History Movies

Roped, 200 Years In The Eyes Of Chamonix Guides

The history of the Chamonix Guides Company is inseparable from that of mountaineering and the valley where it was born. For 200 years, guides have risen to multiple challenges, making their organization a legend. Today, they are the actors of a changing mountain: overcrowding, global warming, loss of freedom—the causes are multiple. This film is at a crossroads. Between tradition and modernity, it traces the history of the Chamonix Guides Company, evoking the incredible challenges it has met with dignity and those it now faces.

Changing Landscapes

A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues about the meaning and experience of modern landscapes and the enigmatic characteristics of features such as canals, pylons and deserted factories. Rohmer also explores the role of landscape within different traditions of modern art and design and refers to specific architects, artists and engineers.

No Magic for Socialists

Artist Htoo Lwin Myo excavates the lesser-known and wildly joyful history of Myanmar’s horror and genre film industry in the 1950s that has persisted through political turmoil and archival neglect, told directly by the people who made it.

Alidha Ávila's Sucre

TV Movie based on the life of Antonio José de Sucre, the Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho

In the Fog

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces an impossible moral choice.

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

The trial of the Catonsville Nine, the nine Catholic activists who in 1968 went to the draft board in Catonsville, Maryland, took 378 draft files and burned them to protest the Vietnam War.

The Kautokeino Rebellion

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

Majakosvkij

Aimé Césaire, le prix de la liberté

Hatshepsut

A young woman of royal blood tries to secure her throne as the second female Pharaoh in history, but is met with tremendous backlash from a male dominated culture. She ruled as a man, but lived and loved in a forbidden romance as a woman. A true tale of betrayal, love and courage despite everything.

Kill Pinochet

Chile, September 1986. Tamara, commander of the communist guerrilla group Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front, and her comrades-in-arms set out to overthrow the military regime installed in 1973 by assassinating the dictator Augusto Pinochet.

The King Who Fooled Hitler

In a tale of double agents and decoys, this documentary reveals, for the first time, the story of King George VI's elaborate ruse to divert German attention away from the Normandy landings in 1944.

The Straw Lady

Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, an isolated group worships the statue of the Straw Lady, a maternal figure that protects them.

Billy the Kid

Gore Vidal's historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television's Billy the Kid.

A Horse Thief's Daughter

A movie based on the stories by Antanas Vienuolis.

Die Barrikade

The March of the Restoration

The first film produced by Daiei.

Into the Silver Ether

New York, 1927. An aspiring model goes to have her picture taken, but a camera can have a mind of its own.

Free Men

In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic leader played a pivotal role in supporting the resistance and rescuing Jews.

Sangeet Manapmaan

Based on Krushnaji Prabhakar Khadilkar's musical play of the same name.