If you have Netflix, prepare to use it now: First Person, the television series that Errol Morris produced for Bravo, is finally out on DVD, and it's a doozy. Morris, I've mentioned before, is my nomination for our greatest living filmmaker, and this collection—basically a series of short documentaries in the Morris fashion—contains some of the best work he has ever done. I'm stunned that this is ranked at #1,408 in DVD sales at Amazon.com. I know that I seem to be raving about everything these days, but this set represents the best that the documentary medium has to offer. It's impossible to overpraise.

I'm still working my way through the set, but please: just rent a copy of Disc Three and watch the episodes "One in a Million Trillion" and "Leaving the Earth" back to back. You will be amazed. "Leaving the Earth," in particular, is the most riveting hour of television I've seen in a long time. The subject is a calm, extraordinarily articulate man named Dennis E. Fitch, who talks with amazing vividness about the most important day of his life. You can read something about that day, and about Denny Fitch, here. And then, thanks to Errol Morris, you can also meet him.