Region: Eastern Europe
10,000 BC
- Director: Roland Emmerich
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: United States, South Africa
D'leh, a prehistoric hunter, must leave his idyllic, egalitarian village in pursuit of Bronze Age horse-riding nomads who have stolen his one true love, along with most of his tribe's viable breeders and replacement units; however, at the end of the road, the small, multicultural, multiethnic band of freedom fighters D'leh has assembled finds itself facing an enemy that is truly out of this world.
1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni (1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time)
- Director: Vladimir Khotinenko
- Release Date: 2007
- Production Country: Russia
Czarina Kseniya Godunova is heir to the throne with a power hungry Polish husband who wants to rule Russia; a serf enamored with the czarina attempts to help her reach her rightful place.
5 Days of War (5 Days of August)
- Director: Renny Harlin
- Release Date: 2011
- Production Country: United States
A United States film crew visits a friend in Georgia, suspecting that something may be brewing, only to find themselves caught in the cross-fire when Georgia moves against separatist groups and the Russians step in to help out the separatists.
9 Rota (9th Company)
- Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: Finland, Russia, Ukraine
A group of young soldiers attend bootcamp in a foreign but friendly valley in Uzbekistan, but the most important lesson they learn in getting ready for their tour of duty in Afghanistan may be the tragic fate of the soldiers who they replaced. Trapped in a brutal firefight against a much larger force of local mujahideen, the young men had to rely on their own wits and courage to save them when their pleas for aid went unheeded by their commanders.
Admiral
- Director: Andrey Kravchuk
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: Russia
His love life and his country in dismay, Admiral Kolchak rejects the Bolshevik offer of a position in their navy and, instead, becomes a leader in the White Movement, an attempt to restore Tsarist Imperial Russia. His mission is complicated when the woman he spurned years ago returns, begging him to set aside his own wife in her favor.
Aleksandr Nevskiy (Alexander Nevsky)
- Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
- Release Date: 1938
- Production Country: Soviet Union
A Russian prince, Alexander Nevsky, defends Novgorod from invading German knights with a rallied army in 13th-century Russia.
Alexander
- Director: Oliver Stone
- Release Date: 2004
- Production Country: Germany, United States, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Italy
Alexander sets out from Macedonia to conquer the world and succeeds.
Alexander the Great
- Director: Robert Rossen
- Release Date: 1956
- Production Country: United States, Spain
Alexander reminds the Greeks his father conquered them, then assumes position at the head of their army to set out and conquer the world.
Alyonka
- Director: Boris Barnet
- Release Date: 1961
- Production Country: Soviet Union
Traveling together, Russians returning from the Kazakh steppes bond over shared hardships, triumphs, and the journey home itself.
An Islamic History of Europe
- Director: Paul Sapin
- Release Date: 2004
- Production Country: United Kingdom
The landscape of medieval Europe was the dynamic space in which Muslim kingdoms and the Ottoman Empire provided the seeds of science and learning that led to the European Renaissance.
Andrey Rublyov (Andrei Rublev)
- Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
- Release Date: 1966
- Production Country: Soviet Union
An icon painter in Russia finds that art and faith are an integral part of his identity as a Russian–and that in times of chaos and repression the language and function of art become an even more essential, integral part of the human existence.
Arsenal (January Uprising in Kiev in 1918)
- Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
- Release Date: 1929
- Production Country: Soviet Union
The Russian Empire is disintegrating and the Bolsheviks are everywhere, including in the newly declared Ukrainian state. Former soldier-turned-revolutionary Tymosh and his troops have set up their headquarters at the arsenal in Kiev and stand ready to take on the military and any others who might stand in the way of the people's victory in Ukraine.
Attila the Hun
- Director: Dick Lowry
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: United States, Lithuania
Though orphaned as a child, Attila shows exceptional skill in battle and leadership and rises to not only command his own people, but also unite the banners of numerous tribes under his command. And while Attila can respect the genius of Rome's military strategies, it doesn't mean he is going to back away from a battle that will win him a new home for his people.
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution'
- Director: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: United Kingdom
Interviews with soldiers and survivors, archival film footage, computer-generated imagery, and re-enactments provide a unique look at the history of Auschwitz, the most infamous of World War II Nazi death camps; both the camp itself and the larger story of Hitler's Final Solution comprise the larger story.
Austerlitz (The Battle of Austerlitz or La battaglia di Austerlitz)
- Director: Abel Gance
- Release Date: 1960
- Production Country: France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Liechtenstein
Napoleon is crowned Emperor of France and then proves his mastery of Europe in battle against the Prussians and the Russians.
Ballada o soldate (Ballad of a Soldier)
- Director: Grigori Chukhrai
- Release Date: 1959
- Production Country: Soviet Union
Given a ten-day pass so he can return home to repair his mother's roof, a young Russian soldier observes the many faces of love and relationships on his journey.
Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I
- Director: Marty Callaghan
- Release Date: 2006
- Production Country: United States
Numerous aspects of the Middle East are examined, including Western political intrigues from World War I, the demise of the Ottoman Empire, and the birth of the Republic of Turkey as the foundation for current events in the Middle East.
Boris I (The Conversion to Christianity & Discourse of Letters)
- Director: Borislav Sharaliev
- Release Date: 1985
- Production Country: Bulgaria
As the 9th century ends, Boris I defends Bulgaria from invaders and leads his people in the conversion to Christianity.
Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin)
- Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
- Release Date: 1925
- Production Country: Soviet Union
Rotten meat given to soldiers on a battleship may represent the dissolute condition of the Tsar's regime, but the brutal tactics taken by the regime to suppress the soldiers (and their supporters) when they object are the undeniable evidence of the government's corruption.
Carlos
- Director: Olivier Assayas
- Release Date: 2010
- Production Country: France, Germany
Venezuelan Illich Sanchez learned communism from his father and was later educated in England and Moscow, but finds his true purpose in life when he is recruited into the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, becoming a widely feared and wanted terrorist.