History Movies

Told through a single window-frame in Lebanon, the history of two generations unfold. Family dynamics take place, in a means all too familiar to make...

Offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film.

Based on a true story. A Spanish soldier hides out with and aids the Saharawi people of the Western Sahara against the injustices of his own army.

Commandant Patrick Hughes was one of the officers in command in the Louth and Meath area during the 1916 rising. He and his other commanders lead...

Video essay on the "The Witch" (1966) by author and academic Miranda Corcoran. Corcoran places the film within wider histories of witchcraft and...

Through exclusive testimonies and clandestine videos, this documentary gives voice to courageous women in Iran who risked their lives to share their...

The film maps the life and work of the historian Ján Mlynárik (1933 - 2012), which took place very close to the controversial events in...

Filmed in the camps of Sahrawi refugees living in West-Algeria and Tifaritti (the liberated territory). The narrator, in his multiple interviews,...

An approach to Sahrawi culture, different aspects of daily life, culture and the struggle of the Sahrawi people in the Sahrawi refugee camps in...

Constantine the Great, son of General Constantius Chlorus, rose to power during the Tetrarchy, a division of the Roman Empire among four emperors....

A rural location, seemingly set in the beginning of last century, is the scene of the strange encounter between a young farmer and a mysterious guy...

Once a powerful, sprawling presence in Northern Africa, the ancient kingdom of Nubia now lies buried beneath mounds of red brick rubble in the Sudan....

For the first 18 years of her life, Mozart’s sister shared equal billing with her brother. Musical partners and collaborators, Wolfgang Mozart...

Revealing the flaws of Japanese society, the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway prompted Murakami to return to his homeland, whose conformism...

For Alexander Galt it was the middle of the road, until he saw some hope for his dream of a united Canada. What was he like, this stubborn idealist?...