History Movies

Gobseck

Malês

Based on historical facts, the film portrays the largest slave rebellion in Brazilian history, the Malê Revolt. The uprising mobilized the black population in the streets of Salvador against slavery in 1835. After the failure of the revolt, the protesters were harshly punished and repression against black people in Brazil increased.

Ameretat

Grief is an inheritance. Perhaps the sorrow you feel today once belonged to a woman who, a thousand years ago, watched a mountain of books burn in the fire of an invasion.

To Arms, We Are Fascists!

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience.

Les années noires

São Bernardo

The Last Bolshevik

A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's struggles over the course of the 20th Century.

The Bold and the Brave

An assortment of American types come together in the Italian campaign of 1944.

When Boris Met Dave

A docudrama about the early lives of politicians Boris Johnson and David Cameron.

October 17, 1961: A day that went missing

This documentary bears witness to the events that took place more than thirty years before the filming of this movie, on October 17, 1961, in Paris, during the Algerian War. It is a work not only about historical truth but also about memory. Constructed primarily from interviews conducted with those involved in the events, along with archival footage, photographs, and radio broadcasts from the time, our investigation proves that nearly 200 Algerians were killed (drowned, tortured) that night and in the days that followed by the French police. "A Missing Day" seeks to ask two key questions: how could such events have unfolded in the capital of a Western democracy barely thirty years ago? And why have they been silenced ever since?

Marshal And Soidier

The Dragon Kid

A fantastic martial artist and cat burglar puts his skills to use when he joins the Chinese resistance movement against the invading Japanese.

Pixinguinha, an Affectionate Man

The life of legendary Brazilian musician Alfredo da Rocha Vianna Filho, better known as Pixinguinha.

Sarah

During World War II, an orphaned young girl seeks to survive and perhaps even help resistance fighters battle the Nazis.

It Has Snowed in Spring

Few people know that Komitas wrote letters to the singer, pedagogue Margarit Babayan for ten years from 1905 to 1915. Some of those letters were the basis for creating this film.

Partizan

A man in Donbas sets out on a combat mission as the violent ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russian-supported separatists wages on.

The Reformer. Zwingli: A Life's Portrait

Zurich in 1519: The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes turmoil: The young priest Ulrich Zwingli takes up his new position at the Grossmünster in Zurich and sparks fierce discussions with his sermons against the grievances of the Catholic Church. Zwingli's revolutionary thoughts frighten Anna. But when she sees how Zwingli lives charity and not just preaches, she increasingly becomes fascinated by him. But Zwingli's success quickly becomes dangerous. His ideas almost trigger a civil war, and at the same time a struggle for power and interpretive sovereignty breaks out in the inner circle of the movement. When the Catholic forces begin to form internationally, the relationship between Zwingli and Anna is put to a hard test.

Her Majesty is Fine

The Russian Pilgrim

The film depicts the pilgrimage to Jerusalem of schema monk Makary with whom faith is not just the latest craze but the essence of his understanding of life. His main goal is to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, so the greatest value of his luggage is a huge number of memorial notes. In the Holy Land he meets monks, visits Orthodox churches and shrines, reflects on the eternal principles of human life - love, hope, faith.

Children on the Island

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.