History

Amongst the communal riots that erupt in the city, Tara shelters a wayward Sakina from a crazed mob and a bond that blossoms into love is ...

Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian ...

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country’s most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, ...

A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.

Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the ...

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic’s Trujillo regime when members of their ...

A young Prince Asoka works to perfect his skills in battle and also deals with family conflict. During a struggle with one of his step-brothers, ...

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice ...

Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place ...

Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman ...

For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.” In Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made ...

In Search of Peace: 1948-1967 chronicles Israel’s first two decades, offering new insights on the origins of the Middle East conflict. ...

Saketh Ram’s wife is raped and killed during direct action day riots in Calcutta. He is convinced that Mahatma Gandhi is responsible for ...

As Newton devotes himself to the difficult and solitary path of challenging the existing view of the universe and proving his own theories on ...

What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing ...

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior ...

This film provides a unique view of Cuba’s leader, containing fascinating archive footage of the Bay of Pigs invasion and scenes of Che ...

The folktale about Bloody Lady Bathory, doomed to bathe in the blood of young girls in order to be forever youthful herself

Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac’s meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. ...

The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he ...

A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan’s concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. ...

Previously lost semi-documentary on the rise and fall of American hobo culture.

It is about the life of Ueshiba – the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he ...

CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It ...

Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland (Norwegian: Balladen om mestertyven Ole Høiland) is a 1970 Norwegian drama film directed by Knut Andersen, ...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ...

Vlad Țepeş, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.

The true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.

When six-year-old Ruby Bridges is chosen to be the first African-American to integrate her local elementary school, she is subjected to the true ...