History Movies

In the age of multiplexes, a small Brazilian movie theater strives to survive with an alternative programming in the city of Maceió.

On the night of February 24-25, 1942, amid terror and neurosis caused by the terrible Pearl Harbor attack only two months earlier, a huge flying...

November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Through the perspective of various stakeholders, Patrick Jeudy attempts to...

The story of young composer, Johannes Brahms, and his relationship with, Robert and Clara Schumann, the famous music couple that aided in his rise to...

Haitian history is presented through an explosion of colour, dance and music, as the country prepares for its legendary carnival.

Few buildings tell the story of a city as vividly as Hotel New York does for Rotterdam. Originally constructed in 1901 as the headquarters of the...

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.

The story of the birth and legacy of freeride mountain biking. Every sport has its Dog Town and Z Boys or Riding Giants. Nothing’s For Free is...

In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over ferries that were abandoned by ship-owners. Young...

A still drawing film on the personality of Robespierre and the French Revolution.

Told through a single window-frame in Lebanon, the history of two generations unfold. Family dynamics take place, in a means all too familiar to make...

The director's grandfather is a blind fortune teller and his father a real-estate owner. They have grievances against each other for dismantling the...

The story of the Cyprus' turbulent recent history using the device of a desperate man, Evagoras (Costas Timvios), who returns to the island after...

Bound by unspoken grief, reclusive 91-year-old Stan and his young carer find unexpected solace on the windswept plains of a once-bustling WWII...

At the end of WWI, the treaty of Versailles established the conditions for peace in Europe. The aim for the victorious powers was to make Germany pay...

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy in New Delhi and asks for asylum. Svetlana leaves...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a vast, mineral rich country the size of Western Europe. Alastair Leithead takes an epic journey from the...