Movies: Historical documentary
- 2024
Apollo 13: Survival (2024)
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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....
- 1977
Hitler: A Career (1977)
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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....
- 2024
Einstein and the Bomb (2024)
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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....
- 1952
Le Grand Méliès (1952)
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A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Alcy, as herself, and their son André as his own father....
- 2024
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout (2024)
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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....
- 1985
Shoah (1985)
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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...
- 2017
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
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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....
- 2024
Secrets of the Neanderthals (2024)
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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....
- 2012
The Gatekeepers (2012)
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In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak about their role in Israel's decades-long counterterrorism campaign, discussing their controversial methods and ...
- 2022
The True Story of Pirates (2022)
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Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of international scholars paint a new portrait of the world of piracy in the Indian Ocean....
- 2006
Freedom's Fury (2006)
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A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were in Budapest, stomping out a popular revolt....
- 2010
The Revelation of the Pyramids (2010)
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For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of archaeological mysteries: a message of paramount importance for humanity. From China to Peru, from Eg...
- 2024
Thorin, le dernier Néandertalien (2024)
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- 2021
Venus: Death of a Planet (2021)
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Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Earth. Today, Earth's twin is a planet knocked upside down and turned inside out. Its burned-out surface is a global fossil of volcanic destruction, shr...
- 2003
The Fog of War (2003)
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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 ...
- 2019
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace (2019)
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Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be t...
- 2019
Chasing the Equinox (2019)
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The ancients hid the secrets of their incredible knowledge of astronomy in their temples and palaces, built to align with the sun, on the same day, all over the world. Revealing our species' obsession with the sun, across thousands of years and every...
- 2023
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023)
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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...
- 2024
Les gens du Nord (2024)
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- 2019
The Phoney War (2019)
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September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations,...