History Movies

Set in 1953, the audience follows the story around the mysterious death of the USSR leader, Joseph Stalin.

1914-1923 marked the 2nd phase of the Genocide of the Greeks of the Black Sea by the Young Turks. Agapi, her family, and the whole village’s...

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

Fabiana, Carlo, Claudio and Vincenzo… I met them in 1982 in Mercatale, their village in Tuscany, near Florence. They were aged between 25 and...

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...

In a place in northern Chile where oral tradition, myths and history are mixed in a single mysterious universe, four stories take place surrounded by...

An epic 3+ hour chronology of scenes from over 200 films and television shows shot in Massachusetts from the silent era to today. Highlighting...

A German physician worked tirelessly to bring back hope and pleasure to a country that was uncertain of its future.

This essay-film is a historical crash-course which spans the millennia from the stone age to the conquest of space in the 1960s.

Three generations of Hungarian women talk about their lives.

The documentary explores Gabriel Garcia Marquez influence on everyday life in Barranquilla, taking into account the impact of his time in the city on...

A Crew of Mexican filmmakers decide to cross the world to go in search of a nomad who would guide them in the sea of sand, to find the cave of the...

A documentary that tells the tale that the victors still do not want you to know. Learn the terrible truth about the rape, torture, slavery, and mass...

Produced by Japan’s public broadcaster NHK alongside *Godzilla: Final Wars*, this feature-length 2004 documentary commemorates Godzilla’s...

It describes the way of life of the Sahara people in the Western Sahara Desert, in particular it tells the story of a child bitten by a snake.

Special care has been taken by International Historic Films to assemble this monumental documentary, which tells the story of what is left for a...