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A French expedition crosses New Guinea on foot in 1959 and films the first contact along the way.

Operation Highjump: four thousand American servicemen and thirteen ships sent to map Antarctica in 1946.

Two South Africans hunt for Rodriguez, a Detroit singer they think is dead.

A cyclist tries doping and stumbles into the Russian state programme; his source flees to LA.

A diver visits the same octopus every day for a year in a South African kelp forest.

Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, told as a heist.

Alex Honnold climbs El Capitan without a rope; you know he lives and it is still unbearable.

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