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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.

Alexei Navalny phones his own poisoner; the documentary made before his death.

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

The Nobel laureate at his hospital in Lambarene, filmed in Gabon in his eighties.

The poet at eighty-eight, teaching and reciting, in the last year of his life.