Topic: Historical Documentary

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz

Plot "Apocalypse: The Second World War" is a six-part French documentary about the Second World War. The documentary is comprised exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war...

Direction Daniel Costelle · Isabelle Clarke

Cast Mathieu Kassovitz

Plot Culled from more than 500 hours of archival material, unfolding in five 52-minute installments, 'Apocalypse WWI' takes us to the battlefields, inside the minds of those who govern, and to...

Direction Claude Lanzmann

Cast Simon Srebnik · Michael Podchlebnik · Motke Zaïdl · Hanna Zaïdl

Plot Claude Lanzmann directed this 9 1/2 hour documentary of the Holocaust without using a single frame of archive footage. He interviews survivors, witnesses, and ex-Nazis (whom he had to film...

Direction Jeremy Isaacs · Hugh Raggett · John Pett · David Elstein

Plot "The World at War" is a 26-episode television documentary series on World War II, including the events leading up to it and following in its wake. The series interviewed leading...

Direction Ken Burns · Lynn Novick

Plot A seven-part series focusing on the many ways in which the Second World War impacted the lives of American families.

Direction Adam Curtis

Plot What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.

Direction Ken Burns · Lynn Novick

Plot An in-depth look (10 episodes) at the American military operations in Vietnam during the 1960s and '70s as well as the growing opposition against the war within the United States.

Direction Alain Resnais

Plot This lyrical and graphic documentary--one of the first cinematic reflections on the Holocaust's horror--has deeply affected film's treatment of the Holocaust ever since, including Spielberg's "Schindler's List". Documentarian Alain Resnais...

Direction Carl Hindmarch · Clare Beavan · Steve Condie · David Belton

Cast Simon Schama

Direction Peter Watkins

Plot We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives...

Direction Michael Gill

Cast Kenneth Clark

Direction Ken Burns

Plot TV Miniseries about jazz. 12 episodes. 1 hour each.

Direction Maite Echave · Luis López Mañe

Cast Felipe Pigna · Alejandro Awada · Victoria Céspedes · Germán Romero

Direction Hajime Suzuki

Direction Oliver Stone

Plot TV Minieseries. 10 Episodes. Narrated and written by Oliver Stone and co-author Peter Kuznick, the new twelve-part series will focus on human events that at the time went under reported,...

Direction Paul Mitchell · Angus MacQueen

Cast Robin Ellis

Direction Ken Burns

Cast David McCullough · Shelby Foote · Sam Waterston · Jason Robards

Plot This highly acclaimed mini series traces the course of the U.S. Civil War from the abolitionist movement through all the major battles to the death of President Lincoln and the...

Direction José Luis López-Linares

Cast Enrique Krauze · Guadalupe Jiménez Codinach · Úrsula Camba Ludlow · Raquel Maldonado

Plot Documentary traversing the 3 centuries that gave birth to Hispanic America, exploring the history, art, music and religious syncretism that blossomed from the encounter of two worlds into a civilization...

Direction Nicky Bolster · Kasia Uscinska · Joshua Whitehead · Katie Boxer

Cast Derek Jacobi · James Holland · Sönke Neitzel · Saul David

Plot A series of colorized archive footage of important events during World War II.

Direction Clare Beavan · Martina Hall · Ian Bremner · Liz Hartford

Cast Simon Schama

Plot A comprehensive historical survey of the British Isles.