History Movies

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up...

A docu-fiction movie portraying the Polish Brethren religious group over the years.

A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the r...

What life was like in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii moments before it was devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of “Las meni...

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work to-date. As she embarks on this creative process o...

Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream),repeated in severa...

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the beli...

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the...

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as...

What convinces you that God made Jesus both Lord and Christ? Remind yourself of the stunning evidence. See how spirituality enables us to discern the...

An intriguing peddler comes to Hope Valley selling the townspeople his wares and teaching them valuable lessons about joy and giving. When the townspe...

The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

The owner of the gladiator school buys two slaves, the Thracian Spartacus and the Gaul Artorix. During the first fight in the arena, Spartacus wins ov...

Based on the novel by Väinö Linna, the story takes place during the time of the Finnish Civil War.

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that...

The history of the peplum genre, known as sword-and-sandal cinema, set in Antiquity, from the silent film era to the present day.

The US detonated 67 nuclear weapons over the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands during the Cold War, the consequences of which still reverberate dow...