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101. Thou Shalt Not Kill (1961)
148 min | Drama, War
At the end of World War II, a French pacifist is arrested for refusing to fight. In prison, he befriends a German priest arrested for murder of a French Resistance fighter. They discuss morality, obedience, and religion.
Director: Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Laurent Terzieff, Horst Frank, Mica Orlovic, Marijan Lovric
Votes: 76
102. Boy: Mum (2017)
9 min | Short, Drama
Stepfather has his own ideas of how Jake should handle his bullies, and he verbally abuses Jake. Jake decides not to fight back in order to be a paternal figure to his younger brother and to honor his father, until Jake is pushed too far.
Director: Paolo Franciamore | Stars: George Compton, Susan Jayne-Robinson, Reginald Edwards, Thomas Ryan
103. As the Earth Turns (2019)
46 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
An apocalyptic future war that could destroy the planet is explored in this silent film shot in 1937.
Director: Richard Lyford | Stars: Barbara Berjer, Alan Hoelting, Edwin C. Frost, Richard Lyford
Votes: 199
104. In Again, Out Again (II) (1917)
50 min | Comedy
In New Jersey lives Teddy Rutherford, a vigorous exponent of preparedness. Before the populace realize it, the community becomes a hive of munition manufacturers. Teddy falls in love with ... See full summary »
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Arline Pretty, Walter Walker, Arnold Lucy
Votes: 26
105. The Great Love (1918)
70 min | Drama, War
An idealistic young American during World War I, itching to fight the Germans and not wanting to wait until the U. S. joined the war, journeys to Canada and enlists in the British army. He ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: George Fawcett, Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Gloria Hope
Votes: 71
106. Sons o' Guns (1936)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
Broadway star Jimmy Canfield stars in a patriotic show on the great white way during WWI. He plays the heroic soldier, but he is doesn't want to join the Army. To evade some troubles with ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Joan Blondell, Beverly Roberts, Eric Blore
Votes: 278
107. Carry Greenham Home (1983)
69 min | Documentary
A depiction of the women involved in the peace movement contrasts greatly with media portraits of the time, and the subsequent collective memory.
Directors: Beeban Kidron, Amanda Richardson
108. Breathing Under Water (1991)
78 min | Drama
Following her daughter's birth, Beatrice is troubled that she has brought a child into a world that is threatened with extinction, either by nuclear bombs or the slower process of environmental decay.
Director: Susan Murphy Dermody | Stars: Anne-Louise Lambert, Kristoffer Greaves, Maeve Dermody, Gillian Jones
Votes: 28
109. Peace One Day (2004)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
The story of Jeremy Gilley's attempts to persuade the global community via the United Nations to sanction officially a day without conflict; a ceasefire day; a global day of Peace.
Director: Jeremy Gilley | Stars: The Dalai Lama, Kofi Annan, Jeremy Gilley, Judi Dench
Votes: 148
110. Get Up, Stand Up (2003)
330 min | Documentary, History, Music
The Story of Pop and Politics: About the relationship between performers and politics in the USA, the UK, Germany and France from the 1960s until 2003.
Stars: Bono, Graham Nash, Jim Kerr, Michael Franti
Votes: 92
111. Draft 258 (1917)
70 min | Drama
Mary Alden and her brothers Matthew and George have extremely different political views. Matthew is a committed pacifist, and is constantly giving speeches against war. George is notified ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Mabel Taliaferro, Walter Miller, Earl Brunswick, Eugene Borden
112. Sensô to heiwa (1947)
100 min | Drama
His family believes him dead when a member of the Japanese imperial army deployed to China during the occupation of the latter by the former does not return home following the cessation of ... See full summary »
Directors: Tadashi Imai, Fumio Kamei, Satsuo Yamamoto | Stars: Ryô Ikebe, Yasuhiko Ishizu, Hajime Izu, Ichirô Sugai
Votes: 10
113. True Heart (2017)
30 min | Short, Drama, War
A WW2 story of Jason Carter an American soldier who attempts to rescue his soul and fight his orders as he finds a young abandoned 8 year old German girl at the end of the war.
Director: Jonathan Kingston Gameiro | Stars: Edward Tarling, Damon Driver, Rob McLoughlin, Emily Gameiro
Votes: 27
114. Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (2010)
7 min | Short
A remixed narrative that combines two Jake Gyllenhaal films (Donnie Darko (2001) and Jarhead (2005)) with news footage of President Barack Obama. As the President wins the Nobel Peace Prize... See full summary »
Director: Diran Lyons | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Eva Amurri, Chris Cooper, Patrick Fugit
Votes: 72
115. Omer et le fils de l'étoile (1992–1993)
25 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Stars: Dor Zweigenboim, Howard Rypp, Eva Hadad, Johanan Herson
Votes: 33
116. Shadows of Suspicion (1919)
50 min | Drama, War
When the Great War begins, English sportsman Cyril Hammersley is thought to be a slacker because he refuses to join the army for pacifistic reasons. His American fiancée, Doris Mathers, ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Harold Lockwood, Naomi Childers, Helen Lindroth, Kenneth Kealing
117. The Littlest Scout (1919)
Drama
Three-year-old Charles Stuart Wyngate longs to be a Boy Scout, while his seven-year-old sister Violet, who wishes that she was a boy named Bill, desires to help the war effort through Red ... See full summary »
Director: Paula Blackton | Stars: Charles Stuart Blackton, Paula Blackton, William Bittner, Violet Virginia Blackton
118. Edge (1997)
R | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Edge is the story of Edward 'Edge' Jones (Edge), a man with no memory of the event in the Persian Gulf war that left him physically scarred and lost in a civilian world that offers him no ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Harty | Stars: Aaron Michael Lacey, Steve Tartalia, Briel Banks, Celeste Lynch
Votes: 61
119. 68 (2008 TV Movie)
110 min | Documentary, History, War
From Washington to Saigon, Rome to Mexico, Paris to London, a wave of demonstrations shakes the world. 68 travels back in time to war torn Vietnam, freed and occupied Prague, Paris demonstrating, revolution in the Americas.
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Édouard Balladur, The Beatles, Claude Berri, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 66
120. The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of American conscientious objectors during World War II.
Directors: Judith Ehrlich, Rick Tejada-Flores | Star: Edward Asner
Votes: 41
121. Tsushima Maru: Sayônara Okinawa (1982)
70 min | Animation, Drama, Family
Director: Osamu Kobayashi
122. Under the Black Eagle (1928)
60 min | Drama, War
During World War I, a dog saves a young soldier's life on the battlefield.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Marceline Day, Bert Roach, William Fairbanks
Votes: 31
123. Ubezhdeniya (2016)
63 min | Documentary, Comedy
Four stories of young men's encounters with army recruitment commissions. Ardent pacifist Roman is sent through a series of humiliating court trials. Losha and Viktor endure long and ... See full summary »
Director: Tatyana Chistova | Stars: Roman Fedotov, Viktor Semenenkov, Alekséi Rýkov, Ivan Fedoseev
Votes: 40
124. Ikuiseen rauhaan (2021)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary film about Finnish pacifist Arndt Pekurinen.
Director: Ville Suhonen | Stars: Joonas Saartamo, Vilma Melasniemi, Elena Leeve, Olavi Uusivirta
Votes: 52
125. I_religeoux (2019 Video)
18 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi
We are facing a nuclear disaster. Some penitents walk naked on a road waiting for the fall of the deadly bomb. Alternative experimental short by José Martos looking to create a schock in the viewer.
Director: José Martos | Stars: Alejandro Fuster, Luz Gómez, Lluis Rugama Espasa, Batseba Comino
126. Aktivisti (2000)
34 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Visa Koiso-Kanttila | Stars: Otso Kivekäs, Jukka Kivekäs
127. A Peace of the Anarchy: Ammon Hennacy and Other Angelic Troublemakers in the USA (2005)
69 min | Documentary
Seeking wisdom, love and courage in the 20th century, Ammon was sent to jail with Dorothy Day and Judith Malina. These anarchists and other spiritual activists provoked widespread consideration of the cost of wielding nuclear bombs.
Stars: Ammon Hennacy, Dorothy Day, Starhawk, Kathy Kelly
Votes: 12
128. The Prince and the Coral Sea (2000 Video)
26 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
On Okinawa Island, a boy named Ray is determined to use a magical gift he received from a kind and beautiful mermaid to protect the island's nature and its people, no matter what he has to give.
Director: Tomoharu Katsumata
Votes: 11
129. Kuoleman hellä kosketus (1982 TV Movie)
56 min | Drama
Matti Tulli is a sensitive pacifist, unhappy with the oppressive discipline of the military service. The army doesn't know what to do with him and slowly also Tulli is losing himself.
Director: Veli-Matti Saikkonen | Stars: Pertti Sveholm, Marja Packalén, Yrjö Parjanne, Martti Kainulainen
Votes: 8
130. Mitä nyt rauhanliike? - Hyvästi pasifismi (1971 TV Movie)
Documentary
In 1960, Pentti Linkola published the anti-war book 'Isänmaan ja eisensen puola', celebrating pacifism and non-violence. However, the optimism and enthusiasm of the then 28-year-old ... See full summary »
Director: Seppo Jokipii | Star: Pentti Linkola
131. On the Line (2007)
Not Rated | 55 min | Documentary
An act of civil disobedience at America's largest ongoing protest brings graduate student Brian DeRouen face-to-face with the pressing constitutional issues of today. His non-violent action... See full summary »
Directors: Peter Glenn, Jason A. Schmidt | Stars: Roy Bourgeois, Brian DeRouen, John Perkins, Helen Prejean
Votes: 35
132. Youth Marches On (1938)
Approved | 20 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary about the Oxford Group, a propagandist spiritual-movement, for young men and women, with its origins in England. Their message was a cheery exposition of brotherhood and ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Bird | Stars: Eric Parfit, Earle Beattie, Cecil Broadhurst, Paul Campbell
133. Guang dao nian ba (1974)
110 min | Drama, War
Director: Kong Lung | Stars: Josephine Siao, Charlie Chin, Chiao Chiao, Shan Kwan
Votes: 14
134. Henri Barbusse (1959)
22 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Director: Jean Lods | Stars: Henri Barbusse, Claude Martin
135. Histoire du caporal (1983)
100 min | Drama, History, War
When Antoine Combalat ,a peasant,reads the papers,he knows everything is brainwashing.But the church bells have rung:WW1 which was bound to end all wars has begun.
Director: Jean Baronnet | Stars: Philippe Nahoun, Maurice Tuech, Christian Defleur, Catherine Reynet
Votes: 14
136. Orvokki (1966 TV Movie)
40 min | Comedy, Music
Director: Jukka Sipilä | Stars: Kaisa Korhonen, Aulikki Oksanen, Seppo Lehtonen, Kalle Holmberg
138. Magume (2002)
56 min | Documentary
Buta, southern Burundi. A school, scene of a massacre during the war between Hutus and Tutsis, once more welcomes students of both ethnic groups. These students begin the task of ... See full summary »
Directors: Joachim Gatti, Jean-Baptiste Leroux
139. Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)
TV-14 | 62 min | Documentary, Biography
The story of former president of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oscar Sanchez Arias.
Director: Dawn Gifford Engle | Stars: Óscar Arias, Tom Brokaw, The Dalai Lama, Stephanie Elam
Votes: 35
140. To Unveil a Star (2021)
107 min | Documentary
An essay-film by artist Juul Hondius about the remarkable and comprehensive relationship between himself and a world-famous ideological work of art.
Director: Juul Hondius | Stars: Bram van Aalst, Rudi Delhem, Ann Demeester, Olivier Goessens
Votes: 7
141. Piramida nad Kievom (2016)
11 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
After the events of first two movies Angel Angelov resides in Siberia and tries to warn his friends about next pyramid attacks he senses with a mysterious telepathic link. Soon after he ... See full summary »
Directors: Sergey A., Mykola Yeriomin | Stars: Sergey A., Mikhail Bondarev, Ivan Lachance, Svyatoslav Burdukov
Votes: 43
142. Accelerando (2016)
40 min | Documentary, Short
A cinematic essay about the analytical power of utopias as depicted in early documentary films and political pamphlets, centering on excerpts of Fabrik Poldihütte, a fragment of an early ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wasner | Star: Stephen Zepke
143. Les voiles de la paix (2005 Video)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Philippe Vallois | Star: Kamellia
144. Vapautusliikkeet vedenjakajalla (1968 TV Special)
45 min | Talk-Show, War
Director: Heikki Koukkunen | Stars: Ilkka-Christian Björklund, Erkki Tuomioja, Harri Holkeri, Pentti Järvinen
145. Taatan paha uni (2004)
46 min | Documentary
Director: Anu Kuivalainen | Stars: Uuno F. Inkinen, Jari Virman
147. To the Nations (2016)
2 min | Short
What does an old war memorial tell us, 100 years later? Robert Hamerling (1830-1889) reflects back and calls for intercultural understanding.
Director: Patrick Müller | Star: Klaus-Rüdiger Utschick
Votes: 11
148. I Am (2014)
3 min | Short, History, War
By visiting an old castle, systematically destroyed among numerous others during the Nine Years' War (1688-1697), the film reflects on the possibility of peace.
Director: Patrick Müller
Votes: 11
150. Manfred Mann Feat. Caitlyn Scarlett: Hands in the Air (2015 Music Video)
3 min | Music
Music video for the titled single from Manfred Mann's album, "Lone Arranger".
Director: Caitlyn Scarlett | Stars: Manfred Mann, Caitlyn Scarlett