Robert McNamara's eleven lessons on Vietnam and Cuba; Errol Morris's Interrotron interview.
An optician confronts the men who killed his brother in 1965; the companion piece.
The Apollo missions cut from NASA footage with the astronauts' voices; Brian Eno's score.
Ken Burns' nine episodes of photographs, letters and Shelby Foote; the documentary miniseries as form.
AP journalists inside the besieged city in 2022; Ukraine's first Oscar.
Nine and a half hours of witnesses, no archive footage; Lanzmann's Holocaust.
The moon landing from newly found 70mm footage and no narration.
Thirty-two minutes on Auschwitz made in 1956; Resnais' film every French school shows.
Ava DuVernay on the loophole in the 13th Amendment and mass incarceration.
A Kentucky coal strike in 1973, filmed from the picket line; Barbara Kopple's Oscar.
Rowan Atkinson through four eras of English history; the last scene of Goes Forth.
Two legionaries through the fall of the Republic; HBO and the BBC's expensive Caesar.
Derek Jacobi as the stammering emperor and Sian Phillips as Livia; the BBC's 1976 Rome.
An English pilot shipwrecked in 1600 Japan and Lord Toranaga; the Emmy record-breaker.
Elizabeth II from 1947 to 2005, with the cast replaced every two seasons.
Five friends in London through the AIDS years of the 1980s; Russell T Davies.
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell by candlelight; Hilary Mantel on the BBC.
Gael Garcia Bernal sells the campaign that voted out Pinochet in 1988, shot on 1980s video.
A 12-year-old joins a skinhead gang in 1983; Shane Meadows' Midlands.
Fifty years of Yugoslavia in a cellar with a brass band; Kusturica's second Palme d'Or.
Don Cheadle as the hotel manager who sheltered 1,268 people during the genocide.
A colonial officer waits for a transfer that never comes; Lucrecia Martel's 18th-century fever.
Two brothers in the Irish War of Independence and the civil war after; Loach's Palme d'Or.
Three Aboriginal girls walk 1,500 miles home along the fence in 1931.
A rich boy and a poor boy at a Santiago school in the months before the 1973 coup.
An Amazonian shaman guides two explorers forty years apart, in black and white.
A family in Taiwan between the Japanese surrender and the 1947 massacre; Hou's Golden Lion.
A woman rebuilds herself through the German economic miracle; Fassbinder's biggest hit.
The Red Army Faction from 1967 to 1977; Germany's terrorism epic.
Villagers play the British at cricket to escape a tax; three hours and forty-four minutes of it.
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