It’s not easy to watch great deeds of cruelty done by the executioners and imagine the horrors that those women experienced. Find out how these brave Jewish women, from different countries and milieus, pulled through such horrible circumstances. Swimming in Auschwitz is Jon Kean’s moving tale about six survivors of the Holocaust, one of the deadliest genocides from the beginning of time. Site score 8.8, IMDb score 7.9 Overall score=8.35 In order to watch Philippe’s artistic crime of the century, prepare yourself for 93 minutes of adrenaline rush and click the Play button!

James Marsh made a documentary about him and his unbelievable stunt and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival and definitely a place on our list of 11 best documentaries on Amazon Prime right now. He took a stroll on stretched steel cable during one summer morning in 1974. Site score 8.6, IMDb score 7.8 Overall score=8.2Īre you brave and crazy enough to walk in the clouds? One man is! It’s Philippe Petit, the daring French artist who walked between the rooftops of the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center. Carl Deal and Tia Lessin are trying to understand the aftermath of the storm, as well as to point out mistakes and omissions that the government made in response to this catastrophic circumstance. Speaking of Hurricane Matthew, that is in the spotlight these days, we present you the eye-opening documentary about Katrina survivors, young rap artist Kim Roberts and her husband Scott, who remained in New Orleans during the storm. Site score 9, IMDb score 7.4 Overall score=8.2ĭirected by Carl Deal, Tia Lessin, and others

Site score 8.6, IMDb score 7.6 Overall score=8.1Īre you ready for two and a half hours of an attention-grabbing tale about fearless shoguns, honorable samurai, and the Bushido Code? If you are, prepare yourself to be seduced by exotic geisha as you enter the world of Japanese Secret Empire! Extraordinary PBS’s 3 part miniseries take you on the exciting journey through the centuries! You have a chance to witness a rise and 250-year rule of the Tokugawa dynasty and period of Japanese ’Renaissance’. At the end we put documentaries in the right order, and voilà! 11. By combining an IMDb rating with average rate obtained from various review websites, we get the overall score. To make an authentic list of historical documentaries worth watching we ranked them according to our well-established system.

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