Top Docs (1900-1999)

A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.

A chronicle of New York's drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality.

San Francisco bluesman and composer, Paul Peña makes a musical pilgrimage to the land of Tuva.

A film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas.

At the instigation of the filmmakers, the young men of the Ile-aux-Coudres in the middle of the St-Lawrence River try as a memorial to their ancestors to revive the fishing of the belugas interrupted in 1924.

An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.

An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.

About the obscure country-blues musician and idiosyncratic visual artist Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, member of the last known black string band in America.

A film that criticises and discussed the Australian media coverage of the first gulf war.

A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan of the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement, which killed four young girls.

This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.

The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.

A behind-the-scenes look at the production of a musical, this feature chronicles the development of "Miss Saigon, " from its early beginnings, through casting, preparations, choreography to its opening night on The West End.

Taiga is an eight-hour documentary directed and photographed by Ulrike Ottinger. It focuses on the life and rituals of nomadic peoples in Northern Mongolia, specifically the Darkhad nomads and the Sojon Urinjanghai.

A behind-the-scenes look at the filming of War and Peace, from conceptual sketches and costume design to cameras rolling.

An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of the German invasion.

Explores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War.

Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

A live performance of the band Talking Heads shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and featuring their most memorable songs.

Aspiring filmmaker Mark Borchardt attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing Coven (1997), a low-budget horror film he abandoned years before.

Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon completion of his wonderful and horrible invention became a powerful spokesperson against the nuclear arms race.

A documentary about the everyday lives of ordinary Parisians, done in the style of cinéma vérité.

World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.

The BBC's award winning documentary looking at the impact the death of Ayrton Senna had upon the world of motor racing. Featuring interviews with key people from Senna's life in motor sport.