Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "color-archival-footage"

1. Poolboy: Drowning Out the Fury (2011)

R | 90 min | Comedy

A movie about making a movie about a man returning to California to be a pool cleaner after an eternity of fighting in Vietnam. But it's been taken over by Mexicans and one of them murdered his family. He settles it the only way he knows.

Director: Garrett Brawith | Stars: Kevin Sorbo, Ross Patterson, Danny Trejo, Jason Mewes

Votes: 2,421

2. The Saturn V Story (2014)

52 min | Documentary, History

With the accolade of flying 24 men to the Moon, the Saturn V will always be considered one of Mankind's greatest technological achievements. This inspirational film reveals the colossal challenges NASA faced to make it fly.

Directors: Elliot Weaver, Zander Weaver | Stars: David Baker, Nigel Bannister, Mike Cruise, Anu Ojha

Votes: 426

3. Across the Pacific (2020)

History

This is a 3 part series from PBS, following WW1, airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh

Stars: Christopher Cassarino, Brad Koed, Brian Muller, Sergey Nagorny

Votes: 70

4. The Surge: The Whole Story (2009)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary

In 2007, the situation in Iraq was desperate and required a new strategy...the Surge. THE SURGE: THE WHOLE STORY is a definitive account from those who were there, including interviews with... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Van Dusen | Stars: Nasier Abadi, Kenneth Adgie, Lloyd Austin, Jeffrey Bannister

Votes: 36

5. Hitler's Last Secrets: Hitler, Himmler and the Occult (2011)

Not Rated | 52 min

This powerful film revisits the sites most closely associated with Heinrich Himmler and traces the development of his warped ideology. Heinrich Himmler was the creator of the infamous ... See full summary »

Director: Bob Carruthers | Stars: Mike Leighton, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Léon Degrelle

Votes: 30

6. Yuri Gagarin Conspiracy: Fallen Idol (2009 Video)

PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary

Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest moment of our recent history in space may not have happened at all?

Directors: Denny Hooten, Samuel Oldham | Stars: Gordon Feller, Yuri Gagarin, Elliott Gould, Elliott Haimoff

Votes: 24

7. Sigmund Jähn - Der erste Deutsche im All (2017 TV Movie)

45 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Every child knew his name in East Germany, many wanted to be just like him. Schools and streets were named after this national hero. In the Socialist Eastern Bloc dictatorship of the GDR, ... See full summary »

Director: Rene Römer | Stars: Carsten Linke, Sigmund Jähn, Eberhard Köllner, Romy Mothes

8. Vladimir Ilyushin: The Real First Man in Space (2000 Video)

Documentary

Profiling the real first man in space, who could not be presented to the world by the former Soviet Union as the returning, conquering hero, due to the fact that he crash landed and was ... See full summary »

Director: Elliott Haimoff

9. Tank Overhaul (2006– )
Episode: Panther (2006)

TV-G | 50 min | Documentary

Tank restorer Jacques Littlefield labors to add a rare German Panzerkampfwagen V Panther to his collection of over 300 military vehicles. Recovered from a riverbed in Poland, the badly ... See full summary »

Director: P.J. Naworynski | Stars: Kieth Boles, Michael Groddeck, Rolf Koepke, Jacques Littlefield

Votes: 6

10. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: The Holocaust Secret

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

An examination of one of the burning questions of WWII: How did the Nazi's hide their atrocities and what did the Allies know as the "final solution" was implemented across Europe? Secret ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlton Heston, Terry Charman, Aaron Breitbart, Ela Weissberger

11. Becoming Evil: Sisterhood of Murder (2019– )
Episode: The Second Wave: America's Most Notorious Serial Killers (2019)

TV-14 | 57 min | Documentary, Crime

We profile some of America's most notorious serial killers including the Boston strangler, the Dating Game killer who murdered over 130 people, the notorious buddy killers and the Iceman murdered.

Director: Ron Meyer | Stars: Kirk Gill, Dirk Duran-Gibson, Frederic Reamer, Steven A. Egger

Votes: 19

12. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: Destination Okinawa (2002)

Documentary, History, War

Anticipating an excessive commitment of resources to take and hold the island, American war planners abandon an invasion of Formosa and focus directly on the Japanese home islands. They set... See full summary »

Stars: Jonathan Booth, Hirohito, Chester W. Nimitz, Raymond A. Spruance

Votes: 6

13. Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode: Guadalcanal (2000)

Documentary, History, War

Tim Pigott-Smith narrates the story of the battle for Guadalcanal and the capture of this strategically crucial island in World War 2 during which more than 25,000 Japanese lost their lives.

Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Frank Jack Fletcher, Robert L. Ghormley, Hirohito

Votes: 7

14. Voyage of the Continents (2012–2015)
Episode: Central America (2014)

TV-G | 51 min | Documentary, History

Central America and the Caribbean Islands formed from the Farallon Tectonic Plate which was previously subducted in a collision with the conjoined North and South American Tectonic Plates. ... See full summary »

Director: Alexis de Favitski | Stars: Daniel Amorese, Jose Luis Arce, Thierry Calmus, Andres Cardenas

Votes: 10

15. Castle Builders (2015)
Episode: Masters and Masons (2015)

48 min | Documentary

Meet the Castle Builders - the masons and laborers who did the hard work; the geniuses of design and structural engineering who imagined these medieval mega-structures; and the kings and barons who commissioned them.

Stars: Will Davies, Robert Glenister, Selwyn Jones, Coralie Menanteau

16. Unsolved Mysteries of World War II (1992– )
Episode: The Death of Geli Raubal (2004)

13 min | Documentary, History, War

Adolf Hitler's niece Angela Raubal, who was widely believed to have been his mistress, was found dead in 1931.

Star: Patrick Allen

17. Unsolved Mysteries of World War II (1992– )
Episode: The Riddle of Rudolf Hess (2004)

24 min | Documentary, History, War

On May 10, 1941 Rudolf Hess, former Deputy Fuhrer of the Third Reich, made an extraordinary lone flight to Britain. Why did the British government, instead of treating the incident as a ... See full summary »

Star: Patrick Allen

18. Wars in the Middle East (2003)
Episode: Iran-Iraq War (2003)

37 min | Documentary

In 1980 Iraqi mechanized forces using blitzkrieg style tactics, less air power, invaded an unprepared Iran. How Iran managed to mobilize and gain the upper hand is explained. The events ... See full summary »

Star: Terry Lloyd

19. Dangerous Missions (1999–2002)
Episode: Tank Crews (2000)

46 min | Documentary, War

A tribute to the American tank crews who fought in World War II against the Germans, focusing on the Sherman tank.

Director: Rob Lihani | Stars: Beau Billingslea, Oda 'Chuck' Miller, Harley Swenson

20. Scott Manley (2009– )
Episode: The Story of NASA's Space Tracking Ships (2021)

13 min | Documentary, News

The United States has operated several generates of ships for tracking rocket launches and eventually spacecraft. With the Earth being mostly water, covering every meter of a trajectory or ... See full summary »

Star: Scott Manley

21. Scott Manley (2009– )
Episode: The Most Important Space Shuttle Mission Never Happened (2020)

13 min | Documentary, News

A big reason the Space Shuttle looks the way it does is a planned mission called Shuttle Reference Mission-3b. The plan was to capture and return a satellite from a polar orbit in less than... See full summary »

Star: Scott Manley

22. Scott Manley (2009– )
Episode: The Amazing Engineering Behind Solid Rocket Boosters (2020)

16 min | Documentary, News

Solid rocket boosters sound simple enough but Scott is prepared to convince you they are not. Here he describes the design and operational details of the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters... See full summary »

Star: Scott Manley

23. Curious Droid (2016– )
Episode: What Fossils Will We Leave Behind in 65 Million Years? (2019)

10 min | Documentary

Paul discusses what will be left of human civilization in 65 million years should we befall a mass extinction event like the dinosaurs. Pretty much anything we've built will fall to ... See full summary »

Star: Paul Shillito

24. Curious Droid (2016– )
Episode: What Happened to the Soviet Supersonic Jump Jets? (2019)

12 min | Documentary

Work on VTOL jets was confined to the west until Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev saw a demonstrator at an airshow. But the Soviet military was uninterested so Yakovlev proceed with work on ... See full summary »

Star: Paul Shillito

25. Curious Droid (2016– )
Episode: Project Suntan - The Lockheed CL-400 (2019)

11 min | Documentary

The CL-400 was an above top secret, hydrogen fueled, spy plane concept devised by the legendary Kelly Johnson at Lockheed. It was an Air Force project intended to replace the CIA's ... See full summary »

Star: Paul Shillito

26. Curious Droid (2016– )
Episode: How Long Can the B-52 Continue in Service? (2020)

15 min | Documentary

Developed in the 1950s the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is likely to continue in service until the 2050s. Already grandchildren of the original pilots are flying it. Over it's first six ... See full summary »

Star: Paul Shillito

27. Ward Carroll (2020– )
Episode: The Purest, Most Badass Carrier Aviation Movie Ever (2021)

28 min | Documentary

Ward discusses a 1944 film entitled "The Fighting Lady." This academy award documentary was created for the home front to demonstrate the war fighting abilities of the US Navy in the ... See full summary »

Star: Ward Carroll

28. Astrum (2013– )
Episode: Why NASA Didn't Go Directly to the Moon: Apollo Episode 1 (2021)

10 min | Documentary

This first installment on the Apollo program examines President Kennedy's choice of a manned moon landing as the United States' ultimate goal for NASA. Once the moon was the objective it ... See full summary »

Star: Alex McColgan

29. Paper Skies (2021– )
Episode: Why B-17 "Memphis Belle" was So Special? Boeing's Flying Fortresses in World War II (2021)

24 min | Documentary, History

Despite it's ability to sustain heavy damage, in the bombing raids of World War Two Europe the average B-17 Flying Fortress survived just 13 of the crew's 25 mission tour of duty. So it was... See full summary »

Star: Dmytri Babenkov

30. Scott Manley (2009– )
Episode: When a Volcano Erupts Under Your Neighbor's House: Visiting the site of Hawaii's 2018 Eruption (2021)

15 min | Documentary, News

In 2018 much of Leilani Estates was destroyed by a large lava flow from Fissue 8 of Kilauea. Three years after the eruption Scott visited the site to view the geological structures. ... See full summary »

Star: Scott Manley

31. Armor Cast (2020– )
Episode: Evolution of Fighter Jets: Koala Explains: Fighter Generations and their Differences (2021)

19 min | Documentary

Many factors determine the generation a fighter jet belongs to including: speed, radar, maneuverability, ceiling, avionics, data linking, stealth and even its weapons suite. Here are the ... See full summary »

Star: Joshua Russell

32. Unsolved Mysteries of World War II (1992– )
Episode: Drugs and the Fuher (1992)

14 min | Documentary, History, War

Under the influence of personal physician Professor Morrell, Adolf Hitler's mental and physical state dramatically deteriorated. Recent evidence raises new questions about Hitler's ... See full summary »

Stars: Patrick Allen, George Lofland, Deon Sams

Votes: 5

33. Hitler's Bodyguard (2008– )
Episode: Bombs and Paranoia (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History

Convinced that a failed bomb plot had roots in England, a Gestapo counterintelligence officer engineered an elaborate sting to snatch British agents.

Directors: Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus | Stars: Eva Braun, Neville Chamberlain, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler

Votes: 38

34. Hitler's Bodyguard (2008– )
Episode: Early Attempts on Hitler's Life (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History

Beer hall brawls, street fighting, and several brushes with death marked Hitler's rise to power in the stormy politics of interbellum Germany.

Directors: Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus | Stars: Eva Braun, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Emil Klein

Votes: 38

35. Hitler's Bodyguard (2008– )
Episode: How Hitler's Bodyguard Worked (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History

Hitler's personal protection squad grew from a few fiercely loyal, handpicked SS paramilitary organization into an army with a complicated structure and intense internal competition.

Directors: Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus | Stars: Winston Churchill, Sepp Dietrich, Stephan Grothgar, Hermann Göring

Votes: 48

36. Hitler's Bodyguard (2008– )
Episode: Kill the New Chanchellor (2010)

TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History

During Hitler's first year in office--as he steered Germany abruptly towards tyranny--he faced no fewer than a dozen attempts on his life.

Directors: Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus | Stars: Sepp Dietrich, Josef Felder, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring

Votes: 41

37. History X (2021– )
Episode: Consolidated PBY Catalina vs Grumman Albatross (2021)

5 min | Documentary, History

The Consolidated PBY Catalina and Grumman Albatross have very similar specifications. The biggest difference is the Catalina was outfitted for war time roles including bombing and torpedo ... See full summary »

Star: Ken Stano

38. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Vietnam: Hidden in Plain Sight

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

In Vietnam, the American Army was struggling to engage an elusive enemy. Learn about the Viet Cong's secret methods to hinder America's attempts to seal off South Vietnam.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Bui Tin, Paul Beaver, Chau Quang But

39. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Vietnam: Special Operations

TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary, History, War

As regular American units fought under rules of engagement enforced by their political leaders, unconventional Special Forces fought classified battles, often "across the fence". Learn how ... See full summary »

Stars: Charlton Heston, Paul Beaver, Michael Lee Lanning, Bui Tin

40. Greatest Tank Battles (2010– )
Episode: The Battle of Stalingrad (2011)

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

By late 1942, the German offensive on the Eastern Front stalls and the Soviets make their stand in the city of Stalingrad. This is the story of the infamous battle where an entire German ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Williamson | Stars: Anatoly Kozlov, Nikolai Orlov, Ralf Raths, Hubertus Schulz

Votes: 12

41. Nazi Underworld (2011– )
Episode: Hitler's Desert Fox (2011)

Documentary

Rommel is an enigma. Was he the military genius he appeared to be or an impulsive leader who overcame adversaries with surprise or fortunate to be supplied with back channel intelligence? ... See full summary »

Directors: Christian Frey, Tim Versteegen | Stars: Winrich Behr, Allan Corduner, Sönke Neitzel, Richard Overy

Votes: 16

42. Nazi Underworld (2011– )
Episode: Hitler's Money (2011)

Documentary

Adolf Hitler's prewar finances are well documented through German tax records. Although he presented himself as a man of humble means, in truth he amassed a fortune through the sale of his ... See full summary »

Directors: Alexander Berkel, Stefan Brauburger, Tim Versteegen | Stars: Götz Aly, David Cesarani, Allan Corduner, Angelika Enderlein

Votes: 19

43. Reason TV (2007– )
Episode: The political lies that really matter (2023)

5 min | News

Lying is nothing new to politics. But which lies are the most serious?

Stars: Joe Biden, Nick Gillespie

44. Greatest Tank Battles (2010– )
Episode: Vietnam Insurgency (2013)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

1965: American ground forces and Marine Corps tanks, land in South Vietnam, confident that conventional military will defeat the Communist insurgency. But American Tankers quickly discover ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Williamson | Star: Robin Ward

45. Greatest Tank Battles (2010– )
Episode: Battle for Vietnam Armoured Attack (2013)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

Following the Tet Offensive in 1968 the North Vietnamese begin introducing conventional forces including Soviet built PT 74 amphibious tanks into their guerrilla tactics. As American forces... See full summary »

46. Greatest Tank Battles (2010– )
Episode: Tank Battles of the Pacific (2013)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

Tanks play a small but useful role in the island war against Japan.

47. The Vietnam War (2017)
Episode: Déjà Vu (1858-1961) (2017)

TV-MA | 81 min | Documentary, History, War

After nearly a century of French colonial rule, Vietnam emerges independent, but divided.

Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Karl Marlantes, Max Cleland, Bao Ninh

Votes: 1,096

48. Toy Stories (2009–2014)
Episode: Action Man at the Speed of Sound (2014)

Documentary

James May attempts to send erstwhile doll, Action Man, supersonic without the aid of a military jet fighter.

Director: Tom Whitter | Stars: James May, Sim Oakley, Russ Strand

Votes: 54

49. Ultimate Restorations (2014– )
Episode: The Ahrens-Fox: A Kansas City Treasure (2014)

TV-G | 55 min | Documentary

An Ahrens-Fox fire truck, built in 1927 for the Kansas City fire department, was the top of the line in design and functionality at the time it was purchased. The Reliance Fire Museum in ... See full summary »

Votes: 5

50. The Vietnam War (2017)
Episode: Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) (2017)

TV-MA | 82 min | Documentary, History, War

President John F. Kennedy and his advisors consider how deeply the U.S. should get involved in South Vietnam as a communist insurgency and Buddhist protests intensify.

Directors: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, John Musgrave, Jack Todd, Bao Ninh

Votes: 890