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American Experience (1987)

Summary: A series showcasing documentaries on American history.

Release Date: October 04, 1988

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: GBH, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Robert Stone Productions, WGBH

Country: United States

Language: English

8.4 - IMDb
1568 votes

The Sixties (2014)

Summary: Interviews and archival footage focusing on the politics, music, technical advancements, drugs and the "free love" movement of the 1960s.

Release Date: November 22, 2013

Genres: Documentary, History

Runtime: 0 h 42 min

Production: Herzog & Company, Playtone

Country: United States

Language: English

8.3 - IMDb
1983 votes

Grant (2020)

Summary: The documentary-series examines Ulysses S. Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Release Date: May 25, 2020

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Runtime: 4 h 16 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: RadicalMedia, Appian Way, Film Afrika Worldwide

Country: United States

Language: English

8.3 - IMDb
899 votes

A History of Britain (2000)

Summary: A comprehensive historical survey of the British Isles.

Release Date: October 30, 2000

Genres: Documentary, History

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

8.2 - IMDb

Ennio (2021)

Summary: A documentary on the legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.

Release Date: February 17, 2022

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore

Writer: Giuseppe Tornatore

Runtime: 2 h 36 min

Production: Piano b Produzioni, Potemkino, Fu Works

Countries: Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Japan

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 17,391

International: $ 4,253,242

8.1 - IMDb
24236 votes

The Fog of War (2003)

Summary: The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.

Release Date: March 05, 2004

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Errol Morris

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Sony Pictures Classics, RadicalMedia, SenArt Films

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Television International, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,198,566

International: $ 840,275

8.1 - IMDb
6071 votes

For All Mankind (1989)

Summary: An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.

Release Date: May 19, 1989

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Al Reinert

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Apollo Associates, FAM Productions, National Geographic Society

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 770,132

8 - IMDb
10014 votes

Why We Fight (2005)

Summary: Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these que...

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Eugene Jarecki

Writer: Eugene Jarecki

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: ARTE, BBC Storyville, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Television, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Charlotte Street Films, TV2 Danmark

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: United Kingdom, France, Denmark, Canada, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,439,972

8 - IMDb
6807 votes

In the Shadow of the Moon (2007)

Summary: The crew members of NASA's Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.

Release Date: November 02, 2007

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: David Sington

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Discovery Films, FilmFour, Passion Pictures

Distributor: Spectra Filmworks, THINKFilm

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,134,358

International: $ 1,027,011

8 - IMDb
6263 votes

Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997)

Summary: German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.

Release Date: October 02, 1998

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama

Director: Werner Herzog

Writer: Werner Herzog

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ZDF Enterprises, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), ARTE, Media Ventures, Outpost Studios

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Shout! Factory

Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, France

Language: English

8 - IMDb
3262 votes

Night Will Fall (2014)

Summary: Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.

Release Date: December 05, 2014

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: André Singer

Writer: Lynette Singer

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Angel TV, Final Cut for Real, RatPac Entertainment, Spring Films

Distributor: RatPac Documentary Films, Cinephil, Home Box Office (HBO), Warner Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

7.9 - IMDb
865 votes

The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen (2018)

Summary: A look at the lives of iconic pioneers such as Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Tecumseh, Davy Crocket and Andrew Jackson as they traveled across America.

Release Date: March 07, 2018

Genres: Documentary, History

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Appian Way, History Channel, Stephen David Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

7.9 - IMDb
617 votes

Secrets of the Dead (2000)

Summary: Mysteries involving notable historical events, people and locations are scientifically examined.

Release Date: May 15, 2000

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Runtime: 0 h 56 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: 3BM Television, Channel 4 Television Corporation, Mentorn Barraclough Carey

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

7.8 - IMDb
7020 votes

The Celluloid Closet (1995)

Summary: A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.

Release Date: March 15, 1996

Genres: Documentary, History

Directors: Rob Epstein

, Jeffrey Friedman

Writers: Vito Russo

, Rob Epstein

, Jeffrey Friedman

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Home Box Office (HBO), Channel 4, ZDF/Arte

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,400,591

7.8 - IMDb
6001 votes

One Day in September (1999)

Summary: The Palestinian terrorist group Black September holds Israeli athletes hostage at the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Release Date: July 12, 2001

Genres: Documentary, History, Sport

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Passion Pictures, Arthur Cohn Productions, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), European Co-production Fund, Soros Documentary Fund of the Open Society Movement

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Flicksium, Home Box Office (HBO), Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 156,818

7.8 - IMDb
3296 votes

4 Little Girls (1997)

Summary: A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.

Release Date: July 09, 1997

Genres: Documentary, History

Director: Spike Lee

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, Home Box Office (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 130,146

7.7 - IMDb
1773 votes

Mankind the Story of All of Us (2012)

Summary: From the power of science to how physics and biology combined to shape our shared journey, experience the human story like it's never been told before.

Release Date: November 13, 2012

Genres: Documentary, History

Runtime: 12 h 00 min

Production: Nutopia, Nutopia

Country: United States

Language: English

7.6 - IMDb
726 votes

Harry & Snowman (2015)

Summary: The story of immigrant Harry DeLeyer and the plow horse he rescued from slaughter.

Release Date: September 30, 2016

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama

Director: Ron Davis

Writer: Ron Davis

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Docutainment Films, For Good, Graceful Light Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 561,460

International: $ 17,360

7.5 - IMDb
6293 votes

One Child Nation (2019)

Summary: After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.

Release Date: August 09, 2019

Genres: Documentary, History

Directors: Nanfu Wang