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.

From medieval skirmishes to trench warfare to modern missiles, these war films showcase both the atrocities and humanity of history.

Since World War II was such a massive and globe-spanning conflict (they weren’t kidding with the “world” part in its title), it’s perhaps understandable that it’s the most frequently explored in ...

If you don’t know your past, you don’t know your future. It’s a cliche, but it’s true. Here’s another one: history repeats itself. The best way to educate yourself about world affairs and their ...

The way we see it, there’s a yin and yang to documentaries. They’ve always had the potential to be deadly serious — now maybe more than ever, as a world awash in chaos spotlights such topics as the ...

Nearly two decades after it was filmed, a new documentary revisits two of the deadliest battles during the early years of the Iraq War by showing the first-person perspective of the men on the ground.