History Movies

Three tonnes of stolen gold. Told from the inside by the police who were there, this is the true story of Britain’s biggest bullion heist.

Musamoni Panigrahi (1920s–2017),fondly called “Nani Ma” by her neighbours, appears in the centre of this first film in the Baleswari dialect of India...

In 1988, the centenary of abolition of slavery in Brazil, Zózimo Bulbul made this powerful historical analysis of racial issues in his country. This d...

Known as the ”Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori was a stout giant of a man with a huge head and a neck like a bear. As the leader of Satsuma’s anti-Western...

A public bath house is the scene of illegal female slave trading operations in 18th century Japan and government spy Shinzo is sent in to expose the r...

A feature documentary about the people and the planes that helped win World War War II. Through people personally connected to the events, the film in...

This highly acclaimed feature film on Pope John Paul II was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. Focusing on the papacy of John Paul and the tremen...

In 1940, Costa Rica ever having a symphony orchestra seemed like a dream: few prepared musicians, limited resources and no music academy made it impos...

In 1946, the controversial French writer Boris Vian writes his novel I Spit on Your Graves under the pseudonym of Vernon Sullivan, supposedly a myster...

Reporter for a North Korean news service joins the partisans when the Americans and UN forces invade South Korea.

Granada, Spain, 1922. The composer Manuel de Falla, who dreams every night of the ancestral songs sung to him by his nanny, fears that flamenco art wi...

Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true s...

Ari, a fisher girl from Qiyu County, was selected as the Sea God's Bride at Sea Festival and came to the island on the boat. In the night of the brida...

An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers clea...

Documentary on career criminal Jack Black during an episode of burglary in Victoria BC. Locations around Victoria and Vancouver are explored in presen...

A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia.

A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theater.

Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He was not alone. Many other anonymous French men and...