History Movies

Questions about celebrating 200 years of independence from Brazil with 300 years of slavery.

This video traces a 25-year history of the production, development, and evolution of foil Magic cards.

Brair Kani explores an ancestral house located in Srinagar, Kashmir. Using the attic as a site of reflection, the film navigates the relationship...

The film maps the life and work of the historian Ján Mlynárik (1933 - 2012), which took place very close to the controversial events in...

The Pittsburgh History Series is an ongoing series of hour-long documentaries that highlight various parts of our city's history. Since 1988, these...

Discusses the situation of the Palestinians in East Jerusalem whose homes have been destroyed by the 1967 war and Israeli urban renewal and...

Ludwig van Beethoven, absorbed in his world, composes in the forest under the snowstorm. In the solitude of this place, his temple, he feels happy,...

The absolute art of a Sales Pitch in a perfect example (made for a History project).

For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historical significance.

Tanjung Gusta Prison is the largest prison in North Sumatra. The North Sumatran region has the highest crime rate in Indonesia. In 2013, Tanjung...

A man is hired to compile the definitive history of human existence before the planet is blown up by aliens.

Told through a single window-frame in Lebanon, the history of two generations unfold. Family dynamics take place, in a means all too familiar to make...

In 1899, a photographer at American Mutoscope & Biograph mounted his camera on the front of a trolley traveling over the Brooklyn Bridge. The three...

In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over ferries that were abandoned by ship-owners. Young...

At the beginning of the 20th century, a new direction in music appeared in America. Although the word "jazz" came into use only in 1913, this music,...

This essay-film is a historical crash-course which spans the millennia from the stone age to the conquest of space in the 1960s.

Get ready for an AI-generated journey through the space of scales.

The Opium Wars, a 19th-century armed conflict between the Qing Dynasty and the British Empire, is narrated by a history professor who has a hypnotic...