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Country: Japan
Genre: Drama, History, War
Year: 1959
A Japanese pacifist unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time...
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1959
208 min
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2013
Masterpiece: Frank Millers The Dark Knight Returns- Documentary -78 minutes This is the master-crafted work of the legendary writer and artist Frank Miller. The film encapsulates and...
2013
79 min
Masterpiece: Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns
Country: South Africa, United States, Brazil
Genre: Documentary, History
Year: 2017
From Colonization to Gentrification Not in my Neighourhood is a journey into the transformational power of space and...
2017
86 min
Not In My Neighbourhood
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, War, Western
An army major himself guilty of cowardice is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of...
123 min
They Came To Cordura
Country: Latvia, Lithuania
Year: 2016
In WW1 German doctor is sent to oversee insane asylum somewhere in Latvia. Here he finds wild boy and try to heal him. He is confronted by rough circumstances and brutal...
2016
100 min
Exiled 2016
Country: Thailand
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Year: 2007
Prince Naresuan is now the crown prince of Ayutthaya and the king of Burma is dead. While the new Burmese king is waging war the crown prince plots to assassinate Naresuan. Hearing this...
2007
165 min
The Legend Of Naresuan: Part 2
Country: United Kingdom, South Africa
Year: 2012
The Titanic sank on April 14 1912 - Or did it? This documentary explores the conspiracy that in fact it was Titanics sister ship the Olympic that sank on that fateful...
2012
52 min
Why They Sank The Titanic
Year: 2009
Whats going on with the worlds economy? Foreclosures are everywhere unemployment is skyrocketing - and this may only be the beginning. Could it be that solutions to the worlds economic problems could have been embedded in the...
2009
104 min
The Secret Of Oz
Year: 2019
Human Zoos tells the story of how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in the early decades of the twentieth century. Often touted as missing links...
2019
49 min
Human Zoos
Genre: Documentary, History, Sport
Year: 1999
Documentary leading up to during and after the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Features interviews with athletes including John Carlos Tommie Smith and George Foreman activist Dr. Harry Edwards journalists and...
1999
59 min
Fists Of Freedom: The Story Of The '68 Summer Games
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Year: 1951
During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo. Opposing them was Banzui-in Chobeiwhose sole aim was to save Edo from the hatamoto as their...
1951
132 min
Five Men Of Edo
Genre: Drama, History
During the height of the social revolution a young dancer searches for salvation when she chooses to leave...
93 min
Paradise Club
Year: 1933
A Roman soldier becomes torn between his love for a Christian woman and his loyalty to Emperor...
1933
125 min
The Sign Of The Cross 1933
Genre: History
Forensic experts scan Pompeiis victims to investigate why they didnt escape the...
42 min
Pompeii: Secrets Of The Dead
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1934
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French...
1934
85 min
Nell Gwyn
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Year: 2021
The documentary follows the investigation of Sophie Toscan Du Plantier a French film and TV producer who was killed while at her isolated holiday cottage in West Cork Ireland in...
2021
E3
Sophie: A Murder In West Cork: Season 1
Year: 1957
A war-hardened general egged on by his ambitious wife works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spiders Web...
1957
110 min
Throne Of Blood
Country: France
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Year: 2015
In June 1944 the Allies invade German-occupied France in Normandy. On its way to the battle the infamous veteran 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich commits all manner of atrocities on the French civilian...
2015
55 min
Hitler's Death Army: Das Reich
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, News
Year: 2010
It is our national novel. Reading to Kill a Mockingbird is something we all have in common. Harper Lees first and only novel turns 50 this summer and the author hasnt given an interview...
2010
82 min
Hey, Boo: Harper Lee And 'to Kill A Mockingbird'
Country: India
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Year: 2003
The Emperors son faces difficulties in marrying the woman of his...
2003
235 min
Taj Mahal: A Monument Of Love
Country: Czechoslovakia
Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Year: 1970
A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches...
1970
107 min
Witchhammer (1970)
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family, History
Year: 2014
Intimate personalized portrait of women of the 1960s through the eyes of one colorful class that graduated in 1969 - same year as Hillary Clinton - and recently turned 65 starting to...
2014
Women Of '69, Unboxed
The Bridgewater Triangle sits within Southeastern Massachusetts and includes a number of locations known for unexplained occurrences; the most prominent of which include the legendary...
91 min
The Bridgewater Triangle
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2008
Before her death Emma reflects on her life; beginning with her childhood up through her final years in Nauvoo. Based on the life of Emma Hale...
2008
98 min
Emma Smith: My Story
Year: 2018
After the martyrdom of Joseph Smith Jr. his wife Emma Hale Smith was left with much to shoulder: salvaging Josephs estate the safety of her family her own grief and growing isolation as danger and rumors swirled around her....
2018
112 min
In Emma's Footsteps
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
The 16th-century sculptor woos the Duchess of Florence despite the...
The Affairs Of Cellini
Country: Russia
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
A group of officers of the Russian Imperial Guard prepare a revolt in December 1825 when about 3000 officers and soldiers refused to swear allegiance to the new...
136 min
Union Of Salvation
Country: Uruguay
Genre: Documentary, Animation, History
Year: 2001
Travel back to late 18th century Lowell MA now infamous for its textile mills and its Lowell Girls the poor barely-educated waifs who helped turn those mills into...
2001
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David Macaulay: Mill Times
Year: 2006
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2006
Evidence Of Revision: The Assassination Of America
Year: 1945
In 18th century Russiathe naive and idealistic lieutenant Chernov meets Empress Catherine the Great who becomes infatuated with him and appoints him Chief of the Imperial...
1945
94 min
A Royal Scandal
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, Western
Year: 1944
During the latter stages of the Civil War a gang of supposed Confederates headed by Alex Morel Lionel Atwill raid all gold shipments destined for Washington from Oro Grande...
1944
225 min
Raiders Of Ghost City
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Sport
Why is the bicycle back in fashion? The film explores this and tells the story of cycling in the land that invented the modern bicycle its birth decline and re birth from Victorian origins to...
87 min
Bicycle
Country: Qatar
Al Jazeera investigates the shocking truth behind a deadly Israeli attack on a US naval...
The Day Israel Attacked America
Year: 1997
These are the atomic bomb tests that provided the answers that today are the core of Americas nuclear weapons knowledge. Formerly classified this motion picture material documents...
1997
47 min
America's Atomic Bomb Tests: Operation Tumbler Snapper
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Year: 1939
Talbot uses a phony land grant to rule thirteen million acres taxing everyone heavily and evicting those who wont pay. The Three Mesquiteers becomes mysterious night riders to fight...
1939
56 min
The Night Riders
Year: 2000
The history of the struggles by Robert Peary Frederick Cook Roald Amundsen Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton to be the first men to reach the North and South...
2000
Race For The Poles
Country: Turkey
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History
Ilyas Bazna works as a butler in the British Embassy in Turkey during WW2. After Bazna starts to work as a German spy he is going to experience a series of unexpected...
126 min
Operation Cicero
Country: Spain
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History, Mystery
In 1999 teen Rocío Wanninkhof is murdered. Her mothers ex-partner Dolores Vázquez is suspected. Did she do it? A second victim reveals the...
88 min
Murder By The Coast
The official World War II US government account of Great Britains stand against the Nazi war machine after the Dunkirk...
54 min
The Battle Of Britain 1945
Genre: Documentary, Short, History
How to survive an atomic...
9 min
Survival Under Atomic Attack 1951
Country: Italy, France
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Herod King of Judea is made a prisoner by the Romans. Convinced the King is dead his faithful lieutenant Aaron is nevertheless unable to keep his promise to kill the Queen if something untoward happened to the King. He leads the young woman out into the desert. Herods pleas to Augustus are successful and he returns to his palace. His son Antipater informs Herod that Aaron has betrayed...
Herod The Great
From the early race to build gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy and Nazi Germanys final surrender Silent Wings - The American Glider Pilots of WWII narrated by Hal Holbrook...
113 min
Silent Wings: The American Glider Pilots Of World War Ii
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1969
The young daughter of a park ranger in Kenya is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England thus separating her from the one thing she loves most a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future holds...
1969
The Bushbaby
Year: 2005
Dramatic reenactments of the 2000-year alternative history suggested by The Da Vinci Code and a documentary exploration of how much of this account is true and how much is...
2005
90 min
Beyond The Da Vinci Code
Country: United Kingdom, Germany
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History, War
A dramatization of the notorious World War I torpedoing of the ocean liner RMS...
Sinking Of The Lusitania: Terror At Sea
Genre: Documentary, Action, Drama, History, War
Year: 1943
Docudrama about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941 and its results the recovering of the ships the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese...
1943
December 7th
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Year: 1964
Biopic of notorious New York City Madam Polly Adler set during the Roaring...
1964
A House Is Not A Home 1964
Year: 1978
A docudrama about the events surrounding the assassination of the 35th United States President John F. Kennedy in Dallas in 1963 based on eyewitness and other...
1978
180 min
Ruby And Oswald
Year: 2020
The story behind one of the best loved British sitcoms ever made from humble beginnings to smash hit. This show celebrates all of Dads Armys iconic catchphrases the hilarious stunts...
2020
67 min
We Love Dad's Army
Genre: Adventure, History
Year: 1952
During the War of 1812 the U.S. tasks Captain James Marshall to sail through the British blockade and bring back a French loan in gold but the secret leaks out and many greedy hands including the mutinous crews are after the...
1952
77 min
Mutiny 1952
Country: Italy
Year: 1961
Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen...
1961
97 min
Queen Of The Nile
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Year: 1955
In 1820 Louisiana river pirates tangle with plantation owners while gambling-ship pirate queen Lili Scarlet falls in-love with planter André Tulane to the dismay of rival Hugo Marat leader of the river...
1955
72 min
Duel On The Mississippi
Country: Austria, Germany
The story of the Operation Bernhard the largest counterfeiting operation in history carried out by Germany during...
99 min
The Counterfeiters
Country: Serbia, Greece
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
King Petar The First as a young man is banished from Serbia Many years later he returns to his country to liberate its people and secure parliamentary democracy and starts the reconstruction of...
Kralj Petar 1
Country: United States, Poland
This documentary examines the conditions and circumstances that ultimately led to the birth of the Unites States and the extremely important yet little known role Polish immigrants...
50 min
Jamestown: Pioneers Of America
Here is an account of how the cross of Christ came to be the symbol and icon it is today. It presents a close-up look at an inscribed piece of wood believed to be the actual headboard of Christs...
51 min
The Quest For The True Cross
In the year 1590 powerful daimyo Toyotomi Hideyoshi nears his plan to unify all of Japan but he comes across a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle. Narita Nagachika must use his army to defend the...
144 min
Nobô No Shiro
Genre: Short, History, War
Year: 1942
Inspirational short film designed to encourage recruits for the American Army Air...
1942
18 min
Winning Your Wings
Year: 2011
Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D-Day. They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy...
2011
Pathfinders: In The Company Of Strangers
