Showing 1 - 10 of 36 titles with a criteria of Subject is European History

As a Young Girl of Thirteen...

Holocaust survivor Simone Lagrange vividly recounts her experiences in Auschwitz, and the role she played in bringing Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to justice.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 88 minutes

Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa

The story of the first international conference on Africa, which established its division amongst the European powers, and created Congo as a personal possession of the Belgian king.

Icarus Films | 2010 | 84 minutes

Beyond Zero: 1914-1918

Auteur filmmaker Bill Morrison brings to life a new cinematic record of World War I.

Icarus Films | 2014 | 40 minutes

Bones of Contention

The first nonfiction feature film to explore the theme of historical memory in Spain, focusing on the repression of lesbians and gays under Franquismo.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 75 minutes

Bruly Bouabré's Alphabet

In the 1950's, Ivory Coast artist Bruly Bouabré created hundreds of pictograms based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété.

Icarus Films | 2005 | 17 minutes

Churchill's Island

Winner of the first Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject, presents the strategy of the Battle of Britain, showing with penetrating clarity the relationships between the various forces made up the island's defenses.

Natl Film Board of Canada | 1941 | 22 minutes

Death Squadrons

The previously untold story of how the French military trained Latin American death squads in the 60s and 70s (and even U.S. Special Forces in the early days of our Vietnam War).

Icarus Films | 2004 | 60 minutes

Disco and Atomic War

The Soviet regime in Estonia went head to head with J.R. Ewing and the heroes of Western television...and lost.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 80 minutes

Double Life, a Short History of Sex in the USSR

Revisits 70 years of communist power in the Eastern Bloc through the prism of sexuality.

Icarus Films | 2017 | 52 minutes

The Enemy Within

The story of Britain's longest strike, the 1984-85 miners' strike, when Margaret Thatcher declared war on the unions, as told by those who lived through it.

Bullfrog Films | 2015 | 112 minutes