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1. Come and See (1985)
Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Votes: 98,129
2. The Ascent (1977)
111 min | Drama, War
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Votes: 10,184
3. Trial on the Road (1986)
96 min | Drama, War
A Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Oleg Borisov
Votes: 2,599
4. Bitva za Moskvu (1985)
358 min | Drama, History, War
The battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.
Stars: Helmut Hellstorff, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Artyom Karapetyan, Yakov Tripolsky
Votes: 475
5. How the Holocaust Began (2023)
59 min | Documentary, History, War
The Nazi evolution from murderous anti-semitism into organised death camps, as documented in this sober piece of historical excavation from Holocaust specialist James Bulgin, is truly ... See full summary »
Directors: Nic Young, Ben Holgate | Star: James Bulgin
Votes: 115
6. Convoy 48 (2019)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, War
During the defense of Leningrad in the winter of 1941-1942, several women are tasked with delivering cargo and military equipment via the railways, facing German interference at every turn.
Director: Fedor Popov | Stars: Artyom Alekseev, Francisco de Borja De la Bella, Inna Egorova, Darya Ekamasova
Votes: 399
7. Match (2012)
117 min | Drama, History, Sport
Goalkeeper Nikolay Ranevich and his Dinamo football team are about to play against the German footballers during the Nazi occupation of Kiev in 1942. The match is much more about honor and dignity than sport.
Director: Andrey Malyukov | Stars: Sergey Bezrukov, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Ekaterina Klimova, Stanislav Boklan
Votes: 846
8. Moscow Strikes Back (1942)
Approved | 55 min | Documentary, War
A number of frontline cameramen shot the footage used in this documentary of the Battle of Moscow, between October 1941 and January 1942,in which a people's war against the German invaders,... See full summary »
Directors: Ilya Kopalin, Leonid Varlamov | Stars: N. Dubravin, Edward G. Robinson, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 297
9. A zori zdes tikhie (2005– )
Drama, War
Chinese TV series in 20 episodes based in the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev. Sergeant Vaskov (Sokolov) is stationed at a remote artillery post in the Soviet Union during World War II. He... See full summary »
Stars: Tatyana Ostap, Darya Charusha, Elena Maltseva, Aleksandra Teryaeva
Votes: 150
10. Battle of Kursk (2009 Video)
57 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary recounting the WW2 engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front in July 1943.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Ivan Konev
Votes: 10
11. The Rainbow (1944)
87 min | War, Drama
A bitter anti-Nazi film, "The Rainbow" details the sufferings of a Ukrainian village during 30 days of occupation.
Director: Mark Donskoy | Stars: Natalya Uzhviy, Nina Alisova, Elena Tyapkina, Valentina Ivashova
Votes: 255
12. Secret Agent (1947)
88 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Soviet agent Fedotov must cross over into German occupied Ukraine and steal the correspondence between a high ranking German general and Hitler.
Director: Boris Barnet | Stars: Pavel Kadochnikov, Amvrosi Buchma, Viktor Dobrovolsky, Dmitri Milyutenko
Votes: 313
13. 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: 165
14. Front bez flangov (1975)
170 min | War
Front bez flangov (1974) is the first episode in the trilogy about the partisan's fighting against the Nazi occupation of Russia during the WWII.
Director: Igor Gostev | Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Oleg Zhakov, Aleksandr Denisov, Tofik Mirzoyev
Votes: 111
15. 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
16. Tretya raketa (1963)
Drama, War
Fate brings together on the front line, in the same trench, very different people, who together will have to withstand a German tank attack. In a difficult environment of constant mortal danger, human characters are revealed.
Director: Richard Viktorov | Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Georgi Zhzhyonov, Spartak Fedotov, Nadezhda Sementsova
Votes: 61
17. Zoya (1944)
86 min | Drama, War
A popular, inspirational biography of a World War II Soviet heroine, showing her life in flashback as she is captured and tortured fighting the German invaders.
Director: Lev Arnshtam | Stars: Galina Vodyanitskaya, Yekaterina Skvortsova, Kseniya Tarasova, Nikolai Ryzhov
Votes: 104
18. WWII: The Lost Color Archives (2000 TV Movie)
171 min | Documentary, War
Determined researchers scoured the world for color film shot during World War II and unearthed shots of Nazi rallies honoring Adolf Hitler, combat footage from across Europe and the Pacific... See full summary »
Stars: Eva Braun, Winston Churchill, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler
Votes: 110
19. Gotenland (2018)
58 min | Documentary
In November 1941, the German Army occupied the Crimea peninsula. In a short time, murderous Aktionen of the Jews begin - as in the rest of the Soviet occupied territories. The Nazis planned... See full summary »
Director: Boris Maftsir
20. Survivors of Stalingrad (2015– )
46 min | Documentary, History, War
Describes the Battle of Stalingrad, focusing on the reminiscences of former German soldiers, many of whom had been taken as prisoners of war by the Red Army
Star: Mike Leighton
21. 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: 67
22. Obratnoy dorogi net (1971– )
198 min | War
The Red Army Major Toporkov, having escaped from the prisoners camp, gets in the partisan unit with the request of the prisoners: the uprising is being prepared in the camp, weapons are ... See full summary »
Stars: Nikolay Olyalin, Aleksandr Yanvaryov, Aleksey Chernov, Igor Yasulovich
Votes: 73
23. Otryad Trubachyova srazhayetsya (1957)
95 min | Adventure, War
Director: Ilya Frez | Stars: Oleg Vishnev, Vladimir Semenovich, Aleksandr Chudakov, Vyacheslav Devkin
Votes: 55
24. 1944 Uprisings in Europe (2019)
TV-MA | 54 min | Documentary, History, War
Poland was the first country to find itself in the cross hairs of Germany's military might at the outbreak of World War II. For 63 days the horrors that befell Poland in the form of heavy ... See full summary »
Director: Eugene Starky | Stars: Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, Norman Davies, Charles de Gaulle, Jan Nowak Jezioranski
25. Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)
90 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of Hitler and his penchant for barbarism and destruction, starting with his surprise Russian invasion and the anarchy that followed.
Stars: Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor, Richard John Evans, Klaus Schmider
Votes: 28
26. A Woman's Kingdom (1968)
97 min | Drama, War
Story of a Soviet woman who had to live in her native western USSR village during German occupation in the World War II. Despite the hardships of wartime and the loss of her folks, she had managed to stay righteous and hardworking.
Director: Aleksei Saltykov | Stars: Rimma Markova, Nina Sazonova, Svetlana Zhgun, Aleksandra Dorokhina
Votes: 67
27. Partizanskaya iskra (1957)
100 min | Drama, War
Directors: Aleksey Maslyukov, Mechislava Mayevskaya | Stars: Volodya Lushchik, Lev Borisov, Anatoli Yurchenko, S. Nesin
Votes: 16
28. The People's Avengers (1943)
55 min | Documentary, War
About the struggle of Soviet partisans with Nazi invaders during the Second World War. Partisans are fighting in various regions of the USSR, including the Caucasus. The film uses footage from German newsreels.
Director: Vasiliy Belyayev | Star: Leonid Khmara
29. Tsena vozvrata (1983)
81 min | Adventure, War
The film takes us back to Crimea, during Nazi occupation. Hayk Margaryan, a member of an underground organization, saves a painting by Aivazovsky, which Hitler's soldiers tried to smuggle from Theodosia.
Director: Grigori Melik-Avakyan | Stars: Ashot Adamyan, Vatslav Dvorzhetsky, Valentina Yakunina, Artyom Inozemtsev
Votes: 9
30. Drawers of Memory (2017)
80 min | Documentary
In the sixth film of the project about the Shoah in the Former Soviet Union, filmmaker Boris Maftsir set out on a journey to uncover the memory of the Holocaust in Latvia, where he was born... See full summary »
Director: Boris Maftsir
31. Vyzyvaem ogon na sebya (1963)
317 min | Drama, War
In the Soviet airbase, occupied by the Nazis, a resistance group occurs, led by a modest girl Anna Morozova. For each victory (important, albeit small on a scale of the war) they have to pay a heavy price.
Stars: Lyudmila Kasatkina, Yelena Korolyova, Izolda Izvitskaya, Aleksandr Lazarev
Votes: 78
32. The Secret Brigade (1949)
77 min | Action, Biography, Drama
Young railroad worker, seemingly accommodating to Nazi overlords at a captured rural depot, secretly spearheads acts of sabotage against the evil occupying forces.
Directors: Aleksandr Faintsimmer, Vladimir Korsh-Sablin | Stars: Vladimir Druzhnikov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandr Khvylya, Gleb Glebov
Votes: 43
33. 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
34. Synovya ukhodyat v boy (1971)
94 min | Drama, War
Director: Viktor Turov | Stars: Nina Urgant, Svetlana Sukhovey, Olga Lysenko, Stanislav Churkin
Votes: 25
35. Until the Last Step (2016)
88 min | Documentary
Towards the end of winter 1941-42 almost all of the campaigns of the murder of the Jews in Eastern Belarus were already complete. In many places in western Belarus, there were still ghettos... See full summary »
Director: Boris Maftsir
36. Dolgie vyorsty voyny (1976 TV Movie)
208 min | Drama, War
Director: Aleksandr Karpov | Stars: Vadim Yakovlev, Nikolay Fedortsov, Yuriy Duvanov, Aleksandr Vdovin
Votes: 36
37. Malchishku zvali kapitanom (1974)
88 min | Drama, War
A story about a young hero of the Great Patriotic War, scout Yasha Gordienko. A short, stocky boy who dreamed of becoming a military sailor was a liaison of a partisan detachment in Odesa ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Tolmachyov | Stars: Boris Zajtsev, Anatoliy Grachyov, Sasha Danilochkin, Igor Irich
Votes: 11
38. Holocaus. The Eastern Front (2016)
95 min | Documentary
The Holocaust in Russia, in the occupied territories farthest from Nazi Germany. The film combines five stories of the annihilation of the Jews, the struggle to acknowledge their murder as ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Maftsir
39. Dozhit do rassveta (1977)
79 min | Drama, War
On December 6, 1941, the troops of the Western Front went on the offensive near Moscow. And before that, in the fall of 1941, when the Nazis were near Moscow, ten soldiers under the command... See full summary »
Directors: Viktor Sokolov, Mikhail Yershov | Stars: Aleksandr Mikhaylov, Aleksei Goryachev, Svetlana Orlova, Aleksei Pankin
Votes: 35
40. We Allow You to Die (2016)
66 min | Documentary
We allow you to die - The story of the starvation camp Pechora on the border between Transnistria and the German occupied Vinnytsia district in the Ukraine. A "model" camp that illustrates ... See full summary »
Director: Boris Maftsir
41. Blitz on Berlin (2014 Video)
56 min | Documentary, History, War
A detailed account of the allied bombing raids on the city of Berlin in World War Two.
Director: Stanley Joseph | Stars: Barbara Von Rimscha, Anne-Marie Von Mutius, Adolf Hitler, Kaiser Wilhelm II
Votes: 6
42. 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: 12
43. Podpolnyy obkom deystvuet (1979– )
318 min | War
Stars: Viktor Shcherbakov, Nikolay Grinko, Anatoli Barchuk, Viktor Miroshnichenko
Votes: 15
44.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Barbarossa: June-December 1941
(1973)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
After dominating southeastern Europe through force or intrigue, Germany begins Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Walter Warlimont, Albert Speer, Grigori Tokaty
Votes: 516
45.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Red Star: The Soviet Union - 1941-1943
(1974)
TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
The rise of the Red Army, mobilization of Soviet production, the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet partisans, and the Battle of Kursk.
Director: Martin Smith | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Olga Rybakova, Vsevolod Klokov, Nikolai Volkov
Votes: 429
46.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Stalingrad: June 1942-February 1943
(1974)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
The mid-war German situation in Southern Russia resulting in the German defeat at the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Hugh Raggett | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Andrey Yeryomenko, Hermann Göring, Franz Halder
Votes: 473
47.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for Russia
(1995)
Documentary, History, War
Director: Dave Flitton | Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Heinz Guderian, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 12
48.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 12
49.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle for the Crimea
(2002)
Documentary, History, War
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 6
50.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
The Battle of Kursk
(2000)
Documentary, History, War
In the summer of 1943 more than 2,000,000 men of the German and Russian Armies and over 6,000 tanks were gathered together near the Russian town of Kursk. The scene was set for one of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Heinz Guderian, Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, Ivan Konev
Votes: 8