From Swastika to Jim Crow
2000-01-01Before and during the Second World War, Jewish intellectuals and scholars who escaped Nazi Germany and immigrated to the U.S. faced an uncertain futur...
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The Capote Tapes
2021-09-10A portrait of the brilliant American writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and the New York high society of his time.
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Benedict Arnold
1909-11-16Arnold, reproved by General Washington, decides, with the bitter hatred of a small nature, to betray West Point into the hands of the British, and to ...
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Fanny Elssler
1937-11-04Prince Klemens von Metternich orders Friedrich Gentz, one of his aides, to keep the Duke of Reichstadt---Napoleon Francois Joseph Charles---son of Nap...
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The Aga's Testament
1967-12-21In 1585 the Turks and Vallons are looting the Látrány region.
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Gensan Punch
2022-06-10Nao Tsuyama, a disabled athlete, refuses to let his articifical leg hinder his dream to become a professional boxer. His remarkable journey takes him ...
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The War That Never Ends
1991-03-28The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and o...
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The Rebel, Louise Michel
2010-04-07A fiercely active Communard, Louise Michel is condemned for taking arms against Bismarck. Along with thousands of other revolutionaries, she is deport...
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Adventures of Don Quixote
1903-08-26An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.
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Shahenshah Babar
1944-11-03Following his conquest of India, Emperor Babar faces a crisis of loyalty among his troops and nobles. His most devoted subject, Sardar Sheikh, faces a...
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Die Ketzerbraut
2017-02-15Genoveva’s 16th‐century Munich family is murdered and her home burned. Violated by masked killers, she vows vengeance. She turns to friend Ernst, unaw...
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Banned from the Bible II
2007-04-08Banned from the Bible II continues from the original documentary Banned from the Bible. The documentary introduces several books that were excluded fr...
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Semmelweis
2023-11-30Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while...
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White Mountains
2026-02-19The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political pri...
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The Dakota War: Revenge
2024-07-01After Fort Ridgely's assault, U.S. troops pursue Dakota warriors, which led to their capture, trial, and execution in a tense historical showdown.
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A Park Grows in Brooklyn
2000-07-13"A Park Grows in Brooklyn" is a three-minute historical and educational film produced for the Brooklyn Bridge Park Coalition (now the Brooklyn Bridge ...
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