History Movies

In Italy, in the mid-seventies, Adriana, Barbara, Nadia and Susanna were 20 years old when they decided to join the armed struggle and leave behind...

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...

A look into the medieval mania around nose loss and other bodily fears, narrated by historian John Chatham who has been researching pilgrimage and...

Mohamed lives in Nouadhibou, in Mauritania. But he can always see the ghost of his former town in front of his eyes. Aalien, the postman, fled to...

One man's hat is another man's treasure when it comes to the importance and significance of saving items of historic value.

In 1964, following the landing of around thirty men intent on overthrowing him, the Haitian dictator Duvalier launched a campaign of terror to deter...

The Ferrari has become a fetish possession of the stars and an emblem of glamour. But who was Enzo, the man behind the black glasses? A sensitive...

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

John Simpson looks back at his extraordinary 60-year career at the BBC - reporting on the biggest global stories of the era. In a frank, personal and...

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...

The historian investigates the discovery of a group of Viking graves in the eastern Baltic that date back over 1200 years, predating the established...

Having been established in their magnificent abbey at Oka, Québec, for over 125 years, the Trappist monks now prepare to leave.

Everyone knows the public archive footage of Hitler. But most of it is silent. What was he saying? Special computer technology enables us for the...

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Lin Zexu, an imperial envoy, braved the hardships of destructed opium in Humen, and actively and forcefully faced...

Throughout history, powerful people contacted things from beyond space and time. They called them angels. Demons. Gods. They believed they were...

The exploits of General Feng, who defeated the Zhili faction and evicted Pu Yi from the Forbidden City.

Amidst a strong typhoon in 1978, during the martial law era in the Philippines, college friends and protesters, Luis and Angelica, find shelter in an...