History Movies

In the 12th Century town of Houthem, a Knight named Gerlachus starts a journey of repentance after a crisis within his family.

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of Kin...

Speculative historical essay defending the theory, sustained by Spanish historian Celso García de la Riega (1844-1914) and his followers, that the fam...

Featuring new and exclusive interviews, Beatles' Biggest Secrets, reveals the inside story of the world's greatest pop group with explosive revelation...

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Ti...

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.

On a photo shoot in Ghana, an American model slips back in time, becomes enslaved on a plantation and bears witness to the agony of her ancestral past...

In summer 2003, when the heatwave hit in Europe, in Switzerland, the glacier below the Schnidejoch pass, released a mysterious object: a piece of a Ne...

Focusing on five of them, this documentary pays tribute to the wealthy women who, under the Ancien Régime, promoted scholars and artists, and paved th...

A group of German boys is ordered to protect a small bridge in their home village during the waning months of the second world war. Truckloads of defe...

The true story of Mahalia Jackson, who began singing at an early age and went on to become one of the most revered gospel figures in U.S. history, mel...

The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska and written by Martin Ambrosch, focusing on the exam...

British writer Ian Fleming's life and loves suggest that of his spy-novel hero, secret agent James Bond.

Commander Dandar is falsely charged with treason and sent to live the rest of his life in war camp with the very enemies he once fought.

When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true uglin...

After returning home, Haluk, who has lived abroad for years, begins to tutor sixteen-year-old Ümran and tells her a story from years ago. Ümran thinks...

A fascinating, fun-filled trip with segments on the 1884 courthouse riots, the 1937 Ohio River flood, Tony Trabert, Ezzard Charles, the Reds, the Beng...

A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.

50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 to his burial at Colombey-Les-Deux-Eglises in 1970.

Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his master's wife. Using only the air as their blackboard,...