History

Chronicles Narendra Modi’s life and events leading up to his swearing-in ceremony as the Prime Minister of India in 2014.

One of the greatest and bravest incident from the life of The Great Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj where he defeated Afzalkhan with his ...

Divided into three parts — The Awakening, The Struggle, and Freedom — this is a biographical film on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime ...

A look a the life of 19th century Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma.

The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the ...

Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian Morrow, ...

During the Indus valley civilization, an Indigo farmer strives for the justice and protection of the city of Mohenjo-Daro and its civilians from ...

During 18th century India, the Marathas emerged as the most powerful empire in the nation until the Afghan King Ahmad Shah Abdali plans to take ...

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of ...

Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. Years later, the two have matured, but have ...

At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains ...

When Mari Gilbert’s daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan ...

The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of ...

The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.

Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ...

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husband Ike.

A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era ...

The grand opening dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Documentary film on events that happened on August 28th in African-American history, shown at the Smithsonian African-American History Museum.

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and ...

On the eve of 1987’s Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died ...

The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.

The true story of underdog boxer, Chuck Wepner, who gets a shot to fight the champ, Muhammed Ali.

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the ...

The story of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911, and the first person to reach ...

David Grubin’s probing and perceptive biography reassesses the remarkable and tragic life of Bobby Kennedy, whose early life was spent in ...

A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America’s great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The ...

Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing ...