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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Epics like The Last Emperor and Gladiator showcase the genre's full might, presenting absorbing depictions of the past on an ...

A new documentary looks at the influence of one particular group. “Grit and Grace: How Jewish Women Built a Better Texas” ...

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 ...

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 ...