History Movies

This remarkable new documentary explores the story behind one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century: the 1932 photograph of workmen...

Everyone knows the public archive footage of Hitler. But most of it is silent. What was he saying? Special computer technology enables us for the...

The story of Saint Paisios, or else known as Arsenios Eznepidis. After being uprooted from Farasa of Cappadocia as refugees, the family of young...

This short film recreates the story of David Thompson – a man who, over the course of his lifetime, mapped a-million-and-a-half square miles of...

Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film.

Violinist and songwriter Kishi Bashi travels on a musical journey to understand WWII era Japanese Incarceration, assimilation, and what it means to...

A chronicle of alleged ghosts, haunted landmarks and the otherworldly doings of Tinseltown, including a cursed script and haunted homes of the stars....

The Gothic prince Ranimiro and his daughter Amaya have been taken prisoner by the Basques. He will be tried by the Council of Elders, while the...

Michael Palin travels to France in search of the Mediterranean view on his wall, captured by his favourite artist, Scottish painter Anne Redpath. He...

“Shellmound” is the story of how one location was transformed from a sacred center of pre-historic cultures to a commercial mecca for...

Who are we? Where do we come from? With private recordings, unique archive footage and stories from famous and unknown people, Trondheimsreisen takes...

This documentary takes the viewer on a journey along Halsted Street, from the southern tip of Illinois, north through various Chicago neighborhoods,...

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorably weaken until it disappeared? Archaeologists,...

This feature-length docu-poem shines a well deserved light on the factory workers and their processes at Stone Island’s headquarters located in...

In 1876 Bulgaria, a desperate revolutionary must convince a room of suspecting Ottoman soldiers that he is innocent. Based on the history of the...

Confined to his Tahitian hut by the French colonial authorities in 1903, the painter Paul Gauguin is forced to paint a new masterpiece to save his...

Long before Mary Shelley wrote her famous story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster, a real-life mad scientist called Johann Konrad Dipple dabbled...

A moving meditation on guilt and reconciliation, Bloodlines explores the unwritten cost of war and genocide on future generations - of both victims...