In Taiji, Japan, fishermen lure dolphins, about 23,000 a year, into a hidden cove and brutally harpoon them to sell their often-contaminated flesh as whale meat. Director Louie Psihoyos, aided by Richard O'Barry, a former dolphin trainer (he worked on the TV series Flipper), joins with other advocates (Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere included) to stop this barbaric slaughter of innocents. But first they have to risk jail to install hidden cameras and expose the atrocity to the world. The Cove plays like a thriller. It has the breathless pace of a Bourne movie, but none of the comfort of fiction. This is documentary filmmaking at its most exciting and purposeful.

“All Along the Watchtower”

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."