History

6.6 Respect

The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.

7.2 I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

“I do not care if we go down in history as barbarians.” These words, spoken in the Council of Ministers of the summer of 1941, started the ethnic cleansing on the Eastern Front. The film attempts to comment on this…

5.3 Patagonia of Dreams

Based on the real story of a French family, during 1878, this film is an adaptation based on the diary written by their daughter Chantal, on their ordeal as the first European colonizers who came to the wild lands of…

6 Apaches: Gang of Paris

1900. From Montmartre to Belleville, Paris is in the hands of ultra-violent gangs that reign terror on the capital: the Apaches. Ready to do anything to avenge the death of her brother, a young woman joins a gang. But the…

7.4 Doll

The rise and fall of the most distinguished Polish-Gypsy poetess Bronislawa Wajs, widely known as Papusza, and her relationship with her discoverer, writer Jerzy Ficowski.

6.9 Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over the next six decades, her sublime voice would transform the tragedies of…

7.2 Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty

It is one of Egypt’s enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten – the radical king, and likely father of King Tut? In a dark and mysterious tomb located in the Valley of the Kings, there is…

6.9 My Father’s Secrets

Brussels, Belgium, 1959. Michel and Charly Kichka, two Jewish brothers, enjoy a happy childhood with their parents and their two sisters. Henri, their discreet and usually silent father, does not speak at all about his past, so they imagine that…

7.4 The Music of Love: Beethoven’s Secret Love

The year is 1817. Minon, a five-year-old girl, leaves her aunt Therese of Brunswick, who has raised her like a mother since her birth, to go and live with her parents, the Count and Countess von Stakelberg. One day, Gabrielle,…

Manson: 40 Years Later

He was the mastermind of the most notorious murders in U.S. history, a crazed guru who terrified the world and plunged the city of Los Angeles into a state of paranoia and panic. This two-hour docudrama from HISTORY takes viewers…