Historical and Archival Documentaries

This group collects the Documentary and Nonfiction Film subcategory's members centered on a historical period, expedition or event outside war or a criminal case, built substantially from archival or period footage, spanning early feature-documentary landmarks (Nanook of the North, Man with a Movie Camera, Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, Night Mail), expedition chronicles (Kon-Tiki, The Secret Land, Sky Above and Mud Beneath), Dust Bowl-era agricultural history (The Plow That Broke the Plains), colonial and postcolonial history (Daybreak in Udi, Dahomey, Freedom Riders), propaganda-as-history (Triumph of the Will), a dramatized biblical history (Why the Nativity?), and the Nazi-rise chronicle Black Fox.