Historical Documentary Movies
- 2020
Prehistoric Worlds
Prehistoric Worlds92020HD
Five times, Earth has faced apocalyptic events that swept nearly all life from the face of the planet. What did these prehistoric creatures look...
- 2008
Chicago 10
Chicago 1062008HD
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic...
- 2024
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout82024HD
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light.
- 2015
Three Days in Auschwitz
Three Days in Auschwitz02015HD
The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts...
- 2018
The Real T Rex with Chris Packham
The Real T Rex with Chris Packham7.52018HD
A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour - using the recent palaeontological and zoological...
- 2023
The True History of the Musketeers
The True History of the Musketeers8.52023HD
The Three Musketeers is a legendary work, whose heroes have rocked multiple generations. These fictional musketeers have eclipsed the real...
- 2005
Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II
Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II7.32005HD
A film made of archives mostly unknown, on the last day of the Second World War in Europe and on the events which preceded it. This film also shows...
- 2013
Hitler, My Neighbor
Hitler, My Neighbor6.52013HD
From 1929 to 1939 Edgar Feuchtwanger lived across the street from Adolf Hitler in Munich Germany From his bedroom the young Jewish boy often viewed...
- 2006
Freedom's Fury
Freedom's Fury6.52006HD
A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were...
- 2014
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story5.92014HD
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,...
- 2023
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History9.32023HD
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...
- 2023
Explorer: Lost in the Arctic
Explorer: Lost in the Arctic6.42023HD
Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a new trade route over...
- 2019
Orient-Express: A Legendary Journey
Orient-Express: A Legendary Journey6.92019HD
A symbol of luxury and adventure, the Orient Express opened a new path between the West and the East. Mata Hari, Josephine Baker and Agatha Christie,...
- 2021
Venus: Death of a Planet
Venus: Death of a Planet7.22021HD
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Earth. Today, Earth's twin is a planet knocked...
- 2012
The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeepers6.9532012HD
In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak...
- 2022
The True Story of Pirates
The True Story of Pirates7.82022HD
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of...
- 2022
The Secret Masonic Victory of World War II
The Secret Masonic Victory of World War II12022HD
Western Freemasonry and Eastern communists won WW2, leading to a secret holy war aiming for a one-world government and a single religion in a...
- 2024
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics82024HD
Follows the 1936 Berlin Olympics when Black athlete Jesse Owens won 4 golds against the backdrop of Hitler's racist Nazi regime in Germany.
- 1985
Dinosaur!
Dinosaur!7.4641985HD
An entertaining documentary look at dinosaurs with Emmy Award-winning special effects, feature film clips and stills, commentary by leading...
- 2020
The Untold Story of the Vatican
The Untold Story of the Vatican7.452020HD
What started as a simple tomb became over a 2,000 years history the universal seat of Christendom and is today one of the most visited museum in the...