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.

Did dinosaurs live in Alabama? Fossils, museum finds and the famous Selma dinosaur egg reveal the state’s prehistoric past.

Considered lost for over a century, Georges Méliès' 'Gugusse and the Automaton' features cinema’s earliest robot.

Apple TV's best sci-fi series, For All Mankind, rewrites American history with an ongoing space race, reshaping technology, ...

A new documentary exploring Western Pennsylvania’s long history with football was screened on Monday. “The Football Town” is a 52-minute documentary that highlights the importance of the Pittsburgh ...

Western Pennsylvania’s storied football history is chronicled in a first-of-its-kind NFL Films documentary to be screened at Kamin Science Center for the next two months. “The Football Town” is a ...

But achieving commercial success will depend on making perovskites less fragile. In October 2025, just as Dr McGehee and his team were hitting their stride, Donald Trump’s administration abruptly ...

The history of Napa Valley is one of agricultural growth, thriving tourism and significant prosperity. But hidden underneath the valley’s glorious, wine-drenched story is the expulsion of the Chinese ...

We keep hearing that these are unprecedented times for science: scientific skeptics running federal agencies, growing mistrust of vaccines, and messaging from the highest levels of government that ...

The administration is forcing National Park Service staff to censor science and history at parks. This is a violation of the core tenets of the National Park Service’s mission. UPDATE 1/29/2026: a ...

Premiering on January 30 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the cyberpunk CG short Acid City arrives as a compact yet unusually dense feat of worldbuilding: a 12-minute animated documentary ...

NOFX are about to get inside your head — all over again. The punk band have announced the release of a feature length documentary, titled 40 Years of Fuckin’ Up, that will detail their storied history ...