History

Romano Ismani is haunted by ghosts of the war in Ethiopia fought between 1935 and 1936. His rise within the ranks began there: an unscrupulous ...

Anja Grimm returns to the remote forest area where her father disappeared without a trace when she was eight years old. Her sudden appearance ...

The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic ...

Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon.

The Third Crusade as it didn’t happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France; en route, ...

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial.

Digging once again into the deep archives of 20th century audiovisual history, Sergei Loznitsa crafts this elegant, ironic mini-portrait of the ...

Stephen Fry investigates the inspiring and moving story of a gay man and a lesbian who led anti-Nazi resistance in Holland

In 1940, a struggling poor young man falls for a girl who must pay a terrible price to save her mentally disabled brother by marrying a powerful ...

Linotype: The Film is a feature-length documentary centered around the Linotype typecasting machine. Called the ‘Eighth Wonder of the ...

An examination of the career of Jacques Vergès, attorney for members of Algeria’s FLN, Palestine’s FPLP, the Khmer Rouge, Carlos and ...

Paris, 1927. After the death of her father, Madeleine Péricourt should have inherited his financial empire but she fell prey to a conspiracy ...

The trio of actresses have ostensibly gathered to pay tribute to Mai Zetterling, but also reminisce about their own careers and the illustrious ...

In 1953, the film evokes the 1848-49 periods up to the revolutionary struggle of the internal and external enemies. Petofi start there in the ...

In August 1991 a failed coup d’état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule ...

Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the ...

Parador Húngaro is the touching story of a friendship spanning generations and national boundaries: a Hungarian soldier escapes to the West in ...

Somewhere on the high plains of La Mancha in Spain resides a village that carries the name of its creator, Francisco Franco. The translation for ...

Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. ...

When the British army looks set to defeat Mussolini’s Italian forces, Hitler sends reinforcements; the Afrika Korps led by General Rommel. ...

In the Kingdom of France from 1640 is the old with his body ailing Cardinal Richelieu, powerful man under Louis XIII, faced with the machinations ...

Over 3,500 years ago, the powerful Shang Dynasty emerged from the Central Chinese plains. Their armies were led by a fierce and brilliant young ...

Thanks to the movie “The Imitation Game” many people know that Alan Turing was one of the men behind breaking the german coding ...

A Surgeon defends a hospital from invading enemy forces in the Battle of Saipan during World War II.

Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose fate mirrors that of the general ...

A native Javanese boy and a mixed-Dutch girl fall in love during the early 20th-century colonial turbulence in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).

Julien and Marguerite de Ravalet, son and daughter of the Lord of Tourlaville, have loved each other since childhood. But as they grow up, their ...

Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman. She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from ...

Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism ...

During Nazi occupation, red-headed Bent Faurschou-Hviid (“Flame”) and Jørgen Haagen Schmith (“Citron”), assassins in the ...