History Movies

For more than a century the great colonial powers put human beings, taken by force from their native lands, on show as entertainment, just like animal...

Never-before-heard trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner workings of the Nazi war machine.

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of...

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48),perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë sisters, published her novel Wuthering Heights, a dark...

Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to maneuver his nephew and heir to the Greek throne, Philip, into marrying the...

A deep dive documentary into the history of the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague.

In March 1943, twenty-year-old Ovadia Baruch was deported together with his family from Greece to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, his extended famil...

"I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians." These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic clea...

Follows the production of Jean-Luc Godard's French New Wave classic "Breathless".

An intense thriller from the frontlines of World War II. As Operation Valkyrie prepares to assassinate Adolph Hitler, an Allied special ops team prepa...

Five-time Olympic medalist and Native Hawaiian Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku shattered records and brought surfing to the world while o...

At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives...

The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a diseas...

A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.

August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his s...

The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobili...