Historical Movies

Chronicling the ways people attempt to leave a mark before they and their histories disappear. Invisible City director Tan Pin Pin interviews people...

Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film...

In the summer of 1900, the first film camera was purchased by Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar for Iran, and immediately the first Iranian moving images...

The exquisite Rosslyn Chapel is a masterpiece in stone. It used to be one of Scotland's best-kept secrets, but it became world-famous when it was...

Ten years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into...

This is the true story how one person made a difference in the lives of over 125 people by rescuing them from Nazi Germany. In 1903 Herman Stern...

With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique cinematic portrait is created. The viewer...

Hilversum in Black and White portrays Hilversum in the period 1924-1974. Using amateur footage and excerpts from Polygoon newsreels from that period,...

A surrealist dance film about the history of Gerajak, a committee consisting of village apparatus and farm workers. Gerajak was formed to carry out...

Ships from Europe brought Christianity to the shores of Japan in 1549. For decades the seeds of faith grew under the watchful gaze of the Shogun, but...

The Story of Mouseland was a story first told by Clarence Gillis, and later and most famously by Tommy Douglas, leader of the Saskatchewan...

During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and...

Two Catalonian women are travelling through Cornwall in 1611, in the company of an Englishman and find themselves forced by bad weather to take...

Historian Rob Nelson journeys through Canada, Germany and Poland, tracing the roots of the German policy toward Poles and Jews in the Second World...

In 1915, four young Crowborough boys prepare to be deployed to the front lines into the blind journey ahead.