Historical Movies

Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young...

Based on the biography of world-renowned Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this hit production by VBW shines a new light on a legend: far...

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to...

A behind-the-scenes documentary filmed during the production of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, featuring candid moments from...

Mayura challenges an arrogant wrestler and defeats him. Though never formally trained he has only learned techniques of wrestling by observing...

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to...

After his mother dies, Jiantan has to leave Xi'an to live with his father on the Tibetan steppe, where he meets a golden dog that helps him cope with...

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of...

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...

The third and final specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The...

The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely...

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

This is Gaston Rebuffat's fourth film, in which, with several close friends, he discovers the sublime landscapes of the Alps. “Mont-Blanc is...

As curfew approaches, an everyday heroine risks it all in a smuggling operation from Nazi-occupied Poland.

The lives of residents in an old Cairo building, "The Yacoubian Building," are affected by issues like corruption, extremism, class disparity, and...

After accidentally blowing a hole in his ceiling, an early 20th-century scientist discovers the ruins of an ancient civilization in his loft.

In a fight for their lives, two dancers infiltrate a high-profile social club and seek the help of a newfound ally to unmask traitors to Siam.

In the 17th century, advances in the natural sciences and the invention of the telescope led Dutch women painters to closely study nature and include...

A village in Cambodia. Bopha raises her son Sokhem alone. One night, guided by a strange voice, he sets off in pursuit of a magic mango. Bopha...

A French spy flirts with an Indian chief's son amid war in 1753 Williamsburg, Va.