Subgenre Sampler
History: 398 Films to Buy & Rent
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
- Although intended to be viewed in 3–D, this extraordinary trip inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France – home to the oldest known…
- Churches: How To Read Them (TV Series) (2010)
- Dir. Jonathan Mayo
- Six–part series presented by historian and author Richard Taylor, exploring ideas about God, salvation, life and death through visits to some…
- Disappearing London - Suggs and the City (2010)
- Madness front–man Graham McPherson presents this roving history of London’s unique character and charm via the city’s idiosyncratic…
- Engineering An Empire (TV Series) (2010)
- Dir. Ted Poole
Feat. Peter Weller
- The complete series hosted by Peter Weller (Robocop) examines history's greatest societies by reanimating the architectural and engineering feats…
- Great Epochs of European Art, The (2010)
- A detailed, German–produced art history series illustrated by selected masterpieces of architecture, sculpture and painting. In addition to…
- Henry The 4th (Henri 4, Henry of Navarre) (2010)
- Dir. Jo Baier
Feat. Julien Boisselier, Joachim Krol
- Henry IV (of France) is the subject of this grand and involving German–produced epic, originally conceived as a mini–series framed by the…
- History of Christianity, A (TV Mini-Series) (2010)
- In this fascinating six–part series Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, one of the world's leading historians and Professor of History of the Church…
- Lope (The Outlaw) (2010)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala
- Splendid biopic of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theare.
- Michael Wood's Story of England (2010)
- Feat. Michael Wood
- Michael Wood (STORY OF INDIA) embarks on an archeological profile of the village of Kibworth in Leicestershire in this fascinating,…
- Nostalgia for the Light (2010)
- Dir. Patricio Guzmán
- Famed documentarian Patricio Guzmán directs this mesmerizing journey into Chile’s recent and faraway past through the annals of astronomy,…