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.

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 ...

Ken Burns' latest project is an expansive documentary about the history of the American Revolution. Premiering Nov. 16 on PBS and airing over six consecutive nights, The American Revolution starts ...

Filmmaker Christian de Rezendes' documentary "Slatersville: America's First Mill Village" explores the 250-year history of Slatersville, Rhode Island. The documentary, which has won three Emmy awards, ...

On a road trip along historic Route 66, Muslim American couple Mona Haydar and Sebastian Robins met Muslim jazz musicians in Tulsa, historians in New Mexico, and date farmers in the Coachella Valley, ...

WKAR's newest documentary series Before America explores key moments in Indigenous history before the revolutionary war. Indigenous history, resiliency and sovereignty take center stage in WKAR’s ...

In the 1970s, I launched a campaign to end LGBTQ invisibility on television. Years later, that mission to show the public who we were expanded to another arena we’d long been written out of: American ...

David R. Wagner, the eminent Connecticut muralist and painter of great scenes from American history, died in early December at the age of 85. His work lives on thanks to such varied admirers as Ken ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An astronaut from Apollo 11 surrounded by shots from Life Itself and I Am Not Your Negro in a composite image - Warner Bros. The ...

An astronaut from Apollo 11 surrounded by shots from Life Itself and I Am Not Your Negro in a composite image - Warner Bros. The overall quality of documentaries, particularly documentary films, have ...