History

From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, ...

Dr. Theodor Morell served as Adolf Hitler’s personal physician from 1936 to 1945, often treating the Fuehrer with unconventional medicines ...

This is the story of a group of 514 prisoners of war from the Bataan Death March and how they were rescued near the end of the war. The reason ...

This film highlights moments in the long and rich African American cinema history in relation to social and political events, and how it affected ...

Historical period melodrama.

The Kabul National Museum, once known as the «face of Afghanistan,» was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the ...

Emmy Awards nominee for «Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the ...

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his ...

To find a bone marrow donor for himself, fashion designer Jesko visits his upper-class family in southwest Germany where he has to confront ...

Home footage plus reenactments of the life & times of Hitler with his mistress, Eva Braun. Their early days of happiness followed by long ...

The life and death of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin.

Monsieur de Fontenelle has resisted feelings of love and passion all his life, but at an advanced age he meets a young woman who makes him ...

While we were wandering through the pages of our democracy history, we saw right-left fights and experienced revolutions. Blood was shed, ...

Some 120 million years ago, a king named Satan fell to hell and instigated a rebellion against gods, all kinds of confusion and evil effects ...

Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the ...

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border ...

This is a film about a Malaysian soldier, Lt. Adnan, who gave his life in defending Malaya from the Japanese invasion during World War II. It ...

Kahpe Bizans tells us the story of Yetis Bey (Cem Davran) and his struggle with Byzantian Emperor (Illetyus) in a humorous way.

After their latest production, «Princess Ida», meets with less-than-stunning reception, Gilbert and Sullivan’s relationship is strained to ...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the ...

Showtime’s «In the 20th Century» is a millennium-related strand of feature-length documentaries in which famous directors take on major ...

Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the ...

One Man’s Hero tells the little-known story of the «St. Patrick’s Battalion» or «San Patricios,» a group of mostly Irish and other ...

CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It ...

What was the impact of the emergence of oil on Kuwait in particular and on the Gulf society in general? How did people behave? What were their ...

The historical documentary Hitler Youth explores Adolf Hitler’s maniacal construction of the titular organization – one comprised of ...

The story behind the creation of the transistor, one of the 20th century’s most important inventions.

Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm did not subside and the mutual reckoning was ...

During the 20 months before Italy’s liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the ...