Historical Documentary Movies
- 2024
Einstein and the Bomb
Einstein and the Bomb6.0222024HD
What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.
- 2017
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro7.72017HD
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...
- 2024
Apollo 13: Survival
Apollo 13: Survival7.082024HD
Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.
- 1985
Shoah
Shoah8.31985HD
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...
- 2024
Secrets of the Neanderthals
Secrets of the Neanderthals72024HD
This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.
- 1977
Hitler: A Career
Hitler: A Career7.31977HD
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of...
- 2023
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)7.52023HD
In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and...
- 2003
The Fog of War
The Fog of War7.6842003HD
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from...
- 2012
The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeepers6.9712012HD
In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak...
- 2021
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass7.22021HD
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...
- 2022
The True Story of Pirates
The True Story of Pirates7.72022HD
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of...
- 2012
Titanic's Final Mystery
Titanic's Final Mystery7.62012HD
The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th century. For decades, investigators and amateurs...
- 2023
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid7.42023HD
Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.
- 1982
Genocide
Genocide7.3751982HD
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust...
- 2019
The Death Train
The Death Train82019HD
In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom. At the time, the programmed...
- 2024
Olympics! The French Games
Olympics! The French Games7.72024HD
27 Olympic and Paralympic champions, aged 20 to 100, share their stories in this Mickaël Gamrasni documentary narrated by actress Marion...
- 2023
Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb
Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb8.22023HD
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...
- 2006
Freedom's Fury
Freedom's Fury7.62006HD
A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were...
- 2024
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln
Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln02024HD
An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As told by preeminent Lincoln scholars and never...
- 2010
The Revelation of the Pyramids
The Revelation of the Pyramids6.42010HD
For centuries, the Great Pyramids have fascinated Mankind. Patrice Pooyard's The Revelation Of The Pyramids reveals what lies behind the greatest of...