Documentaries

Save up to 50% in Our Triple TV and History Sale

Save up to 50% in our Triple TV and History Sale, featuring our hardest-working TV shows, the U.S. Presidents, and military & war titles.

• Hardest-working TV shows, including Ice Road Truckers
• U.S. Presidents, including The History Channel Presents The Presidents
• Military & War, including Patton 360, Battles B.C., and The World at War

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Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Docurama

Celebrate 10 years of superior documentary films with Docurama's 10th Anniversary, featuring such critically acclaimed titles as Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back and The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.

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Documentary Essentials: Must-Haves

Film and video have carried the photographer's documentary art to new, more complex, and often controversial levels since 1925, when filmmaker Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North demonstrated the potential scope and detail that documentaries might aspire to. If still a rarity at the local multiplex, these essential must-have film and television documentaries engage and challenge us, raising questions of a gravity and relevance as real as life itself.

• Planet Earth
• Night and Fog
• Hoop Dreams

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A&E's Biography Store

Visit our A&E Biography Store for award-winning, in-depth profiles of the exceptional people whose lives and times stir our imagination.

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