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History

From colonialism and war to progressive movements around the globe, the past colors nearly everything we care about. These films bring history to life.

US History

Featured Films

Dear Sirs

A personal journey through World War Two 75 years later.

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Fireburn the Documentary

Vigilantes, heroines, or criminals? Find out what really happened during the bloody labor revolt of 1878 on the island of Saint Croix.

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Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

Where America’s first civil rights movement was born

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At Home In Utopia

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My Perestroika

Five former childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionment of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.

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All Films About History

The Long Road Home

The odyssey of a young Guatemalan Maya refugee.

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Means of Grace

A woman's story of domestic life, mental illness, and the 1950's.

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The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

An act of conscience that shocked the world

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My Perestroika

Five former childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionment of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.

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The Optimists

The story of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust

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Seeing Red

Stories of American Communists

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Taken for a Ride

Why does America have the worst public transit in the industrialized world, and the most freeways?

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Union Maids

A vivid history of women organizing in the 1930's

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Writ Writer

How a self-taught Texas prisoner sparked historic prison reform.

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