History Movies

Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin

As an adviser to the emperor Nicholas II, mystic Grigori Rasputin holds great influence over the empire. However, many in St Petersburg begin to regard Rasputin, with his strange practices and mesmerizing qualities, as a liability and plot his assassination. When Rasputin, known to many as the 'Mad Monk', leads Nicholas to embrace an ill-conceived military strategy, a group of determined conspirators set down a plan to eliminate him.

13 Days in France

This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events made international celebrities of skater Peggy Fleming and skier Jean-Claude Killy for their gold-medal performances. The camera accurately catches the speed of bobsleds and downhill racers and ski jumpers as they race for the gold. President Charles DeGaulle is shown observing the action over 13 days, which saw France earn the best performance to date in the winter games.

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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.

Free Man

“Hür Adam” or “Free Man” in English is the real-life story of a very influential Kurdish scholar in Turkey that had lived between 1877-1960, 'Said Nursi'. A writer, philosopher, and philanthropist, he compiled many books on Islam covering various themes of faith, brotherhood, and philanthropy and exploring the reasons behind societal weakness, poverty, ignorance, and divisions.

Forever Enthralled

The epic story Mei Lanfang, who overcame the prejudice against artists in 1930s China to become the country's greatest opera star.

Boycott

This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the historic boycott of public buses in the 1950s, led by civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the Time of the Law of the Wolf

The love story of Liza Pesentak and the fearless patriot Melelave, who will go through a series of various trials before they find their happiness.

Angelito

A short film about Antonio Luna’s aides-de-camp Jose and Manuel Bernal during the aftermath of Luna’s assassination.

Salammbô

Based on the historical novel by Flaubert, "Salammbo" tells the story of the Mercenary War between Carthage and the Barbarians in the third century BC.

Yefon

An illiterate village girl defies the customs of her tribe, discriminatory to women, only to become the spark of a Literary Revolution.

The History of the Civil War

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.

I Love You and I Am Going to Fix You

Based on true events in 1990s Denver, a young couple uncovers a disturbing anomaly inside a sushi restaurant.

Under the Eternal Sky: Chapter 3

From the age of 13, Temujin's son will inherit his father's hearth. But his teammate Jamuha was the first to stop him on his way to become the king of Mongolia, and even King Tooril of Hareid, who became his father instead of his father, stood against him.

Funan

Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards an uncertain future…

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UnBroken

The daughter of a Holocaust survivor embarks on an international quest to uncover answers about the plight of her mother and her six siblings who, as mere children, escaped Nazi Germany relying solely on their own youthful bravado and the kindness of German strangers.

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

Carles Salvador (Elogi a un xiprer)

Documentary about the vital, intellectual and political trajectory of the poet and grammarian Carles Salvador, one of the main promoters of the linguistic normalization of Valencian.

Berlanga: el sentimiento austrohúngaro de la vida

A journey through the life, work and many artistic miracles of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010).