History flashback

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows history flashback

poster Hysterical History
Hysterical History
7mn - Animation
An amusing look at American history, starting with Columbus' discovery of America, and touching on the formation of the original thirteen states, the Gold Rush, and several other important events. The car…
poster History of a Crime
History of a Crime
(3.1/5)
5mn - Drama, Crime
A convicted criminal dreams about his past the night before his execution.
poster Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse
Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse
6mn - Animation, Comedy
A comic look at prehistoric life.
poster Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh
Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh
(2.6/5)
6mn - Animation
A comic look at prehistoric life.
poster Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea
Traffic in King's Road, Chelsea
1mn - Documentary
Formerly lost film rediscovered in 1996, directed by William Friese-Greene.
poster We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918
We Heard the Bells: The Influenza of 1918
(3.3/5)
56mn - Documentary
We meet individuals from marginalized communities who describe what it was like to live through the 1918 flu pandemic. Their experiences raise questions about the pandemic: why did it kill so many people?…
poster Yesterday's Children
Yesterday's Children
(3.5/5)
90mn - Drama
A mother haunted by vivid dreams of another life travels to Ireland to uncover the truth about her past incarnation as an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s, leading to an emotional reunion with the childre…
poster The Yesterday Machine
The Yesterday Machine
(5/5)
85mn - Sci-Fi, Horror
A Nazi scientist invents a time machine enabling him to go back to alter the events of WWII.
poster Manhatta
Manhatta
11mn - Documentary
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks…
poster President McKinley's Inauguration
President McKinley's Inauguration
1mn -
This film was shot on March 4, 1897 and is historic because it was the first footage shot of a sitting American President.
poster Ghosts of the Third Reich
Ghosts of the Third Reich
0mn - Documentary, History
Three generations after the fall of the Third Reich, the descendants of Nazi officers and supporters confront the weight of inherited guilt, struggling to reconcile their family legacy with their own mora…
poster Reunion
Reunion
(2.9/5)
94mn - Drama
A bittersweet and heartfelt story about going back. In the twenty-four hours before their 20th high school reunion, five friends, a younger brother and a mysterious photojournalist are reunited by determi…
poster R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.
R.F.D., 10,000 B.C.
(2.9/5)
13mn - Animation
Set in prehistoric times, this short film was created for the Edison Company by Willis H. O'Brien, a pioneer of American stop-motion animation.
poster Ancient Fistory
Ancient Fistory
(3.1/5)
7mn - Comedy, Animation, Family
It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella st…
poster Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
Dr. Macintyre's X-Ray Film
1mn - Documentary
The first X-ray cinematograph film ever taken, shown by Dr. MacIntyre at the London Royal Society (1896 and 1909). X-ray pictures of a frog knee joint, a beating human heart and movements of the stomach.
poster The Man from Beyond
The Man from Beyond
(2.7/5)
74mn - Mystery, Drama, Adventure
The Arctic, 1922. After being buried under the ice for a hundred years, Howard Hillary is thawed and revived. When he meets Felice Strange, he recognizes in her the same woman he once loved deeply. But is…
poster A Touch of Murder
A Touch of Murder
(2.7/5)
81mn -
A salvage worker with the psychic ability to see past events associated with items he touches sets the background story for this anthology. These items create a bridge between three seemingly unconnected …
poster When Do We Eat?
When Do We Eat?
(2.9/5)
86mn - Comedy
An old school dad is as tough on his sons as his father is on him. On this night, however, one of the boys slips dad a dose of special, hallucinogenic ecstasy in order "to give him a new perspective."
poster The Story of the Kelly Gang
The Story of the Kelly Gang
(3/5)
60mn - History, Action, Drama
Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolizes both the birth of the Australian film industry and th…
poster Tombstone Rashomon
Tombstone Rashomon
82mn - Western
When time-traveling filmmakers arrive in 1881 Tombstone a day after the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral, they interview the survivors—each with their own conflicting version of the truth—revealing t…
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