Spaceship Earth

...fascinating tale of an isolation experiment gone awry.

Its quixotic extravagance is rather amazing.

...a model of documentary craft, showcasing mainstream narrative nonfiction at its apex.

...offers a refuge of idealism and intellectuality in an age that’s actively hostile to both of those qualities.

Wolf draws vivid cinema from a goldmine Wikipedia article, realising its full entertainment value while arranging the facts at hand to trace the gap between what’s physically possible and what’s institutionally permitted.