Which Historicallly-based documentary was released first, The Silent Historian by Dutch filmmaker Simonka de Jong, or Restrepo, directed by American journalist Sebastian Junger?
The Silent Historian The Silent Historian (original title: "Het zwijgen van Loe de Jong [The Silence of Loe de Jong]") is a 2011 Dutch documentary film by Simonka de Jong, shown as part of the January 2012 New York Jewish Film Festival, presented in partnership with Jewish Museum and Film Society of Lincoln Center.
Lazar Stojanović Lazar Stojanović (1 March 1944 – 4 March 2017) was a director, journalist, intellectual, anti-war activist and one of the most prominent cultural dissidents of socialist Yugoslavia. His movie “Plastic Jesus” (1971) was banned in SFR Yugoslavia for eighteen years (1972-1990) and has caused Stojanović several years of imprisonment. After the collapse of Yugoslavia, during Slobodan Milošević’s regime in the 1990s, Stojanović was a journalist, theatre and documentary film director and anti-war activist.