History Movies

Documentary discussing the seven manmade wonders listed by Philo of Byzantium 2000 years ago: the Colussus of Rhodes, the statue of Zeus at Olympus,...

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a vast, mineral rich country the size of Western Europe. Alastair Leithead takes an epic journey from the...

He described his love of art as his greatest inclination from his youth: Johann Joachim Winckelmann as a representative and rediscoverer of Greek and...

A boy wakes up with a toy in his hand. Which leads himself to the forgotten historical incidents and other people's shared memories.

Portrait of Belgian historian, reporter and documentarian André Dartevelle.

The Blackprint explores what it means to be Black and British. will.i.am traveled the UK to meet civil rights heroes, schoolchildren and technology...

Part of BBC Arena's Animal Night, this film chronicles a strange era in history when animals were put on trial in human courts.

In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to...

Expert interviews, dramatic reconstructions and location shooting bring to life the iconic legend of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra in this historical...

In 1926, a young couple set off into the British Columbia wilderness in search of an undiscovered mountain. A century later a group of would-be...

In the world of the Ottoman Sultans, a poor child from Jerusalem makes an unimaginable desert journey to Cairo and back to save his mother and...

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...

Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.

Confined to his Tahitian hut by the French colonial authorities in 1903, the painter Paul Gauguin is forced to paint a new masterpiece to save his...

Witchcraft is older than recorded history and holds great truths and powers, from the natural world to the realms beyond. Witches were masters of a...