Alternative histories

The last forty years explained by someone with a strong theory and a great deal of archive. Adam Curtis is the centre of gravity, but Jeremy Deller on acid house and the miners, Charlie Brooker on each year as it passed, and a history of turntablism are all doing the same job: rearranging what you thought you already knew.

• Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of the United States (2012) ★★★
• Jeremy Deller’s Everybody in the Place, An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2018) ★★★
• The French African Connection (Aljazeera) (2014) ★★★
• Hypernormalisation (2016) ★★★
• Can’t Get You Out of My Head (2021) ★★
• Screenwipe: Yearwipe (2006 - 2016) ★★★
• Scratch (2001) ★★★
• Justice: A Civilians Guide to the 21st Century (2011) ★★★
• One Million Dubliners (2015) ★★★