Historical Documentaries Quotes

I definitely love history. I'm not formally trained or educated in history, but you could say I did go back to college in 2008 to do Untold History of the United States. That took five years. Co-author Peter Kuznick has been teaching history for something like 35 years, at American University and other places. His group of researchers brought me into contact with a lot of books.

A great number of publications and movies on the history of the 20th century - albeit of uneven quality - are evidence of a growing demand. Quite recently, the state-owned TV channel 'Russia' aired a series based on Varlam Shalamov's works, showing the terrible, cruel truth about Stalin's camps. It was not watered down.

History, when they do it, is ancient history, and they sensationalize even that. Contemporary history is virtually ignored on television.

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

I've always read a lot of historical books and I'm a big fan of documentaries, and I've always thought of ways to do it.

I love history. I'm very interested by it and I think it's great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It's sort of that romanticized version of it.

I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.

I love documentaries and I watch documentaries to no end.

I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that.

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.

I normally ignore the History Channel.

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.