For those of you who saw Charlize Theron's acclaimed performance in Monster as Aileen Wuornos — executed in Florida in 2002 for the murder of seven men — this documentary from Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill is shocking and indispensable viewing. It's not just that Aileen makes a better Aileen than Theron, who needed Tony G's makeup artistry to transform herself into this truck-stop hooker who said sheilled out of self-defense. It's the indictment of the American justice system that this documentary delivers with gale force. The Wuornos who faces the cameras for a last interview displays a mental imbalance no actress could capture. But no stay of execution was ordered, despite her obvious condition. Broomfield had made a 1992 documentary, Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, about the efforts of family, friends and enemies to hustle Wuornos' story to Hollywood. But the new film digs into the soul of this abused child, who never got the treatment she needed. Her eyes, radiating madness, will haunt your dreams.

“Is It True”

As the British Invasion reached its peak in 1964, Brenda Lee went from Nashville to London to record one of her hardest-rocking hits, her perky vocal backed by a stuttering, squalling guitar. That guitar was played by session musician Jimmy Page, yet to skyrocket to fame with first the Yardbirds and then Led Zeppelin. "She said to me, 'I've come here to make a record with the British sound,'" remembered producer Mickie Most. "She felt she wouldn't get the same sound in Nashville because they're only just catching up on the British beat group sound of about six months ago."