History Movies

The Last Jews of Baghdad takes a historical and personal look at the persecution, torture, escape and exodus of over 160,000 Iraqi- Jews between the...

Neil Laughton, cycling enthusiast, adventurer and record-breaker is joined by cycling experts Scotford Lawrence, Edwin Knight and Jon Cannings to...

Long before Mary Shelley wrote her famous story of Victor Frankenstein and his monster, a real-life mad scientist called Johann Konrad Dipple dabbled...

A German physician worked tirelessly to bring back hope and pleasure to a country that was uncertain of its future.

Marie Antoinette enjoys her last meal as the queen of France before her execution.

At around 3,500 years old, the Ebers Papyrus is the oldest completely preserved medical manual in the world. Recipes were written down here on 18.6...

Forty four years ago, it seemed like a good idea to build a squat, concrete motel in downtown Columbia, Missouri. But within a few years, guests were...

The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic...

An unexpected visit from a long time friend sends two men reminiscing about old times, and their time digging for oil. However, after a secret is...

In the late 70s and early 80s, ET phoned home on Atari 2600 and became the video game that New Media magazine later described as having toppled a...

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse settlement in North America - Vinland the Good....

In 2024, the iconic Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Gerrit Rietveld designed and built the house in...

Documentary telling the surprising and positive story of how, throughout much of history, the races of the world's empires mixed together...

At the height of the cold war a struggle broke out between Governments from all over the world as to which position to take about the system of...

In 1967, in the middle of the Cold War, Joseph Stalin's only daughter goes to the American embassy in New Delhi and asks for asylum. Svetlana leaves...

An extraordinary look at the life of Uri Geller, the man famous for bending spoons and reading minds, told through exclusive interviews with the man...

In the 1970s, the Spanish dictatorship opened up to the outside world and allowed a group of Danes to build Tivoli World, the first amusement park on...