Movies genre: History

An exploration of the life and career of the Beatles superstar, with a look at the strange parallels between him and his killer Mark David Chapman.

In 1930s Turkey, a handful of young, talented and determined people strive to realize an artistic revolution in a fledgling country.

Two leaders of opposing ideologies met in 1945 post-WWII to discuss their country's future amid growing Soviet influence, shaping global dynamics through their high-stakes dialogue.

A U.S. official escorts Holocaust refugees from 1940s war-torn Europe to temporary shelter in America.

During WWII, a member of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam finds a way to spare children from deportation to the death camps.

After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the Turks.

A valiant Yoruba folk hero rises against tyranny, rallying his people to reclaim their land and identity, reshaping history through courage and resilience, defying oppression.

Researchers discover film footage from World War II that turns out to be a lost documentary shot by Alfred Hitchcock and Sidney Bernstein in 1945 about German concentration camps.

A documentary on the 25th bombing mission of the Memphis Belle, a B-17 in the US 8th Air Force.

The story of a pioneer, Germaine Le Goff (1891-1986). After World War I, the Breton teacher left Douarnenez for adventure, with a journey that led her to Senegal. In 1938, she founded and directed a teacher training college in Rufisque, near Dakar, the first for primary school teachers in Africa.—TV5Monde Europe

The Hidden Hand is a controversial Award-winning documentary that explores the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth. The film takes a keen look at a spectrum of topics like alien abduction, human/alien hybridization, the military's reverse-engineering of alien technology and the government cover-up of anything related to extraterrestrials. Is preoccupation with E.T.'s a form of cultural madness, or is something really going on? How would E.T. contact change the religious and political institutions of our society? The Hidden Hand is full of riveting interviews with experts and experiencers alike: Whitley Strieber, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the 6th astronaut on the moon, Paul Hellyer, a former Canadian Defence Minister, Richard Dolan, Jim Marrs, Linda Moulton Howe, Col. John Alexander, Lyn Buchanan, Clifford Stone, Nassim Haramein, David Icke, Dr. Roger Leir, Graham Hancock and Paola Harris, among others. The shadowy world of UFOs is suddenly brought to light.—James Carman

Reassigned to a lowly outpost, a Roman guard's Christian beliefs clash with his gay commander's desire for closeness. Being tortured becomes pleasurable.

A first film made of the 1949 March deportation of Estonian people to Siberia by Soviet Secret Police NKVD. During couple of days and nights nearly 21 thousand people, mostly women and children, were under top secret taken from their homes to railway stations and locked into animal wagons to take a trip of thousands of kilometers to a far, poor, unfriendly and cold land where they were mostly used as cheap (free) labor. The movie presents the events symbolist, as in the leading roles are recognizable the characters from bible Jesus, Satan and Judas. That makes the film top artistic but unrealistic, very slow and difficult to follow. Though in general not bad produced, the acting is time to time too theatrical and unfortunately we have rather another medium-level artistic film here than a worth-to-watch history film.—Peterzell

Year 1940. The crew of the Polish submarine struggles in the underwater darkness against all odds: attacks of the invisible enemy, claustrophobia, own fatigue, mistakes and failures.

This documentary examines the great problems and ingenious solutions that marked the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, tracing its transformation from a spectacular feat of heroic engineering to an honored symbol in American culture.

A television adaptation of Michael Frayn's celebrated and award-winning stage play about the meeting between physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in 1941 Copenhagen. At this time the young Heisenberg was leading a faltering German research program into nuclear energy, while the middle-aged and apparently isolated Bohr was in contact with allied agents, and still held a position of great influence in the nuclear physics research community. After the meeting the two men put different interpretations or impressions of why Heisenberg requested the meeting, and what he hoped to gain from it, a theme which mirrors the ambiguity of the "Copenhagen" interpretation widely used in quantum physics. Did Heisenberg go to the avuncular Bohr to seek his blessing for his role in nuclear research? Why did Heisenberg concentrate on the development of a nuclear reactor, and not perform the calculations which would show that a bomb could be made to work via a fast-neutron reaction in Uranium 235? These and other questions feature in the plot, although unsurprisingly there are few certain answers.—Simon Shearn

A comprehensive wake-up call to the new world order and the architects behind its creation and continuity.

"Whether I wanted it or not Vietnam has forever accompanied me, every step along my path through life". Narrated in the first person, Mei-Chen Chalais recounts the story of a childhood steeped in war, her mother's courage, the flight to Hanoi, Saigon and then to France.—TV5Monde Europe

A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.

Watershed is a film about national territory: geography, landscapes in movement, and political boundaries: who decides what? How do citizens act on their own space ? An investigation into the tangle of institutions and the way the territory is being changed by new actors.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

A historical retrospective documentary revealing the inside story of the trials and tribulations surrounding the development of Britain's coastal radar network, and how it was ultimately instrumental in the detection and neutralising of the Luftwaffe's bombing raids on Britain.

A live broadcast of the Broadway play "Good Night, and Good Luck."

Journalist Anna Politkovskaya's brave crusade, fighting for an independent voice in Putin's Russia.

The crew members of NASA's Apollo missions tell their story in their own words.

"Uncle Tom II" unveils the Marxist strategy of creating false racial tension between Americans, and its ultimate goal of obtaining power, destroying capitalism, and replacing God with government.

A female Borgia is sent out to live up to the family name by killing someone, but falls in love with her intended victim.

Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal story. Her life partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy, unveils their covert 27-year romance and its accompanying sacrifices.

An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.—Anonymous

This film unearths the hidden secrets behind the creation and extraordinary life of Barbie. Ruth Handler and Jack Ryan who brought Barbie to life rollicked in success yet Jack was written out of the Mattel history books.