Historical Documentary Movies
- 2021
Final Account
Final Account7.42021HD
A depiction of the last living generation of German participants in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
- 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,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2019
Storm Front in Mayo
Storm Front in Mayo7.52019HD
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...
- 2019
The Phoney War
The Phoney War82019HD
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...
- 2016
Lumière!
Lumière!82016HD
A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.
- 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...
- 2019
Gandhi, de l'homme à l'icône
Gandhi, de l'homme à l'icône72019HD
- 2025
Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals
Sarkozy-Gaddafi: The Scandal of All Scandals7.1942025HD
A democracy and a dictatorship. A presidential campaign and dirty money. War and death. When Nicolas Sarkozy affirmed in the press that “No one...
- 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...
- 2021
The Damned of the Paris Commune
The Damned of the Paris Commune72021HD
Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the ensuing Paris Commune revolution...
- 2022
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire72022HD
- 2024
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France8.52024HD
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...
- 2002
Dark Side of the Moon
Dark Side of the Moon72002HD
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the...
- 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...
- 2024
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust6.42024HD
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...
- 2017
Tokyo Phoenix
Tokyo Phoenix7.52017HD
In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombings in 1945— followed by a spectacular...
- 2010
The Revelation of the Pyramids
The Revelation of the Pyramids6.62010HD
For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of...