History Movies

At the start of World War II, Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were faced with the threat of forced removal and incarceration in...

For over 150 years, Fort Niagara protected the strategic point at the mouth of the Niagara River. Four nations struggled to conquer it, and thus...

Western Sahara is one of the most heavily mined territories in the world following decades of conflict with its neighbours. Despite a 1991 ceasefire,...

What did you do on New Year's Eve 1993? Did you recover from the New Year's Eve party? Did you watch the division of Czechoslovakia? Did you...

The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic...

The documentary explores Gabriel Garcia Marquez influence on everyday life in Barranquilla, taking into account the impact of his time in the city on...

Follow from the amazing restoration process of one of the most cherished and mysterious pieces of History: an Egyptian sarcophagus covered with...

A young soldier is caught between life and death after a tragic accident during war. As he drifts through memories of his life with his wife,...

Beneath the millions of gallons of water that flow into homes across eastern Massachusetts is a story of buried history, scientific discovery, &...

Marie Antoinette enjoys her last meal as the queen of France before her execution.

This promotional travelogue, made for the Christchurch City Council, shows off the city and its environs. Filmed at a time when New Zealand’s...

Animated in an authentic graphic style with period music, the film tells the story of the first hunt of Genghis Khan as a small boy named Temujin....

Through archival footage of his parents' wedding, the filmmaker reflects on love and marriage in contemporary Serbia. Observing traditional Balkan...

Michael Londra, host of the popular travel series Ireland with Michael, takes a spine-tingling journey through Ireland to uncover Samhain, the...

Ann Clements Conger was an ambitious journalist in the 1940's. In the 1950's she became a mother, and torn between her domestic roles and her career,...

A Experimental Docu-Drama about the Red Army Faction's formation, and events leading up to their imprisonment and death, from 1970 to 1977.

How do you find your place in an ableist world as a person with a disability? Disabled Hugo Schmidt talks to the almost 90 year old Franz-Josef...

A Guatemalan woman, Ana Lucía Cuevas, returns home from exile to face the brutal history of Guatemala's armed conflict. In 1984, her brother...