Movies

This documentary-style short follows two impoverished teens performing on the streets of London in the days leading up to the London Blitz of 1940.

A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.

Peter Gabriel is among the rockstars performing the music of Lennon and McCartney against a montage of World War II newsreel footage.

Michael Cockerell tells the story of how prime ministers have coped with life after Number Ten, after Tony Blair became the youngest member of the...

In 1945, Great Britain and the United States organized a bombing raid that devastated the ancient city of Dresden. This short documentary returns...

Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.

Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the...

A biography of Winston Churchill, shown through re-creations and actual film footage and told by Orson Welles.

Before his journey into exile Jacobo Arbenz, the overthrown President of Guatemala, is presented to photographers stripped down to his underwear: an...

Minister John Hodder becomes rector of a prestigious church in the Midwestern city of Bremerton but finds dissension and malfeasance among his...

Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the...

Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to the heart and, deeper down, in the guts. Examining...

Michael Cockerell presents this documentary on the health problems of Britain's Prime Ministers.

Churchill, a name typically associated with braveness and altruism. Recently found evidence from Soviet and British sources however brings up...

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

Coverage of the Siege of Sidney Street, 3 January 1911, including film of Winston Churchill witnessing the events.

A special that takes a look inside the White House.