History Movies

A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the...

Dan Snow sets sail across the Mediterranean in the wake of Homer's The Odyssey. This epic was written down almost 3,000 years ago, and it has been...

In Slovakia, behind walls built to separate the Romani ethnicity from the “white” population, babies are born in precarious conditions....

The massacre occurred 500 years ago. In 1525, the Spanish Royal Council ordered the execution of five members of a cult recently discovered in the...

To the east of the Arabian desert, an ancient culture developed; and it attainted the sophistication of its civilized neighbours in Mesopotamia &...

222 A.D. During yet another decadent party, Emperor Heliogabalus recalls his former lover Zotikos from prison. He becomes a witness to the...

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

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

A Russian-Australian cinematographer travels to Albany to find out about the time when a 19th Century town at the end of the world was put on high...

Documentary about the arduous early years of the Sahrawi cause (1977)

Amruthamathi a kannada film is based on the story of Yashodhara Charite' an epic poem written by Janna, a famous 13th century A.D. Kannada poet. This...

At the end of WWI, the treaty of Versailles established the conditions for peace in Europe. The aim for the victorious powers was to make Germany pay...

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. It is based on eyewitness...

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

Best known for the myth of the Minotaur, Crete gave birth to Europe's first civilization. Yet little is known about those who inhabited the island....

A documentary exploring Saudi Arabia's hidden film culture, following movie lovers who grew up without theaters in the 1980s and uncovering the...