A Chinese glass company reopens a shut GM plant in Ohio, and neither side understands the other.
Marcel Ophuls spends four and a half hours on the Butcher of Lyon and the people who protected him.
Yuichiro Miura skis eight thousand feet down the Lhotse Face on a parachute, and does not entirely stop.
The Munich Olympics hostage crisis of 1972, minute by minute, including the interview with the surviving gunman.
Operation Highjump: four thousand American servicemen and thirteen ships sent to map Antarctica in 1946.
The clarinettist who walked away from the biggest band in America and never went back.
A Nigerian village builds a maternity hospital, filmed by the British Crown Film Unit at the end of empire.
Five panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and the five lives they were sewn for.
Ira Wohl films his cousin Philly, fifty-two and intellectually disabled, learning to live without his parents.
The Allied advance from Normandy to the Elbe, assembled by Carol Reed and Garson Kanin from a thousand cameramen.
The first of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight films, made to explain to conscripts what they were being sent into.
RKO’s adaptation of Rachel Carson’s book - she hated the script and never sold film rights again.
Thor Heyerdahl’s own 16mm footage of the balsa raft that drifted from Peru to Polynesia in 1947.
Children in Calcutta’s red-light district are given cameras, and the film follows what the pictures change.
A year inside a North Philadelphia primary school and the principal holding it together.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Holocaust documentary, narrated by Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor.
Cousteau and Louis Malle invent the underwater documentary, in colour, from aboard the Calypso.
A fictional entomologist argues that insects will inherit the earth, over real macro photography that makes the case.
The displaced-persons camps between 1945 and 1948, and the founding of Israel seen from inside them.
Peter Watkins films a nuclear strike on Kent as if it were news; the BBC banned it for twenty years.
Juvenile offenders spend an afternoon with lifers at Rahway prison; the film that invented the format.
Jacques d’Amboise teaches a thousand New York schoolchildren to dance, and films what it does to them.
Cousteau’s Conshelf II: six men living for a month in a steel house on the floor of the Red Sea.
Disney on the American plains, and the bison birth that got the film briefly banned in New York.
A Canadian crew traces what happened to a nineteen-year-old who disappeared driving through Colorado.
The architect who won the Vietnam Memorial competition at twenty-one, and the abuse that followed.
The chorus of the San Francisco Opera, who sing every night and are never the ones being watched.
A year aboard an American aircraft carrier in the Pacific, filmed in colour by the crew themselves.
Ali against Foreman in Kinshasa, 1974, with the Zaire 74 festival playing beside the fight.
An Afghan taxi driver dies in American custody at Bagram, and Alex Gibney follows the policy that killed him.
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