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Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Crime, History
Year: 1948
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in OttawaCanada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against...
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1948
87 min
The Iron Curtain
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Year: 1990
This is the true story of Sung Neng Yee now known as Nora Lam who fled from Communist China to Hong Kong for her palpably real Christian...
1990
101 min
China Cry: A True Story
Country: Spain
Genre: Drama, History
Year: 2021
In the 1960s Spain became a home to hundreds of survivors of the Mauthausen camp. Isabel a young Spanish woman is one of them. She is looking for Skorzeny Europes most dangerous man but she is not...
2021
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Jaguar: Season 1
Country: Nigeria, United Kingdom
Year: 2006
The story of British slave trader John Newtons voyage to West Africa and the events that inspired him to write the worlds most popular hymn Amazing...
2006
100 min
The Amazing Grace
Country: India
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Year: 2020
Shikara is the story of resilience in the face of insurmountable odds. Its also the story of a love that remains unextinguished through 30 years of exile. A timeless love story in the worst of...
2020
118 min
Shikara
Country: Brazil
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Year: 2019
Facing a violent military dictatorship and an intimidated opposition writer-turned-politician Carlos Marighella articulates a resistance all the while ousting heinous crimes of torture and the infamous censorship instituted by the...
2019
155 min
Marighella
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
The History of American Punk Rock...
American Hardcore
Country: Poland
Year: 2014
A story of love friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw...
2014
130 min
Warsaw '44
Country: China, France, Japan
Year: 1998
In pre-unified China the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot but as the kings cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty...
1998
162 min
The Emperor And The Assassin
Country: Canada
Genre: Documentary, History
Year: 2003
An exploration into the nature of stupidity in Western society and its history of our perception of...
2003
61 min
Stupidity
Country: Canada, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
An intimate look at the extraordinary rise fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye...
126 min
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Germany
Genre: Drama, History, War
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter - two young Slovak Jews who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944 after meticulous planning and with the help and the resilience of their inmates they manage to escape....
94 min
The Auschwitz Report
Year: 2000
In 19th century New Orleans creole Henriette must choose between love and devotion to the church. Neither choice is going to be easy as there is great opposition to her ideas of breaking...
2000
95 min
The Courage To Love
Country: Japan, France, United Kingdom
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Year: 1999
The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him threatening to disturb the rigid code of their...
1999
Taboo (1999)
Country: South Korea, United States
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
Year: 2005
So-ha a deadly female warrior is sent to find a exiled prince after the Killer Blade Army killed the royal...
2005
117 min
Shadowless Sword
Despite their personal short comings many of the Roman Empires great engineering accomplishments were introduced during the reign of the Caesars. The tradition continued under Vespasian...
85 min
Rome: Engineering An Empire
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Southern attorney Angie Lawrence searches of the rightful owner of a journal recovered from an antebellum home she inherited. The journal is full of mystery and history that just may lead her to the future she has always dreamed...
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The Crickets Dance
Twenty-five hundred years before the reign of Julius Caesar the ancient Egyptians were deftly harnessing the power of engineering on an unprecedented scale. Egyptian temples fortresses...
92 min
Egypt: Engineering An Empire
Genre: History, Mystery
The Alaska Triangle - has been home to so much unusual activity that it has struck fear across Alaska and the...
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The Alaska Triangle: Season 2
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The Alaska Triangle: Season 1
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Genre: Documentary History
A unique and compelling account of the day that changed the modern world captured by ordinary people who chose to pick up their cameras and film that fateful day on which the September 11 attacks took place in New...
9/11: Life Under Attack
No Responders Left Behind is a feature documentary following 9/11 responder & activist John Feal who along with comedian Jon Stewart and FDNY hero Ray Pfeifer fought the U.S. Congress to...
79 min
No Responders Left Behind
Genre: Documentary Biography History
Tells the extraordinary story behind the friendship of two of the most iconic figures of the 20th century: Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. Few people understand the bond these men shared. The charismatic and outspoken Olympic champion who charmed the nation and the excon-turned intellectual revolutionary who railed against the evils of white oppression by speaking truth to power. The message they...
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Country: Finland
Year: 2012
The Battle of Nasilinna 1918 - depicting the Finnish Civil War from the White armys point of view. Lieutenant Melins soldiers mission is to penetrate the heart of the city and overtake the Nasilinna Palace from the...
2012
70 min
Dead Or Alive 1918
Country: France, Germany, Hungary
Year: 2010
A faithful retelling of the 1942 Vel dHiv Roundup and the events surrounding...
2010
115 min
La Rafle
Genre: History
Year: 2017
John Laurens War is the fight for freedom by John Laurens from South Carolina for every slave in America along with every colonist. During the War for American freedom John told his...
2017
74 min
John Laurens' War
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2015
Aside From That: A Film About Everyones Least Favorite Topic Official Selection Rhode Island International Film Festival 2015 How do we live knowing we are going to die? Is there a...
2015
76 min
Aside From That
Country: Latvia
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Year: 2018
These are religious rituals magical and true the Battle of Saule the Crusaders battles our ancestors fiery battles for the free land. Who were the last pagans of Europe and who did they...
2018
103 min
Baltic Tribes
Country: Italy, France
Year: 1960
During the Second Punic War between 214 and 212 B.C. occurred this history of the Roman siege in Greek city of Syracuse. The Romans were preparing for their invasion while Archimedes invents what looks like a satellite dish that...
1960
97 min
L'assedio Di Siracusa
Year: 1953
Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary...
1953
Sangaree
Genre: History, Western
Year: 1941
When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern...
1941
Western Union
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1978
Jean Valjean Richard Jordan convicted of stealing bread is hounded for several decades by the relentless and cruel Policeman Javert Anthony...
1978
150 min
Les Miserables 1978
Year: 1943
The true story of Carlsons Raiders and their World War II attack on Makin...
1943
88 min
'gung Ho!': The Story Of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Year: 1944
Documentary about one bombing mission over Germany by the American Eighth Air Force from the initial planning of the mission thru its final completion with all of its intricacies from beginning to...
1944
91 min
Target For Today
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Adventure, History
Year: 1964
In league with the Saxon invaders Edmund of Cornwall plans to slay King Arthur marry his daughter and usurp the throne of England but wizard Merlin and outlaw Robert Marshall stand in the...
1964
Siege Of The Saxons
Year: 1915
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincolns assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux...
1915
195 min
The Birth Of A Nation 1915
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1962
In 1787 British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher...
1962
178 min
Mutiny On The Bounty 1962
Year: 2016
Geologist Professor Iain Stewart tells the fascinating story of the shale oil industry in Scotland and its impact on the people landscape and culture of West...
2016
60 min
Scotland's First Oil Rush
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt
What is the validity of history found in the Bible? Is it fact or fiction? What does the hard evidence really have to say about the foundational story of the Old Testament: the Exodus out of Egypt? An in-depth investigation by...
Patterns Of Evidence: Exodus
Genre: Documentary ,history
This unflinching series documents the 9/11 terrorist attacks from Al Qaedas roots in the 1980s to Americas forceful response both at home and...
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Turning Point: 9/11 And The War On Terror: Season 1
Country: United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, Russia
Hermitage Revealed A Margy Kinmonth Film Hermitage Revealed vividly brings to life the human stories behind one of the worlds greatest art collections in its 250th anniversary year 2014. The State Hermitage Museum in St....
83 min
Hermitage Revealed
Cameramen from Britains Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in...
Memory Of The Camps
Year: 2008
The life and career of the renowned voice actor of animation and...
2008
Mel Blanc: The Man Of A Thousand Voices
Year: 1939
The story of how Alexander Graham Bell invented the...
1939
98 min
The Story Of Alexander Graham Bell
Year: 1958
In 1856 the first U.S. Consul General to Japan encounters the hostility of the local authorities and the love of a young...
1958
105 min
The Barbarian And The Geisha
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, Mystery, Thriller
In 1765 young English boy Jim Hawkins gets involved with buccaneers during his quest to find pirate Captain Flints treasure buried on a secret...
Treasure Island 2012
Genre: Crime ,drama,history
The story of the ongoing struggle by Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice and how a detective DCI Clive Driscoll - working closely with the Lawrences - puts together an investigation that finally - more than 18 years after his death - secures the convictions of two of the gang who committed the murder of...
Stephen: Season 1
Country: China, Hong Kong
Year: 2009
In 1937 Japan occupied Nanjing the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants especially those who took refuge in the International Security...
2009
133 min
Nanjing! Nanjing!
Country: Ireland, United States
Year: 1996
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers and their...
1996
112 min
Some Mother's Son
Country: Russia
The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying...
52 min
Blokada 2006
Genre: Comedy, History
Year: 1970
Two mismatched sets of identical twins one aristocrat one peasant mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French...
1970
90 min
Start The Revolution Without Me
Year: 1936
The story revolves around Pamela as a woman in late-1800s England who has no intention of marriage and wishes to be her own person. After a great deal of difficulty in finding a job she finally lands a position at a womans...
1936
A Woman Rebels
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama, History
Year: 2013
Summary of the bizarre ways my pets came to an...
2013
6 min
History Of Pets
Country: United Kingdom, Poland, Canada, Netherlands
Year: 2007
An extravagant exotic and moving look at Rembrandts romantic and professional life and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting The Night...
2007
134 min
Nightwatching
After her banishment from Rome Jewish Princess Salome returns to her Roman-ruled native land of Galilee where prophet John the Baptist preaches against Salomes parents King Herod and Queen...
Salome
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
A dramatization of George Washingtons perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the Hessian forces at...
89 min
The Crossing 2000
The story of the Disney Renaissance an incredibly prolific successful and prestigious decade lasting from 1984 to 1994 that saw the fallen Walt Disney Animation Studios unexpected progressive triumphant return to...
86 min
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War, Western
Year: 1975
In a period when many thought that the only good Indian is a dead Indian Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce won the admiration of the American...
1975
I Will Fight No More Forever
Country: United Kingdom, West Germany, Yugoslavia, United States
Year: 1965
During the thirteenth century the shy Mongol boy Temujin Carlo Cura becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan Omar Sharif who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia Europe and the Middle...
1965
120 min
Genghis Khan 1965
