History Movies

Documentary about the renowned Estonian pedagogue and educational reformer Johannes Käis. Made on commission for Estonian Ministry of Education.

This colorful archival record of Québec City's Winter Carnival shows that many popular events of today—pageants, parades, boat races,...

December 1976, a three-day revolt erupts in the small town of Majunga, Madagascar. Ali, a widower, is caught in an abrupt and violent turmoil between...

In a series of interviews with cultural and television figures, artists, and researchers, Shai Lahav attempts to deconstruct one of the most...

On a remote hillside in modern-day Turkey sits Göbekli Tepe, the oldest temple on Earth. For centuries, archaeologists believed it was a...

Beneath the pumice and ash that buried the buried the Roman city of Pompeii nearly 2,000 years ago, Italian archaeologists have have have a modern...

In the late 70s and early 80s, ET phoned home on Atari 2600 and became the video game that New Media magazine later described as having toppled a...

"The palm trees on the reverse are a delusion; so is the pink sand". This line, taken from a poem by Margaret Atwood, lights the path traced in...

The Spruce Forest explores one of the darkest pages in Romanian history. Inspired by the drama of Fântâna Albă on April 1, 1941, the...

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the short-lived but far-reaching American Institution The Pony Express by following a historical re-enactment...

The life story of Anagarika Dharmapala. He was a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and writer. He was one of the founding contributors of non-violent...

Documentary filmed over a period of four months, from 25 December 1975 to 5 March 1976, in the area of the former Spanish Sahara claimed by the...

Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol is both a historical portrait of Fumiko, her family and the Bainbridge Island Japanese American...

Reinscribing the Dondorf explores the former Dondorf Printing Works in Frankfurt through the history of the German-Jewish family who founded it....