Historical Documentary Movies

  • 2021
    Final Account

    Final Account

    Final Account

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    A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.

    Final Account
  • 2014
    The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

    The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

    The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story

    5.92014HD

    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,...

    The Great Wall of China: The Hidden Story
  • 2008
    Chicago 10

    Chicago 10

    Chicago 10

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    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...

    Chicago 10
  • 2012
    The Gatekeepers

    The Gatekeepers

    The Gatekeepers

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    In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak...

    The Gatekeepers
  • 2018
    The Real T Rex with Chris Packham

    The Real T Rex with Chris Packham

    The Real T Rex with Chris Packham

    7.52018HD

    A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour - using the recent palaeontological and zoological...

    The Real T Rex with Chris Packham
  • 2019
    Storm Front in Mayo

    Storm Front in Mayo

    Storm Front in Mayo

    7.52019HD

    Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen...

    Storm Front in Mayo
  • 2019
    The Phoney War

    The Phoney War

    The Phoney War

    82019HD

    September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when...

    The Phoney War
  • 2016
    Lumière!

    Lumière!

    Lumière!

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    A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

    Lumière!
  • 2022
    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates

    7.82022HD

    Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of...

    The True Story of Pirates
  • 2019
    Gandhi, de l'homme à l'icône

    Gandhi, de l'homme à l'icône

    Gandhi, de l'homme à l'icône

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    Gandhi, de l'homme à l'icône
  • 2025
    Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals

    Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals

    Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals

    7.1942025HD

    A democracy and a dictatorship. A presidential campaign and dirty money. War and death. When Nicolas Sarkozy affirmed in the press that “No one...

    Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals
  • 2015
    Three Days in Auschwitz

    Three Days in Auschwitz

    Three Days in Auschwitz

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    The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts...

    Three Days in Auschwitz
  • 2021
    The Damned of the Paris Commune

    The Damned of the Paris Commune

    The Damned of the Paris Commune

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    Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution...

    The Damned of the Paris Commune
  • 2022
    De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire

    De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire

    De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire

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    De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
  • 2024
    The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

    The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

    The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

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    The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by...

    The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
  • 2002
    Dark Side of the Moon

    Dark Side of the Moon

    Dark Side of the Moon

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

    Dark Side of the Moon
  • 2013
    Hitler, My Neighbor

    Hitler, My Neighbor

    Hitler, My Neighbor

    6.52013HD

    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...

    Hitler, My Neighbor
  • 2024
    Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

    Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

    Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust

    6.42024HD

    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...

    Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
  • 2017
    Tokyo Phoenix

    Tokyo Phoenix

    Tokyo Phoenix

    7.52017HD

    In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombings in 1945— followed by a spectacular...

    Tokyo Phoenix
  • 2010
    The Revelation of the Pyramids

    The Revelation of the Pyramids

    The Revelation of the Pyramids

    6.62010HD

    For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of...

    The Revelation of the Pyramids