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.

Producer Sara Zarreh tells the story of Margery Kempe, believed to be the first woman to write an autobiography in the English language, more than five hundred years ago. What if you could pick up the ...

Fifty years after NASA put the first men on the moon, this 2019 history documentary was released to celebrate the essential wonder of that historic space mission, without extraneous commentary.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." In 2020, the country faced another serious reckoning of racial and economic disparity, and despite ...

What if you could pick up the phone and call the past? Well, our next story does just that. It's the first in a new weekly segment of short-form audio documentaries. We begin with a piece from ...