History Movies

A look at Palenque's best kept secret: The Red Queen.

Long before Mary Shelley wrote her famous story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster, a real-life mad scientist called Johann Konrad Dipple dabbled...

Real Haunts: Ghost Towns reveals the secrets of America's most fascinating ghost towns with "The Beard of Knowledge", the residents and a family of gh...

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary, cause...

Born June 8, 1964, Frank Matter films four "twins", born the same day as him, but in other latitudes. Interweaving their life stories with rich archi...

One neighborhood in New York City, March 2020: the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, the federal government is clueless, and life seems increasingly s...

The original film of the Tasmanian tiger (also known as the thylacine) was shot by Australian zoologist David Fleay in 1933 on black-and-white film. R...

During the Warring States Period, Nung-yuk, the Princess of Qin, denounces the mundane world and dreams of marrying an immortal. This extends to her c...

The story of magic on TV, the challenges of performing illusions in front of the television cameras, the performers who inspired some of the most succ...

Michael Wood embarks on a great historical adventure, exploring the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China's distinctive charact...

Three Kiowa boys attempt to escape a government boarding school in 1891, Oklahoma.

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in "Postc...

A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, a...

WINHANGANHA (Wiradjuri language: Remember, know, think) - is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition. It is a...

This experimental film explores the relationship between what we perceive as natural and what we perceive as unnatural and how this relationship chang...

At the height of the cold war a struggle broke out between Governments from all over the world as to which position to take about the system of aparth...