Historical Movies

Documentary on career criminal Jack Black during an episode of burglary in Victoria BC. Locations around Victoria and Vancouver are explored in...

In the 1970's, the Native Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance lead a burgeoning sovereignty movement with two simultaneous, distinct, efforts, the...

The Great Kantō Earthquake is said to be the worst natural disaster in the history of Japan. When disaster struck on September 1st, 1923, a...

Explores the historical and contemporary significance of salt, detailing its extraction from the earth and oceans, its role in food preservation,...

In 1915, four young Crowborough boys prepare to be deployed to the front lines into the blind journey ahead.

In this short film, poet and holocaust survivor John Guzlowski bears witness to his parents’ survival of Nazi slave labor camps. More than a...

Paul Crifo designed over 140 movie posters between 1950 and 1980 and is one of the most prolific and talented designers of the genre. Crifo was...

Hilversum in Black and White portrays Hilversum in the period 1924-1974. Using amateur footage and excerpts from Polygoon newsreels from that period,...

In 1912, a mysterious patient is brought at the asylum. Little the doctor knew, that his would be the only secrets revealed.

A street sweeper, The messenger of the red-blooded letter to the soldier found out it was abused. Responsible for the extermination of neutralists...

This documentary film is the continuation of “Digging Out the Truth” and it shows the mourning of the families of those who were, until...

A celebration of love and marriage between two women.

When a black teenager is shot and killed attending a bonfire party in Jay, Florida, the town's racist past becomes its present and leads to the...

A contrast between two kinds of attitudes to gay liberation in Adelaide.

This is a short documentary about the old City of Buenos Aires and the new one. It’s an observational piece where the old photos of the same...

This is the true story how one person made a difference in the lives of over 125 people by rescuing them from Nazi Germany. In 1903 Herman Stern...