History

What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark ...

The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. ...

The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wife Puchi, who looks back from 2002.

The Knights Templar, a religious order originally assigned to protect Christian pilgrims, has disintegrated from chivalric order and justice into ...

Ten families read letters from their loved ones killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom in this powerful and moving HBO documentary by Oscar and ...

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film’s first half dramatizes the New ...

The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The ...

In the spring of 2004, Massachusetts began the final battle of its journey towards legalizing same-sex marriage. This documentary follows a few ...

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated ...

Iraq, 2004: during a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. ...

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves ...

When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, their two children were orphaned after every ...

Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco’s dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested ...

For most, the idea of Jewish resistance or defiance during the Holocaust is limited to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a few isolated acts ...

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring ...

The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish ...

An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on ...

The first part of an incomplete trilogy telling the story of the greek people. The film begins in 1919, with Greek immigrants from Odessa ...

Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, “The Other Boleyn Girl” is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary ...

This film dramatizes events that occurred as the hostility between India and Pakistan over Kashmir came to a head in 1999, when more than 1,000 ...

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views ...

Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country’s government is declaring a mobilization ...

A dashing warrior’s fighting prowess makes the Khan realize that it is better that such a person be an ally instead of the enemy.

Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead a U.S. expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back.

Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties was one of the most ambitious films made in the Taiwan film industry in the 1960s. After leaving The Shaw ...

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set ...

Produced and directed by Walt Missingham who, in 1983, became the first non-Chinese to practice Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple, this authoritative ...

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters ...