Historical Movies

The painter Lili Elbe was the first person to have gender confirmation surgery in the 1930s. The homonymous opera is a glimpse into the life of Lili...

An author suddenly finds herself in her own story.

A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War...

This is the true story how one person made a difference in the lives of over 125 people by rescuing them from Nazi Germany. In 1903 Herman Stern...

The film consists of three novels: the first novel about Gobustan, an ancient human settlement. The second novel deals with the theme of the East and...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting these pieces back together and re-tracing the...

A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she...

A documentary covering the harrowing tragedy of the SS Morro Castle.

An immigrant, working-class family lives through the horrors of the 20th century and raises a son who honors them. This memoir film is told entirely...

A perfumer and a little tyrant... these two women learn together what courage and justice is.

The film takes place in the Swedish capitol Stockholm during the year 1809. War has ravaged Europe continuously for the last seventeen years. The...

The rise and fall of ancient Rome is one of the greatest stories in the history of the world. From a group of settlements huddled along the Tiber in...

After accidentally blowing a hole in his ceiling, an early 20th-century scientist discovers the ruins of an ancient civilization in his loft.

On the military road construction site, on the pastures of Lessinia, writer Carlo Stuparic wrote to his brother Giani. The film celebrates his...

Telescopic chronophotography of the 1882 transit of Venus as observed from Lick Observatory.

St. Joseph Fort: Principality of Pontinha, the diamond that illuminates the Atlantic Pearl.

Ten years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into...