Quentin Tarantino is by far one of the most prolific directors of the last 30 years. Films like Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Inglourious Basterds have cemented him as a master of genre.

One of classic Hollywood’s major crimes is to have invested colossal efforts in fiction and hardly any in nonfiction, which, in the early days, was largely relegated to “newsreels.” As a result, most ...