A conscientious objector saves 75 men at Okinawa without a rifle; Mel Gibson's war film.
Somali pirates board a container ship; Tom Hanks' last scene with the navy medic.
The 2008 crash explained by Margot Robbie in a bath; McKay makes finance a comedy.
Christopher McCandless walks into Alaska and the abandoned bus; Sean Penn's adaptation of Krakauer.
Matthew McConaughey as a Texan smuggling AIDS drugs in 1985; he and Jared Leto both won Oscars.
Martin Luther King and the 1965 march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
Szpilman surviving the Warsaw ghetto and the ruins; Polanski's own history.
The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.
Javier Bardem as the quadriplegic who fought for thirty years for the right to die.
A Rio mother holds her family together after the dictatorship takes her husband in 1971.
Karen Blixen's coffee farm and her affair with Denys Finch Hatton, in the Ngong Hills.
Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.
George C. Scott in front of the flag, in the biography he refused the Oscar for.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
Three hours of Broadway spectacle around the impresario who invented the revue.
The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.
Spielberg's own childhood, and the moment a camera becomes a way to see.
The aeronautical engineer who designed the Zero, and what his beautiful machines became.
Herman Mankiewicz writes Citizen Kane, in 1930s studio black and white.
Tezuka's eight-volume life of Siddhartha, funny and profound.
Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR; Isaacson on the gene-editing race.
Mandela's autobiography from the Transkei to Robben Island to the presidency.
Michelle Obama from the South Side of Chicago to the White House.
Isaacson from Ada Lovelace to the web; the collaborative history of the computer.
Carmack and Romero build id Software and Doom; the video-game industry's origin story.
From Detroit Red to Mecca, told to Alex Haley in the year before his assassination.
Percy Fawcett vanishes in the Amazon in 1925 and Grann goes to look.
Vasari on Giotto, Leonardo and Michelangelo; art history begins in 1550.
Isaacson's authorised biography from forty interviews; the reality distortion field.
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