Watch Citizen Kane

The three-minute opening crane shot across the Mexican border and Welles as a corrupt cop.

The Washington Post decides whether to print the Pentagon Papers, with Streep as the publisher who says yes.

A tobacco scientist blows the whistle on his industry and 60 Minutes decides whether to air it.

The women who brought down Roger Ailes at Fox News, told from inside the newsroom.

A nature columnist sent by mistake to cover an African war; Waugh's Fleet Street satire.

The murder of a Kansas farm family and the two men who did it; Capote's non-fiction novel.

Tracy Kidder inside Data General building a computer in 1979; the first great tech book.

John Hersey follows six survivors through the day of the bomb; the New Yorker gave it a whole issue.