Foreword Introduction PEOPLE & PLACES Man with a Movie Camera, Araya, Chronicle of a Summer, The Up Series, Tokyo Olympiad, Portrait of Jason, Titicut Follies, Salesman, An American Family, Grey, Gardens, News from Home, Sherman's March, Paris is Burning, SPOTLIGHT ON: City Symphonies, The Belovs, To Be and To Have, Touching the Void, Murderball, Dreams of a Life, Stories We Tell, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Dick Johnson is Dead, A Secret Love POLITICS & SOCIETY Primary, Minamata: The Victims and Their World, El Sopar, Harlan County, USA, A Grin Without a Cat, Roger & Me, SPOTLIGHT ON: Propaganda, Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings, West of the Tracks, Nostalgia for the Light, The Queen of Versailles, How to Survive a Plague, Citizenfour, 13th, Fire at Sea, I Am Not Your Negro, Maiden, Infinite Football, Crip Camp ART & CULTURE Don't Look Back, F for Fake, Amazing Grace, A Bigger Splash, Burden of Dreams, The Quince Tree Sun, Geri, The Gleaners and I, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, SPOTLIGHT ON: The Concert Film, Rize, Man on Wire, The Beaches of Agnès, The September Issue Exit Through the Gift Shop, Pina, Amy, Further Beyond, Dawson City: Frozen Time, The Beatles: Get Back HISTORY & CONFLICT The War Game, The Sorrow and the Pity, The World at War, The Battle of Chile, Hearts and Minds, Shoah, The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, Lessons of Darkness, The Power of Nightmares, SPOTLIGHT ON: The War on Terror, Waltz with Bashir, Five Broken Cameras, The Act of Killing, State Funeral, For Sama, Exterminate All the Brutes SCIENCE & NATURE Nanook of the North, Life on Earth, Cosmos, Koyaanisqatsi, For All Mankind, SPOTLIGHT ON: A Fragile World, Grizzly Man, Manufactured Landscapes, Into Eternity, The Dust Bowl, Leviathan, Cow CRIME & INJUSTICE The Thin Blue Line, Close-Up, Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, 4 Little Girls, Bus 174, Capturing the Friedmans, SPOTLIGHT ON: Serial Crimes, Sisters in Law, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Making a Murderer, O.J.: Made in America, Louis Theroux: Dark States, Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation, Collective, A Cop Movie SHORT FILMS À Propos de Nice, Land Without Bread, Night Mail, Listen to Britain, Blood of the Beasts, Daybreak Express, The Mad Masters, Night and Fog, The House is Black, LBJ, Powers of Ten, Ten Minutes Older, Gallivant, The Train Stop, Lift, Svyato, The Solitary Life of Cranes, Atlantics, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) Index Picture Credits About the Author & Acknowledgements.