History Movies

The true story of Dennis Byrd, his football career, his terrible accident, and his miraculous recovery and rehabilitation.

Gomp: Tales of surveillance in Norway 1948-1989 is a film from a staged hearing focusing on the surveillance of dissidents during the Cold War. Throug...

The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative sequence. The film spins constantly round the que...

Loosely inspired by the life of Lucio Urtubia, explore the figure of the so-called anarchist 'Robin Hood,' who ran a legendary counterfeiting operatio...

This documentary-style short follows two impoverished teens performing on the streets of London in the days leading up to the London Blitz of 1940.

Ivan Yauzov is an ordinary student who studies at a technical university. But one day he read in a book that Elon Musk conquered space with his super...

Set in 1830s Paris, Frédéric Chopin’s personal and professional lives are explored through eleven distinct chapters while also exploring the wider art...

Wallace Beery repeats his role of King Richard, a role he played so sucessfully in Robin Hood the previous year.

In the name of the struggle against terrorism, a special operation - code named CONDOR - was conducted in the 1970s and '80s in South America. Its tar...

A musical about the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. We begin on Dec. 21st, 1940, just moments before Scott dies. The main actor speaks to the audience, a...

Coverage of the ceremonial procession of the Queen's coffin through central London to lying-in-state at Westminster Hall. HM the King and members of t...

A dramatisation based on the exchange of letters between Mary Queen of Scots and her cousin Elizabeth I, detailing the hatred and obsession in their b...

A young Japanese girl Rin-san comes to the pre-revolutionary Russia with a great and wonderful mission: to understand the mastery of iconography and a...

Using vintage footage, this witty documentary explores the history and sociology of camping, from its origins in English high society at the end of th...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainly from 1955 to 1968. Tortured women and sadistic m...