History

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young ...

Long before satellites would journey to planets and deep-space telescopes would photograph distant galaxies, there was an artist whose dazzling ...

In the middle of the 13th century, following the death of “The Iron Sultan, Alaeddin Keykubat,” Mongols attack Anatolian Seljuks to ...

The secret Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on the 14th October 1943, in one of the biggest ...

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories ...

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.

The true story of rushed investigations, political interference, and the grasp for corporate accountability woven amongst heart wrenching ...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin’s Ulyanov family and the royal Romanovs that eventually led to the ...

Park Jae-sang was a royal geomancer, who helps people designate propitious site for houses, store and even graves under the belief that a grave ...

Geneticist George Busby and biblical scholar pastor Joe Basile travel the globe extracting and analyzing samples from the most famous religious ...

In Bombay’s seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto ...

Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the massacre of Koreans by the government during the ...

A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte’s stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romanian small town in the thirties and ...

An animated telling of Kobe Bryant’s titular poem, signaling his retirement from the sport that made his name.

Set in spring 1949, PLA captures south central China.

A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior ...

This visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white ...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln’s youngest son is laid to rest. That night, Lincoln visits his son’s crypt, a chorus of ghosts narrating ...

Appleton, Wisconsin, 1886. Harry, 12 years old, has lived and breathed magic since his early childhood. But the small village Appleton is not the ...

Centers around a group of friends and strangers at an apartment party, set against the backdrop of Hurricane Sandy.

It was 1969 and America was embarking on the biggest adventure known to man – a voyage to the moon. Daniel too was pursuing the unknown; ...

Henry IV is dead and Hal is King. With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of ...

The story of Oliver Cromwell’s head is perhaps the most bizarre, yet least well known, of all tales from English history. From regal burial ...

We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.

Thomas Cromwell has gone down in history as one of the most corrupt and manipulative ruffians ever to hold power in England. A chief minister who ...

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine’s personal journey through 1960s swinging London.

A documentary film that examines sexual persecution and violence against women throughout history within various cultures that places the blame ...

Hitler’s biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, only contemporaries and Hitler himself ...

In the wake of the social unrest caused by the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, two female sumo athletes, Kiku and Tokachi, and an anarchist group ...

Claressa Shields, a high school junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to ...