Fictionalized History Movies

Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas J...

Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben...

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to h...

An immigrant Indian mother fights the Norwegian foster care system and legal machinery to win back custody of her children.

Since its release in 1968, Planet of the Apes, the masterful film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring Charlton Heston, and its subsequent s...

In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to take a look back at his films. It compares the ac...

The film follows the life of social reformer and writer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule.

Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulatio...

Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa...

A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).

In post Civil War West Virginia, 9 year old Jamie's life is forever changed when he unexpectedly meets his Uncle Vernon.

How does the most famous man in the world go missing overnight and is never heard from again for three years? That's what our host Leo is trying to fi...

Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby...

Following the victory at Sinhagad in 1670, the Moghuls began to notice the threat from the Marathas. The unique guerrilla tactics developed by Shivaji...

A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna Karina...

A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a long-lasting...

It depicts the final moments of the extermination of the Venezuelan Timotes indigenous tribes living in the mountains of Mérida in the 17th century.