The Algonquin Round Table: Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and a decade of New York wit.
Cousteau’s Conshelf II: six men living for a month in a steel house on the floor of the Red Sea.
The forced relocation of Navajo families from Big Mountain, narrated by Martin Sheen.
A year inside a North Philadelphia primary school and the principal holding it together.
The violinist teaches in Beijing and Shanghai in 1979, three years after the Cultural Revolution ended.
Marcel Ophuls spends four and a half hours on the Butcher of Lyon and the people who protected him.
The San Francisco supervisor, his election, his murder and the candlelight march that followed.
Six weeks with an American platoon in Vietnam, filmed by Pierre Schoendoerffer, who had been a prisoner at Dien Bien Phu.
Ira Wohl films his cousin Philly, fifty-two and intellectually disabled, learning to live without his parents.
Bernhard and Michael Grzimek count the herds from a zebra-striped aeroplane to argue for the park’s borders.
Hitler told through Goethe’s Reynard the Fox, in woodcuts and archive, narrated by Marlene Dietrich.
RKO’s post-war explanation of Japan, written by Theodor Geisel - Dr. Seuss - before he wrote for children.
A palomino called Nautical goes from a New Mexico ranch to the Olympic show-jumping team.
Yuichiro Miura skis eight thousand feet down the Lhotse Face on a parachute, and does not entirely stop.
The Soviet account of the counter-offensive that stopped the Wehrmacht outside Moscow, re-cut for American cinemas.
The pianist at eighty, playing and talking, filmed across Europe and America.
The Munich Olympics hostage crisis of 1972, minute by minute, including the interview with the surviving gunman.
Ali against Foreman in Kinshasa, 1974, with the Zaire 74 festival playing beside the fight.
Disney on the American plains, and the bison birth that got the film briefly banned in New York.
A French expedition crosses New Guinea on foot in 1959 and films the first contact along the way.
Jacques d’Amboise teaches a thousand New York schoolchildren to dance, and films what it does to them.
The poet at eighty-eight, teaching and reciting, in the last year of his life.
Disney in the Arctic - and the film whose staged lemming sequence created a myth that outlived it.
A Canadian crew traces what happened to a nineteen-year-old who disappeared driving through Colorado.
Australian newsreel from the Kokoda Track in New Guinea, shot by Damien Parer, who was killed two years later.
The people who knew her and hid her, including Miep Gies, filmed while they were still alive to speak.
The displaced-persons camps between 1945 and 1948, and the founding of Israel seen from inside them.
Sixteen hours of a Carl Rogers encounter group cut to ninety minutes; group therapy as it was actually practised.
RKO’s adaptation of Rachel Carson’s book - she hated the script and never sold film rights again.
The architect who won the Vietnam Memorial competition at twenty-one, and the abuse that followed.
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