Documentaries have only gotten better as time has gone on, and not simply because of hindsight. As such, we think these are the best history documentaries ever.

Fifty years after NASA put the first men on the moon, this 2019 history documentary was released to celebrate the essential wonder of that historic space mission, without extraneous commentary.

“War does not determine who is right—only who is left,” someone once said. War reshapes lives, leaving stories of courage, loss, and survival. Filmmakers have made countless great war movies — but ...

Every day is a good day to learn something new, and what better way to learn than by sitting on your couch and watching a movie? The streaming era has been a golden age for catching up on all those ...

There are multiple ways to celebrate Women’s History Month and the achievements and milestones of some of history’s loudest and proudest voices, whether it be reading about trailblazers or watching ...

This classic music doc follows Bob Dylan’s famous 1965 tour of England, which marked an important change in the music world, Dylan’s career, and music history. This film was directed by D.A.

Filmmaker Stephen Mancini set out to tell a simple story about a small chapel on an Army base in rural Franklin County and the Italian POWs who built it during World War II. Instead, he traveled the ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. It’s been said that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. This ...

When Michael Fowlkes set out to make “The History of Sportfishing,” he imagined a documentary likened to the movie “The Endless Summer” meeting Ken Burns, and based on the reactions from those who ...

You don’t have to be a professional historian to realize this documentary's title refers to the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, i.e., the one that abolished slavery. However, Ava DuVernay ...