French History Movies
- 2024
Olympics! The French Games
Olympics! The French Games7.72024HD
27 Olympic and Paralympic champions, aged 20 to 100, share their stories in this Mickaël Gamrasni documentary narrated by actress Marion Cotillard. As...
- 2018
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond7.32018HD
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F....
- 2010
Pétain, such a popular hero
Pétain, such a popular hero82010HD
On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into collaboration with the Nazis. A black page in the history of...
- 2014
William the Conqueror
William the Conqueror62014HD
England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066),changing the shape of medieval Europe and the course...
- 2024
Château d'If : La Prison du comte de Monte-Cristo
Château d'If : La Prison du comte de Monte-Cristo82024HD
- 2020
Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque nationale de France92020HD
The National Library of France is the guardian of priceless treasures that tell our history, our illustrious thinkers, writers, scholars and artists....
- 2021
10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?
10 mai 1981 : Changer la vie ?82021HD
Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others were pr...
- 2023
La Vraie Histoire des Mousquetaires
La Vraie Histoire des Mousquetaires8.52023HD
- 2010
June 1940, the Great Chaos
June 1940, the Great Chaos82010HD
From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the country folds, and then collapsed in facing the atta...
- 2017
Napoleon’s James Bond
Napoleon’s James Bond5.52017HD
Charles Louis Schulmeister (1770-1853) was a smuggler and a revolutionary, but also a chief of police and Napoleon Bonaparte's favorite spy. A look ba...
- 2019
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français
Un peu, beaucoup, passionnément... Les Présidents et les Français82019HD
- 2022
Rainbow Warrior
Rainbow Warrior82022HD
The Rainbow Warrior was a Greenpeace ship that was bombed by operatives of the French government, in New Zealand in 1985, while heading to a protest a...
- 1931
Dreyfus
Dreyfus01931HD
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into t...
- 2020
Genie Français – Les Fortresses de Vauban
Genie Français – Les Fortresses de Vauban02020HD
- 2024
Manouchian et ceux de l'Affiche rouge
Manouchian et ceux de l'Affiche rouge7.72024HD
- 1935
Napoléon Bonaparte
Napoléon Bonaparte81935HD
A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
- 2016
Robespierre
Robespierre02016HD
A still drawing film on the personality of Robespierre and the French Revolution.
- 2012
De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile
De Gaulle, le géant aux pieds d'argile92012HD
- 2023
Les Scandales de « La Religieuse »
Les Scandales de « La Religieuse »82023HD
Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his lifetime, as he knew it to be revolutionary, cause...
- 2021
La guillotine, une invention bien française
La guillotine, une invention bien française72021HD
Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as t...