Movies: Historical documentary
- 2024
Einstein and the Bomb (2024)
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What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius....
- 2003
The Fog of War (2003)
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Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing ...
- 1977
Hitler: A Career (1977)
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A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherded to the slaughterhouse....
- 2011
Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend (2011)
Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend5.82011HD
Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis....
- 2024
Secrets of the Neanderthals (2024)
Secrets of the Neanderthals6.92024HD
This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance....
- 2024
Apollo 13: Survival (2024)
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Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home....
- 2021
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)
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Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963....
- 2017
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
I Am Not Your Negro7.72017HD
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States....
- 1985
Shoah (1985)
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Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystander...
- 2012
The Gatekeepers (2012)
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In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak about their role in Israel's decades-long counterterrorism campaign, discussing their controversial methods and ...
- 2023
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023)
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)7.52023HD
In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one...
- 2023
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid (2023)
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid7.32023HD
Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary....
- 2013
Bettie Page Reveals All (2013)
Bettie Page Reveals All6.82013HD
The world's greatest pin-up model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution. When she saw the film The Notorious Bettie Page, produced by...
- 2017
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2017)
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story6.82017HD
Working largely uncredited in the Hollywood system, storyboard artist Harold and film researcher Lillian left an indelible mark on classics by Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Mel Brooks, Stanley Kubrick, Roman Polanski and many more....
- 2024
Bad Faith (2024)
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On January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed an attack on the U.S. Capitol without precedent in our history. Armed militiamen and QAnon followers made headlines, but among them were a sea of crosses and Christian flags, rosaries and "Jesus Saves" signs. W...
- 2022
Black Far West (2022)
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Did you know that the first cowboys were black? Using magnificent archives and testimonies from historians, Cécile Denjean restores justice to African-Americans in the story of the conquest of the West....
- 2024
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics (2024)
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Follows the 1936 Berlin Olympics when Black athlete Jesse Owens won 4 golds against the backdrop of Hitler's racist Nazi regime in Germany....
- 2022
The True Story of Pirates (2022)
The True Story of Pirates7.82022HD
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of international scholars paint a new portrait of the world of piracy in the Indian Ocean....
- 2019
Le mystère Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Egypte (2019)
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- 2025
L'Histoire Vraie Du Tatoueur D'Auschwitz (2025)
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