The Rolling Stones at Altamont and the stabbing caught on camera.
Bob Dylan on his 1965 tour of England, with the cue-card video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
Jackie Kennedy's aunt and cousin in a crumbling East Hampton mansion; the Maysles.
A Kentucky coal strike in 1973, filmed from the picket line; Barbara Kopple's Oscar.
The Harlem drag balls of the 1980s and the houses that voguing came from.
A Frenchman films street artists, then becomes one; Banksy's prank or not.
Emperor penguins walk seventy miles to breed in the Antarctic winter; Morgan Freeman narrates.
Al Gore's slideshow on climate change; the cherry picker up the CO2 graph.
Thirty days of McDonald's and a liver like pate.
Moore on Bush, Iraq and the seven minutes with My Pet Goat; the highest-grossing documentary.
Michael Moore asks why America shoots itself; the K-Mart bullets and Charlton Heston.
Amy Winehouse in home videos and voicemails; Asif Kapadia's archive method again.
Ayrton Senna from karting to Imola, entirely from archive footage.
Eight hours on Simpson, race and Los Angeles; the documentary that won an Oscar as a film.
An 85-year-old sushi master in a ten-seat Tokyo subway restaurant with three Michelin stars.
Thirty-two minutes on Auschwitz made in 1956; Resnais' film every French school shows.
Nine and a half hours of witnesses, no archive footage; Lanzmann's Holocaust.
Robert McNamara's eleven lessons on Vietnam and Cuba; Errol Morris's Interrotron interview.
Errol Morris re-enacts a Dallas cop killing and gets an innocent man freed.
Fred Rogers and the radical kindness of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, told as a heist.
Two Chicago teenagers chase the NBA over five years; the documentary that changed what documentaries could be.
One chef per episode, shot like a perfume ad; Massimo Bottura's broken lemon tart.
The paddock drama that turned Americans into F1 fans.
Michael Jordan and the 1998 Bulls; ten episodes and a lot of grudges.
Steven Avery, exonerated then convicted again; the series that made true crime a Netflix genre.
Robert Durst on a hot mic: "killed them all, of course"; the true-crime series that solved a case.
Ken Burns' nine episodes of photographs, letters and Shelby Foote; the documentary miniseries as form.
Carl Sagan's thirteen-part tour of the universe from 1980; "billions and billions".
An octopus that disguises itself with shells and the plastic that changed policy.
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