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Crimean War: A Historical Documentary

The Crimean War (1853–1856) pitted the Russian Empire against an alliance of Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and later ...
After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Williamsburg resident Philip Forgit decided to do a documentary about it.
Filmmaker Artem Ryzhykov becomes an active participant in this grim portrait of the ongoing war in A Simple Soldier.
TIFF 2025: "Free Solo" directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhely and Jimmy Chin's latest examines photojournalist Lynsey Addario.
The VFW National Home hosted a Veterans workshop and a free screening of the documentary "Brothers After War," a film that follows the lives of soldiers during the war in Iraq. The film follows ...
From its very first moments, the new documentary "The Territory" places the viewer uncomfortably in a new kind of war — the war for the future of the Amazon Basin, and what it portends for Indigenous ...
The word “samurai” is thrown around a lot in popular culture, but this six-part series gets down to the brass tacks of what it actually means. Covering the era of feudal Japan from 1551 to 1616, the ...
My wife and I decided to again watch the Ken Burns epic masterpiece series “The Civil War.” We saw it when it came out in 1990. We were so impressed with it back then and even more so now but for a ...
The fantastical porcelain figurines of Anya Stasenko and Slava Leontyev are a tiny part of co-director Brendan Bellomo and producer Aniela Sidorska’s documentary Porcelain War – winner of the 2024 ...
Do you consider yourself a part of San Francisco's middle class? According to Mayor Ed Lee, the middle class are those making between $80k-$150k; but as the trailer of a pending documentary points out ...