Historical Documentary Movies
- 2024
Apollo 13: Survival
Apollo 13: Survival6.7862024HD
Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.
- 2024
Einstein and the Bomb
Einstein and the Bomb6.0232024HD
What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.
- 2024
Secrets of the Neanderthals
Secrets of the Neanderthals7.0192024HD
This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.
- 2024
Cologne Cathedra: The French Cathedral on the Rhine
Cologne Cathedra: The French Cathedral on the Rhine02024HD
Cologne Cathedral: a landmark, a World Heritage Site, a building of superlatives - and not just because it took over 600 years to complete. It has...
- 2003
The Fog of War
The Fog of War7.72003HD
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from...
- 2023
La Vraie Histoire des Mousquetaires
La Vraie Histoire des Mousquetaires8.52023HD
- 1977
Hitler: A Career
Hitler: A Career7.31977HD
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...
- 2023
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid7.3292023HD
Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.
- 2024
Monopoly - Spiel ohne Erbarmen
Monopoly - Spiel ohne Erbarmen7.52024HD
- 2017
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro7.7272017HD
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...
- 2021
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass7.12021HD
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...
- 1985
Shoah
Shoah8.2741985HD
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...
- 2024
D-Day: 80th Anniversary
D-Day: 80th Anniversary6.52024HD
On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces executed Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history, storming the beaches of Normandy. This...
- 2024
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout
The Conqueror: Hollywood Fallout02024HD
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.
- 2023
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)7.52023HD
In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and...
- 2010
The Revelation of the Pyramids
The Revelation of the Pyramids6.42010HD
For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of...
- 2024
The Cable That Changed the World
The Cable That Changed the World62024HD
The first transatlantic communications cable, traversing the ocean floor from Valentia Island, County Kerry, to Newfoundland, Canada, 165 years ago...
- 2023
Les Tribunaux d'Hitler
Les Tribunaux d'Hitler8.52023HD
- 2024
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln02024HD
An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never...
- 2024
Derrière les murs de la Cité interdite
Derrière les murs de la Cité interdite82024HD