History
2001-06-01
2002-01-01
This animated short tells the story of Seraphim "Joe" Fortes, one of Vancouver's most beloved citizens. Born in the West Indies, Joe Fortes swam in En...
2001-01-01
The lives of Sun Yat-sen and his wife, Soong Ching-ling between 1913 and 1925.
2012-03-19
Munich 1972: The Olympic Games are supposed to show the world a new, different Germany: the spirit of Munich - cosmopolitan, relaxed and free. But the...
An in-depth look at the history of comic book shops and how they and the people that run them continue to make a difference. Through interviews with i...
2018-10-03
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR regim...
1942-10-31
In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.
1984-06-03
Quilombo dos Palmares was a real-life democratic society, created in Brazil in the 17th century. This incredibly elaborate (and surprisingly little-kn...
2022-05-03
Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the d...
1998-05-10
Two fact-based tales about citizens who risked everything, including their lives, to save Holocaust victims.
1913-02-16
This large historical production was staged simultaneously with A. Khanzhonkov's painting "The Accession of the House of Romanov", but it was carried ...
2000-07-01
Russia, January 25, 1725. "Give it all...". The emperor's weakening hand was able to write in his will only these two short incomprehensible words tha...
2013-11-28
A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected pre...
1994-05-29
We are now saying goodbye to the 1960s. The 60's started eventfully on May 27. It ended as eventfully as it began. The '70s inherited escalating viole...
2009-07-11
In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay throu...
1957-10-04
After the battle of Sudoměř the Hussite teaching spreads through the whole country and people start leaving their homes to help build the fortificatio...
2014-09-08
A muggy Saigon, late 1945. Stationed at a military camp in French Indochina, two young men--Robert and André--become close friends as they share the b...
1974-01-17
Comprised of video shot during the Nazi regime, including propaganda, newsreels, broadcasts and even some of Eva Braun's colorized personal home movie...
1934-10-13
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life ...
