History Movies

A Moment in Her Story is an honest, complex exploration of some of the major challenges faced by those active in the Second Wave women's movement of...

For nine months in 1930, seven Bretons, lobster fishermen, were "forgotten" on a volcanic island by their employers, Normans from Le Havre, heirs of...

In 1944 Rudolf Breslauer documented the everyday life in the Westerbork transit camp on film, commissioned by the German camp commander Albert...

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

In a place in northern Chile where oral tradition, myths and history are mixed in a single mysterious universe, four stories take place surrounded by...

The Hopperstad stave church is a marvelous, iconic architectural statement from the fjords of Norway. Replicating the "stavkirke's" spiritual power...

The film is dedicated to the upcoming 150th anniversary of the birth of Kazakh writer and public figure Akhmet Baitursynov next year. Filming began...

Brair Kani explores an ancestral house located in Srinagar, Kashmir. Using the attic as a site of reflection, the film navigates the relationship...

The film maps the life and work of the historian Ján Mlynárik (1933 - 2012), which took place very close to the controversial events in...

Against the backdrop of Partition, independent India’s first hockey team defeats England, their erstwhile coloniser, to win the Gold at the...

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....

Two well-known Quebec artists (filmmaker Jacques Godbout and playwright René-Daniel Dubois) look at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Whose...

This public television documentary examines the passionate life and career of Elbert Hubbard, a businessman who in 1895 established a socially...

A historical documentary about the Island of Jersey narrated by the people that live there. Directed by Richard Oliver.