Historical Documentary Movies

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by...

West Germany underwent a period of rapid and extraordinary growth after the Second World War with rising wages and living standards. This economic...

The story of Buffalo Bill, born William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), a self-made man who went from working as a bison hunter to becoming an...

Documentary covering the current state of both the theoretical and practical development of the various scientific basic principles that served, as...

On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated filmmakers in Quebec and Canada, a leak leaked to...

The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely...

At around 3,500 years old, the Ebers Papyrus is the oldest completely preserved medical manual in the world. Recipes were written down here on 18.6...

Today London, tomorrow Paris, the day after New York – the life of the "jetsetter." Long before the climate crisis and flight shame, flying was...

They come from all walks of life and have lived for almost a century. They have lived through the upheavals of history. They are funny, moving and...

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

Since the invention of the automobile, women have distinguished themselves by their daring: the history of women in motor sport.

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid during the 1960s.

An exploration of Cologne Cathedral, an emblematic monument and world heritage site. The towering place of worship took over 600 years to complete....