Movies: Historical

Over the period of a year a camera crew filmed and interviewed people who visit the world famous Brick Lane Beigel Bake....

Factory (Super)Women explores the narratives of factory women who paved the way towards Singapore's economic success. Inspired by his mother and grandmother's experiences as factory workers, producer and researcher Pang Wei Han seeks to record the or...

A celebration of love and marriage between two women....

A contrast between two kinds of attitudes to gay liberation in Adelaide....

A village in Cambodia. Bopha raises her son Sokhem alone. One night, guided by a strange voice, he sets off in pursuit of a magic mango. Bopha follows him and reaches the border between the world of the living and the dead. Memories of war and oppres...

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A young Chinese woman grapples with the guilt of using the identity of a deceased girl to immigrate to the United States via Angel Island in 1926....

This documentary film is the continuation of “Digging Out the Truth” and it shows the mourning of the families of those who were, until recently, missing. During this second investigation the team discovered more graves close to the Moroccan wall and...

A film about how people lived and worked in the Swedish town Ulricehamn in the late 1950s....

Despite being forcibly converted to Christianity in 1497 many of the Jews of Portugal continued to practice Judaism in secret. Today, residents of the village of Belmonte practice an amalgam of Christian and Jewish rituals....

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In this short film, poet and holocaust survivor John Guzlowski bears witness to his parents’ survival of Nazi slave labor camps. More than a personal remembrance, the poem carries his mother’s plea — “tell them we weren’t the only ones” — a call to a...