History

Farocki’s intriguing and troubling film explores the processes of visual perception and how they affect our understanding of history and society. ...

Benito a.k.a. Guarapo, is a young laborer without land, who dreams of emigrating to America for a better future.

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China’s vast territory and declared himself emperor in 221 B.C. During his ...

Based on a true story of a Polish musician who survived the concentration camp only because he could play on the accordion the title melody.

In the spring and summer of 1949, the People’s Liberation Army launched an offensive under the orders of Mao Zedong and Zhu De, they ...

A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between UK, France, Poland, Nazi-Germany and USSR from the day Czechoslovakia fell, ...

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country’s most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, ...

Ramona works in a concert agency and is sent after the rock band ‘Children of Paradise’ who have disappeared. Since she can’t ...

The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.

Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they ...

In 1389, the Serbian prince Lazar Hrebeljanović refused to submit to the Turkish Sultan Murat, who was invading Serbia with a large army, in ...

On the eve of 1987’s Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died ...

Han Hsiang Li’s lush epic re-creates the fascinating life and times of Tzu Hsi, the Manchu Qing dynasty empress who rose from the ranks of ...

Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the ...

Gore Vidal’s historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television’s Billy the Kid.

Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government ...

Postwar France was slow to recover from the after-effects of the World War Two. The economy was doing poorly, and many people were poor and ...

Attorney Henry Strauss grew up in Germany, but left the country with his Jewish family during the rise of the Third Reich. Still wondering about ...

In northern England around 1900, the worker John O’Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker’s district. He falls in ...

Iemitsu, Tokugawa Shogun III, hates his eldest son Takechiyo; all his love is given to his younger son Tokumatsu. One day, he orders Takechiyo to ...

Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a ...

Fact-based biography of James Bond author, Ian Fleming. The film focuses on his wartime exploits and romantic adventures which ultimately led to ...

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France’s debt ...

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and ...

The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror”, mainland China’s political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese ...

A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the ...

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to ...

A testament to NASA’s Apollo program of the 1960s and ’70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the missions and astronaut interviews, ...