Watch Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

George Bailey sees the world without him and Bedford Falls at Christmas became a ritual.

The first of Frank Capra’s Why We Fight films, made to explain to conscripts what they were being sent into.

Capra's screwball comedy about a family that refuses to be respectable.

The forced relocation of Navajo families from Big Mountain, narrated by Martin Sheen.

Lee Grant on the farms, factories and welfare hotels of the Reagan recession.

Barbara Kopple returns to labour: the Hormel meatpackers’ strike in Austin, Minnesota, and the union that split over it.

Sorkin's Bartlet administration and the walk-and-talk; the fantasy of competent government.

Three lives branch from whether a man catches a train; shelved by the censors for six years.