History Movies

In February 1917, Imperial Russia plunges into revolution. Nine months of unrest before a coup brought about an upheaval that changed the course of...

Kathrine Switzer, Siila Watt-Cloutier, and Sharon Farmer. They are the first woman to run the Boston Marathon officially, the first woman to connect...

In late summer 1939, the French learned that Adolf Hitler had attacked Poland. On September 3, France entered the war, twenty years after the carnage...

In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, Spain, North Africa, and Africa, helping rebuild...

John Simpson looks back at his extraordinary 60-year career at the BBC - reporting on the biggest global stories of the era. In a frank, personal and...

Wayward is a feature documentary about the women who changed snowboarding by refusing to follow the status quo. Spanning 4 decades of progression,...

A documentary about how the Detroit Free Press covered the 1960s, a pivotal time for the media and the city of Detroit.

The Doors' legendary performance at the Hollywood Bowl remains a part of Rock and Roll history to this day. But the Bowl wasn't always so welcoming...

Welcome to the La Paloma Theater. Please enjoy this presentation, in which the theater's owner takes you through its luscious history-and nothing...

This documentary explores the life of Charles Philip Arthur George, the longest serving heir apparent to accede to the throne, leading up to his...

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...

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...

A German tourist who gained fame in the 1970s after becoming lost in America and a washed-up one-hit-wonder indie rocker are connected across history...

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over...

The film, using the years 1919-1927 and 1951 as its timeline, presents Li Dazhao's tireless efforts to save the nation and its people from multiple...

Haitian history is presented through an explosion of colour, dance and music, as the country prepares for its legendary carnival.