Which documentary was created first, The Back of Beyond or The Roosevelts?
The Back of Beyond The Back of Beyond (1954) is a feature-length award-winning Australian documentary film produced and directed by John Heyer for the Shell Film Unit. In terms of breadth of distribution, awards garnered, and critical response, it is Heyer's most successful film. It is also, arguably, Australia's most successful documentary: in 2006 it was included in a book titled "100 Greatest Films of Australian Cinema", with Bill Caske writing that it is "perhaps our [Australia's] national cinema's most well known best kept secret".
A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day A Distant Shore: African Americans of D-Day is a television documentary program that was produced for The History Channel by Flight 33 Productions in 2007. Executive Producers were Douglas Cohen (Flight 33), Louis Tarantino (Flight 33) and Dolores Gavin (The History Channel). The program was written by Douglas Cohen and produced by Samuel K. Dolan.