History Movies

When a folk high school is turned into an internment camp for German refugees, the headmaster couple Jakob and Lis and their children are thrust into...

"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of Lening...

Utilizing rare archive footage, news reels and unique interviews, this riveting music documentary follows the formation and astonishing rise of the wo...

A documentary about gay male cruising and public sex and how it has changed over the years.

At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the...

Three young lives from the present are mysteriously destined to travel back in time through a portal to an old forgotten city. It is an era of civil w...

In 158 a group of English settlers landed near present-day North Carolina. These pilgrims expected wealth and prosperity from the untouched land but i...

The crusades come to life in Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s beautiful Cabaret Crusades. Inspired by the writings of Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, Shawk...

An intimate portrait of Matthew Shepard, the gay young man murdered in one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history. Framed through a persona...

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and m...

At the start of the 80’s sport climbing was in its embryonic stages. Bolted routes were beginning to make a regular appearance, indoor climbing walls...

Set in early 16th century Finland, a knight Olavi Gideoninpoika meets Mirjam Raakelintytär and falls in love. Mirjami hides in a monastery disguised...

Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Rus...

A Jew who mocked Jesus on the cross is visited by a devil and an angel.

Over 6,000 men served and 19 fell in the Congo Battalion (1960-64),Sweden's most dramatic and contentious UN operation. Many of the participants have...

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical...

The film tells about the life of the Lithuanian landed nobility in the period between the two wars, about the desire to live their old life. But new t...

In the 1740s, British naval ship the Wager is wrecked on a desolate island off the tip of South America. The captain and crew struggle to survive and...

The story of how Everett Leroy Jones became Amiri Baraka, from his childhood to the mid '60s, is told through interviews recorded in the late '90s.