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History Documentaries are the greatest stories ever told. There’s nothing wrong with fiction, but history is filled with the most amazing stories ever told. History documentaries are about anything that happened yesterday: history documentary on culture, on war, on food, on fashion. History documentaries tell us about our ancestors: who they were, how they dressed, how they loved and how they died. History documentaries are very dear to my heart and these are all chosen with love. Enjoy.

• Terry Jones’ Medieval Lives: The Peasant

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  Terry Jones is most famous for being a starring member of Monty Python.  But, did you know that he lived during the peasant revolt of 1381? In this hysterical documentary, Terry Jones takes us back to the medieval times and teaches us many things we did not know. Some of it is factual, others are
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• Nuremberg Trials

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  The Nuremberg trials offered a dramatic chance for justice to be imposed on some of the high ranking Nazis who had been captured. All efforts were taken to make sure that the trial was not a monkey trial but a real airing of philosophical differences, morals, and what we want from our society. This dramatic
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• The Battle Of Britain

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    This documentary: THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN was released in 2010 and relies solely on war time footage to tell the dramatic, and very really tale, of just how close Great Britain came to falling to the Nazis.  In June, 1940 England’s brand new, war time prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill, had his first great
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• The Burning Times

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  The witch hunts aren’t distant memory: only a few hundred years from today people – especially women – were burned alive for being witches. Europe was all a-tizzy over the proliferation of witches. Accusations (we will assume they were false) and the trials (not that they were very fair: throw the witch in the water.
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• Japan’s Atomic Bomb

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  The Japanese surrendered in 1945 after two atomic bombs were dropped on their cities. How close were they to developing their own atomic bombs? New evidence points to the Japanese being just WEEKS behind the United States to develop the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare. Since the end of WWII, conventional wisdom
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• The Atomic Cafe

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    Here’s a fun little documentary!! In the 1940′s and 1950′s, the American Government self-produced a barrage of films that told us how to live and what to think. The Atomic Cafe looks at this propaganda and – with the luxury of time and knowledge – shows us what the government was really telling us,
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• NOVA: Lost King of the Maya (or: headless soccer)

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  NOVA: Lost King of the Maya (or: headless soccer). Imagine if you live in the Mayan Kingdom a thousand years ago. Your king is Yax Kuk Mo and he has captured many lands. You go to the ball game in your local arena and enjoy a game that looks very much like modern day soccer.
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• BBC Unfinished

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  We love our classics: Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” Beethoven’s 5th and 9th Symphonies, and the visual feasts of Picassa and Van Gogh in their finest hours. But, humanity likes imperfections, too. “There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in,” Leonard Cohen once crooned. Sometimes, the unfinished classics are even more revealing:
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• War on Our World

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  This film is an examination on the different types of war — from imperialism to the military wars — and draws out the consequences of these, in the hopes of finding what it will take to achieve peace in the world. It takes into account the many casualties of war, of children becoming orphans or
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• The Mystery of the Romanovs

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  For more than a century, the final moments of what happened to the Romanovs, Russia’s royal family, remains a mystery. Tsar Nicholas II, his wife and children were apparently captured and was set to be executed when the Bolsheviks raided the palace. Two of his children apparently escaped. But in 2007, archeologists apparently discovered two
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