Plenty of documentaries have been made about the Second World War, with the best ones including The Memory of Justice, The ...

This documentary explores a little-known World War II story about an American weapon that was never intended for ground ...

“War does not determine who is right—only who is left,” someone once said. War reshapes lives, leaving stories of courage, loss, and survival. Filmmakers have made countless great war movies — but ...

Karin Tanabe is a producer of the 2025 PBS documentary Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories from World War II. A Japanese American ...

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII, PBS is releasing a documentary on Bob Hope and his involvement in entertaining the troops and his actual correspondance/letters with the ...

Upcoming documentary series Vietnam: The War That Changed America tells the story of the conflict through those who survived it on both sides, according to the trailer Apple TV+ dropped for it ...

The word “samurai” is thrown around a lot in popular culture, but this six-part series gets down to the brass tacks of what it actually means. Covering the era of feudal Japan from 1551 to 1616, the ...

Few things have the power to shift our perspective as profoundly as a well-made documentary. They transport us to distant places, reveal hidden truths, and challenge what we think we know about the ...

Documentaries have long served as some of cinema’s most powerful truth-tellers, often delivering seismic cultural impact with nothing more than reality as their script. The films on this list were ...

Michas Ohnstad was one of the first Americans to enter Hiroshima in September 1945, just weeks after the dropping of the atomic bomb. Fresh out of high school in rural Minnesota, the World War II ...