Historical Movies

After his mother dies, Jiantan has to leave Xi'an to live with his father on the Tibetan steppe, where he meets a golden dog that helps him cope with...

This thorough documentary covers the life of President Theodore Roosevelt, from his birth until his death.

Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962...

In 1931, Germany was awarded the Olympic Games in the hope this would draw them into the international community and world peace would be promoted...

The difficult relationship between a young gay South Asian man and his father, refracted through images of the late film star Sabu of Jungle Book and...

Set against Indonesia’s turbulent post-independence years in the 1960s, the story revolves around the domestic life of a woman whose personal...

Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young...

Jack and Annie are young siblings who find a magic tree house on their way home after chasing a weasel. By using the books available on the tree...

A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.

A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.

In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or...

A story of three couples and their intertwining love stories set in 1940s Taiwan and Shanghai, centered around the 1949 sinking of Taiping.

Estonia, 1872. The uncompromising new owner of Robber's Rise must battle with hard work, his spiteful neighbor and with his own family and beliefs to...

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...

There's a war going on in ancient Kyoto. A war fought in shadows, between the forces of the Shogunate's armed enforcers, the Shinsengumi, and the...

This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the...

The second specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The story...