Your Guide To The Best History Documentaries Starting With The Highest Reviews

The Times of Harvey Milk 1984

Starring: Harvey Milk
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
Release Date: 2004-06-08
Running Time: 88 minutes

A devastatingly skillful and emotionally compelling documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk charts the political rise and brutal slaying of the first openly gay city official in the United State, Harvey Milk. Ironically, the same election that brought Milk to the board of city supervisors of San Francisco also elected the man who killed him, a former police officer and fireman named Dan ... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Thomas Jefferson - A Film by Ken Burns

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS Paramount
Release Date: 2004-09-28
Running Time: 180 minutes

The complicated life of Thomas Jefferson is the subject of this excellent documentary by noted filmmaker Ken Burns. Using techniques that will seem comfortably familiar to viewers of other films by Burns, historians and writers (including Joseph Ellis, Daniel Boorstin, Garry Wills, and Gore Vidal) appear on camera to speak about Jefferson, a cast of actors read the words of Jefferson and others. T... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The History Channel Presents The Revolution

Starring: Revolutionary War
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Release Date: 2006-12-19
Running Time: 600 minutes

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Modern Marvels - Walt Disney World (History Channel)

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Release Date: 2006-03-28
Running Time: 100 minutes

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Joy Division (The Miriam Collection)

Starring: Bernard Sumner
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: The Weinstein Company
Release Date: 2008-06-17
Running Time: 96 minutes

Joy Division is a "fascinating look at the brief but vital trajectory of a band that died with its troubled frontman, Ian Curtis" (Jason Gargano, Cincinnati CityBeat), only to be reborn as the equally influential New Order. Featuring interviews with all surviving band members, Joy Division explores the Manchester origins of this revolutionary act, their partnership with Factory Records founder Ton... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Release Date: 2006-02-28
Running Time: 70 minutes

In August 1955, Mamie Till-Mobley of Chicago sent her only child, 14 year-old Emmett Louis Till, to visit relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that only 8 days later, Emmett would be abducted from his Great-Uncle’s home, brutally beaten and murdered by one of the oldest Southern taboos: whistling at a white woman in public. The murderers were soon arrested but later acquitte... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

Starring: Wes Studi
Rated: G (General Audience)
Directed By: Steven R. Heape
Studio: Rich-Heape Films, Inc.
Release Date: 2006-02-01
Running Time: 115 minutes

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Biography - Barack Obama (Election Update Edition)

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: A&E Home Video (New REleaset)
Release Date: 2008-08-05
Running Time: 50 minutes

This cable-television biography about the life of Illinois senator Barack Obama was made before he began campaigning to be the Democratic party's candidate for the 2008 presidential race. Still, the program suggests Obama has one or another kind of profound, Anerican destiny as a mixed-race activist who never comfortably fit into one or another group, and had to look deep into his own roots to und... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Mitzi Gaynor: Razzle Dazzle! The Special Years

Starring: Bob Mackie
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: City Lights Home Entertainment
Release Date: 2008-11-18
Running Time: 120 minutes

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Jonestown - The Life & Death of Peoples Temple

Starring: Janet Shular
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: PBS Paramount
Release Date: 2007-04-10
Running Time: 90 minutes

Jonestown. Decades after the fact, the very mention of the word evokes grim memories of Rev. Jim Jones, his Peoples Temple, and the horrific suicide of more than 900 followers who accompanied him to Guyana, Jones' self-styled South American Shangri-La. While November 18, 1978--when, following the shooting of California Rep. Leo Ryan (who had come to Jonestown to investigate various allegati... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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