Movies: Historical

  • 1999
    Lighthouses of Maine: A Journey Through Time

    Lighthouses of Maine: A Journey Through Time (1999)

    Lighthouses of Maine: A Journey Through Time

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    Lighthouses of Maine: A Journey Through Time
  • 2022
    O Presidente Improvável

    O Presidente Improvável (2022)

    O Presidente Improvável

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    O Presidente Improvável
  • 2014
    PARDONS OF INNOCENCE: THE WILMINGTON TEN

    PARDONS OF INNOCENCE: THE WILMINGTON TEN (2014)

    PARDONS OF INNOCENCE: THE WILMINGTON TEN

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    This documentary recounts the turbulent history surrounding the troubled desegregation of New Hanover County Public School System in North Carolina during the late 1960s through 1971, and the violence that led up to the false prosecution and convicti...

    PARDONS OF INNOCENCE: THE WILMINGTON TEN
  • 2021
    And So Farewell

    And So Farewell (2021)

    And So Farewell

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    An immigrant, working-class family lives through the horrors of the 20th century and raises a son who honors them. This memoir film is told entirely with image, music, and sound by filmmaker and sound designer Hamilton Sterling, guitarist and compose...

    And So Farewell
  • 2007
    Good Soil

    Good Soil (2007)

    Good Soil

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    Ships from Europe brought Christianity to the shores of Japan in 1549. For decades the seeds of faith grew under the watchful gaze of the Shogun, but the fear of foreign influence eventually gave rise to persecution. By 1624, Japanese Christians enjo...

    Good Soil
  • 1973
    Septembre Chilien

    Septembre Chilien (1973)

    Septembre Chilien

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    Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine group, along with Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, captured one of the most powerful portraits of the early days of Dictatorship. Profou...

    Septembre Chilien
  • 2011
    The Word in the Woods (La Palabra en el Bosque)

    The Word in the Woods (La Palabra en el Bosque) (2011)

    The Word in the Woods (La Palabra en el Bosque)

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    During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and building communities based on solidarity. By the late 1970s, thousands of peasants in northern Morazan...

    The Word in the Woods (La Palabra en el Bosque)
  • 2007
    Invisible City

    Invisible City (2007)

    Invisible City

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    Chronicling the ways people attempt to leave a mark before they and their histories disappear. Invisible City director Tan Pin Pin interviews people – photographers, journalists and archaeologists – who are propelled by curiosity to find a City for t...

    Invisible City
  • 2019
    Factory (Super)Women

    Factory (Super)Women (2019)

    Factory (Super)Women

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    Factory (Super)Women explores the narratives of factory women who paved the way towards Singapore's economic success. Inspired by his mother and grandmother's experiences as factory workers, producer and researcher Pang Wei Han seeks to record the or...

    Factory (Super)Women
  • 1974
    With the Blood of Others

    With the Blood of Others (1974)

    With the Blood of Others

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    A famous documentary about the Peugeot factory in Sochaux in the 1970s. In this region, everything is owned by Peugeot: homes, stores, schools and leisure - there is no escaping it. The production line dictates the rhythm of everyday life: a horrible...

    With the Blood of Others
  • 2014
    The House That Eye Live In

    The House That Eye Live In (2014)

    The House That Eye Live In

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    Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film reveals, his work is suffused with the trauma of migration, and the struggle to recognise himself as ...

    The House That Eye Live In
  • 1997
    Beyond

    Beyond (1997)

    Beyond

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    Beyond is a mysterious virtual world. In a playful spirit of philosophical inquiry, it explores the paradoxes of technology, desire and the paranormal posed since the birth of mechanical reproduction. One might call it an investigation of the "dream ...

    Beyond
  • 1969
    The Passage

    The Passage (1969)

    The Passage

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    In September 1794, an English galleon sent to find the Northwest Passage sank into the Pacific. Only its boatswain made it to shore....

    The Passage
  • 2022
    Att bäras av snö

    Att bäras av snö (2022)

    Att bäras av snö

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    Att bäras av snö
  • 1928
    Snow in Curitiba

    Snow in Curitiba (1928)

    Snow in Curitiba

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    In 1928, the city of Curitiba went through a rare snowstorm. To this day, it is the harshest snowstorm to ever take place in the city. Everything was recorded by Alberto Botelho in this short documentary....

    Snow in Curitiba
  • 1882
    The 1882 Transit of Venus

    The 1882 Transit of Venus (1882)

    The 1882 Transit of Venus

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    Telescopic chronophotography of the 1882 transit of Venus as observed from Lick Observatory....

    The 1882 Transit of Venus
  • 2025
    Attic Archaeology

    Attic Archaeology (2025)

    Attic Archaeology

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    After accidentally blowing a hole in his ceiling, an early 20th-century scientist discovers the ruins of an ancient civilization in his loft....

    Attic Archaeology
  • 2024
    Maverick from the Edge

    Maverick from the Edge (2024)

    Maverick from the Edge

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    Joža Čop, an illiterate man of the people, earned great respect from his fellow compatriots. He once famously said: "I’ve never climbed for fame and newspapers, so that people could wipe their asses with me." The film is also a story of the cradle of...

    Maverick from the Edge
  • 2022
    A Ming Dynasty-Style Wedding

    A Ming Dynasty-Style Wedding (2022)

    A Ming Dynasty-Style Wedding

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    A celebration of love and marriage between two women....

    A Ming Dynasty-Style Wedding
  • 1994
    Saffron Threads

    Saffron Threads (1994)

    Saffron Threads

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    Two Catalonian women are travelling through Cornwall in 1611, in the company of an Englishman and find themselves forced by bad weather to take shelter in a small farmhouse. The evening promises to be a difficult one due to the lack of any common la...

    Saffron Threads