History Movies

On the 5th of March 1985, a crowd gathered in a South Yorkshire pit village to watch a sight none of them had seen in a year. The villagers, many of t...

The Scorpion King: The King before Pharaohs. Learn more about the king who likely united ancient Egypt, organized the world’s earliest phonetic writin...

The young Prince Charles (Jaromír Hanzlík),the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fia...

James Holland moves beyond the D-Day beaches to reassess the brutal 77-day Battle for Normandy that followed the invasion. Challenging some of the ma...

Professor Bettany Hughes takes viewers on a journey of discovery as she investigates 10 of the greatest and most intriguing Egyptian mummies - and the...

Jan Smuts is a foremost political figure in South African 20th Century History, and is recognised today by two of the world's leading historians as be...

Working, working, working... Here are the words that make up a contemporary Turkish fairy tale. In fact, this fairy tale is not just the story of one...

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. Bu...

A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his...

The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era to the present day: how their image on the screen...

Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).

Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker's daughter. The girl g...

When a Japanese pilot crash-lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the...

The incredible story of Bill Gaede, an Argentinian engineer, programmer… and Cold War spy.

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopticon of occidental education – theology, philosoph...

Fidel Castro, the former President of Cuba and one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century, passed away in November. He famously claimed...

In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new...

Trojan hero Aeneas battles to save his city from the Greeks, but once Troy falls, he leads the 600 survivors to Italy and founds the city of Rome.

In 1350 BC, Queen Nefertiti together with her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten arrive at Amarna. In the New Kingdom of the 18th Dynasty, Nefertiti and her p...

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléa...