Here, in alphabetical order, are some titles to peruse. Once you've selected a title of interest, go to IMDb to get further details about it.
Documentary Films About American History and Heroes
A:
- Alert 3: The Crash of UA 232
- Alert 3: Lessons Learned from the Crash of UA 232
- American Cinema: one hundred years of film making
- Apollo 13/Journey to the Moon/Mars and Back
- Around the World in 72 Days: The Audacious Adventures of Nellie Bly
- At The River I Stand
B:
- The Big One
- Bix: Ain’t None of Them Play Like Him
- The Rise and Fall of the Borscht Belt
C:
- The Civil War
- The Congress
D:
- Do Not Enter: Visa War Against Ideas
- Dreamfield
- Dvorak in America
E:
- Ellis Island
- Explorers of the New World
F:
- The First Measured Century
- The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s
- Freestyle: The Victories of Dan Gable
- David Halberstam's The Fifties
- Founding Fathers: the Men Who Shaped Our Nation and Changed the World
G:
- The Great Depression
- Great Minds of American History
H:
- Headline Stories of the Century
- The History of the United States
- The History of the United States, 2nd Edition
- Hybrid
- Hoover Dam
- The Trials of Henry Kissinger
I:
- Incident at Oglala
- It’s Yesterday Once More!
- Iowa: An American Portrait
L:
- La operación
- The Last American Hobo
- Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist
- Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (National Geographic Society)
- Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
- Linciati: Lynchings of Italians in America
- Lt. Colonel Oliver North: HIS STORY
M:
- Making Sense of the Sixties
- Edward R. Murrow
N:
- New York: A Documentary Film
- No Direction Home
P:
- The Perils of Whistleblowing
R:
- Railfans: The Passion for the Iron Horse
S:
- Sacco & Vanzetti
- Small Town, USA
- Street Fight
- Streetcars of Omaha and Council Bluff
- The Surf Ballroom
T:
- 20th Century, Volumes 1-5
- Thirty Year Cold Turkey Reunion in Greenfield
- A Time to Fear
- Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
- True Story of the Fighting Sullivans
- True Story of Sacco and Vanzetti
- Turning Points in American Foreign Policy
- Turning Points in Us History: 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century
W:
- The War
- Watergate
- Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History
- The Wilderness Idea
- The Wobblies
Y:
- Yidl in the Middle: Growing Up Jewish in Iowa
Documentary Films about American Presidents
- The American President
- President John Adams
- President George H. W. Bush
- President George W. Bush
- President Jimmy Carter
- President Bill Clinton
- President Dwight Eisenhower
- President Gerald Ford
- President Ulysses S. Grant
- President Thomas Jefferson
- President Lyndon Johnson
- President John F. Kennedy
- President Abraham Lincoln
- President Richard Nixon
- President Ronald Reagan
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- President Theodore Roosevelt
- President Harry Truman
- President Woodrow Wilson
- Portraits of American Presidents
