Margaret (Małgorzata, Gosha) Pospiech is a writer, filmmaker, translator and photographer born in Poland, and now based in New York.
 She obtained her PhD from Wroclaw University where she studied literature, film and art.
 She gained national recognition for her work as director and writer of a feature documentary about Arthur Penn, the famous American filmmaker.
 Malgorzata has made several documentaries for Polish TV, like "A Generation", which chronicles the plight of Polish people deported to Siberia by the Soviets and short documentaries about Polish artists.
 In addition to that she has compiled over 70 interviews on camera with veterans of World War II which are now housed in visual archives at the Polish Army Veteran's Association in Manhattan and linked to the official site of Peter Weir's movie "The Way Back" (2010).
Robert May is an American film producer.
 He was a producer of "The War Tapes" and "The Station Agent", an executive producer of "Stevie" and "The Fog of War", and the director and a producer of "Kids for Cash".
 "The Fog of War" won the Academy Award for Best Documentary.
Sembene!
 is a 2015 documentary film focusing on the life of Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, who is considered to be the father of African cinema.
 It is co-directed by Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman.
 The film's world premiere took place at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2015.
 It also played at the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival.
Michael Williams (born February 14, 1957) is an American producer.
 He won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature for the documentary "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara" in 2004.
 He also won an Emmy Award in 2004 for "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy", which he created.
 He is co-owner and principal of Scout Productions, a film and television production company based in Los Angeles, California.
 He graduated from the School of Communications at Boston University.
 In 1979, Williams began his career as a location scout for "Spenser for Hire", which filmed in Boston.
Gary Franklin (September 22, 1928 – October 2, 2007) was a well-known German American broadcast film critic based in Los Angeles, California.
 Gary Franklin was born to a Jewish family in Leipzig, Germany on September 22, 1928.
 His father was a doctor for the German Army during the first World War.
 His family moved to the United States in 1938 to escape persecution by the Nazis and changed the family name from "Peltz" to "Franklin".
 Unfortunately, the physical abuse of him and his parents resulted in depression, and an aversion to gratuitous violence in film, leading to him at one point, referring to Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" as a "Cultural Crime".
 Franklin earned a bachelor's degree in film at the City College of New York.
 He worked as a cameraman for the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
 He began creating documentaries in New York City and Canada following his return for the war.
Jesse Lerner is a filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles.
 His documentaries include "Frontierland" (with Rubén Ortiz Torres), about the blurred Latino experience in the United States; "Ruins" (about the history of Mexican archeology and the traffic in fakes), "The Atomic Sublime" (about Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War) and "The American Egypt" (about the Mexican Revolution in Yucatán).
 He directed the short films "Magnavoz" and "Natives" (with Scott Sterling).
 His films were on display at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art (2004, 2000, 1996, 1992), the Rotterdam International Film Festival (2011), the Guggenheim Museum in New York (2005, 1999), and the Aztlán Today exhibit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
 His books include "F is for Phony" (with Alexandra Juhasz), a survey of faked documentaries, "The Shock of Modernity", "The Maya of Modernism" and "The Mexperimental Cinema" (with Rita Gonzalez).
 He has also curated film and photography exhibitions at the National Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Robert Flaherty Seminar.
Thom Hatch is an award-winning, popular American author and novelist who specializes in the history of the American West, the American Civil War, and the Plains Indian Wars.
 [ Thom grew up on Grand Island, New York, and graduated from North Olmsted High School in North Olmsted, Ohio.
 He honorably served in the United States Marine Corps, including deployment to Vietnam for 13 months.
 He then became a columnist for the Erie, Pennsylvania, "Times-News" and worked as a radio announcer during the late 1960s.
 In 1975, he moved to Colorado where he writes books, contributes to national publications, such as "American Heritage, "America's Civil War," True West", and "Western Horseman", as well as teaches school.
 He has served as consultant and appeared on screen as an expert commentator for History Channel and PBS documentaries--including "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" for PBS's The American Experience.
 He is regularly invited to speak at colleges, seminars, and civic and historic organizations.
 Hatch lives with his artist wife and teenage daughter in the rural West.
The Battle of Lucas Bend took place on January 11, 1862 near Lucas Bend, four miles north of Columbus on Mississippi River in Kentucky as it lay at the time of the American Civil War.
 In the network of the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio rivers, the Union river gunboats under Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote and General Ulysses S. Grant sought to infiltrate and attack the Confederate positions in Tennessee.
 On the day of the battle, the Union ironclads "Essex" and "St Louis", transporting troops down the Mississippi in fog, engaged the Confederate cotton clad warships "General Polk", "Ivy" and "Jackson" towing the gun platform "New Orleans" at a curve known as Lucas Bend in Kentucky.
 The "Essex", under Commander William D. Porter, and the "St Louis" forced the Confederate ships to fall back after an hour of skirmishing during which the Union commander (which one?)
 was wounded.
 They retreated to the safety of a nearby Confederate battery at Columbus, where the Union vessels could not follow.
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara is a 2003 American documentary film about the life and times of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara illustrating his observations of the nature of modern warfare.
 The film was directed by Errol Morris and features an original score by Philip Glass.
 The title derives from the military concept of the "fog of war" depicting the difficulty of making decisions in the midst of conflict.
Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films.
 His most widely known documentaries are "The Civil War" (1990), "Baseball" (1994), "Jazz" (2001), "The War" (2007), "" (2009), "Prohibition" (2011), "The Central Park Five" (2012), "The Roosevelts" (2014), and "The Vietnam War" (2017).
 He was also executive producer of both "The West" (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies" (2015, directed by Barak Goodman).

Question: Are Sembene! and The Fog of War both American documentaries?
Answer: no