underwater documentary, in colour, from aboard the Calypso.
Helen Keller at seventy-four, filmed at home and narrated by Katharine Cornell.
Disney on the American plains, and the bison birth that got the film briefly banned in New York.
The first Disney True-Life Adventure feature: the Sonoran desert, and a scorpion square dance nobody has forgiven.
RKO’s adaptation of Rachel Carson’s book - she hated the script and never sold film rights again.
Thor Heyerdahl’s own 16mm footage of the balsa raft that drifted from Peru to Polynesia in 1947.
Michelangelo told entirely through his own sculpture and painting, with a camera that moves like an eye.
A Nigerian village builds a maternity hospital, filmed by the British Crown Film Unit at the end of empire.
Operation Highjump: four thousand American servicemen and thirteen ships sent to map Antarctica in 1946.
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