History Movies

Pisces is an art film which explores ritual, identity, and transformation, drawing from Lovecraftian mythos, Chinese Folk ritual, Five Elemental...

The story of shunning in Amish communities.

Based on a poem and archive images, the military aggression of the US army stationed in the Canal Zone against the Panamanian people who demand to...

How well we know our cup of coffee?

In the late 70s and early 80s, ET phoned home on Atari 2600 and became the video game that New Media magazine later described as having toppled a...

In this feature-length documentary film essay, archival footage weaves together childhood memories from once-opposing sides on the Gorizia border to...

This is a Labour Party film from 1938, featuring footage from around New Zealand pre 1938. This film predates the National Film Unit and is part of...

Simple folk tunes heighten the adventure of this film, as Little Bear and Little Tiger abandon their happy home to search for Panama - "the land of...

Ever since I was a kid I have been interested in the paranormal and now as an adult I can finally discover the truth for myself. I visited the West...

The film documents an excavation in 1953 of a large kofun (burial mound) near Yuuka village (in present day Misaki) in Okayama prefecture. Under the...

Part of BBC Arena's Animal Night, this film chronicles a strange era in history when animals were put on trial in human courts.

A Guatemalan woman, Ana Lucía Cuevas, returns home from exile to face the brutal history of Guatemala's armed conflict. In 1984, her brother...

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...