The San Francisco supervisor, his election, his murder and the candlelight march that followed.
Robert Downey Jr. as Charlie Chaplin, from the London workhouse to the honorary Oscar.
The First Lady and delegate, from Hyde Park to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
A skier who missed the Olympics runs the highest-stakes poker game in America.
The pianist at eighty, playing and talking, filmed across Europe and America.
The clarinettist who walked away from the biggest band in America and never went back.
The last day of Oscar Grant, before a BART platform in Oakland on New Year’s morning.
Bob Dylan from the Village to Newport 1965, with Chalamet singing it himself.
Ira Wohl films his cousin Philly, fifty-two and intellectually disabled, learning to live without his parents.
Ali against Foreman in Kinshasa, 1974, with the Zaire 74 festival playing beside the fight.
A legal clerk with no training takes on a utility poisoning a California town, and wins.
Margaret Thatcher in old age, remembering the rise; Streep won her third Oscar for it.
The week after Dallas, seen entirely from inside Jacqueline Kennedy.
Charlize Theron unrecognisable as Aileen Wuornos, in the performance that won her the Oscar.
Dick Cheney assembles the modern American presidency in the background of every frame.
Johnny Cash from Folsom Prison back to Sun Records, sung by the actors themselves.
A salesman and his son sleeping in a station toilet while he works an unpaid internship.
A Memphis family takes in a homeless teenager who becomes an NFL left tackle.
Richard Williams coaching Venus and Serena on public courts in Compton, to a plan he wrote before they were born.
Ten years of Muhammad Ali, from Liston to the Rumble in the Jungle.
Neil Armstrong to the Moon, shot from inside the helmet and told through a father who cannot talk about his daughter.
Joy Mangano invents the Miracle Mop and fights everyone who tries to take it.
Howard Hughes builds aeroplanes and studios while the germs close in; Scorsese's biggest canvas.
The true story of the New York cop who would not take the money, and testified about the ones who did.
A Vietnam volunteer comes home paralysed and turns against the war that sent him.
Spike Lee's three-hour life of the man from prison to Mecca to the Audubon Ballroom.
Stone's three-hour portrait of a president recording himself into the ground.
Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.
Getty refuses to pay his grandson’s ransom; Plummer replaced Spacey in nine days of reshoots.
Frank Lucas imports heroin in the coffins of dead servicemen; Washington against Crowe.
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