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
  • 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
    Endurance

    Endurance (2024)

    Endurance

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    A century after Shackleton's Endurance sank beneath the ice, explorers uncover the legendary shipwreck and an amazing tale of survival....

    Endurance
  • 2023
    The Barbie Story

    The Barbie Story (2023)

    The Barbie Story

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    She's been around for so many decades but hasn't aged a day. She's had more than 180 different jobs; she's been president, she's been to the moon, and she's done all the things that women aspire to do. She has a massive closet, and thousands of diffe...

    The Barbie Story
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle

    D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle (2024)

    D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle

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    « Emmanuelle » was released 50 years ago. Its main character, played by the young Sylvia Kristel, delve freely into her sexuality, without taboo. This bold movie became one of the great success of french cinema in the 70s, and Emmanuelle became the f...

    D'Emmanuelle à Emmanuelle
  • 2008
    Chicago 10

    Chicago 10 (2008)

    Chicago 10

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    Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention....

    Chicago 10
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2016
    Lumière!

    Lumière! (2016)

    Lumière!

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    A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers....

    Lumière!
  • 2024
    The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

    The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout (2024)

    The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout

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    The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that helped bring the catastrophe to light....

    The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout