Movies: American history
- 2024
Nickel Boys (2024)
Nickel Boys6.62024HD
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida....
- 2002
Gangs of New York (2002)
Gangs of New York7.32002HD
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be a...
- 1989
Glory (1989)
Glory7.41989HD
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates....
- 2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy6.72021HD
A cheap, powerful drug emerges during a recession, igniting a moral panic fueled by racism. Explore the complex history of crack in the 1980s....
- 1996
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
The People vs. Larry Flynt6.91996HD
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for ...
- 1956
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Friendly Persuasion6.61956HD
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real tro...
- 1990
The Long Walk Home (1990)
The Long Walk Home7.61990HD
Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King....
- 1931
Cimarron (1931)
Cimarron5.51931HD
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes...
- 2024
In Search of Bass Reeves (2024)
In Search of Bass Reeves5.72024HD
By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preeminent lawman of the Old West. He brought upwards of 3,000 outlaws to justice and served in law enforcement for 32 years during Reconstruction after the ...
- 2019
Operation Mondlandung - Die NASA und die Ex-Nazis (2019)
Operation Mondlandung - Die NASA und die Ex-Nazis62019HD
The spectacular moon landing in 1969 was also a success of more than 100 technicians and engineers from Germany, some of whom had already revolutionized weapons technology and built rockets in Hitler's service during World War II. The documentary ana...
- 2022
Denzel Washington: A Model American (2022)
Denzel Washington: A Model American7.82022HD
In 30 years of a deeply committed career and 50 roles, Denzel Washington, double-Oscar winner, placed the figure of the Black man in all its complexity at the heart of the American paradoxes: from Black activist, rebel soldier to gangster torn betwee...
- 2021
Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden (2021)
Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden42021HD
The History Channel marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a new groundbreaking documentary about the biggest manhunt in human history. This documentary draws on interviews and stories told in the Museum's special exhibition of the same name, and fe...
- 1984
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
The Times of Harvey Milk7.31984HD
Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people around the world....
- 2019
The King: Stephen King's America (2019)
The King: Stephen King's America6.72019HD
Ghost nation? Violent home? Traumatised country? What does the horror of one of the most famous writers of our time hide? What does his fictional America expose? To what extent does cinema feed itself off his unique vision and expression of fear? In ...
- 2021
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer (2021)
Rise Again: Tulsa and the Red Summer82021HD
Comes one hundred years from the two-day Tulsa Massacre in 1921 that led to the murder of as many as 300 Black people and left as many as 10,000 homeless and displaced....
- 2000
The Crossing (2000)
The Crossing6.22000HD
A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington's perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton....
- 1939
Old Glory (1939)
Old Glory4.91939HD
Porky Pig balks at learning the Pledge of Allegiance until Uncle Sam appears to him in a dream and gives him a lesson in American history....
- 2022
Black Far West (2022)
Black Far West8.12022HD
Did you know that the first cowboys were black? Using magnificent archives and testimonies from historians, Cécile Denjean restores justice to African-Americans in the story of the conquest of the West....
- 2006
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower (2006)
Desperate Crossing: The Untold Story of the Mayflower8.52006HD
So much more than simply the story of the Thanksgiving meal, the epic saga of the Pilgrims is one of the fundamental narratives of our nation. This ambitious documentary presents the definitive history of the Pilgrims and their journey to and coloniz...
- 2024
Biden's Decision (2024)
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The inside story of Biden’s rise to the presidency, and the personal and political forces that shaped him and led to his dramatic decision to step aside....