History Movies

Set in 1953, the audience follows the story around the mysterious death of the USSR leader, Joseph Stalin.

After hearing about a pagoda's mysterious disappearance, a group of filmmakers embarks on their journey to find an explanation.

This essay-film is a historical crash-course which spans the millennia from the stone age to the conquest of space in the 1960s.

Who are we? Where do we come from? With private recordings, unique archive footage and stories from famous and unknown people, Trondheimsreisen takes...

A short documentary on Brother Paul McMullen, and his life as a Franciscan Brother in Loretto, PA.

This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the...

The director's grandfather is a blind fortune teller and his father a real-estate owner. They have grievances against each other for dismantling the...

Nazi propaganda film “exposes” the United States and its plans against Germany and the German people. Shows so-called signs of decay,...

A boy wakes up with a toy in his hand. Which leads himself to the forgotten historical incidents and other people's shared memories.

Jan Smuts is a foremost political figure in South African 20th Century History, and is recognised today by two of the world's leading historians as...

Fearing for her life, Israeli transgender pioneer Efrat Tilma fled the country as a teenager. Now in her seventies, she must fight for her freedom...

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...

Simple folk tunes heighten the adventure of this film, as Little Bear and Little Tiger abandon their happy home to search for Panama - "the land of...

The Divided Island brings the ‘Cyprus problem’ back into focus, revealing untold stories and unravelling the intricate history that still...

This documentary goes back to the origins of the conflict in Western Sahara. The reasons for the Moroccan occupation of this vast territory are...

This is the story of my father, my mother, my grandfather and my grandmother ... it is the story of all the saharaui people ... but I do not want it...

A historical analysis of the on-going war in the Western Sahara. Liza Bear interviews Abdullah Majdid, the Polisario Front's United Nations...