Historical Documentary Movies

In May 1980, more than 800 people lived for 33 days near Gorleben in the protest camp ‚Free Republic of Wendland‘ and thus prevented for...

It is a horror scenario that unfolds on September 5, 1972, in the Olympic Village in Munich. Eight Palestinian terrorists sneak into the Israeli...

Miguel Poveda embarks on an intimate and personal journey following the footsteps of Federico García Lorca. Rather than a standard tribute,...

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, a powerful secret society that operated from 1926 to 1965, infiltrating every sector...

Using masterfully restored footage from recently declassified images, The Bomb tells a powerful story of the most destructive invention in human...

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a disastrous drama with repercussions for the...

By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civilization, but behind his legendary feat is a...

Using vintage footage, this witty documentary explores the history and sociology of camping, from its origins in English high society at the end of...

The story of the Trojan Horse is probably one of the most famous stories ever told: after ten years of bloody war, the Greek coalition decides to...

In autumn of 1921, the AVUS, the ‘Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße’ (The automobile traffic and training road), was...

A cinematic journey to discover, through previously unpublished documents and manuscripts, the world of writer and ethnographer Grazia Deledda, the...

Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish actor and director Solomon Mikhoels. An official...

The incredible story of Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), daughter of Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503), deliberately used politically by her powerful family...

From the creators of Haunted Discoveries, Ghosts of the Gold Rush explores California’s darkest Gold Rush legends, from Hangtown’s...