War Movies

Unknown Pages from the Life of a Scout

1990

star 1
The Soviet intelligence officer, abandoned on the territory occupied by the Germans, finds himself in a tragic situation: high-ranking state security officials put him in the position of an outcast. However, he continues to act - at his own peril and risk ...
star 6

Dong jin xu qu

1962

Dong jin xu qu

1962

star 6
“It’s a story, adapted from the homonymous drama, that the new Forth Army struggles with the branch of Jiangsu-Shandong-Anhui of Kuomindang for Anti-Japanese, solidification and against surrender, abruption during the way going east.It reflects the complicate situation during the Anti-Japanese War andthe victory of the Anti-Japanese unibus policies of the CCP Center and Chairman Mao.” From the English Red Movie blurb

The Song of Manshuk

1969

star 6
The story of the hero of the Soviet Union, Manshuk Mametova, machine-gunner of the 21st Guards Rifle Division of the 3rd shock army of the Kalinin Front, the guards sergeant in charge. The first woman awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery. The film recreates the past and shows a day of combat life Manshuk and her comrades, who took unequal battle with German tanks.
star 1

1917

1970

1917

1970

star 1
A British short film about World War I, directed by Stephen Weeks and starring Timothy Bateson, David Leland, and Geoffrey Davies.

The Seventeenth Transatlantic

1972

star 6
War drama depicting the tragical story of PQ-17 Arctic convoy in July 1942.
star 6

The Slowest Train

1963

The Slowest Train

1963

star 6
Spring, 1943. A military train is heading from a city, just liberated from the fascists. A special carriage with divisional printing-works is hitched to the train. Manager of the printing-works and correspondent expects he will travel alone, and even makes a prudent sign on the door - mines. But gradually the carriage starts to get filled with uninvited fellow travelers. The first were an injured soldier with a girl, then - a pregnant woman with escort, two communist party members, an actress, aunt Pasha, and others. The correspondent has nothing but to put up with it, because he cant turn out people, who suffer from the war, each in his/her own way.

While Defending the Front Line

1965

star 5.8
Volkhov Front in 1942. The young political instructor of the counter-propaganda department of the headquarters of the division Rusanov is torn to the forefront. Together with an experienced warrior — captain Shaternikov — the hero gets to the forefront and transmits from the sound transmission programs addressed to German soldiers. And in the hours of calm passes several kilometers in order to see Katya, the signal woman of a neighboring sector of the front.

A Train to a Distant August

1971

star 6
A participant in the war with the fascist regime, a Soviet soldier Chigorin, who bravely fought in Odessa, decides to return to the black sea city and walk through the memorable places where a lot of blood of brave defenders was shed for every inch of land. On the train, a random companion of the man becomes Katya, a charming young girl who asks Chigorin to tell about those events. Going headfirst into the memories, the former soldier begins his story, in which there is a place for selflessness, friendship, mutual assistance, love and heroism…

No Password Necessary

1967

star 6
A spy game between Reds and Whites is in full motion during Russian Civil War.

Waldwölfe

2018

Three Nazi soldiers capture an escaped Jewish woman. But what will they do with her?
star 6

March-April

1944

March-April

1944

star 6
star 6

Malakhov Kurgan

1944

Malakhov Kurgan

1944

star 6
A World War II era Soviet war film, focusing on the role of the Red Navy rather than land forces, and reviving the 1920s concept of the collective hero.

State Border: Vol. 6. Beyond the Threshold of Victory

1987

star 4.8
In the border zone of the Soviet-Polish state border, gangs of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists operated. Captain Olkhovik was given the task of infiltrating the OUN gang.
star 5

Gilan's Daughter

1928

Gilan's Daughter

1928

star 5
This drama is about Gilan's downfall in 1920th under onslaught of Iran's shah & English army.

Sightseeing

1968

A short pamphlet based on a text by Peter Weiss and on the contrapuntal use of the relation between image and sound. The commercial activities and fantasies linked to tourism in Sweden are contradicted by the geopolitics of capitalist imperialism, in particular with the war in Vietnam.

Razor

2014

Razor

2014

The Second World War is over. But after each war the human destinies are left. This film is about two of them. The former officer of the Wehrmacht. The former prisoner of the Nazi concentration camp.