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.

Furious Attack’ tops film slate packed with action, fantasy and docs from Reliance Media Entertainment at Hong Kong FilMart.

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.

The African Diaspora International Film Festival is happy to announce its 2026 Women’s History Month Film Series, a ...

What remains of the past, memories, are personal. Organized memories can make stories to tell. Those that combine the memories of several people can be organized for many purposes: culture, ...

Historical epics like Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator prove spectacle, ambition, and power can turn history into ...

Documentaries and historical dramas offer those who witnessed major events firsthand the opportunity to see familiar times through new perspectives, enriched by archival materials that weren’t ...

There are multiple ways to celebrate Women’s History Month and the achievements and milestones of some of history’s loudest ...

Juneteenth, like Black History Month but in a humbler and more compact fashion, serves to direct due attention to the struggles, triumphs and vital cultural lifeblood of Black life in the American ...

There are two kinds of people in this world: There are the ones who look at a crumbling Victorian with peeling paint and say, “What a dump,” and then there are the ones who say, with misty eyes and a ...

Filmmaker Pat Longstreth launched the Hindsight Film Festival, America's first festival dedicated to historical documentaries. The inaugural five-day event takes place in Savannah, Georgia, featuring ...

Stanley Schtinter discusses his doc, narrated by Jeremy Irons and debuting at CPH:DOX, and how it "parasitizes the predatory ...