Watch the 2023 Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb.
George VI, a stammer and an Australian speech therapist with no credentials.
Salieri's jealous confession of Mozart, from Peter Shaffer's play.
Puyi from the Forbidden City to a Beijing garden, shot inside the real palace.
Solomon Northup, a free man in New York, is kidnapped and sold into Louisiana.
One month of political horse-trading to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.
Helen Keller at seventy-four, filmed at home and narrated by Katharine Cornell.
The First Lady and delegate, from Hyde Park to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The week after Dallas, seen entirely from inside Jacqueline Kennedy.
Spike Lee's three-hour life of the man from prison to Mecca to the Audubon Ballroom.
Austerlitz and Waterloo hung on a marriage; Phoenix plays him as a sulk.
Three Aboriginal girls walk 1,500 miles home along the fence in 1931.
Don Cheadle as the hotel manager who sheltered 1,268 people during the genocide.
Gary Oldman as Churchill in May 1940, and the speech in the Underground.
Martin Luther King and the 1965 march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
The icon painter through medieval Russia, the Tatar raid and a boy casting a bell.
A Rio mother holds her family together after the dictatorship takes her husband in 1971.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.
The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.
Percy Fawcett vanishes in the Amazon in 1925 and Grann goes to look.
Vasari on Giotto, Leonardo and Michelangelo; art history begins in 1550.
Mandela's autobiography from the Transkei to Robben Island to the presidency.
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.
The woman whose cells, taken without consent in 1951, are still alive in every lab.
Shackleton's ship crushed in the ice and every man brought home; Lansing's telling.
Three daughters of China: a warlord's concubine, a communist official and the author, through Mao's century.
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