Watch The Look of Silence

The perpetrators of the Indonesian massacres restage their killings as film scenes.

Fort Rotterdam, the pinisi schooners at Paotere harbour and the road to Toraja.

Ken Burns' nine episodes of photographs, letters and Shelby Foote; the documentary miniseries as form.

Robert McNamara's eleven lessons on Vietnam and Cuba; Errol Morris's Interrotron interview.

Nine and a half hours of witnesses, no archive footage; Lanzmann's Holocaust.

Thirty-two minutes on Auschwitz made in 1956; Resnais' film every French school shows.

Ava DuVernay on the loophole in the 13th Amendment and mass incarceration.

Moore on Bush, Iraq and the seven minutes with My Pet Goat; the highest-grossing documentary.