Historical Documentary Movies

For decades, pupils at the children's village of Riaumont, in northern France, run by Catholic monks and priests, were abused: until 2019, thousands...

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a disastrous drama with repercussions for the...

Using vintage footage, this witty documentary explores the history and sociology of camping, from its origins in English high society at the end of...

How did humanity's earliest ancestors evolve into one of the most successful species on Earth? An extraordinary journey tracing the footsteps of...

Over 3,500 years ago, the powerful Shang Dynasty emerged from the Central Chinese plains. Their armies were led by a fierce and brilliant young...

The destruction of the traditional legal system is probably one of the lesser-known yet essential goals of the Nazi state. The aim was to establish...

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German...

A cinematic journey to discover, through previously unpublished documents and manuscripts, the world of writer and ethnographer Grazia Deledda, the...

From one of the most violent communities in the country comes a documentary directed by parents of murdered children, reformed gang members, kids...

A documentary about the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp during WWII.

The untold story of a Jewish baby who was born in the death camp before the liberation and survived. An extraordinary journey of the second and third...

March 25th 1971, a horrific 'Genocide' was unleashed on the unarmed civilians of East Pakistan. This was done by their own Pakistani Army. An...

After the defeat of 1940, and faced with the unexpected collapse of French power, all eyes turned to a horizon of both hope and uncertainty: the...

The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a young Welshman are all voiced by actors to make...

Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad. His debut in the early 2000s inaugurated a new...

Disobedients, rebels, misunderstoods or simply unpopulars. As many other french women, Édith, Michèle, Éveline and Fabianne had...

A very personal account of one of the last gentlemen of a dying era. In fact, Paul Jarrett will forever be remembered in the annals of American...

Churchill, a name typically associated with braveness and altruism. Recently found evidence from Soviet and British sources however brings up...