Ip Man travels to San Francisco with a throat cancer diagnosis to find his son a school; the last of the Donnie Yen run.
A developer moves on the school and Mike Tyson turns up as his boss; the fight in the lift is the set piece.
Margaret Keane painted the big-eyed children; her husband signed them.
Ip Man between the wars, in the rain; Wong's martial-arts epic.
Johnny Depp as the worst director in Hollywood, in loving black and white; Martin Landau as Lugosi.
Fred Rogers and the radical kindness of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Amy Winehouse in home videos and voicemails; Asif Kapadia's archive method again.
A Wisconsin man tries to finish his horror film Coven; the funniest documentary about ambition.
An Afghan refugee tells his escape to Denmark in animation; nominated in three Oscar categories at once.
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.
Alexei Navalny phones his own poisoner; the documentary made before his death.
Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, told as a heist.
Ayrton Senna from karting to Imola, entirely from archive footage.
Katia and Maurice Krafft, volcanologists in love, from their own footage until Unzen.
Eight hours on Simpson, race and Los Angeles; the documentary that won an Oscar as a film.
Don Cheadle as the hotel manager who sheltered 1,268 people during the genocide.
Young Che Guevara rides across South America in 1952; Gael Garcia Bernal and Walter Salles.
A quadriplegic aristocrat and his carer from the banlieue; France's biggest comedy hit.
Three Aboriginal girls walk 1,500 miles home along the fence in 1931.
Marjane Satrapi's comic-book childhood in revolutionary Iran, animated in black and white.
Aamir Khan trains his daughters as wrestlers in Haryana; the true story and the biggest Indian film in China.
A Black detective infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan by phone in 1972; Spike Lee's Oscar for the script.
Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding, the Nancy Kerrigan attack told as mockumentary.
Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury, ending with twenty minutes of Live Aid recreated.
Gary Oldman as Churchill in May 1940, and the speech in the Underground.
Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles build the GT40 to beat Ferrari at Le Mans 1966.
Kristen Stewart as Diana over one Christmas at Sandringham; a fable, not a biopic.
Micky Ward and his crack-addict brother in Lowell; Christian Bale's Oscar.
Brad Pitt rebuilds the Oakland A's with statistics; Sorkin makes maths tense.
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