RKO’s post-war explanation of Japan, written by Theodor Geisel - Dr. Seuss - before he wrote for children.
The Allied advance from Normandy to the Elbe, assembled by Carol Reed and Garson Kanin from a thousand cameramen.
A year aboard an American aircraft carrier in the Pacific, filmed in colour by the crew themselves.
The British account of El Alamein, cut from footage shot by cameramen who went forward with the infantry.
The first of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight films, made to explain to conscripts what they were being sent into.
The Soviet account of the counter-offensive that stopped the Wehrmacht outside Moscow, re-cut for American cinemas.
Australian newsreel from the Kokoda Track in New Guinea, shot by Damien Parer, who was killed two years later.
John Ford filmed the battle from the roof of a power station and was wounded doing it; eighteen minutes of 16mm colour.
A screenwriter goes to Las Vegas to drink himself to death and meets someone who lets him.
An FBI agent and a terrorist swap faces, and both actors play both parts.
Bob Dylan from the Village to Newport 1965, with Chalamet singing it himself.
How Willy Wonka got the factory, as a musical with Chalamet and a Hugh Grant Oompa-Loompa.
A West African boy conscripted into a militia, and the commandant who becomes his father.
The last day of Oscar Grant, before a BART platform in Oakland on New Year’s morning.
Two brothers rob the Charlotte Motor Speedway during a NASCAR race, badly and then brilliantly.
A skier who missed the Olympics runs the highest-stakes poker game in America.
Three product launches, backstage, in real time; Sorkin dialogue at full speed.
James Braddock fights his way out of the Depression, one purse at a time.
A British frigate hunts a French privateer round Cape Horn; the best sailing film there is.
John Dillinger robbing banks across the Midwest while the FBI invents itself to catch him.
An FBI agent undercover in the Bonanno family, and the ageing wiseguy who vouches for him.
P. T. Barnum as a pop musical; the songs outlived the reviews.
Hugo’s barricades sung live on set, with Hathaway’s one-take I Dreamed a Dream.
Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin, from the London workhouse to the honorary Oscar.
Guy Ritchie’s bare-knuckle Holmes, with the fight choreography narrated before it happens.
Besson’s orange-haired future: a cab driver, a diva’s aria and Gary Oldman with a plastic haircut.
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, paints and writes with the only limb he controls.
Two girls vanish in Pennsylvania and a father takes the investigation into his own basement.
A young forger sent to Italy to bring a rich man home decides to become him instead.
A private detective for animals finds the Miami Dolphins’ mascot; Carrey at maximum volume.
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