The Final Year

Documentary filmmaker Greg Barker’s idea was to spend a year capturing how the Obama administration’s foreign-policy team operated. That yielded plenty of intriguing material, such as then UN ambassador Samantha Power’s struggle to cope after her motorcade accidentally killed a young boy in Cameroon. But the project went in an unexpected direction after Trump won the election. The last third of the finished film captures the raw emotions of Obama’s remaining months in office.