History

In My Mother's House

On a random Thursday in 2005, Lina Fruzzetti received a startling email that read, “If this is your father, we are cousins.” Attached was a photo of her fath

Total votes: 1178
To Each His Own Mask

Filmmaker and visual artist Tine Guns investigates contemporary protest culture by looking at different carnival rituals and their use of masks.

Total votes: 727
Un Figlio

An aging peasant woman in 1870s Calabria fails to give birth to a child. She remains in solitude until her husband returns, demanding a son.

Total votes: 767
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

The poet, playwright and spy lives in two worlds at a time when politics was religion and vice-versa.

Total votes: 252
If Kazimir Met Maurice

The Suprematist paintings of the Russian Futurist Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935) are poised to burst into motion.

Total votes: 756
The Forgotten War - San Gusme And The Theatre Of Remembrance

In 1944, toward the end of the Second World War, a group of women and children were massacred by German soldiers in a small Tuscan village.

Total votes: 790
Cotton Country

Cotton Country is a short documentary about cotton farming told through the experience of Lee Blackman of Elloree, South Carolina and explores the beauty and

Total votes: 167
Growing up Hmong at the Crossroads

Four children of former Hmong refugees embark on life-altering journeys to construct and perform a sense of place in the community and the world, in globally

Total votes: 1173
Iron Brothers

The story of two brothers and their fight for survival on the Western Frontier.

Total votes: 652
Painted Woman

In the late nineteenth century, a young woman begins to understand herself and her life of abuse through two distinct men who might save her.

Total votes: 919
Carmelita

Calvin and Poppy, two teenagers in love, buy a beat up 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air and grow closer by restoring it together.

Total votes: 428
The Bull Race

For the Maduranese people, bull racing is more than just a competition.

Total votes: 729
The Green Park

Where British Jews went to play and pray- The story of the glamorous Green Park Hotel and the characters that went there.

Total votes: 706
Washington Irving: American Dreams

A 43-documentary on the life of Washington Irving, author of 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle.'

Total votes: 200
Voyage of the Southern Sun

Adventurer of the Year, Michael Smith discovered the delights and perils of true adventure in a solo circumnavigation in his tiny amphibious flying boat, Sou

Total votes: 221
Betting on the Bulbs

When tulips enter a rudimentary dutch trading system, the end result is disaster in this history documentary.

Total votes: 266
Fragmentation

A surreal film inspired by the events of the Japanese internment.

Total votes: 577
Angel Wagenstein: Art is a Weapon

The improbably adventurous life of Bulgarian film artist Angel Wagenstein is one of the great untold stories of world cinema.

Total votes: 1252
The Expediter

Would you like to find out what New York City was like in the 1970’s? Find out in The Expediter – a feature film that takes place in New York City.

Total votes: 145
Ruth's

Margo and Dan take their college students kids, Jordan and Lizzy to visit their grandmother, Ruth, at Aurora, Marion County, Oregon for Passover.

Total votes: 198
Song Of Extinction

For millennia, art has concerned itself with the natural world.

Total votes: 128
Reindeer in my Saami Heart

Inghilda Tapio is one of the last generation of Saami born into a nomadic reindeer herding family in the Arctic Circle, and has spent a lifetime writing and

Total votes: 525
The Secret Mummies of Lisbon

At the request of the Catholic Church in Lisbon, members of the Royal Archeology and Historical Association (RAHA) of Portugal excavate 78 mummies in a crypt

Total votes: 110
Plague Doctor

A Plague Doctor haunted by his superstitions and grief attempts to heal a plagued woman who resembles his dead daughter.

Total votes: 564
Author unknown

A documentary that explores the history of Icelandic women in music from the viking ages until today.

Total votes: 490
MARIA - Don't Forget I Come from The Tropics

The film explores the relationship between Maria Martins’ life and art (1894-1973), now recognized as one of the greatest Brazilian sculptors, and her etchin

Total votes: 481
CENTRALIA, Pennsylvania's Lost Town

An underground mine fire and the government ineptitude slowly dismantles a community in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.

Total votes: 286
No coming back

Syrian refugees through Greece, brought up the memory of the refugee crisis Hellenism has lived after the Asian Minor Catastrophy of 1922, where thousands of

Total votes: 1386
Ready-mades with Interest

When the filmmaker found a 1967 concert ticket in Vienna, this set her on a musico-historical journey in Austria that eventually led her back home to Scotlan

Total votes: 594
WARD OF THE FERAL HORSES

WARD OF THE FERAL HORSES unfolds a copywriter's schizophrenic upheaval.

Total votes: 1239
Nana

The story of how my Hungarian grandmother survived as a Jewish prisoner during the Holocaust.

Total votes: 591
Major Pauline

During the Civil War, actress Pauline Cushman, is recruited as a spy for the North.

Total votes: 271
Sardari's Enigma..

Mystery of Abdol Hossein Sardari - an Iranian Consul in Paris who risked his life to save many Iranian and non-Iranian Jews from the German racial policy dur

Total votes: 610
Vagrich and the Black Square

The film is a collage, an essay and a documentary in tribute to 'artist of word' Vagrich Bakhchanyan.

Total votes: 355
American Snake Pit

Based on a true story of a young doctor attempting to save a group home with the most troubled patients from Willowbrook, the worst asylum in American histor

Total votes: 217
ME, MY FATHER AND THE CARIOCAS - 70 Years of Music in Brazil

Famous composer Tom Jobim said that “all music is a reflection of its time”, the documentary show the culture of this extremely musical nation was shaped by

Total votes: 336
Longshot: The Brian Upson Story

In 1982, the West Vancouver Highlanders were in the provincial championship game against a cross town rival.

Total votes: 565
Healing Places - Water & Welles

We are discovering secret places in the southwest of Germany. Places that have been special for thousands of years.

Total votes: 504
KEN DEWEY - This Is A Test

This is the untold story of a visionary artist who elegantly raged against the machine.

Total votes: 636
Wasati

Wasati is based on true events that happened during a play in Riyadh 10 years ago.

Total votes: 693
November, an Invention of the Year 2015

A film about Paris attacks, and about time,...

Total votes: 569
After Spring, the Tamaki Family...

This is a heartwarming home movie spanning 80 years about how a family together wades through and eventually revives in the tide of the vicissitudes in East

Total votes: 273
Symphony of Painting of Vadym Kucher-Kutsan

This film is about the art work of the great painter from Odessa city - Vadym Kucher-Kutsan, whose genius of paintings has been recognized worldwide.

Total votes: 637
The Foundation That Will Never Break

The best way to view the Constitution is...a small group of men gathered as architects drawing out the structure of the American government.'

Total votes: 144
Lucia

A young courageous girl named Lucia decides to take on an ancient and dangerous man-vs-beast tradition.

Total votes: 506
A Symphony of War: Part I

The avant-garde documentary presents the major events of the Second World War, through a ‘mashup’ of historical-footage and silent-era cinema.

Total votes: 142
IN EXILE: A FAMILY FILM

The wrongly-termed Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) left more than a million dead and over 500 thousand refugees, of which some 20 thousand are taken in by Mexi

Total votes: 583
The Scientist of Sound

Thursday 27th of October 2016 – Teatro Espace, Turin (IT)Mulatu Astatke is a musician, composer, arranger and Ethiopia’s cultural ambassador.He’s known as th

Total votes: 672

Pages

Register to get all features