Keyword Historical Documentary
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2024
Apollo 13: Survival
Apollo 13: Survival7.20 2024 HD
Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.
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2024
Einstein and the Bomb
Einstein and the Bomb6.00 2024 HD
What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.
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2024
Secrets of the Neanderthals
Secrets of the Neanderthals7.00 2024 HD
This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record tells us about their lives and disappearance.
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2017
I Am Not Your Negro
I Am Not Your Negro7.72 2017 HD
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...
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2023
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid
Unknown: The Lost Pyramid7.40 2023 HD
Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.
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2003
The Fog of War
The Fog of War7.70 2003 HD
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from...
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2012
The Gatekeepers
The Gatekeepers6.94 2012 HD
In an unprecedented and candid series of interviews, six former heads of the Shin Bet — Israel's intelligence and security agency — speak...
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1977
Hitler: A Career
Hitler: A Career7.30 1977 HD
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of...
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1985
Shoah
Shoah8.29 1985 HD
Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single...
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2024
Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences
Tsunami - The flood of 2004 and the consequences8.20 2024 HD
It was one of the greatest natural disasters of all time. On the morning of Boxing Day 2004, a massive tsunami hit the coast of the Indian Ocean....
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2022
The True Story of Pirates
The True Story of Pirates7.81 2022 HD
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of...
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2021
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass7.20 2021 HD
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...
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2023
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)7.50 2023 HD
In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and...
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2024
La belle histoire de Noël
La belle histoire de Noël1 2024 HD
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2024
Christspiracy
Christspiracy9.00 2024 HD
The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit from their exploitation, as informed by world...
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2019
Storm Front in Mayo
Storm Front in Mayo7.50 2019 HD
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen...
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2024
A Month With the Girls
A Month With the Girls9.00 2024 HD
The French female pioneer of immersion journalism, Maryse Choisy, who infiltrated in 1928 the prostitution underworld of Paris. Posing as a...
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2019
The Phoney War
The Phoney War8.00 2019 HD
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when...
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2021
Venus: Death of a Planet
Venus: Death of a Planet7.30 2021 HD
Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Earth. Today, Earth's twin is a planet knocked...
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2022
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire
De Charles de Gaulle à Emmanuel Macron, les gardiens de l'empire7.00 2022 HD
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2003
Hitler: The Rise of Evil
Hitler: The Rise of Evil7.10 2003 HD
This biopic profiles history's most spectacular madman, tracing his journey from humble roots to complete mastery of Germany.
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1990
The Civil War
The Civil War8.14 1990 HD
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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2017
The Real War of Thrones
The Real War of Thrones7.70 2017 HD
In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent.
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2020
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story6.60 2020 HD
Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States....
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2022
Trainwreck: Woodstock '99
Trainwreck: Woodstock '997.20 2022 HD
Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?
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2022
Ancient Apocalypse
Ancient Apocalypse6.45 2022 HD
Journalist Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age.
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2024
Tsunami: Race Against Time
Tsunami: Race Against Time7.80 2024 HD
The definitive story of the deadly 2004 tsunami as it travels from country to country, with unseen archive video and untold stories of survival.
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2023
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich10.00 2023 HD
Examining the life and times of Adolf Hitler and following the full arc of his ascent, tyrannical reign, criminality and undoing.
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2022
Le Siècle des icônes
Le Siècle des icônes7.00 2022 HD
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2021
The Titans That Built America
The Titans That Built America7.80 2021 HD
Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William...
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2023
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius
Shakespeare: Rise of a Genius5.30 2023 HD
Love, conflict, family - nobody's done it better. Acting legends reflect on the greatest writer who ever lived – and the dangerous, exciting...
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2019
Chasing the Moon
Chasing the Moon8.40 2019 HD
An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the...
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2023
Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth
Capitalism in America: The Cult of Wealth8.10 2023 HD
From the Gilded Age to the present day, the history of modern United States of America has been one of wealth and power concentrated into the hands...
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2021
JFK: Destiny Betrayed
JFK: Destiny Betrayed7.60 2021 HD
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...
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2019
History Uncovered
History Uncovered7.20 2019 HD
Myths die hard, and the history of the 20th century is no exception to this rule. Even today, we hold popular beliefs that we take for Evangelical...
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2023
1942, un monde en guerre
1942, un monde en guerre8.30 2023 HD
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2023
The Rise and Fall of the Maya
The Rise and Fall of the Maya9.00 2023 HD
Despite decades of research, many mysteries remain about the ancient Maya. Now, archaeologists are unearthing new clues that transform long held...
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2024
Pirates: Behind the Legends
Pirates: Behind the Legends6.50 2024 HD
From legendary John Ward, immortalized in fiction as Jack Sparrow, and English explorer Francis Drake; branded Pirates by their enemies but heroes by...
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2019
Versailles, les défis du roi Soleil
Versailles, les défis du roi Soleil8.00 2019 HD
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2020
The Great Acceleration
The Great Acceleration7.00 2020 HD
This remarkable science-history series investigates the blistering pace of human endeavour in space exploration, computing, energy, resources, Earth...