Movies: Historical documentary

  • 2024
    Einstein and the Bomb

    Einstein and the Bomb (2024)

    Einstein and the Bomb

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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....

    Einstein and the Bomb
  • 2003
    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War (2003)

    The Fog of War

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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 ...

    The Fog of War
  • 1977
    Hitler: A Career

    Hitler: A Career (1977)

    Hitler: A Career

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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....

    Hitler: A Career
  • 2011
    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend

    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend (2011)

    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend

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    Tells the story of the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world, an event that experts believe inspired the legend of Atlantis....

    Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend
  • 2024
    Secrets of the Neanderthals

    Secrets of the Neanderthals (2024)

    Secrets of the Neanderthals

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    This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance....

    Secrets of the Neanderthals
  • 2024
    Apollo 13: Survival

    Apollo 13: Survival (2024)

    Apollo 13: Survival

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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....

    Apollo 13: Survival
  • 2021
    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

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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....

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
  • 2017
    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

    I Am Not Your Negro

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    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....

    I Am Not Your Negro
  • 1985
    Shoah

    Shoah (1985)

    Shoah

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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...

    Shoah
  • 2012
    The Gatekeepers

    The Gatekeepers (2012)

    The Gatekeepers

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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 ...

    The Gatekeepers
  • 2023
    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023)

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

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    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...

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
  • 2023
    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid (2023)

    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

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    Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary....

    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
  • 2013
    Bettie Page Reveals All

    Bettie Page Reveals All (2013)

    Bettie Page Reveals All

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    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...

    Bettie Page Reveals All
  • 2017
    Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

    Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (2017)

    Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

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    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....

    Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
  • 2024
    Bad Faith

    Bad Faith (2024)

    Bad Faith

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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...

    Bad Faith
  • 2022
    Black Far West

    Black Far West (2022)

    Black Far West

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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....

    Black Far West
  • 2024
    Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics

    Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics (2024)

    Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics

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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....

    Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
  • 2022
    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates (2022)

    The True Story of Pirates

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    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....

    The True Story of Pirates
  • 2019
    Le mystère Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Egypte

    Le mystère Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Egypte (2019)

    Le mystère Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Egypte

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    Le mystère Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Egypte
  • 2025
    L'Histoire Vraie Du Tatoueur D'Auschwitz

    L'Histoire Vraie Du Tatoueur D'Auschwitz (2025)

    L'Histoire Vraie Du Tatoueur D'Auschwitz

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    L'Histoire Vraie Du Tatoueur D'Auschwitz