Hitler told through Goethe’s Reynard the Fox, in woodcuts and archive, narrated by Marlene Dietrich.
Five panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and the five lives they were sewn for.
RKO’s post-war explanation of Japan, written by Theodor Geisel - Dr. Seuss - before he wrote for children.
The people who knew her and hid her, including Miep Gies, filmed while they were still alive to speak.
Michelangelo told entirely through his own sculpture and painting, with a camera that moves like an eye.
Helen Keller at seventy-four, filmed at home and narrated by Katharine Cornell.
Operation Highjump: four thousand American servicemen and thirteen ships sent to map Antarctica in 1946.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Holocaust documentary, narrated by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor.
Marcel Ophuls spends four and a half hours on the Butcher of Lyon and the people who protected him.
The violinist teaches in Beijing and Shanghai in 1979, three years after the Cultural Revolution ended.
Five Hungarian Jews return to the places they were deported from in 1944; Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation.
The forced relocation of Navajo families from Big Mountain, narrated by Martin Sheen.
John Ford filmed the battle from the roof of a power station and was wounded doing it; eighteen minutes of 16mm colour.
The ten thousand children Britain took in before the war, told by the children themselves at eighty.
The 1989 American invasion of Panama and the civilian casualties the networks did not show.
The Munich Olympics hostage crisis of 1972, minute by minute, including the interview with the surviving gunman.
The displaced-persons camps between 1945 and 1948, and the founding of Israel seen from inside them.
A Nigerian village builds a maternity hospital, filmed by the British Crown Film Unit at the end of empire.
The First Lady and delegate, from Hyde Park to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Algonquin Round Table: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and a decade of New York wit.
A Kentucky coal strike in 1973, filmed from the picket line; Barbara Kopple's Oscar.
AP journalists inside the besieged city in 2022; Ukraine's first Oscar.
Robert McNamara's eleven lessons on Vietnam and Cuba; Errol Morris's Interrotron interview.
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival footage found after fifty years; Questlove's Oscar.
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