Documentary Films

He Has Seen War is a documentary featuring surviving veterans of Easy Company and the 1st Marine Division, whose stories are told in Band of Brothers and The Pacific. From their initial steps at reintegrating into civilian life to the lasting impact the war had on each of their lives, He Has Seen War features veterans and their families relaying their own unique stories. Complemented by renowned historian and author Donald L. Miller, as well as rarely seen archival and documentary footage, it captures the struggle and ultimate triumph of a generation who, after helping rescue the world from unprecedented calamity, reclaimed their lives and re-forged a country.

Miller was chief historical consultant for the Bombing of Germany, a documentary produced by W6BH-TV for presentation on The American Experience. The documentary is based on Miller’s book Masters of the Air. It premiered on February 8, 2010.

Miller was the historical consultant for Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City, a documentary produced and aired for PBS. It premiered in December 2009.

Miller’s book, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America, was turned into a full-length documentary series that first appeared on PBS’s The American Experience. 

Miller is lead scholar and on-air host of A Biography of America, a new 26-part PBS video series and telecourse that covers American history from pre-Columbian beginnings to the present. Miller conceptualized and named the series and helped recruit the other nationally-known historians who participated. He wrote seventeen of the scripts, edited the others, and hosted on-air interviews with numerous historians and novelists.

Miller has participated in the making of several film documentaries, including Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided, a six-hour program premiering in February 2001 in the 13th season of the acclaimed PBS television series The American Experience. 

America 1900, which won the George Foster Peabody award, the most prestigious recognition of excellence in broadcasting and cable, kicked off the 11th season (1998-99) of The American Experience.