Movies: Historical documentary

  • 2021
    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

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    Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963....

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
  • 2010
    Pétain, such a popular hero

    Pétain, such a popular hero (2010)

    Pétain, such a popular hero

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    On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the history of France, written by a man whom many then considered a hero: the winner of Verdun....

    Pétain, such a popular hero
  • 2019
    1940: Taking over French Cinema

    1940: Taking over French Cinema (2019)

    1940: Taking over French Cinema

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    Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the b...

    1940: Taking over French Cinema
  • 2020
    Easter Island: Sculptors of the Pacific

    Easter Island: Sculptors of the Pacific (2020)

    Easter Island: Sculptors of the Pacific

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    Easter Island: Sculptors of the Pacific
  • 2016
    The Olympic Dream: 1936 Nazi Games

    The Olympic Dream: 1936 Nazi Games (2016)

    The Olympic Dream: 1936 Nazi Games

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    Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through archive photos and reconstructions, we get a closer look into the historical propaganda show....

    The Olympic Dream: 1936 Nazi Games
  • 2024
    Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

    Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 (2024)

    Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

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    Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT—accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists. Stories...

    Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
  • 2024
    D-Day: 80th Anniversary

    D-Day: 80th Anniversary (2024)

    D-Day: 80th Anniversary

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    On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces executed Operation Overlord, the largest seaborne invasion in history, storming the beaches of Normandy. This pivotal event, known as D-Day, liberated France and Western Europe. A new documentary features interviews...

    D-Day: 80th Anniversary
  • 2005
    Ils voulaient tuer de Gaulle

    Ils voulaient tuer de Gaulle (2005)

    Ils voulaient tuer de Gaulle

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    Based on the model of documentary fiction (alternating period films, interviews and re-enactments with actors), the film begins on September 8, 1961 with the failure of the Pont-sur-Seine attack on a road convoy carrying Charles de Gaulle, then Presi...

    Ils voulaient tuer de Gaulle
  • 2006
    Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes

    Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes (2006)

    Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes

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

    Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing their Crimes
  • 2020
    Prehistoric Worlds

    Prehistoric Worlds (2020)

    Prehistoric Worlds

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    Five times, Earth has faced apocalyptic events that swept nearly all life from the face of the planet. What did these prehistoric creatures look like? What catastrophes caused their disappearance? And how did our distant ancestors survive and give ri...

    Prehistoric Worlds
  • 2022
    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates (2022)

    The True Story of Pirates

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    Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of international scholars paint a new portrait of the world of piracy in the Indian Ocean....

    The True Story of Pirates
  • 2019
    Storm Front in Mayo

    Storm Front in Mayo (2019)

    Storm Front in Mayo

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    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 works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County May...

    Storm Front in Mayo
  • 2024
    London Recruits

    London Recruits (2024)

    London Recruits

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

    London Recruits
  • 2021
    The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy

    The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy (2021)

    The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy

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    In April 1918, a disease of unknown origin swept across the five continents. In 18 months, millions of lives that had not been taken by the war were swept away by a virus that would cause the worst pandemic in history: the Spanish flu....

    The Spanish Flu: The Invisible Enemy
  • 2024
    Bad Faith

    Bad Faith (2024)

    Bad Faith

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    On January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed an attack on the U.S. Capitol without precedent in our history. Armed militiamen and QAnon followers made headlines, but among them were a sea of crosses and Christian flags, rosaries and "Jesus Saves" signs. W...

    Bad Faith
  • 2023
    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023)

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

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    In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one...

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
  • 2016
    The Body of Emmett Till

    The Body of Emmett Till (2016)

    The Body of Emmett Till

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    Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. This short documentary was commissioned by "Time" magazine for their series "100 Photos" about the mo...

    The Body of Emmett Till
  • 2025
    The Helsinki Effect

    The Helsinki Effect (2025)

    The Helsinki Effect

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    The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but sure collapse of communist authoritarian rule in Eastern Europe. The Helsinki Effect offers new perspectives on the events of the Cold War. The film t...

    The Helsinki Effect
  • 2010
    The Revelation of the Pyramids

    The Revelation of the Pyramids (2010)

    The Revelation of the Pyramids

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    For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of archaeological mysteries: a message of paramount importance for humanity. From China to Peru, from Eg...

    The Revelation of the Pyramids
  • 2019
    Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace

    Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace (2019)

    Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace

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    Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be t...

    Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace