FR #4 | Movie | War, Biography | USA | English, German
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Thomas Keneally, Steven Zaillian
Cast
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
Plot
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
FR #32 | Movie | War, Biography | France, Germany | English, Russian
Director
Roman Polanski
Writer
Ronald Harwood, Wladyslaw Szpilman
Cast
Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay
Plot
During WWII, acclaimed Polish musician Wladyslaw faces various struggles as he loses contact with his family. As the situation worsens, he hides in the ruins of Warsaw in order to survive.
FR #55 | Movie | War, Drama | Italy | German, Italian
Director
Roberto Benigni
Writer
Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
Cast
Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Plot
When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
FR #72 | Movie | War, Comedy | UK, USA | English, Russian
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
Cast
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Plot
A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
FR #75 | Movie | War, Thriller | Germany | English, German
Director
Wolfgang Petersen
Writer
Wolfgang Petersen, Lothar G. Buchheim
Cast
Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Plot
A German U-boat stalks the frigid waters of the North Atlantic as its young crew experience the sheer terror and claustrophobic life of a submariner in World War II.
FR #79 | Movie | War, Biography | UK, USA | English, Dutch
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Christopher Nolan, Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin
Cast
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon
Plot
A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.
FR #129 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, Vietnamese
Director
Oliver Stone
Writer
Oliver Stone
Cast
Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Plot
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
FR #149 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, Japanese
Director
David Lean
Writer
Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
Cast
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Plot
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
FR #189 | Movie | War, Drama | Germany, France | French, German
Director
Louis Malle
Writer
Louis Malle
Cast
Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Francine Racette
Plot
A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.
FR #308 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, Vietnamese
Director
Stanley Kubrick
Writer
Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
Cast
Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio
Plot
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
FR #362 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Japan | Russian, German
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir
Cast
Jean Gabin, Dita Parlo, Pierre Fresnay
Plot
During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
FR #365 | Movie | Court-Drama, War | USA | English, German
Director
Stanley Kramer
Writer
Abby Mann, Montgomery Clift
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark
Plot
Fictionalized depiction of the 1947 Judges' Trial, the third of 12 trials of Nazi war criminals conducted by the American occupying forces in Nuremberg, Germany, in which former judges of Nazi Germany were tried for their actions.
FR #367 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
John Sturges
Writer
Paul Brickhill, James Clavell, W.R. Burnett
Cast
Steve Mcqueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough
Plot
Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of POWs hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.
FR #408 | Movie | War, Drama | Russia | German, Russian
Director
Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov
Writer
Vladimir Bogomolov, Mikhail Papava, Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast
Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov
Plot
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
FR #550 | Movie | War, Action | India, Spain | English, French
Director
Sam Mendes
Writer
Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
Cast
Dean-Charles Chapman, George Mackay, Daniel Mays
Plot
April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
FR #675 | Movie | War, Drama | Italy | English, German
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Klaus Mann
Cast
Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Plot
American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
FR #750 | Movie | War, Action | UK, USA | English, French
Director
Christopher Nolan
Writer
Christopher Nolan
Cast
Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance
Plot
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
FR #751 | Movie | War, Comedy | New Zealand, USA | English, German
Director
Taika Waititi
Writer
Christine Leunens, Taika Waititi
Cast
Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin Mckenzie, Scarlett Johansson
Plot
A young German boy in the Hitler Youth, whose hero and imaginary friend is the country's dictator, is shocked to discover that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
FR #922 | Movie | Documentary, War | USA, Ukraine | English, Ukrainian
Director
Mstyslav Chernov
Writer
Mstyslav Chernov
Cast
Liudmyla Amelkina, Mstyslav Chernov, Roman Golovanov
Plot
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
FR #1162 | Movie | War, Drama | Poland | German, Polish
Director
Andrzej Wajda
Writer
Jerzy Stefan Stawinski
Cast
Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski
Plot
In 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, Polish Lieutenant Zadra and his resistance fighters use Warsaw's sewer system to escape the German encirclement.
FR #1262 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Italy | English, Bosnian
Director
Danis Tanovic
Writer
Danis Tanovic
Cast
Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic
Plot
Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time of the heaviest fighting between the two warring sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no man's land, whilst a third soldier become...
In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.
FR #1706 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling, Alfred Hitchcock
Cast
Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak
Plot
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
FR #1918 | Movie | War, Court-Drama | USA, UK | English
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Writer
Stanley Roberts, Michael Blankfort, Herman Wouk
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Jose Ferrer, Van Johnson
Plot
When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
Sergey Bondarchuk, Pavel Boriskin, Zinaida Kirienko
Plot
A Soviet soldier, Andrei Sokolov, has been separated from his family by World War II. Suffering in German captivity, he dreams of meeting his darlings after the victory. But cruel fate turned out otherwise.
FR #2050 | Movie | War, Drama | Serbia | Serbian, Croatian
Director
Predrag Antonijevic
Writer
Natasa Drakulic, Tihomir Stanic, Stasa Petrovic
Cast
Biljana Cekic, Zlatan Vidovic, Anja Stanic
Plot
A 10-year-old girl and her family come face-to-face with the horrors of the Holocaust when they are sent to a concentration camp in Croatia. She must summon the courage to protect herself and her infant brother while trying to esc...
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
FR #2138 | Movie | Documentary, War | France, UK | Arabic, German
Director
Werner Herzog
Writer
Werner Herzog
Cast
Werner Herzog
Plot
This film surveys the disaster of the Kuwaiti oil fields in flames, with little narration and scarcely any interviews. Hell on Earth is presented in such transcendent visions and music that one can only be fascinated by it.
A young French girl orphaned in a German air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death.
FR #2395 | Movie | War, Drama | Germany, India | German, Russian
Director
Joseph Vilsmaier
Writer
Jurgen Buscher, Christoph Fromm, Johannes Heide
Cast
Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel
Plot
The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
FR #2423 | Movie | War, Drama | Russia | Georgian, Russian
Director
Rezo Chkheidze
Writer
Suliko Jgenti
Cast
Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov
Plot
An old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.
FR #3096 | Movie | War, Drama | Hungary | Hungarian
Director
Zoltan Fabri
Writer
Zoltan Fabri, Ferenc Santa
Cast
Lajos Oze, Laszlo Markus, Ferenc Bencze
Plot
In Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
FR #3136 | Movie | War, Drama | Russia, Germany | German, French
Director
Vadim Perelman
Writer
Ilja Zofin, Wolfgang Kohlhaase
Cast
Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Lars Eidinger, Jonas Nay
Plot
A young Jewish man in a concentration camp has his life saved when executioners realize he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the l...
FR #3217 | Movie | War, Drama | Czech | Czech, German
Director
Jan Nemec
Writer
Arnost Lustig, Jan Nemec
Cast
Ladislav Jansky, Antonin Kumbera, Ilse Bischofova
Plot
Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. The film goes beyond the themes of war and anti-Nazism and concerns itself with man's struggle to preserve human dignity.
FR #3262 | Movie | War, Drama | USA, Germany | English, German
Director
Brian Percival
Writer
Markus Zusak, Michael Petroni
Cast
Sophie Nelisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson
Plot
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents.
FR #3444 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Howard Hughes, Edmund Goulding, James Whale
Writer
Marshall Neilan, Joseph Moncure March, Howard Estabrook
Cast
Ben Lyon, James Hall, Jean Harlow
Plot
Brothers Monte and Ray leave Oxford to join the Royal Flying Corps. Ray loves Helen; Helen enjoys an affair with Monte; before they leave on their mission over Germany they find her in still another man's arms.
FR #3530 | Movie | War, Drama | Estonia, Georgia | Estonian, Georgian
Director
Zaza Urushadze
Writer
Tatjana Mulbeier, Zaza Urushadze, Artur Veeber
Cast
Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nuganen, Giorgi Nakashidze
Plot
In 1992, war rages in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia. An Estonian man, Ivo, has decided to stay behind and harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo takes him...
FR #3577 | Movie | War, Drama | Spain, Japan | Spanish, Galician
Director
Jose Luis Cuerda
Writer
Rafael Azcona, Manuel Rivas
Cast
Manuel Lozano, Fernando Fernan Gomez, Uxia Blanco
Plot
Spain, 1936. Moncho is an outcast at school but is able to form a strong bond with his outspoken teacher. When fascism arrives to Spain, his teacher is considered an enemy of the regime.
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klu...
FR #4195 | Movie | War, Western | USA | English, Italian
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Wally Kline, Aeneas Mackenzie, Lenore J. Coffee
Cast
Errol Flynn, Olivia De Havilland, Arthur Kennedy
Plot
A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
FR #4296 | Movie | War, Drama | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Mark Herman
Writer
John Boyne, Mark Herman
Cast
Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend
Plot
Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
FR #4420 | Movie | War, Comedy | Hungary, France | German, Hungarian
Director
Marton Keleti
Writer
Imre Dobozi
Cast
Tamas Major, Imre Sinkovits, Ivan Darvas
Plot
During World War II, PFC Molnár decides his military service is over, and with a serious amount of money hidden in hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others ...
FR #4825 | Movie | War, Drama | France, Mauritania | English, Arabic
Director
Abderrahmane Sissako
Writer
Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall
Cast
Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki
Plot
A cattle herder and his family who reside in the dunes of Timbuktu find their quiet lives -- which are typically free of the Jihadists determined to control their faith -- abruptly disturbed.
Two Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.
FR #4969 | Movie | War, Thriller | USA | English, German
Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Lajos Biro
Cast
Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Akim Tamiroff
Plot
During the 1942 North African campaign, a British straggler manages to pass himself off as a waiter at the hotel commandeered as Rommel's headquarters. He has thoughts of assassinating Rommel but his cover may have an even better ...
FR #4997 | Movie | War, Drama | Russia | German, Russian
Director
Boris Barnet
Writer
Konstantin Finn, Boris Barnet
Cast
Yelena Kuzmina, Mikhail Zharov, Nikolay Bogolyubov
Plot
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, national...
FR #5086 | Movie | War, Drama | France | English, German
Director
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Writer
Tatiana De Rosnay, Serge Joncour, Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Cast
Kristin Scott Thomas, Melusine Mayance, Niels Arestrup
Plot
In modern-day Paris, a journalist finds her life becoming entwined with a young girl whose family was torn apart during the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup in 1942.
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life.
Though it has been five years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Yasuko, her uncle and aunt are forced to deal with the ordeals of the disaster, along with many others like them.
FR #5418 | Movie | War, Adventure | USA | English, Japanese
Director
John Boorman
Writer
Alexander Jacobs, Eric Bercovici, Reuben Bercovitch
Cast
Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune
Plot
During World War II, an American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain are deserted on a small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. There, they must cease their hostility and cooperate if they want to survive, but will they?
A Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with The 1st Recon Marines chronicles his experiences during the first wave of the American-led assault on Baghdad in 2003.
