Hitler told through Goethe’s Reynard the Fox, in woodcuts and archive, narrated by Marlene Dietrich.
Cousteau’s Conshelf II: six men living for a month in a steel house on the floor of the Red Sea.
Cousteau and Louis Malle invent the underwater documentary, in colour, from aboard the Calypso.
Juvenile offenders spend an afternoon with lifers at Rahway prison; the film that invented the format.
Thor Heyerdahl’s own 16mm footage of the balsa raft that drifted from Peru to Polynesia in 1947.
Operation Highjump: four thousand American servicemen and thirteen ships sent to map Antarctica in 1946.
The Allied advance from Normandy to the Elbe, assembled by Carol Reed and Garson Kanin from a thousand cameramen.
Ira Wohl films his cousin Philly, fifty-two and intellectually disabled, learning to live without his parents.
A fifteen-year-old is arrested for a Jacksonville murder and his public defender takes the case apart.
Peter Watkins films a nuclear strike on Kent as if it were news; the BBC banned it for twenty years.
Jacques d’Amboise teaches a thousand New York schoolchildren to dance, and films what it does to them.
Five panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and the five lives they were sewn for.
The clarinettist who walked away from the biggest band in America and never went back.
Ali against Foreman in Kinshasa, 1974, with the Zaire 74 festival playing beside the fight.
Barbara Kopple returns to labour: the Hormel meatpackers’ strike in Austin, Minnesota, and the union that split over it.
RKO’s post-war explanation of Japan, written by Theodor Geisel - Dr. Seuss - before he wrote for children.
The pianist at eighty, playing and talking, filmed across Europe and America.
The people who knew her and hid her, including Miep Gies, filmed while they were still alive to speak.
The architect who won the Vietnam Memorial competition at twenty-one, and the abuse that followed.
A palomino called Nautical goes from a New Mexico ranch to the Olympic show-jumping team.
The poet at eighty-eight, teaching and reciting, in the last year of his life.
Sixteen hours of a Carl Rogers encounter group cut to ninety minutes; group therapy as it was actually practised.
A Nigerian village builds a maternity hospital, filmed by the British Crown Film Unit at the end of empire.
Disney on the American plains, and the bison birth that got the film briefly banned in New York.
The ten thousand children Britain took in before the war, told by the children themselves at eighty.
The Munich Olympics hostage crisis of 1972, minute by minute, including the interview with the surviving gunman.
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 first of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight films, made to explain to conscripts what they were being sent into.
A fictional entomologist argues that insects will inherit the earth, over real macro photography that makes the case.
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