Best History Movies and TV Shows to Watch Now on Kanopy

The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)

Language Matters with Bob Holman (2015)

New York: Order and Disorder (1825–1865) (1999)

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1985)

Going Medieval (2012)

A Place of Rage (1991)

One Bright Shining Moment (2005)

Sushi: The Global Catch (2012)

Grand Coulee Dam (1993)

Krew Boga (2019)

Defiant Lives (2017)

Hamilton: Building America (2017)

Leonardo: The Works (2019)

The Clay Bird (2007)

The Eugenics Crusade (2018)

Santa Rosa - odisea al son de mariachi (2013)

Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten (2021)

The Royal Road (2015)

Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)

Zapatista (1999)

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! (2025)

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2024)

Six Days in August (2024)

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2024)

Copa 71 (2024)

H2: The Occupation Lab (2024)

Escape from Germany (2024)

Bardejov (2024)

Exhibition on Screen: Klimt and The Kiss (2023)

The War on Disco (2023)

Origin (2023)

The Unnatural History of the Kakapo (2023)

Kim's Video (2023)

The Busing Battleground (2023)

June Zero (2023)

Lakota Nation vs. United States (2023)

The League (2023)

Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World (2023)

Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts (2023)

Squaring the Circle: The Story of Hipgnosis (2023)

The Clay Bird (2007)

Six Minutes to Midnight (2020)

El viaje de Carol (2002)

H4 (2020)

L'enfant de la barricade (1907)

Gunpowder, Treason & Plot (2004)

The Master (2012)

Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2024)

Black Venus (2010)

Liberté (2019)

Death and the King's Horseman (2023)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

The Last Supper (2019)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)

Tsareubiytsa (1993)

Six Days in August (2024)

Valkyrie (2008)

Origin (2023)

Escape from Germany (2024)

The Twisted Tale Of Bloody Mary (2008)

The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)

Language Matters with Bob Holman (2015)

New York: Order and Disorder (1825–1865) (1999)

The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1985)

Going Medieval (2012)

A Place of Rage (1991)

One Bright Shining Moment (2005)

Sushi: The Global Catch (2012)

Grand Coulee Dam (1993)

Defiant Lives (2017)

Hamilton: Building America (2017)

Leonardo: The Works (2019)

The Eugenics Crusade (2018)

Santa Rosa - odisea al son de mariachi (2013)

Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten (2021)

The Royal Road (2015)

Zapatista (1999)

10 Buildings That Changed America (2013)

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023)

Apollo's Daring Mission (2018)

Medieval Animal Trials (2016)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

Valkyrie (2008)

Bardejov (2024)

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Combat Obscura (2019)

World Trade Center (2006)

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983)

Seabiscuit (2003)

The Dam Busters (1955)

The 12th Man (2017)

Betrayed (2020)

The Trench (1999)

Zulu (1964)

The Throne (2015)

Sobibor (2018)

Burke & Hare (1972)

Balloon (2018)

The Time That Remains (2009)

Bikini: Una historia real (2014)

The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)

Double Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933 (1973)

The Last Survivors (2019)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

Valkyrie (2008)

Bardejov (2024)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Army of Crime (2009)

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)

Divide and Conquer (1945)

The Fox (2023)

Chess Story (2021)

Overlord (1977)

Discover Arts: Hitler vs Picasso (2018)

The Battle of Russia (1943)

The Conference (2022)

Alone in Berlin (2016)

The Dam Busters (1955)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

1944 (2015)

The Sorrow and the Pity (1971)

Zapatista (1999)

L'enfant de la barricade (1907)

American Coup: Wilmington 1898 (2024)

The Master (2012)

Las Sandinistas! (2018)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

Tsareubiytsa (1993)

Valkyrie (2008)

Bardejov (2024)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Army of Crime (2009)

Berkeley in the Sixties (1991)

Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (2017)

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts (2017)

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Divide and Conquer (1945)

In the Year of the Pig (1969)

World Trade Center (2006)

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)

Bardejov (2024)

Origin (2023)

Paths of Glory (1957)

Libby, Montana (2004)

K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Silence (2016)

Cracking the Shakespeare Code (2017)

Combat Obscura (2019)

Silicon Cowboys (2016)

The Crucible (1967)

The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez (1983)

Seabiscuit (2003)

Alone in Berlin (2016)

The Dam Busters (1955)

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)

The 12th Man (2017)

Betrayed (2020)

Writing with Fire (2021)

The Auschwitz Report (2021)

The French Conspiracy (1972)

Krew Boga (2019)

The Clay Bird (2007)

The Master (2012)

Six Days in August (2024)

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Silence (2016)

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023)

Silicon Cowboys (2016)

Little Buddha (1993)

The Decline of Western Civilization (2016)

1948: Creation & Catastrophe (2017)

Tantura (2022)

A Man Escaped (1956)

The Innocents (2016)

Zulu (1964)

Inner Worlds, Outer Worlds (2012)

Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World (2011)

The Time That Remains (2009)

The Ornament of the World (2019)

The Dunera Boys (1985)