Guide to Documentary Films

Alphabetical List of FHGDF Documentaries

(On occasion documentaries will be listed by key name, rather than full title, in the designated section. Some titles are listed in more than one section)

A.

• A. D. (Religion)
• Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom (Am Pres)
• Accounts of a Forgotten Arm (War)
• Adam Clayton Powell (African American)
• Africa: A History Denied (Int)
• Africa Mia (Int)
• Against the Odds (African American)
• Air America: The CIA’s Secret Airline (War)
• The Alamo (War)
• Alaska’s Inside Passage (Environment & Nature)
• Alert 3: The Crash of UA 232, Sioux City, Iowa, July 19, 1989 (Transportation)
• Alert 3: Lessons Learned from the Crash of UA 232, Sioux City, Iowa, July 19, 1989 (Transportation)
• All the President’s Men (Am Pres)
• Amazing Grace (with Bill Moyers) (Music)
• America and The Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference (Holocaust)
• American Cinema: one hundred years of film making (Am Hist)
• American Fugitive: The truth about Hassan (American Hist)
• The American President (Am Pres)
• Portraits of American Presidents (Am Pres)
• The American Revolution (War)
• American Visions: The History of American Art and Architecture (Art)
• America’s Great Indian Leaders (Nat Am)
• Anasazi: The Ancient Ones (Anthro)
• Andrew Carnegie: The Richest Man in the World (Econ)
• Ancient Egyptians (Ancient-Renaissance)
• A Painful Reminder: Evidence for All Mankind (War)
• Ape Man: The Story of Human Evolution (Evolution)
• Apollo 13/Journey to the Moon/Mars and Back (Am Hist)
• The Apostle Paul: The Man Who Turned the World Upside Down (Religion)
• Apu Condor (Environment & Nature)
• The Art of the Piano: Great Pianists of the 20th Century (Music) (Music)
• The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the Century (Music)
• The Art of the Violin: The Devil’s Instrument Transcending the Violin (Music)
• Around the World in 72 Days: The Audacious Ventures of Nellie Bly (Am Hist)
• Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post-Modernism (Art)
• Assignment Rescue (Holocaust)
• At the River I Stand (African American)
• At The Waters Edge: Majestic Riverboats (Trans)

B.

• The Battle of Burma: History’s Infamous Railway of Death (War)
• The Battle at Orgreave (Labor) Battlefield (War)
• Behind the Wire (War)
• The Big One (Am Hist)
• Bill Moyers: God & Politics (Religion)
• Bill Moyers’ The Democrat and the Dictator (Pers)
• Bill Moyers: Healing and the Mind (Religion)
• The Birth of the Cold War (War)
• Bix: Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him Yet (Music)
• Black Panthers (African American)
• The Black West (African American)
• Blockade (War)
• Born for Love: Reflections in Loving (Misc)
• Breaking Ranks (War)
• Breaking the Code (War)
• Breakout P. O. W. (War)
• Bridge on the River Kwai (War)
• Broadway: The American Musical (Music)
• Broadway’s Lost Treasures (Music)
• BrotherMinister: The Assassination of Malcolm X (African American)
• The Buffalo Soldiers (African American)
• George Bush: His World War II Years (Am Pres)
• Buying the War (Media)

C.

• Cartoons Go to War (War)
• Chanceman’s Brothers & Sisters: The Origins of the 20th Century Morris County Black Community (African American)
• Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker (LGBT)
• Christianity: The First Thousand Years: The Founding of a Faith; Church and Empire; The Glory of Byzantium; The Faith Conquers (Religion)
• Christians of the East (Religion)
• Churchill: The Finest Hours (Pers)
• The Civil War (War)
• Civilization (Art)
• Clara Lemlich: A Strike Leader’s Diary (Labor)
• Clarence Darrow (Evolution)
• The Clinton Years (Am Pres)
• Codes (War)
• Conquest of America (American Hist)
• Cold War (War)
• Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (Econ)
• The Congress (Am Hist)
• Contemporary Economic Issues (Econ)
• The Crossing (War)
• Crucible of Empire: The Spanish-American War (War)
• Crusades (War)
• Crusades Crescent and the Cross (War)
• D. Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years (Am Pres)
• The Dark Ages (Ancient-Renaissance)
• Dark Passages (African American)
• The Dark Side (War)
• David Halberstam’s The Fifties (Am Hist)
• D-Day to Berlin (Filmography)
• Decoding Nazi Secrets (War)
• Discovering Dominiga (International)
• Do Not Enter: Visa War Against Ideas (Am Hist)
• Dreamfield (Sport) Dvorak in America (Musical)

E.

• Echoes of Captivity (War)
• Economics: An Introduction: Part 1-Microeconomics; Part 2-Macroeconomics (Econ)
• Edgar Degas: The Unquiet Spirit (Art)
• Edward R. Murrow (Am Hist)
• The Edward R. Murrow Television Collection (Pers)
• Edward R. Murrow: This Reporter (Am Hist)
• Edward R. Murrow: Voice of America (Pers)
• Egypt (Int)
• Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists (Misc)
• Eisenhower (Am Pres)
• Elizabeth (Int)
• Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen (Int)
• Ellis Island (Am Hist)
• Empires of Industry: Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel (Econ)
• Empires of Industry: DuPont Dynasty (Econ)
• An Evening With Lena Horne (Music)
• Escape from Sobibor (Holocaust)
• Escape from a Living Hell (War)
• Explorers of the New World (Am Hist)
• Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years (African American)

F.

• The Fight in the Field: Cesar Chavez and the Workers’ Struggle (Labor)
• The Fighting Lady (War)
• First Invasion: The War of 1812 (War)
• The First Measured Century (Am Hist)
• 500 Nations (Nat Am)
• Flanders & Swann (Humor)
• Gerald Ford: Healing the Presidency (Am Hist)
• The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s (Medicine)
• Founding Fathers: the Men Who Shaped Our Nation and Changed Our World (Am Hist)
• Frederick Douglass: When the Lion Wrote History (African American)
• Freedom on My Mind (African American)
• Freedom: The Philosophy of Revolution (Pol Th)
• Freestyle: The Victories of Dan Gable (Sport)
• From Swastika to Jim Crow (African American)

G.

• Genesis: A Living Conversation (with Bill Moyers) (Religion)
• George Marshall and the American Century (War)
• George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey (Filmography)
• George Wallace: Settin’ The Woods on Fire (African American)
• The Giant Nile (Int)
• Goddess Remembered (Religion)
• The Gold Rush (Humor)
• Ulysses S. Grant: Warrior/President (Am Pres)
• The Great American Songbook: Celebrating 100 Years of Music in America (Music)
• The Great Depression (Am Hist)
• Great Figures of the New Testament, Parts 1 & 2 (Religion)
• Great Minds of American History (Am Hist)
• Great Presidents (Am Pres)
• Great World Religions: Beliefs, practices and History: Part II-God and His Prophet: The Religion of Islam (Religion)
• Great World Religions: Islam (Religion)
• Guns, Germs, and Steel (Environment & Nature)

H.

• Hamburg Lectures (Religion)
• Hammering It Out, Women in the Construction Zone (Int)
• Harry S. Truman (Am Pres)
• Harvest of Despair (Holocaust)
• Hawaii’s Last Queen (Pers)
• Headline Stories of the Century (Am Hist)
• Heavy Metal: Mig 15: Russian Stealth (War)
• Held in Trust: The Story of Henry O. Flipper (African American)
• Hellmira (War)
• HERStory: The Founding Mothers of Johnson & Wales University (Women)
• The Himmler Project (Holocaust)
• Hiroshima: The Decision to Drop the Bomb (War)
• Hiroshima: Why The Bomb Was Dropped (War)
• A History of God (Religion)
• The History of Poker (Music)
• The History of Sex (MIsc)
• A History of the U. S. Economy in the 20th Century (Econ)
• The History of the United States (Am Hist)
• The History of the United States (2nd ed) (Am Hist)
• History’s Turning Points (Int)
• History vs. Hollywood: The French Connection (H vs. H)
• History vs. Hollywood: M. A. S. H. (H vs. H)
• History vs. Hollywood: Patton (H vs. H)
• Hitler’s Sunken Treasure (War)
• The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions (Holocaust)
• Holocaust: The story of man’s inhumanity to man (Holocaust)
• Hoover Dam (Am Hist)
• Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay (LGBT)
• The Horrors of War (War)
• How to Understand and Listen to Great Music: The Greenberg Lectures (Music)
• Hoxie: The First Stand (Education)
• Huey Long (Pers)
• Human Bondage (African American)
• Hybrid(Econ)

I.

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (African American)
• Images of Jesus (Religion)
• In a Brilliant Light: Van Gogh in Arles (Art)
• Incident at Ogala (Native American)
• The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt (Am Pres)
• Iowa: An American Portrait (Am Hist)
• Islam (Religion)
• Italian-American Internment: A Secret History (War)
• It’s Yesterday Once More (Am Hist)
• I Was a Fireman (aka-Fires Were Started) (War)
• I Was a Slave Labourer (Holocaust)

J.

• Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire (Int)
• Japanese War Crimes and Trials: Murder Under the Sun (War)
• Japan’s Atomic Bomb (War)
• Thomas Jefferson (Am Pres)
• Thomas Jefferson: Philosopher of Freedom (Am Pres)
• Jesus: His Life (Religion)
• From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (Religion)
• From Jesus to Constantine: A History of Early Christianity (Religion)
• Jimmy Carter (Am Pres)
• Jimmy Carter: To the White House and Beyond (Am Pres)
• John Brown’s Holy War (Pers)
• Johnny Carson: His Favorite Moments (Humor)
• Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth (with Bill Moyers) (Myth)
• Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey (Myth)

K.

• The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspsiracy (Am Pres)
• The Speeches of John F. Kennedy (Am Pres)
• The Kennedys (Am Pres)
• Kim’s Nuclear Gamble (War)
• The Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. (African American)
• The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Am Hist)
• The Klan: Legacy of Hate (African American)
• Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (African American)

L.

• LBJ (Part 1 & 2) (Am Pres)
• The Land Where the Blues Began (Music)
• La operacion (Am Hist)
• The Last American Hobo (Am Hist)
• The Last Atomic Bomb (War)
• The Last Mission (War)
• Last Stand of the 300 (Ancient-Renaissance)
• L’Chayim, Comrade Stalin (Filmography)
• Le Chambon: La colline avec mille enfants (Holocaust)
• Legacies of Great Economists (Econ)
• Legacy [Int] Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (Am Hist)
• Leonard Bernstein: Reaching for the Note (Music)
• The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci (Art)
• Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (Am Hist)
• Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (Am Hist)
• Liberty (War)
• U. S. S. Liberty Survivors: Our Story (War)
• Life Portrait of John Adams (Am Pres)
• Linciati: Lynchings of Italians in America (Am Hist)
• Lincoln (Am Pres)
• Lincoln (2006) (Am Pres)
• Abraham Lincoln: A New Birth of Freedom (Am Pres)
• An Evening with Abraham Lincoln (Am Pres)
• The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln (Am Pres)
• Listen to Britain (War)
• Little Dieter Needs to Fly (War)
• Lt. Colonel Oliver North: HIS STORY (Am Hist)
• Lost in the Grand Canyon (Environment & Nature)

M.

• Making Sense of the Sixties (Am Hist)
• Malcolm X: Make It Plain (African American)
• Mark Twain Tonight (Humor)
• The Marshall Plan: Against the Odds (War)
• Martin Luther (Religion)
• The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (War)
• Maya: The Blood of Kings (Ancient-Renaissance)
• The Medici (Ancient-Renaissance)
• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (Ancient-Renaissance)
• The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (War)
• Midnight Ramble (African American)
• Monet: Legacy of Light (Art)
• The Monkey Trial (Evolution)
• More Great Escapes from World War II (War)
• The Mormon Battalion (Religion)
• Morrie Schwartz: An ABC News Special (Pers)
• Moshe Dayan: A Warrior’s Story: (Int)
• Moyers on Dying: On Our Own Terms (Myth)
• Muddy Waters: Can’t Be Satisfied (Music)
• Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet (Religion)
• The Murder of Emmett Till (African American)
• Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War (War)

N.

• Napoleon, David: The Image Enthroned (Pers)
• The Native Americans (Nat Am)
• Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (African American)
• National Prisoner of War Museum (War)
• Native Land (African American)
• Nazi Prisoners in America (War)
• The New Ball Game (Sports)
• The New Testament, Parts 1 &2 (Religion)
• A Newsreel History of World War II (War)
• New York: A Documentary Film (Am Hist)
• Night and Fog (Holocaust)
• Nixon (Am Pres)
• Richard Nixon: “Old Glory,” “Checkers,” and “Resignation” (Am Pres)
• Nixon: A Presidency Revealed (Am Pres)
• No Direction Home (Music)
• No End in Sight: Iraq’s Descent into Chaos (War)
• Notes on Marie Menken (Filmography)
• Norman Rockwell: An American Portrait (Art)
• North Country (Labor)
• No Secrets Any More: The Times of Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon (LGBT)

O.

• Oh What a Lovely War (War)
• The Old Testament, Part 1 & 2 (Religion)
• One Woman, One Vote (Women)
• Only the Ball Was White (African American)
• Out of Work (LGBT)

P.

• Palenque: Metropolis of the Maya (Anthropology)
• The Panama Deception: Exposing the Cover Up! (War)
• Paperback Vigilante (War)
• Paul the Emissary (Religion)
• The Perils of Whistleblowing (Am Hist)
• The Pershing Story/American Siberian Expeditionary Force (War)
• Peter and Paul (Religion)
• Pierre Bourdieu: Sociology is a Martial Art (Int)
• The Plow That Broke the Plains (Agric)
• The Battle of Poitiers (War)
• P. O. W.: Americans in Enemy Hands (War)
• Power Over People: Classic and Modern Political Theory (Pol Th)
• Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Music)
• Prisoners of Hope (War)

R.

• RFK (Am Hist)
• Race Movies: The Early History of Black Cinema (African American)
• Railfans: The Passion for the Iron Horse (Transportation)
• Rebels & Redcoats: How Britain Lost America (War)
• Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (African American)
• Reagan (Am Pres)
• The Reagan Years: In Pursuit of the American Dream (Am Pres)
• Regret to Inform (War)
• Remember the Alamo (War)
• Return to the Great Escape (War)
• Return with Honor (War)
• The Return of Paul Jarrett (War)
• The Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt (Am Hist)
• Riverdance (Music)
• River Song: A Natural History of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon (Environment & Nature)
• Rivers and Tides (Art)
• The Road to Brown (African American)
• Roe vs. Wade (Judicial)
• FDR Part 1 & 2 (Am Pres)
• The Speeches of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Am Pres)
• Run the Canyon Wild: River Runners of the Grand Canyon (Environment & Nature)
• Russia’s War: Blood Upon the Snow (War)
• Rustbelt Phoenix: Saving the American Steel Industry (Labor)

S.

• Sacco & Vanzetti (Am Hist)
• Saudi Time Bomb(Int)
• Schwarzkopf: How the War Was Won (War)
• Secret History of the Credit Card (Econ)
• Secrets, Lies, and Atomic Spies (War)
• The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (Religion)
• Ship of Slaves: The Middle Passage (African American)
• Shogun (Int)
• Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind (Myth)
• Simple Justice (African American)
• Sinking the Supership (War)
• Six Days in June (War)
• Small Town, USA (Am Hist)
• The Songs Are Free (with Bill Moyers) (Music)
• The Soul of a Man (Music)
• The Soundies Era: Black Music Videos from the 1940s (African American)
• The Spartans (Ancient-Renaissance)
• The Speeches of Winston of Churchill (Pers)
• St. Patrick’s Battalion (War)
• The Story of Andersonville (War)
• The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony: Not for Ourselves Alone (Women)
• The Story of Helen Keller (Pers)
• The Story of the Twelve Apostles (Religion)
• Strange Fruit (African American)
• Streetcars of Omaha and Council Bluff (Transportation)
• Street Fight (Politics)
• Struggles in Steel (Labor)
• Sudan: Land of Contrasts (Int)
• Supreme Court (Judicial)
• The Surf Ballroom (Music)
• Sworn to Secrecy: American Prisoners of War (War)

T.

• Taking Off the Blinders (LGBT)
• Tall: The American Skyscraper and Louis Sullivan (Art)
• The Theory of Evolution: A History of Controversy (Evolution)
• TR and His Times (Am Pres)
• TR, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (Am Pres)
• Terrorists Among Us: Jihad in America (War)
• That’s Dancing (Music)
• That’s Entertainment (Music)
• The Exiles (Holocaust)
• The Goebbels Experiment (War)
• The Inheritance (Labor)
• The Sea Around Us (Environment & Nature)
• The Soul of a Man (Music)
• The Specialist (Holocaust)
• The True Story of Braveheart (H vs. H)
• The Tuskegee Airmen (African American)
• The War Game (War)
• The Women of Summer (Women)
• They Chose China (War)
• Thirty Year Cold Turkey Reunion in Greenfield (Music)
• Thomas Hart Benton (Art)
• Thunderbolt (War)
• Time Machine: False Witness (Am Pres)
• A Time of Fear (Am Hist)
• Transnational Tradeswomen (Labor)
• Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern (Econ)
• True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai (War)
• True Story of Sacco and Vanzetti (Am Hist)
• True Story of the Fighting Sullivans (War)
• T. S. Eliot: Voices & Visions (Pers)
• Truman (Am Pres)
• Turner (Art)
• Turning Points in American Foreign Policy (Am Hist)
• Turning Points in US History:18th, 19th, 20th Century (Am Hist)
• TV’s Promised Land (Media)
• Twentieth Century, Volumes 1-5 (Am Hist)
• Typhoid Mary: The Most Dangerous Woman in America (Medicine & Health)

U.

• Underground Railroad (African American)
• Unit 731: Nightmare in Manchuria (War)
• The Unknown War (War)
• U. S.-Mexican War (War)
• United States in the Twentieth Century, Part 1 (Am Hist)
• The Unreal Story of Pro Wrestling (Misc)
• V. Victor Borge: On Stage with Audience Favorites (Humor)
• Victory in the Pacific (War)
• Vietnam (War)
• Virtual History: The Secret Plot to Kill Hitler (War)

W.

• Wag the Dog (Politics)
• Walking the Bible (Religion)
• War in Peace: The Gulf War (War)
• The War That Made America (War)
• George Washington: Founding Father (Am Pres)
• Pursuit of George Washington: Founding Father (Am Pres)
• Battle of Warsaw (War)
• Watergate (Am Hist)
• Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History (Am Hist)
• The Way West (Native American)
• Wealth & Power (Econ)
• What Happened to Bill Clinton? (Am Pres)
• Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? (Holocaust)
• Who Wrote the Bible?: Probing the Eternal Mysteries Behind the Origins of the Holy Scriptures (Religion)
• Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (Anthropology)
• The Wilderness Idea (Amer Hist)
• Woodrow Wilson (Am Pres)
• Woodrow Wilson:Reluctant Warrior (Am Pres)
• The Wisdom of the Dream: Carl Gustav Jung (Mythology)
• The Wobblies (Labor)
• Women Who Loved Cinema (Women)
• World War I (War)
• World War II: The Propaganda Battle (War)

X.

Y.

• Yes, Prime Minister (Humor) Yidl in the Middle: Growing up Jewish in Iowa (Ethnicity)

Z.

 

Last updated: September 17, 2012

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