Rape in war and genocide
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1. Men Behind the Sun 4 (1995)
91 min | Drama, History, Horror
In 1937, Japanese troops raid the Chinese city of Nanking to execute a planned massacre by subjecting over 300,000 helpless civilians to various tortures and atrocities before slaughtering them all.
Director: Tun-Fei Mou | Stars: Stephen Cecil Thomas, Liang Zhang, Yung Pan, Shao-tien Hsiung
Votes: 917
2. A Woman in Berlin (2008)
Unrated | 131 min | Biography, Drama, History
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
Director: Max Färberböck | Stars: Nina Hoss, Evgeniy Sidikhin, Irm Hermann, Rüdiger Vogler
Votes: 7,047 | Gross: $0.29M
3. Vukovar Poste Restante (1994)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
This movie describes the violent break-up of former Yugoslavia from the Serbian point of view, using the story of ethnicly mixed couple in war-torn city of Vukovar as metaphore.
Director: Boro Draskovic | Stars: Mirjana Jokovic, Boris Isakovic, Svetlana Bojkovic, Predrag Ejdus
Votes: 858
4. Savior (1998)
R | 103 min | Drama, War
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
Director: Predrag Antonijevic | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Nastassja Kinski, Pascal Rollin, Catlin Foster
Votes: 11,517 | Gross: $0.01M
5. A Sunday in Kigali (2006)
118 min | Drama, War
In April 1994, the middle-aged Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt is making a documentary in Kigali about AIDS. He secretly falls in love for the Tutsi waitress of his hotel Gentille, who... See full summary »
Director: Robert Favreau | Stars: Luc Picard, Fatou N'Diaye, Céline Bonnier, Luck Mervil
Votes: 709
6. Calling the Ghosts (1996)
Unrated | 60 min | Documentary, War
Movie about tortured and humiliated women in concentration camps in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Directors: Mandy Jacobson, Karmen Jelincic | Stars: Jadranka Cigelj, Nusreta Sivac
Votes: 64
7. Attack on Darfur (2009)
R | 98 min | Drama, War
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Kristanna Loken, David O'Hara, Noah Dalton Danby, Matt Frewer
Votes: 2,766
8. City of Life and Death (2009)
R | 133 min | Drama, History, War
In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
Director: Chuan Lu | Stars: Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi, Yuanyuan Gao
Votes: 11,721 | Gross: $0.12M
9. My Mother's Courage (1995)
89 min | Drama, War
The deportation of 4000 Jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1944, as told by George Tabori, and how the narrator's mother escaped it, owing to coincidence, courage and some help from where you'd least expect it.
Director: Michael Verhoeven | Stars: Pauline Collins, George Tabori, Ulrich Tukur, Natalie Morse
Votes: 205
10. Auction of Souls (1919)
80 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story about the Armenian Genocide based on the account of survivor Aurora Mardiganian.
Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Aurora Mardiganian, Irving Cummings, Anna Q. Nilsson, Henry Morgenthau
Votes: 1,242
11. Soldier Blue (1970)
R | 112 min | Drama, War, Western
After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson
Votes: 6,279 | Gross: $0.51M
12. Two Women (1960)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, War
In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown
Votes: 12,439
13. Town Without Pity (1961)
Approved | 105 min | Crime, Drama
Four American soldiers stationed near a German village face death in the rape of a local girl, and are defended by outside counsel Major Steve Garrett.
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Barbara Rütting, Christine Kaufmann, E.G. Marshall
Votes: 1,983
14. As If I Am Not There (2010)
109 min | Drama
A young female teacher from Sarajevo who travels to a remote village. Soon after arriving, the village is attacked by a group of soldiers. The men are killed, the women separated from the children, and placed in a makeshift brothel.
Director: Juanita Wilson | Stars: Natasha Petrovic, Fedja Stukan, Jelena Jovanova, Sanja Buric
Votes: 1,326
15. The Abandoned (2010)
Approved | 88 min | Drama
The story of a boy from a home for abandoned children, who tries to find out the truth about his origins.
Director: Adis Bakrac | Stars: Tony Grga, Mirsad Tuka, Mira Furlan, Mirela Lambic
Votes: 349 | Gross: $12.44M
16. The Devil Came on Horseback (2007)
85 min | Documentary
A documentary that exposes the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan as seen through the eyes of a former U.S. marine who returns home to make the story public.
Directors: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg | Stars: Nicholas Kristof, Brian Steidle
Votes: 1,622 | Gross: $0.13M
18. Grbavica (2006)
90 min | Drama
A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Bosnian War.
Director: Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Kenan Catic
Votes: 6,889 | Gross: $0.04M
19. Fighting the Silence (2007)
53 min | Documentary
The Democratic Republic of the Congo's seven year war was the deadliest ever recorded in Africa. More than 80.000 women and girls were raped. When the country is formally at peace the consequences of the brutality become truly visible.
Directors: Femke van Velzen, Ilse van Velzen
Votes: 12
20. The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo (2007)
76 min | Documentary, War
Jackson travels to remote villages in the war zones of the Congo to meet rape survivors, providing a piercing, intimate look into the struggle of their lives.
Director: Lisa F. Jackson
Votes: 182
21. In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011)
R | 127 min | Drama, Romance, War
During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
Director: Angelina Jolie | Stars: Zana Marjanovic, Goran Kostic, Rade Serbedzija, Vanessa Glodjo
Votes: 34,653 | Gross: $0.30M
22. Intended Consequences (2008)
Short, War
In 1994, in the East African nation of Rwanda, one million ethnic Tutsi people were slaughtered, in a genocide committed by their Hutu countrymen. But the scars left by these murderous ... See full summary »
23. Gardiens de la mémoire (2004)
54 min | Documentary
With great sensitivity, director Eric Kabera immortalises the accounts of survivors, victims and perpetrators of the genocide in Rwanda, ten years after the devastating events of 1994.
Director: Eric Kabera
Votes: 15
24. Rape: A Crime of War (1997)
59 min | Documentary, War
Director: Shelley Saywell | Stars: Kate Nelligan, Martin Bell, Jadranka Cigelj, Ankica Gotstajn
Votes: 14
25. Weapon of War: Confessions of Rape in Congo (2009)
60 min | Documentary
Wherever war breaks out, men with guns rape. During the decades of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo possibly hundreds of thousands of women and girls were brutally raped. In ... See full summary »
Directors: Femke van Velzen, Ilse van Velzen
Votes: 14
26.
Panorama (1953– )
Episode:
Facing Up to Genocide - Valentina's Story
(1997)
Documentary, News
The story of 16-year-old survivor of 1994 Tutsi genocide.
Star: Fergal Keane
27.
60 Minutes (1968– )
Episode:
The King of Sushi/War Against Women/The Face Behind Facebook
(2008)
TV-PG | Documentary, News
"The King of Sushi" examines the fishing for and consumption of rare Bluefin tuna. "War Against Women" investigates how the civil war in the Congo has begun to target women. "The Face ... See full summary »
Stars: Scott Pelley, Bob Simon, Ted Bestor, Tsunenori Ida
28. Women, War & Peace (2011–2019)
Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Matt Damon, Geena Davis, Tilda Swinton
Votes: 26
29. Worse Than War (2009 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 114 min | Documentary
An exploration of the nature of genocide, ethnic cleansing and large-scale mass murder in our time.
Director: Mike DeWitt | Star: Daniel J. Goldhagen
Votes: 87
30. For Those Who Can Tell No Tales (2013)
72 min | Drama
An Australian tourist discovers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities when she arrives in a seemingly idyllic little town on the border of Bosnia and Serbia.
Director: Jasmila Zbanic | Stars: Kym Vercoe, Boris Isakovic, Simon McBurney, Branko Cvejic
Votes: 352
31. The Man Who Mends Women: The Wrath of Hippocrates (2015)
Not Rated | 112 min | Documentary, Biography, News
Winner of the Sakharov Prize 2014, Doctor Mukwege is internationally known as the man who mends thousands of women who have been raped during the 20 years of conflicts in the East of the ... See full summary »
Director: Thierry Michel | Stars: Martin Spinhayer, Denis Mukwege Mukengere, Hillary Clinton
Votes: 140
32. The Uncondemned (2015)
Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary
In 1997, a group of lawyers and activists prosecuted rape as a crime against humanity. This is the story of their fight for the first conviction.
Directors: Nick Louvel, Michele Mitchell | Stars: Pierre-Richard Prosper, Sara Darehshori, Thierry Cruvellier, Mukasarasi Godelieve
Votes: 58 | Gross: $0.01M
33. The Flowers of War (2011)
R | 146 min | Drama, History, Romance
An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Director: Yimou Zhang | Stars: Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Tianyuan Huang
Votes: 55,734 | Gross: $0.01M
34. The Whistleblower (2010)
R | 112 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A drama based on the experiences of Kathryn Bolkovac, a Nebraska cop who served as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia and outed the U.N. for covering up a sex trafficking scandal.
Director: Larysa Kondracki | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, Vanessa Redgrave, David Strathairn
Votes: 35,756 | Gross: $1.12M
35. Die Flucht (2007 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, History, Thriller
In 1944 many Germans in Eastern Prussia, like Lena von Mahlenberg, daughter of a local aristocrat, believed that Hitler would surrender and spare them from being invaded by the vengeful Russian Red Army. He didn't and they had to flee.
Director: Kai Wessel | Stars: Maria Furtwängler, Jean-Yves Berteloot, Tonio Arango, Gabriela Maria Schmeide
Votes: 616
36. Die große Flucht (2001– )
Documentary
"A five-part series directed by (TV) historian Guido Knopp about the story of millions of Germans who had to flee from the approaching Red Army under the worst conditions at the end of the ... See full summary »
Stars: Rolf Schult, Peter Heusch, Gisbert Rüschkamp
Votes: 12
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