History

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young ...

Long before satellites would journey to planets and deep-space telescopes would photograph distant galaxies, there was an artist whose dazzling ...

In the middle of the 13th century, following the death of “The Iron Sultan, Alaeddin Keykubat,” Mongols attack Anatolian Seljuks to ...

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching ...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin’s Ulyanov family and the royal Romanovs that eventually led to the ...

Park Jae-sang was a royal geomancer, who helps people designate propitious site for houses, store and even graves under the belief that a grave ...

In Bombay’s seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto ...

Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the ...

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant’s titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior ...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln’s youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son’s crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating ...

Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of ...

The story of Oliver Cromwell’s head is perhaps the most bizarre, yet least well known, of all tales from English history. From regal burial ...

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

Thomas Cromwell has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative ruffians ever to hold power in England. A chief minister who ...

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine’s personal journey through 1960s swinging London.

A documentary film that examines sexual persecution and violence against women throughout history within various cultures that places the blame ...

Hitler’s biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, only contemporaries and Hitler himself ...

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group ...

Claressa Shields, a high school junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to ...

The year 1957 was one of the most prolific for the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman: he shot two films, released two of his most celebrated films ...

The 19th century witnessed the Breaks Canyon (‘Grand Canyon of the South’) become a coveted area for settlers, moonshiners, ...

The true story of the greatest Greek writer of the 20th century, Nikos Kazantzakis, based on his work, Report to Greco, which is, essentially, ...

Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) returns with this Arctic epic inspired by the classic John Ford western of the same ...

Hitler, Nazi propaganda and 1936 Berlin Olympics are put under the microscope to uncover hidden truths and the historical legacy of those games.

Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He meets revolutionist Che Guevara. When civil ...

In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but ...

A journey through several countries to find those who really know Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, in an attempt to profile a ...