Historical Documentary Movies

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

The history of skiing is an amazing journey through small and big events starring strong and avant-garde people who were not afraid to break with the...

Documentary film commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Mexican team.

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those...

Romantic art was a response to the social upheavals of the 19th century, as shown by works by its emblematic painters Friedrich, Venetsianov and...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through...

It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German...

Race tracks are places of longing. But only the Nürburgring in the Eifel is truly spectacular and idyllic at the same time. Loved by fans,...

Jonestown: Paradise Lost is a documentary on the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple, and Jim Jones. From eyewitness and survivor accounts,...

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.

Words of Captain Scott uses readings of the diaries and letters of Captain Scott, his companions, and those of his Norwegian rival Roald Amundsen -...

This series incorporates the latest animated 3D films to explore recent discoveries about human history, especially in Asia.

In December 1994, an archaeological marvel hidden deep inside France's Gorges de l'Ardèche was revealed to the modern world for the very first...

A groundbreaking documentary created by the community of Watts, California — including rival gang members, police officers, victims of...

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the history ofYellow Springs, Ohio over hundreds of years, as narrated by its...

During the Nuremberg Trials, the victors of the Second World War judge those responsible for the Third Reich.

Using exclusively archival footage, Erwin Leiser traces the rise and collapse of the Third Reich, from Adolf Hitler’s early years to the...