Watch Nixon

A Vietnam volunteer comes home paralysed and turns against the war that sent him.

Margaret Thatcher in old age, remembering the rise; Streep won her third Oscar for it.

A butler who cannot say what he feels, in a house whose master is entertaining the Nazis.

Oliver Stone's own tour of Vietnam, a rookie between two sergeants.

Mandela's autobiography from the Transkei to Robben Island to the presidency.

From Detroit Red to Mecca, told to Alex Haley in the year before his assassination.

Michelle Obama from the South Side of Chicago to the White House.

Dick Cheney assembles the modern American presidency in the background of every frame.