Historical Documentary Movies

  • 2024
    Einstein and the Bomb

    Einstein and the Bomb

    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
  • 2017
    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    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 S...

    I Am Not Your Negro
  • 2024
    Apollo 13: Survival

    Apollo 13: Survival

    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
  • 1985
    Shoah

    Shoah

    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...

    Shoah
  • 2024
    Secrets of the Neanderthals

    Secrets of the Neanderthals

    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
  • 1977
    Hitler: A Career

    Hitler: A Career

    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 ma...

    Hitler: A Career
  • 2023
    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

    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 resulti...

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
  • 2003
    The Fog of War

    The Fog of War

    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 wo...

    The Fog of War
  • 2012
    The Gatekeepers

    The Gatekeepers

    The Gatekeepers

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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...

    The Gatekeepers
  • 2021
    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    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 P...

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
  • 2022
    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates

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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 intern...

    The True Story of Pirates
  • 2012
    Titanic's Final Mystery

    Titanic's Final Mystery

    Titanic's Final Mystery

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    The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th century. For decades, investigators and amateurs...

    Titanic's Final Mystery
  • 2023
    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

    Unknown: The Lost Pyramid

    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
  • 1982
    Genocide

    Genocide

    Genocide

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    The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust co...

    Genocide
  • 2019
    The Death Train

    The Death Train

    The Death Train

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    In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom. At the time, the programmed ext...

    The Death Train
  • 2024
    Olympics! The French Games

    Olympics! The French Games

    Olympics! The French Games

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    27 Olympic and Paralympic champions, aged 20 to 100, share their stories in this Mickaël Gamrasni documentary narrated by actress Marion Cotillard. As...

    Olympics! The French Games
  • 2023
    Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb

    Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb

    Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb

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    The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely imagin...

    Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb
  • 2006
    Freedom's Fury

    Freedom's Fury

    Freedom's Fury

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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...

    Freedom's Fury
  • 2024
    Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln

    Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln

    Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln

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    An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never befor...

    Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
  • 2010
    The Revelation of the Pyramids

    The Revelation of the Pyramids

    The Revelation of the Pyramids

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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 a...

    The Revelation of the Pyramids