Historical Family Films

The Von Trapp Family Singers were a real-life Austrian family who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938.

Oskar Schindler was a German businessman who saved over a thousand Jews from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.

Wladyslaw Szpilman was a Polish-Jewish pianist who survived the Warsaw Ghetto by playing piano for a German officer.

Amir is the Afghan boy who is forced to flee his home country with his father after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Aibileen Clark is the African-American maid who writes a book about her experiences working for white families in the 1960s.

Solomon Northup was an African-American man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the 1840s.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the civil rights leader who led the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.

Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson were three African-American women who worked as mathematicians at NASA during the space race.

Tommy is the British soldier who is stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk during World War II.

Freddie Mercury was the lead singer of the rock band Queen.

Rick Dalton is the actor who is struggling to find work in the changing Hollywood landscape.

Herman J. Mankiewicz was the screenwriter who was hired to write the screenplay for Citizen Kane.

Phil Burbank is the wealthy rancher who is struggling to come to terms with his homosexuality.

Buddy is the young boy who is growing up in Belfast during the Troubles.

Molotschna Colony is the name of the colony of women who are deciding whether to leave their community after years of abuse.