History Movies

The trial of Ilona Tóth and her co-defendants, a case of post-’56 reprisals, received widespread publicity and remains a subject of...

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin...

This 38-minute film introduces the history of the Holocaust. It begins by looking back at the major changes from 1918 to 1933 that created the...

The official story of the events surrounding the September 30 to October 1, 1965 attempted coup d'etat in Indonesia by a group calling itself the "30...

At the beginning of the fourteenth century, Abou Salim al Juraï, Minister to the Sultan, returns from a victorious pacifying campaign across the...

This iconic statue was a gift from France to the new-born American Republic and was the first crowd-funded monument of all time. A symbol of...

This military drama weaves together the diaries and memories of North Vietnamese soldiers who fought in the ferocious 1972 battle of Quang Tri.

In September 1847, the people gathered at the “Salmen” inn in Offenburg and put forward 13 demands: freedom of the press, trial by jury,...

Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.

Benedict Arnold is not the villain of American history most people were taught to believe. New facts and never before presented material illuminate...

Set in New York in 1856, 'Eunice' is a period drama based on the life of Eunice Newton Foote, A self-taught scientist who was the first to discover...

On November 13, 2015, the attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis, carried out by three Islamist commandos and claimed by ISIS, were the deadliest in France...

This brief period in French history (1934–1938), known as the “Popular Front,” has left an indelible mark on the nation's...

Rio Grande do Sul, 18th century. In between the arduous work on the land aiming for the prosperity of her family's farm and the constant attacks from...

A journey through the 1960s, 70s, & 80s New Jersey - reflecting on a magical time of the Old Americana we once knew. Featuring Tom Cruise, Bill Maher...

In the chaotic, highly emotional period after the First World War in 1918, the foreign ministers Gustav Stresemann (1878-1929) and Aristide Briand...

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

The Concorde remains a legend of the sky. In both looks and performance, it was incomparable, and the technology behind it was nothing less than...

An overview of the lives of Richard Nixon and Chairman Mao, focusing on the geopolitical forces that led to their meeting in 1972 and the resulting...