History Documentaries
The Stamp of Australia
$25.95 – Digital video disc / Abc Dvd
Fly with us across the outback on the world's longest mail run for a 200-year salute to the horse riders and stagecoach drivers, the fearless aviators and outback posties, the legends and characters whose intrepid deeds ... Buy or find out more →
Monash: The Forgotten Anzac
$19.95 – Digital video disc / Abc Dvd
One of the most brilliant generals of World War I and an architect of Anzac Day, Sir John Monash helped create the Anzac legend by ensuring the courage of his men was enshrined in Australian history. Today he is all but ... Buy or find out more →
Egypt's Golden Empire
$24.95 – Digital video disc / Sbs Dvd
Egypt's Golden Empire presents the most extraordinary period in Egyptian history: from 1570 BC to 970 BC, when the Egyptian Empire reached its zenith. In 1570 BC, when Rome was still a marsh and the Acropolis was an empt... Buy or find out more →
Che: Part 1
$39.95 – Digital video disc / Paramount Pictures
Directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Benicio Del Toro, Che is a two part biopic based on the life and diaries of the iconic revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara. Part one tells the story of the Cuban revolution as G... Buy or find out more →
Che: Part 2
$39.95 – Digital video disc / Paramount Pictures
The second part of Steven Soderbergh’s epic biopic on the life of the iconic revolutionary. In 1965 Ernesto Che Guevara resigns from his role in the Cuban government to take up the struggle against Bolivia’s militarist g... Buy or find out more →
Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Dv1
Narrated by Michael York OBE (Logan's Run, The Three Musketeers, Austin Powers).
With unprecedented access to Cubans on both sides of the Florida Straits, *Cuba: A Lifetime of Passion* looks at the present reality of the... Buy or find out more →
Chevolution
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Arthouse Films
In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto Korda Díaz captured a photo of Ernesto Che Guevara during a mass funeral. History conspired to enable this dynamic portrait to explode on the world scene in 1968 throughout Europe and ... Buy or find out more →
Berlin: Presented by Matt Frei
$19.95 – Digital video disc / Bbc Video
Berlin is a city unique in the world one that has not grown organically, but always been contrived and redefined. Even if we have never visited, we all feel touched by events that have taken place there because they are ... Buy or find out more →
Chicago 10
$24.95 – Digital video disc / Sbs Dvd
Written and directed by Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture), CHICAGO 10 presents contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage that explore... Buy or find out more →
The Battle of Long Tan
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Time Life
South Vietnam, 18th August 1966. In the gathering dusk 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers were separated and surrounded by an overwhelming force of more than 2500 battle hardened Viet Cong gu... Buy or find out more →
He's Coming South
$29.99 – Digital video disc / Time Life
May 1942 - The Japanese launched a surprise submarine attack in Sydney Harbour. Many of the details and theories of this dramatic wartime event have remained shrouded in mystery until told in this multi-award winning doc... Buy or find out more →
Waltz with Bashir
$34.95$14.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to ... Buy or find out more →
Thanks for Listening: The History of Australian Radio
$19.95 – Digital video disc /
This wonderfully nostalgic five-part history of Australian radio is hosted by Mike Hammond and features interviews with more than 100 of Australia’s biggest radio names – past and present - including Alan Jones, Tony Pil... Buy or find out more →
Up the Yangtze
$29.99 – Digital video disc / Madman
A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as The River. The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge a youn... Buy or find out more →
First Australians
$39.95 – Digital video disc / Sbs Dvd
First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. First Australians explores what unfolds when the oldest living culture in the world is over... Buy or find out more →
In the Shadow of the Moon
$34.95 – Digital video disc / Madman
Remember When The Whole World Looked Up.
Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. They remain the only human beings to have stood on another world. In the S... Buy or find out more →
Kings Of Construction: Discovery Channel
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Unknown
Go into the epicentre of the world's most current and exciting construction projects as they push and break boundaries to construct some of the worlds most ambitious engineering projects. This set features three of the W... Buy or find out more →
The War
$99.95 – Digital video disc / Abc Video
The War, produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, examines the myriad ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America. By telling the stories of ordinary people... Buy or find out more →
Night Mail: Collectors Edition (Region 2)
$29.95 – Digital video disc / British Film Inst
Night Mail remains one of the most popular and instantly recognised films in British film history, and was one of the most critically acclaimed films to be produced within the British documentary film movement. An accoun... Buy or find out more →
Killer Of Sheep (Region 1)
$49.95 – Digital video disc / Milestone Cinematheque
Finally seeing a proper release after years of music licensing problems, this is one of the most acclaimed films by an African-American filmmaker. It was one of the first 50 films to be selected for the Library of Congre... Buy or find out more →
Magnificent Obsessions: Frank Lloyd Wright's Buildings And Legacy In Japan (Region 1)
$29.95 – Digital video disc /
Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the greatest architects of the 20th century, was deeply indebted to Japan for its aesthetic inspiration. This is the story of how he repaid that debt. Wright sought refuge in Japan when he face... Buy or find out more →
Shake Hands With The Devil
$29.99 – Digital video disc / Madman
In 100 days - between April 6 and July 16, 1994 - more than 800,000 men, women and children were brutally murdered in the obscure African country of Rwanda. The victims, many horrifically hacked to death with machetes, w... Buy or find out more →
One Giant Leap: 50 Years Of Space Flight
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Shock Dvd
From Russia launching the first satellite in 1956, this program chronicles 50 years of space flight and exploration with twelve documentaries shot on all of the landmark Russian and NASA missions. Over six hours of out-o... Buy or find out more →
Guns, Germs And Steel (Region 1)
$59.95 – Digital video disc / National Geographic
Jared Diamond explores the differing fortunes of cultures around the world. He argues that inequality stems from the natural resources available to the people of each continent. Buy or find out more →
Civilisation
$69.95 – Digital video disc / Abc Video
A BBC production. Kenneth Clark traces the history of western civilisation through its art and architecture. Buy or find out more →
Beyond Imagination: Colosseum, Pompeii, Pyramid
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Bbc Video
BBC documentaries: PYRAMID-Beyond Imagination; COLOSSEUM-Rome's Arena Of Death; POMPEII-The Last Day. Buy or find out more →
Crossing The Line
$0.00 – Digital video disc / Madman
This is the story of the last American defector in North Korea, James Joseph Dresnok. It's a story of defection, kidnap, love, and political intrigue, all set and captured in the most secret and inaccessible country on e... Buy or find out more →
In Love With Adolf Hitler
$24.95 – Digital video disc / Hopscotch Entertainment
Eva Braun was Adolf Hitler's mistress from 1932 to 1945. For the first time, this extraordinary film shows Hitler in his private life, as seen through the eyes - and the camera lens - of Eva Braun, who with her own 16mm ... Buy or find out more →
Buddha's Lost Children
$29.95 – Digital video disc / Aztec Film
In the borderlands of Thailand's Golden Triangle, a rugged region known for its drug smuggling and impoverished hill tribes, one man devotes himself to the welfare of the region's children. A former Thai boxer turned Bud... Buy or find out more →
Days That Shook The World
$149.95 – Digital video disc / Bbc Video
These are the seismic moments in world history - human tragedies, scientific breakthroughs or era-defining events - that have profoundly affected how the world thinks and acts. Events that people remember where they were... Buy or find out more →