Watch The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

A Kentucky coal strike in 1973, filmed from the picket line; Barbara Kopple's Oscar.

Helen Keller at seventy-four, filmed at home and narrated by Katharine Cornell.

Al Gore's slideshow on climate change; the cherry picker up the CO2 graph.

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

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

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

Eight hours on Simpson, race and Los Angeles; the documentary that won an Oscar as a film.

Amy Winehouse in home videos and voicemails; Asif Kapadia's archive method again.