History Movies

Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor legally and illegally, Mexican cartels fought over i...

Subjects of Desire is a thought provoking film that examines the cultural shift in beauty standards towards embracing (or appropriating) Black aesthet...

Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit o...

The true story of a working class boy who moves to the nation's financial capital at a young age and becomes one the most influential politicians in B...

It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean. More...

A compelling study of the Hopi that captures their deep spirituality and reveals their integration of art and daily life. Amidst beautiful images of H...

A compilation of newsreels shot between 1913 and 1917 - the years leading up to the Russian Revolution.

A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals de...

A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignme...

The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house of Melanie and her husband Aleksandr and force th...

The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America throughout...

At the end of the Civil War, a General's son returns home after jumping the draft, and in the midst of a raucous victory celebration attempts to recko...

Stars above follows the stories of three women from the same family across three different decades. The main characters – Saima, Tuulikki and Salla –...

Three Polish mathematicians are the first to crack the sophisticated Enigma code used by the Germans just before the Second World War. They build repl...

A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.

Vitaphone production reels #2471-2478; third Warner Bros. feature film - the first being The Jazz Singer and the second Tenderloin - to include talkin...

The tyrant Emperor Heliogabalus lives a life of debauchery and set lions loose among his guests.

Few people know that Komitas wrote letters to the singer, pedagogue Margarit Babayan for ten years from 1905 to 1915. Some of those letters were the b...