History Movies
Are you a big fan of ancient kings and middle ages? here is your best place to dig in.
The Real Spies Among Friends
Documentary telling the real story of the Cambridge Spies – subject of the drama series A Spy Among Friends.
Subhedar
Jay Shivaray In ‘Subhedar’, one will experience the thrilling feat of a mighty warrior who sacrifices his life to build the victory pylon of Swarajya on the summit of the…
Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley explores the lives of six real people who lived, worked and volunteered during the Blitz, highlighting the government’s reliance on ordinary people.
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
The life and work of German political philosopher of Jewish descent Hannah Arendt (1906-75), who caused a stir when she coined a subversive concept, the banality of evil, in her…
Ganz normale Männer – Der “vergessene Holocaust”
The Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial of 1947/1948 is considered the largest murder trial in history against members of four death squads from the security police and SD (the security service of…
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
“Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World”, is the remarkable, behind-the-scenes story of how a little known music festival came together against all odds. Young, scrappy concert promoter John Brower…
Janvaris
It is 1991 in Latvia and nineteen-year-old aspiring cinematographer Jazis’s whole world is thrown into chaos as he is dragged into the people’s peaceful protests against the Soviet Army’s attempted…
Reconstruction of Occupation
Documentary filmmaker Jan Sikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in private film archives. 53 years later, historical memory awakens from a long…
Absent
For over a hundred years, Marculesti was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in Bessarabia (now present-day Moldova). In July 1941, the village was the site of an unimaginable…
Maria Inima Romaniei
The Exit of the Trains
Editing film composed entirely of archival photographs and documents related to the Iasi Pogrom from June 1941. The first part of the film consists of photographs of the victims, accompanied…
Întoarcerea lui Vodă Lăpușneanu
Alexandru Lapusneanu is one of important Moldavian rulers. A Macbeth figure, who obtains his throne in fight, who reeves any possible danger out of his way, a good “hospodar”, husband…
The Ladder
Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the…
The Dead Nation
A documentary-essay which shows Costică Axinte’s stunning collection of pictures depicting a Romanian small town in the thirties and forties. The narration, composed mostly from excerpts taken from the diary…
Iancu Jianu, haiducul
Ida regénye
Beyond America
Under an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her former lover. After their split-up years ago, he had joined…
Burebista
The life of Dacian war-leader Burebista who ruled between 80-44 B.C.and founded a strong Dacian Kingdom despite considerable pressure from the neighboring Celtic warlords and the Greek cities of the…
At Dusk
Lithuania, 1948. War is over, but the country is left in ruins. 19-year-old Untė is a member of the Partisan movement resisting Soviet occupation. They do not fight on equal…
Louis van Beethoven
1779. Eight-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven, called “Louis”, is already known as a musical prodigy. He learns to go his own way – much to the dismay of the people around…
City on the River
A Latvian tragicomedy about a young artist who bears witness to the dramatic political upheavals of the WWII era. As brutal regimes come and go, his country, his village, his…
Ion: Blestemul pământului, blestemul iubirii
Jon, a young peasant love more “the land” than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes that he has betrayed…
Columna
The end of Trajan’s Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.
Between Pain and Amen
A young composer and double bass virtuoso, who returns to Romania after studying in Vienna, is arrested by the political police soon after getting engaged and taken to the Pitesti…
Storm Front in Mayo
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 Flavin, a young girl who…