A Nigerian village builds a maternity hospital, filmed by the British Crown Film Unit at the end of empire.
Operation Highjump: four thousand American servicemen and thirteen ships sent to map Antarctica in 1946.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Holocaust documentary, narrated by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor.
Marcel Ophuls spends four and a half hours on the Butcher of Lyon and the people who protected him.
A Kentucky coal strike in 1973, filmed from the picket line; Barbara Kopple's Oscar.
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.
AP journalists inside the besieged city in 2022; Ukraine's first Oscar.
A Stasi officer listens to a playwright's flat and slowly changes sides.
A Rio mother holds her family together after the dictatorship takes her husband in 1971.
A German-Jewish family flees to a Kenyan farm in 1938 and the daughter grows up African.
The seven-hour Soviet Tolstoy, with the Red Army as extras at Borodino.
Ben Kingsley as the Mahatma across three hours and 300,000 extras at the funeral.
Will Shakespeare, writer's block, and a muse in disguise while Romeo and Juliet takes shape.
A summer day at a Red Army hero's dacha in 1936, until the car from the NKVD arrives.
Peter O'Toole crosses the Nefud in 70mm; the desert epic every other desert epic quotes.
A Union lieutenant alone on the frontier is taken in by the Lakota.
An actor sells his conscience to the Nazis for the stage; Klaus Maria Brandauer's great performance.
A Swedish father and son work a Danish farm at the end of the nineteenth century.
Two British runners at the 1924 Olympics, and the beach to Vangelis.
Thomas More refuses to bless Henry VIII's divorce and pays with his head.
A Buenos Aires teacher begins to suspect her adopted daughter was taken from a "disappeared" mother.
Catherine Deneuve as a rubber-plantation owner in French Vietnam as it starts to end.
Eleven Oscars, a nine-minute chariot race and a galley slave who becomes a prince.
Clark Gable leads the mutiny against Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh.
The novelist takes on the Dreyfus affair; the first biopic to win.
Thirty years of a London family, from the Boer War to the Jazz Age, from Noel Coward's play.
Daniel Day-Lewis drinks your milkshake in Paul Thomas Anderson's oil-boom epic.
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