While recreations are commonplace in documentaries, here they feel especially important. They grant these stories an immediacy, a humanity.

Eldorado is one of those documentaries that gives texture and context, faces and voices, to a well-chronicled period and set of circumstances. It does so with style, sensitivity, and a respect for the history it examines.

In giving the story of Queer people in the Holocaust a focus, this documentary surmounts the scale of the Holocaust by giving it a clutch of human faces.

Timely as walls close in around nonbinary folks, and gay oppression as a pre-existing factor for fascism. We meet survivors, including two men who live the American Dream today in Hollywood as musicians and composers. Hitler didn't get them all.