John Ford filmed the battle from the roof of a power station and was wounded doing it; eighteen minutes of 16mm colour.
RKO’s adaptation of Rachel Carson’s book - she hated the script and never sold film rights again.
The Nobel laureate at his hospital in Lambarene, filmed in Gabon in his eighties.
The forced relocation of Navajo families from Big Mountain, narrated by Martin Sheen.
The 1989 American invasion of Panama and the civilian casualties the networks did not show.
The San Francisco supervisor, his election, his murder and the candlelight march that followed.
Yuichiro Miura skis eight thousand feet down the Lhotse Face on a parachute, and does not entirely stop.
Marcel Ophuls spends four and a half hours on the Butcher of Lyon and the people who protected him.
One California family, nineteen adopted children, most of them disabled or refugees from Vietnam.
The Soviet account of the counter-offensive that stopped the Wehrmacht outside Moscow, re-cut for American cinemas.
An Afghan taxi driver dies in American custody at Bagram, and Alex Gibney follows the policy that killed him.
The chorus of the San Francisco Opera, who sing every night and are never the ones being watched.
Lee Grant on the farms, factories and welfare hotels of the Reagan recession.
The first Disney True-Life Adventure feature: the Sonoran desert, and a scorpion square dance nobody has forgiven.
A French expedition crosses New Guinea on foot in 1959 and films the first contact along the way.
AP journalists inside the besieged city in 2022; Ukraine's first Oscar.
Amy Winehouse in home videos and voicemails; Asif Kapadia's archive method again.
Eight hours on Simpson, race and Los Angeles; the documentary that won an Oscar as a film.
Laura Poitras in the Hong Kong hotel room as Edward Snowden hands over the files.
Alex Honnold climbs El Capitan without a rope; you know he lives and it is still unbearable.
Three days of peace and music in 1969, in split screen; Scorsese edited.
Activists film the dolphin hunt at Taiji with hidden cameras.
Michael Moore asks why America shoots itself; the K-Mart bullets and Charlton Heston.
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival footage found after fifty years; Questlove's Oscar.
Robert McNamara's eleven lessons on Vietnam and Cuba; Errol Morris's Interrotron interview.
Al Gore's slideshow on climate change; the cherry picker up the CO2 graph.
Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, told as a heist.
Emperor penguins walk seventy miles to breed in the Antarctic winter; Morgan Freeman narrates.
Alexei Navalny phones his own poisoner; the documentary made before his death.
A Kentucky coal strike in 1973, filmed from the picket line; Barbara Kopple's Oscar.
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