History Movies

Having been established in their magnificent abbey at Oka, Québec, for over 125 years, the Trappist monks now prepare to leave.

This short film reveals the inspiration, motivation and political challenges at San Francisco City Hall during the frantic days leading up to the...

In March 1792 the Swedish King Gustav III is murdered at a masked ball. Five young people are involved in the murder story, including Tintomara, a 17...

The theatre as a courtroom, the courtroom as a theatre. Alejo Moguillansky’s film draws loosely on Raúl Quirós Molina’s El...

The Gothic prince Ranimiro and his daughter Amaya have been taken prisoner by the Basques. He will be tried by the Council of Elders, while the...

A short documentary on Brother Paul McMullen, and his life as a Franciscan Brother in Loretto, PA.

Commandant Patrick Hughes was one of the officers in command in the Louth and Meath area during the 1916 rising. He and his other commanders lead...

In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake. He takes with him a famous actor, Josef Kainz, to act out the scenes from a story which...

In the age of multiplexes, a small Brazilian movie theater strives to survive with an alternative programming in the city of Maceió.

The Incas appear out of nowhere and within a few decades their empire develops into the largest empire in the world at that time. Until today the...

This documentary takes the viewer on a journey along Halsted Street, from the southern tip of Illinois, north through various Chicago neighborhoods,...

In December 2004, 120 years after it was built by the Spanish, Fort Villa Cisneros, a unifying symbol of tradition and modernity in the history of...

“Wings of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story,” follows one 93-year-old woman’s journey from the Black Hills of South Dakota where she...

Jan and Herb Conn were the original American dirtbag couple, pioneering rock climbers and cave explorers who rejected a conventional lifestyle in...

In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundreds of the Navy's first Black Sailors perished,...