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Historical Journeys organise films, documentaries and individual episodes around the events they explain. Choose the depth; Movieline guides the sequence.
Follow major events, turning points and historical periods through curated films and series.
World War II
From war in East Asia and the invasion of Poland to global defeat, justice and memory.
World War I
From the 1914 crisis to trench warfare, global campaigns and the Armistice.
Ancient Rome
From the Punic Wars and Republic to emperors, frontiers and late antiquity.
Middle Ages
Explore medieval Europe from Viking kingdoms to the Wars of the Roses.
Cold War
From divided Europe and Korea to nuclear brinkmanship, decolonization, dissent and 1989.
Napoleonic Wars
From the French Revolution to imperial campaigns and Waterloo.
Space Race
From postwar test pilots and Sputnik to the Apollo moon landing and beyond.
The French Revolution
From the crisis of the monarchy to the Terror and revolutionary aftermath, 1770s–1799
The American Civil War
Slavery, secession, emancipation and the struggle for the Union, 1840s–1870s
The Russian Revolution
The end of the Romanovs, 1917 and the civil-war aftermath, 1905–1922
Slavery and Abolition
Enslavement, resistance and legal abolition across the Atlantic world
The Civil Rights Movement
Segregation, legal equality and Black American activism, 1950s–1960s
The Crusades
Religion, politics and warfare in the eastern Mediterranean, 1096–1291
Age of Exploration and Conquest
Atlantic voyages, Indigenous societies and colonial violence, 1492–1750s
Decolonization
Anti-colonial struggle, partition and political independence, 1910s–1990s
The Protestant Reformation
Religious reform, contested authority and the remaking of European confessions, 1517–c. 1600
The American Revolution
Resistance, war, foreign alliances and a contested founding, 1765–1789
The Viking Age
Scandinavian raids, settlement and cultural encounter, c. 790–1050
Sengoku Japan
Competing warlords and the road to Tokugawa rule, c. 1467–1600
The Black Death
Pandemic, fear and cultural response in fourteenth-century Europe, 1347–c. 1381
The American Frontier
Migration, settler expansion and Indigenous resistance in North America, 1760s–1890s
The Mongol Empire
Temüjin’s rise and Mongol rule across Eurasia, c. 1160–1300
The Industrial Revolution
Steam, factories, labor and the industrial city, c. 1760–1900
The Vietnam War
Indochina, intervention, civilian experience and the war’s aftermath, 1945–1975
The Great Depression
Crash, unemployment, political response and everyday survival, 1929–late 1930s
The Renaissance
Florence, patronage, visual culture and the wider European Renaissance, c. 1400–1600
The Spanish Civil War
Republic, coup, international brigades and Francoist victory, 1936–1939
The Korean War
Partition, multinational war and armistice on the Korean peninsula, 1945–1953
The Meiji Restoration
The fall of the Tokugawa order and Japan’s rapid transformation, 1853–1912
The Troubles
Civil rights, violence and the struggle for peace in Northern Ireland, c. 1968–1998
The Partition of India
Empire, borders and mass displacement during independence, 1947–1948
Apartheid and the Struggle for Democracy
Segregation, resistance and democratic transition in South Africa, 1948–1994