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Classic Documentaries Before 1990 · page 94
2,921 documentaries · ordered 27 October 2026 · How we order lists
Newest first: the year each film was released, from the open film record (Wikidata), then the order the list has always had. Every film’s page names its source.
- No. 2326194719 min
Passport to Nowhere
Director not on record · United States · English
- No. 23271947
People of the Po Valley
by Michelangelo Antonioni · Italy
- No. 23281947
Soviet Latvia (film, 1947)
by Leonid Kristi · Soviet Union · Russian
- No. 2329194759 min
Soviet Ukraine
by Georgi Tasin · Soviet Union · Russian
- No. 2330194713 min
The Flood
by Wacław Kaźmierczak · Poland
- No. 23311947
The Roosevelt Story
by Lawrence M. Klee · United States · English
- No. 2332194715 min
The seventh age
by Torben Anton Svendsen · Denmark
- No. 2333194746 min
The World Is Rich
by Paul Rotha · United States · United Kingdom · English
- No. 23341947
Wings of Mercy
by Evelyn Spice Cherry · Canada · English
- No. 233519461 h 1 min
Burma Victory
by Roy Boulting · United Kingdom
- No. 233619461 h 30 min
Criminales de guerra
by Júpiter Perruzi · Argentina · Spanish
- No. 23371946
Darwin Gateway to Australia
by Lee Robinson · Australia
- No. 2338194620 min
Einheit SPD-KPD
by Kurt Maetzig · Germany · East Germany · German
- No. 2339194613 min
General Korotkoff
Director not on record · Denmark
- No. 2340194658 min
Let There Be Light
by John Huston · United States · English
mental health - No. 23411946
Ljubljana Welcomes Liberators
by Mario Foerster · Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia · Slovene
- No. 234219461 h 2 min
Nuremberg Trials
by Roman Karmen · Soviet Union · English
historywar - No. 23431946
One World or None
Director not on record · United States · English
- No. 23441946
Potsdam Builds Up
by Joop Huisken · Germany · German
- No. 23451946
The Effects of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Director not on record · Japan · Japanese
atomic bombing of Nagasakiatomic bombing of Hiroshima - No. 234619461 h 22 min
Theirs Is the Glory
by Terence Young · United Kingdom · English
historywar - No. 2347194611 min
The World of Paul Delvaux
by Henri Storck · Belgium
- No. 2348194619 min
Traffic with the Devil
by Gunther von Fritsch · United States · English
sportroad transport - No. 23491945
6th Marine Division on Okinawa
Director not on record · United States · English
historywar - No. 23501945
Action at Anguar
Director not on record · United States · English
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