Historical Documentary Movies
- 2024
Apollo 13: Survival
Apollo 13: Survival7.22024HD
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 Bomb62024HD
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 Neanderthals72024HD
This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.
- 2017
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro7.7212017HD
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...
- 2023
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid7.42023HD
Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.
- 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...
- 2012
The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeepers6.9432012HD
In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak...
- 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...
- 1985
Shoah
Shoah8.2911985HD
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...
- 2024
Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences
Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences8.22024HD
It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean....
- 2022
The True Story of Pirates
The True Story of Pirates7.8082022HD
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of...
- 2021
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass7.22021HD
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...
- 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...
- 2024
La belle histoire de Noël
La belle histoire de Noël02024HD
- 2024
Christspiracy
Christspiracy92024HD
The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit from their exploitation, as informed by world...
- 2019
Storm Front in Mayo
Storm Front in Mayo7.52019HD
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen...
- 2024
A Month With the Girls
A Month With the Girls92024HD
The French female pioneer of immersion journalism, Maryse Choisy, who infiltrated in 1928 the prostitution underworld of Paris. Posing as a...
- 2019
The Phoney War
The Phoney War82019HD
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...
- 2021
Venus: Death of a Planet
Venus: Death of a Planet7.32021HD
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...
- 2022
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire72022HD