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1. Generation War (2013)
TV-MA | 270 min | Action, Drama, History
Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.
Stars: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein
Votes: 32,548 | Gross: $0.09M
2. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin
Votes: 19,750 | Gross: $0.02M
3. The Red Ghost (2020)
99 min | Action, History, Horror
A detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-ghost, come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.
Director: Andrey Bogatyrev | Stars: Aleksey Shevchenkov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yura Borisov, Polina Chernyshova
Votes: 2,126
4. Fortress of War (2010)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 10,510
5. Panfilov's 28 Men (2016)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Drama, History
In November 1941, remaining squad of Soviet soldiers must stop a column of Nazi Germany tanks.
Directors: Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa | Stars: Maksim Abrosimov, Sergey Agafonov, Pavel Aseev, Ivan Batarev
Votes: 5,991
6. The Last Frontier (2020)
136 min | Action, Drama, War
A film about the feat of the Podolsk cadets in October 1941 near Moscow. The cadets of the Podolsk artillery-infantry schools are ordered to take up defenses on the Ilyinsky line.
Director: Vadim Shmelyov | Stars: Artyom Gubin, Lubov Konstantinova, Igor Yudin, Aleksey Bardukov
Votes: 1,862
7. The Fall of Berlin (1950)
167 min | Drama, War
A years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Vladimir Savelev, Marina Kovalyova
Votes: 547
8. Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu oznakoyu (1971)
99 min | Drama, War
Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Bogdan Stupka, Yuri Mikolajchuk
Votes: 607
9. In the Fog (2012)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, History, War
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov, Nikita Peremotov
Votes: 3,335 | Gross: $0.01M
10. Babi Yar. Context (2021)
121 min | Documentary, History
Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Hans Frank, Dina Pronicheva, Hans Isenmann, Anastasya Osmachko
Votes: 430
11. The Battle of Russia (1943)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Anthony Veiller, Ion Antonescu, Nikolay Cherkasov, Anthony Eden
Votes: 1,608
12. Italiani brava gente (1964)
137 min | Drama, History, War
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu, Tatyana Samoylova
Votes: 406
13. Two Soldiers (1943)
75 min | Drama, Romance, War
A story of infantry soldiers on the Leningrad front during the German invasion of Russia in WWII, which stresses the importance of friendship between combatants from different regions and ethnicities.
Director: Leonid Lukov | Stars: Mark Bernes, Boris Andreyev, Vera Shershnyova, Yanina Zheymo
Votes: 317
14. The Unknown War (1978– )
1,040 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary film history of the Nazi-Soviet conflict in world War II.
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Averell Harriman
Votes: 296
15. Song of Russia (1944)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Propaganda film from WW2, designed to raise the awareness of the American public regarding USSR's fight against Nazi Germany.
Directors: Gregory Ratoff, Laslo Benedek | Stars: Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, John Hodiak, Robert Benchley
Votes: 316
16. 1941 (2009)
44 min | War
June, 1941. A small Russian village at the border is living its everyday life - people work, love, squabble, make plans for the future. The war changes all plans, tears families apart, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Sergey Strelnikov, Anatoliy Kotenyov, Hilmar Eichhorn, Johannes Gabriel
Votes: 52
17. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick
Votes: 24
18. War of the Century (1999– )
200 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary examining Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.
Stars: Samuel West, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Rolf Becker
Votes: 493
19. Yarimçiq xatirälär (2015)
90 min | Biography, Drama, History
An Azerbaijanian veteran of battle for Brest fortress takes gun again 50 years later - to defend Nagorny Karabakh from Armenians.
Director: Elkhan Jafarov | Stars: Bahruz Vagifolgu, Gurban Ismailov, Mikhail Kaminsky, Georgiy Tsaava
Votes: 301
20. Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
91 min | Drama, War
In early Summer 1941, German troops penetrate into Russia, wreaking human and material destruction. Ivan Orlyukov, a young Russian, takes up arms and rises up against the invader. He is not... See full summary »
Director: Yuliya Solntseva | Stars: Boris Andreyev, Sergei Lukyanov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Nikolay Vingranovskiy
Votes: 159
21. Zhivye i myortvye (1964)
201 min | Drama, War
Journalist Ivan Sintsov news of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany during the catches of southern vacation. As a war correspondent, he becomes a witness to the difficult events of the first months of the war - many departures in 1941.
Director: Aleksandr Stolper | Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Oleg Efremov
Votes: 419
22. Ukraine in Flames (1943)
56 min | Documentary, War
Depicts the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
Directors: Yakov Avdeyenko, Yuliya Solntseva, Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Oleksiy Fyodorov, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 164
23. Otryad (1984)
97 min | Drama, War
Lithuania, 1941. German tanks and motorized columns broke into the border military town. Seven Soviet soldiers were cut off from the garrison. Without food and weapons, they went through ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksei Simonov | Stars: Aleksandr Feklistov, Sergey Garmash, Dmitriy Brusnikin, Mikhail Morozov
Votes: 107
24. The Immortal Garrison (1956)
90 min | War, Drama
A look back from the vantage point of the 1950s Thaw era in the USSR at the World War II defense of Brest, in a way that sought to humanize the conflict, this new kind of Soviet war film ... See full summary »
Directors: Zakhar Agranenko, Eduard Tisse | Stars: Vasili Makarov, Vladimir Emelyanov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Anatoli Chemodurov
Votes: 68
25. U tvoego poroga (1963)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, War
War time drama set in WWII. Citizen of Moscow gather in a patriotic show of defiance to help slow down the advancing Nazi forces that are closing in on the city.
Director: Vasili Ordynsky | Stars: Nadezhda Fedosova, Pyotr Lyubeshkin, Liliya Dzyuba, Boris Yurchenko
Votes: 66
26. Sprays of Champagne (1989)
100 min | Drama, War
During the Great Patriotic War, a wounded lieutenant , Volodya,returns to Moscow for a short leave with his mother and sister, and experiences disillusionment with the conditions he finds.
Director: Stanislav Govorukhin | Stars: Aleksei Burykin, Antonina Venediktova, Natalya Shchukina, Oleg Menshikov
Votes: 58
27. Blood for Blood, Death for Death (1941)
Documentary
Destruction of cities and villages. Victims of German bomber raids. The fighting of the Soviet Army.
Director: Dziga Vertov
28. The Last Bogatyr (2009)
17 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Director: Sarah R. Lotfi | Stars: Benjamin Bonenfant, Megan LeFurge, Geoffrey Dean, Anthony Karbo
Votes: 29
29. Blokada: Luzhskiy rubezh, Pulkovskiy meredian (1974)
185 min | Action, Drama, History
In June 1941, the Emergency Headquarters of the Defense of Leningrad, under the leadership of Zhdanov and Voroshilov, decided to build the Luga defensive line. Heavy fighting west of Pskov ... See full summary »
Director: Mikhail Yershov | Stars: Yuriy Solomin, Evgeniy Lebedev, Irina Akulova, Lev Zolotukhin
Votes: 141
30. Zelyonye tsepochki (1970)
98 min | Adventure
Soviet propaganda film about three boys helping KGB to catch spies during WW2.
Director: Grigoriy Aronov | Stars: Aleksandr Grigoryev, Igor Urumbekov, Vladimir Lelyotko, Pavel Luspekayev
Votes: 95
31. Smelovo pulya boitsya (1971)
83 min
The 22nd of June, 1941. A usual morning in a usual children camp near the very frontier. Children are splashing in a river, and take the landing troops, coming down from the sky, with ... See full synopsis »
Director: Oleg Nikolayevsky | Stars: Yuriy Shergin, Sasha Dovgul, Ira Rodionova, Mikhail Chigaryov
Votes: 21
32. The Road to Babi Yar (2018)
107 min | Documentary
With the invasion of Germany into the territory of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, a new stage in the history of the Shoah began, characterized by the massacres of Jews, exemplified in ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Maftsir
33. Lad from Our Town (1942)
65 min | Drama, War
Directors: Boris Ivanov, Aleksandr Stolper | Stars: Nikolay Kryuchkov, Lidiya Smirnova, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Nikolai Mordvinov
Votes: 74
34. Partizanskaya iskra (1957)
100 min | Drama, War
Directors: Aleksey Maslyukov, Mechislava Mayevskaya | Stars: Volodya Lushchik, Lev Borisov, Anatoli Yurchenko, S. Nesin
Votes: 16
35. Pered rassvetom (1989)
85 min | Action
Hot summer, 1941. A small railway station near the front line. A group of criminals (a made man and a repressed general among them), are entrained in a carriage of a special military train.... See full synopsis »
Director: Yaropolk Lapshin | Stars: Valeri Ryzhakov, Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyornyy, Evgeniy Mironov, Oleg Korchikov
Votes: 137
36. A zori zdes tikhie (1970 TV Movie)
118 min | Drama, War
TV adaptation based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev. Set in the Soviet Union in 1941, during the Second World War, Sergeant Vaskov of the Red Army is stationed at a remote artillery... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Rassomakhin | Stars: Petr Shelokhonov, Mikhail Khrabrov, Galina Filimonova, R. Miloslavskaya
Votes: 621
37. Moskau 1941 - Stimmen am Abgrund (2021 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary, History, War
The "Battle for Moscow" began 80 years ago in October. The Wehrmacht tried to take Moscow. The film tells the story of a fateful year - Moscow 1941, when the survival of the Soviet capital ... See full summary »
Director: Artem Demenok | Stars: Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg, Vyacheslav Molotov, Sergei Eisenstein, Semyon Timoshenko
Votes: 14
38. The Mark of the War (2015)
20 min | Short, Drama, History
1941-1945. We forgot about what it was like to be a war. The Great Patriotic War was not a normal war or a battle, which in the history of our country was many. It was a war to destroy our ... See full synopsis »
Director: Maxim Nikonov | Stars: Arkadiy Ayrapetov, Rodion Chumakov, Dmitry Fursov, Vera Kobets
Votes: 11
39. Tovarishch general (1974)
85 min | Drama, War
1941. Army commander Kapitonov takes the brunt of the German forces, striving to Rostov. Well aware of the tactics of the German General Leynts, Kapitonov brilliantly conducting an ... See full summary »
Director: Teodor Vulfovich | Stars: Igor Ledogorov, Georgiy Kulikov, Viktor Shulgin, Pavel Makhotin
Votes: 17
40. 22 iyunya, rovno v 4 chasa (1992)
98 min | Drama, War
1941. Captain Vasily Bragin enjoys a vacation and goes to Leningrad to pick up his family.
Director: Boris Galkin | Stars: Sergei Parshin, Irina Rozanova, Antonina Shuranova, Sergey Artsibashev
Votes: 29
41. Peremyshl. Podvig na granitse (2015 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
Peremyshl (now Przemysl), the city in Poland, which in 1939 was literally divided between Germany and the Soviet Union, became again the center of the Wehrmacht attacks in 1941, when World ... See full summary »
Director: Vadim Gasanov | Star: Sergey Chonishvili
Votes: 10
42. Gosudarstvennaya granitsa: God sorok pervyy (1986 TV Movie)
History
Director: Vyacheslav Nikiforov | Stars: Gunars Dalmanis, Archil Gomiashvili, Gennadi Korolkov, Viktor Kostetskiy
Votes: 55
43. No Greater Love (1943)
74 min | Drama, War
As the Nazi forces advance on Moscow, village woman, after witnessing her husband killed in combat, her toddler run over by a German tank, and her village commandeered by Nazi forces, ... See full summary »
Director: Fridrikh Ermler | Stars: Vera Maretskaya, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Lidiya Smirnova, Pyotr Aleynikov
Votes: 106
44. Der gescheiterte Blitzkrieg (1998 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
Director: Hartmut Kaminski | Stars: Wilhelm Beck, Reinhardt Firchow, Franz Gack, Götz Hirt-Reger
45.
Lundi en histoires (2014– )
Episode:
Elles étaient en guerre: 1939-1945
(2015)
91 min | Documentary, History
Mothers, nurses, soldiers and deportees - these women fought against persecution for freedom and survival amid the turbulence of World war II.
Directors: Fabien Beziat, Hugues Nancy | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Berthe Wild, Henri Frenay, Lucie Aubrac
Votes: 80
46.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for the Crimea
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 5
47.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2017)
Documentary, History, War
Stalin's canine army, Rommel's hidden hoard of Nazi gold, and mysterious circles reported by RAF pilots across Britain. Hear about war at its weirdest in this intriguing series.
Director: Pascal Hughes | Stars: Stephen Wisdom, Guy Walters, Matthew Green, Kate Vigurs
48.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2017)
Documentary, History, War
Hear about some bizarre tales that occurred while the world was at war, including Stalin's human/ape hybrid, zombie spies and a Nazi plague spreading through 1970s Connecticut.
Director: Pascal Hughes | Stars: Joshua Levine, Guy Walters, Stephen Wisdom, Matthew Green
49.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #2.1
(2018)
Documentary, History, War
Looking at some incredible tales from war, including Churchill's plan to create a giant ice ship, ghost planes that fly themselves and a Nazi treasure hunt for the Amber Room.
Directors: Mike Ibeji, Alex Turner | Stars: Martin Morgan, Guy Walters, Andrew Robertshaw, Joshua Levine
50.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #2.6
(2018)
Documentary, History, War
At the Battle of Mons, the Germans retreat in panic when confronted by a group of angels. Is this divine intervention, mass hallucination - or something even stranger?
Director: Mike Ibeji | Stars: Alexandra Churchill, Guy Walters, Joshua Levine, Dominic Selwood