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1. Omar (2013)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young Palestinian freedom fighter agrees to work as an informant after he's tricked into an admission of guilt by association in the wake of an Israeli soldier's killing.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Eyad Hourani, Samer Bisharat
Votes: 15,541 | Gross: $0.36M
2. Ukraine on Fire (2016)
95 min | Documentary
Ukraine. Across its eastern border is Russia and to its west-Europe. For centuries, it has been at the center of a tug-of-war between powers seeking to control its rich lands and access to the Black Sea. 2014's Maidan Massacre triggered a bloody uprising that ousted president Viktor Yanukovych and painted Russia as the perpetrator by Western media. But was it? "Ukraine on Fire" by Igor Lopatonok ... See full summary »
Director: Igor Lopatonok | Stars: Oliver Stone, Vladimir Putin, Victor Yanukovich, Vitaliy Zakharchenko
Votes: 4,238
3. Atlantis (2019)
108 min | Drama, War
A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych | Stars: Andriy Rymaruk, Liudmyla Bileka, Vasyl Antoniak, Lily Hyde
Votes: 2,674
4. A Sniper's War (2018)
83 min | Documentary, War
A story of a sniper fighting for the pro-Russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine.
Director: Olya Schechter
Votes: 8,125
5. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Documentary, Drama, War
'Ukraine on Fire 2' is one-minute docu-series about the Russia's war on Ukraine.
Stars: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Valerii Fedorovych Zaluzhnyi, Vitali Klitschko, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
Votes: 123
6. Reflection (2021)
125 min | Drama, War
Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference towards human life.
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych | Stars: Roman Lutskyi, Stanislav Aseyev, Oleksandr Danyliuk, Vasiliy Kukharskiy
Votes: 636
7. Call Sign Banderas (2018)
113 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In the autumn of 2014, in the ATO zone, an intelligence group headed by experienced captain Anton Sayenko (called by nickname "Banderas") tries to prevent sabotage and neutralize the Russian saboteur.
Director: Zaza Buadze | Stars: Oleg Shulga, Yuliya Chepurko, Sergey Lefor, Oleg Oneshchak
Votes: 961
8. Hotsunlight (2021)
133 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows ... See full summary »
Directors: Maksim Brius, Mikhail Vasserbaum | Stars: Vladimir Ilin, Aleksandr Bukharov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Maksim Dakhnenko
Votes: 645
9. The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)
91 min | Documentary, War
THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont | Stars: Oleg Afanasyev, Alexandra Ryabichkina, Jarik
Votes: 651
10. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020)
74 min | Documentary, War
To cope with the daily trauma of living in a war-zone, Anna and her children are making a film together about their life in the most surreal surroundings.
Director: Iryna Tsilyk | Stars: Danylo Dydenko, Ganna Gladka, Olena Gladka, Olga Gladka
Votes: 775
11. Revealing Ukraine (2019)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
"Revealing Ukraine" by Igor Lopatonok continues investigations on of the ongoing Ukrainian crisis following "Ukraine on Fire". In addition, it analyzes the current political backstage and its dangerous potential for the world.
Director: Igor Lopatonok | Stars: Oliver Stone, Viktor Medvedchuk, Oksana Marchenko, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 2,918
12. Bad Roads (2020)
105 min | Drama
Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbas, Ukraine during the war.
Director: Natalya Vorozhbit | Stars: Igor Koltovskyy, Andrey Lelyukh, Volodymyr Hurin, Anna Zhurakovskaya
Votes: 862
13. Blindfold (2020)
100 min | Drama, Sport
Young MMA fighter Yuliya has lost her boyfriend in the war in eastern Ukraine. She starts a new relationship to make her life move forward.
Director: Taras Dron | Stars: Maryna Koshkina, Oleg Shulga, Larysa Rusnak, Aleksandr Mavrits
Votes: 115
14. Frost (2017)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Mystery, War
Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. When plans change and they find themselves left to their own devices, they cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region.
Director: Sharunas Bartas | Stars: Mantas Janciauskas, Lyja Maknaviciute, Andrzej Chyra, Vanessa Paradis
Votes: 796
15. Donbass. Okraina (2019)
96 min | Drama, History, Thriller
People with different beliefs find themselves in the epicenter of a military conflict, but in order to survive, they will have to unite.
Director: Renat Davletyarov | Stars: Gela Meskhi, Evgeniy Mikheev, Sergey Kholmogorov, Ulyana Pokhlebaeva
Votes: 406
16. Krieg in Europa - Das Ukraine-Drama (2021 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
The conflict in the Donbas, a secessionist region of Ukraine, began in 2014, after the fall of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych and the election of Petro Poroshenko. Playing on the ... See full summary »
Director: Claire Walding | Stars: Marieluise Beck, Nadja Berlinghoff, Jill Biden, Joe Biden
Votes: 70
17. Opolchenochka (2019)
132 min | War
Spring-summer 2014. Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. Radically-minded local residents, who consider what is happening in the country as a threat to their usual existence, form ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksey Kozlov | Stars: Vilen Babichev, Anatoliy Falynskiy, Aleksandr Fastovskiy, Mikhail Golubovich
Votes: 216
18. The Ukrainians (2015)
85 min | Documentary, War
This is a story of a new Ukrainian army and new Ukrainian society being born. After Maidan revolution Ukrainian volunteer warriors defend Donetsk Airport from pro-Russian separatists and Russian militaries.
Directors: Leonid Kanter, Ivan Yasniy | Stars: Bohema, Hatylo
Votes: 227
19. Once Upon a Mine (2015)
31 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Young man's pondering of the old polarized oppressive Soviet mind set, while standing on an explosive device. (Filmed in East Ukraine.)
Director: Vofka Solovéy | Stars: Slava Nikonorov, Tatyana Kravchenko, Mikhail Ignatov, Ana Kiri
Votes: 9
20. Poutine, le retour de l'ours dans la danse (2022 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
In February 2007, at the Munich Conference for World Security, Vladimir Putin denounced the unilateralism of the United States and announced the end of a unipolar world. Although virulent, ... See full summary »
Director: Frédéric Tonolli | Stars: Saskia Weber, Cornelia Schönwald, Christian Le Peutrec, Jean-Yves Huchet
Votes: 57
21. Close Relations (2016)
112 min | Documentary
Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore Ukrainian society after the Maidan revolution as mirrored within his own large Ukrainian ... See full summary »
Director: Vitaliy Manskiy
Votes: 286
22. Airport Donetsk (2015 TV Movie)
37 min | Documentary, War
The humans behind the battle of Donetsk Airport.
Directors: Andrei Erastov, Shahida Tulaganova
Votes: 13
23. The War Within (2016)
71 min | Documentary
Domenico Quirico, correspondent for the daily "La Stampa", was abducted in Syria in 2013 and released after 152 days of captivity. Here he evokes a career spent collecting fragments of ... See full summary »
Director: Paola Piacenza
Votes: 7
24. Myth (II) (2018)
63 min | Documentary, Biography
The film is the remarkable and tragic story of Wassyl Slipak; Ukrainian opera singer whose unique voice and talent brought him world recognition and death on the war.
Directors: Leonid Kanter, Ivan Yasniy | Stars: Orest Slipak, Vasyl Slipak
Votes: 158
25. Summerwar (2019)
80 min | Documentary, War
Two kids, one war, one camp. Jasmin and Jastrip grow up in Ukraine. Surrounded by war and rising nationalism, they visit the Azovez camp. There they become real patriots and that is what they came for - but it's not why they stay.
Director: Moritz Schulz
Votes: 38
26. The War of Chimeras (2017)
94 min | Documentary, Drama, War
The story of war, love and death that was documented by the immediate participants of events. Off screen and later on it are the two - a boy and a girl. He volunteered for the front; she ... See full summary »
Directors: Anastasiia Starozhitska, Mariia Starozhitska
Votes: 46
27. Frenemies: Putin and Trump (2019 TV Movie)
85 min | Documentary
Director: Claire Walding | Stars: Aras Agalarov, Bashar al-Assad, Evgeniya Albats, Hillary Clinton
Votes: 29
28. God Will Forgive (2021)
17 min | Short, Drama, War
The Ukrainian chaplain trying to get out of the Donbas gray area, stumbles upon a shot convoy of separatists, where he encounters a mortally wounded mercenary and is faced with a choice - ... See full summary »
Director: Hovhannes Khachatryan | Stars: Viktor Zhdanov, Sergey Shadrin, Tamara Morozova, Danylo Braha
Votes: 6
29. Novorossiya (2022)
65 min | Documentary
Shot in Donbas, Ukraine where pro-Russian separatists had been waging a war even before Putin's full-scale invasion. Just another day for an American foreign fighter, a captain nostalgic for the Soviet Union, and three special civilians.
Directors: Enrico Parenti, Luca Gennari
30. Charcoal (2020)
19 min | Short, Drama
She draws with charcoal to get the memories out of herself, she parties hard to kill the taste of trauma, until one mysterious phone call forces her to face it all again. "Charcoal" has an ... See full summary »
Director: Anastasiya Maksymchuk | Stars: Jaanika Arum, Jarmo Reha, Aleksandr Ivashkevich, Nero Urke
31. Debaltseve (2016)
49 min | Documentary, Action, History
Defense of Debaltseve. The brutal battle that unfolded in early 2015 and was completed on February 18-19, when the Ukrainian troops leaved bridgehead wich had surrounded. The truth about ... See full summary »
Director: Evgeny Stepanenko
Votes: 56
32. The Long Breakup (2020)
85 min | Documentary
Ukrainian-American journalist, Katya Soldak, tells the story of her home country as it exits the USSR, goes through two revolutions, and a war with Russia-through the eyes of her family in Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city 18 miles from Russia
Director: Katya Soldak | Stars: Dima, Mikhail Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Sascha
Votes: 35
33. The Border (2022)
100 min | Drama, War
The story of three Ukrainian volunteers who were lucky enough to leave the encirclement of Russian troops in eastern Ukraine.
Director: Andrey Kavun | Stars: Aleksey Gorbunov, Oleksandr Yatsenko, Nikita Rozenko, Rostyslav Bome
34. The Bright Path (2022)
56 min | Documentary
Stanislav Aseyev was reporting from his native city of Donetsk for various Ukrainian media, after a part of the Donbas region fell under the control of Russia-backed separatist militants in... See full summary »
Director: Iryna Riabenka
Votes: 9
35. Brantsi (2016)
88 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
The search for a soldier taken captive on February 20, 2014 in Kyiv takes protester Sashko to the front lines of Eastern Ukraine. There he meets Ivan, a Ukrainian volunteer harboring a secret that could undermine a fragile cease-fire.
Director: Volodymyr Tykhyy
Votes: 20
36. Donbass. Doroga domoy (2019)
4 min | Short, War
Director: Vladimir Agranovich | Stars: Ivan Bessmolyy, Anastasiya Kaziyeva, Sergey Lupiltsev, German Parfyonov
Votes: 7
37. Once Upon a Time in the City on the Stone (2019)
103 min | Comedy, Crime
The film tells about the adventures of an anti-terrorist operation veteran from Donbas, Ukraine nicknamed (with a call sign) "Odynak," who, having lost his home and a loved one in the war, ... See full summary »
Director: Andriy Zayets | Stars: Karapet Badzhaksuzyan, Denis Chorniy, Alexei Lisiy, Georgy Torianik
Votes: 12
38. Oleg's Choice (2016 TV Movie)
75 min | Documentary, War
Oleg's Choice is a rare immersion into the private lives and thoughts of Russian combatants who have chosen to fight on the separatists side in Ukraine. Since the summer of 2014, thousands ... See full summary »
Directors: Elena Volochine, James Keogh
Votes: 21
39. Alisa in Warland (2015)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary
Follow one young filmmaker's journey deep into the heart of the conflict in Ukraine, treading the line between director and subject, filmmaker and fighter.
Directors: Liubov Durakova, Alisa Kovalenko
Votes: 37
40. War Note (2020)
72 min | Documentary
Personal videos from the phones, camcorders, cameras and GoPros of Ukrainian soldiers are woven into a surreal journey to the front line of the war with Russia. The film shows a bizarre ... See full summary »
Director: Roman Liubyi
Votes: 92
41. Closest to God (2016)
20 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
A Ukraine's epic story about two families torn by war.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Iryna, Oleksandr Kolodyazhnyy, Julia, Oleksandr Tyschyk
Votes: 83
42. Odessity na Donbasse (2017)
56 min | Documentary
The main characters of the film are residents of Odesa who took part in hostilities in the anti-terrorist operation zone. Dmytro Olehovych, Yevhen Tytarenko, Roman Koldomasov, Yevhen Lata, ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Avsharov | Stars: Roman Koldomasov, Eugene Lata, Eugene Titarenko
43. Watch (I) (2019)
17 min | Short, War
During the war in Donbas, Ukraine, a young separatist fighter is sent into enemy lines on a dangerous mission. Recording the events with a helmet camera, the young soldier will learn the ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Newall | Stars: Erik Vent, Raphael Sikic, Igor Bulanov, Sergei Cherniakoff
44. War for Peace (2020)
94 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
War with Russia on the east of Ukraine through the director's lens who stayed for a year in the centre of the conflict zone. He became a paramedic volunteer and continued filming everything... See full summary »
Director: Yevhen Titarenko
Votes: 23
45. Like Dew in the Sun (2016)
108 min | Documentary
A century ago, the grandparents of film director Peter Entell had to flee Ukraine, a land torn apart by war and massacres. One hundred years later, Entell faces the same destructive ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Entell | Stars: Raisa Kasianenko, Hatadzhe Bekirova, Amdi Suleimanov, Oleksandr Lahutenko
Votes: 11
46. The Cacophony of Donbas (2018)
62 min | Documentary
This is a film-reflection. The idea of the film is to study the myth of Donbas using archives of documentary and feature films.
Director: Igor Minaiev
Votes: 38
47. Long Echo (2016)
87 min | Documentary
"Long echo" - Of the explosion not far from the city? Of the time when the people searched for a new idea for their country? Or from the Maidanrevolution that seemed to divide the country ... See full summary »
Directors: Veronika Glasunowa, Lukasz Lakomy
Votes: 8
48. Kraina (2015)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Kyiv, Ukraine, Spring 2015. The war with Russia is five hundred miles to the East, but since the revolution of 2013-14, every moment of Kristina's life has been affected by the conflict.
Director: Christina Tynkevych | Star: Kristina Tsukur
Votes: 17
49. Kyjiv Moskva (2017)
25 min | Short, Drama, War
Renata's brother is away at war. One day she gets a work assignment to take care of a young man who comes from the enemy's country.
Director: Anna Lyubynetska | Stars: Sasha Stelchenko, Elena Vatrushkina
50. Postcards from Ukraine (2016)
84 min | Documentary
Postcards from Ukraine is a documentary dealing with the crisis in Ukraine. After traveling all over Ukraine, Sieva, the director, chose to focus on 5 young characters whose lives have been... See full summary »
Director: Sieva Diamantakos | Stars: Konstantin, Alina Lizunova, Illya Machekhin, Sergii Sevidov
Votes: 10