Historical Documentary Movies

A secretive and codified world, Haute Horlogerie rarely invites cameras behind the scenes. For the first time, Audemars Piguet opens its doors,...

Follows the 1936 Berlin Olympics when Black athlete Jesse Owens won 4 golds against the backdrop of Hitler's racist Nazi regime in Germany.

It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made structures on the planet - the Great Wall of China,...

The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust...

Nearly forty years after the moon landing the men on the mission reveal what really happened. On how close the mission came to disaster.

The tragic and shocking story of the notorious Magdalene Laundries, a shameful system, created by the Irish State but supported by all strata of...

The incredible story of Lucrezia Borgia (1480-1519), daughter of Pope Alexander VI (1431-1503), deliberately used politically by her powerful family...

A fragmented collection of legends born from the rubble of the catastrophic Friuli Earthquake of May 6, 1976.

A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews...

Planned by Britain’s MI6 and then executed by America’s C.I.A., the coup d’état which follows will destroy Iran’s last...

Half-timbered houses, storks, wine, sauerkraut, traditional headdresses, the Alsatian accent: these images and clichés of Alsace occupy the...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the...

The massacre occurred 500 years ago. In 1525, the Spanish Royal Council ordered the execution of five members of a cult recently discovered in the...

A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 children. Between March 13 and...

Using masterfully restored footage from recently declassified images, The Bomb tells a powerful story of the most destructive invention in human...

Easter Island has long been the subject of curiosity and speculation. A triangle of volcanic rock in the South Pacific, Easter Island is over 2000...

In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began with a promise: to democratize the spreading of...

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of...