film | story - Subject: Invasions

1066

Director: Robin Jacob
Release Date: 2012
Production Country: United Kingdom

1066 should have been a good year for the newly crowned King of England, Harold, but first his brother brings in the Norwegians to dethrone him, and then that pesky Norman bastard, William, decides that being the previous king's 1st cousin-once-removed on his father's side made him King. To keep his crown, Harold must suck it up and race his weary troops south to meet William's invading army at Hastings, where the future of both men, and possibly the world itself, will be decided in battle.

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.

Adieu Bonaparte

Director: Youssef Chahine
Release Date: 1985
Production Country: Egypt, France

The French invasion of Egypt in 1798 – 1804 by Napoleon Bonaparte provides a backdrop for this nationalistic story.

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.

Balibo

Director: Robert Connolly
Release Date: 2009
Production Country: Australia

A burnt-out foreign correspondent and a young East Timor man search for five young journalists who disappeared while documenting the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. The two men follow the missing journalists' route, making their own record of the brutality and horror of the invasion, but find their own lives on the line as they close in on the journalists' last known location, Balibo.

Choi-jong-byeong-gi Hwal (War of the Arrows)

Director: Han-min Kim
Release Date: 2011
Production Country: South Korea

When his sister is kidnapped by Manchurian soldiers on her wedding day, the famous archer Nam-Yi is determined to bring her home—even if it means he must kill the entire Manchurian army, one man at a time.

Dacii (The Dacians)

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Release Date: 1967
Production Country: Romania, France

Decebalus, King of Dacia, must find ways, including great sacrifices, to save his people when Emperor Domitian and his legions invade.

Egri csillagok (Stars of Eger)

Director: Zoltán Várkonyi
Release Date: 1968
Production Country: Hungary

Two young Hungarian children, an orphan boy and a young noble girl, are kidnapped by a Turkish slave trader, although, thanks to the cleverness of the boy, they are able to escape. Years later, the young boy must again defend the girl from Turks, only this time there are 200,000 Ottomans against only 2,000 Hungarians in the Fortress of Eger.

Gibel Otrara (The Fall of Otrar)

Director: Ardak Amirkulov
Release Date: 1990
Production Country: Soviet Union, Kazakhstan

The governor of Otrar murders a trading caravan sent by Chinggis "Genghis" Khan to the Khwarizm Shah and sets in motion the first of Chinggis's Eastern conquests.

Green Zone

Director: Paul Greengrass
Release Date: 2010
Production Country: France, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

Charged with finding the Weapons of Mass Destruction that were the reason for the invasion of Iraq and the Second Gulf War, Army Chief Warrant Officer Miller and his men find nothing but empty warehouses everywhere they look, but when he asks for better intel, he is given the run around by his superiors while a CIA agent drops tantalizing hints of a conspiracy—but it is the reporter who broke the story about the WMDs in the first place who finally gives him the key to the puzzle before him.

La kermesse héroïque (Carnival in Flanders)

Director: Jacques Feyder
Release Date: 1935
Production Country: France, Germany

The women of a small Flemish town must act quickly when they realize that their four-man army cannot protect them from the depredations of occupying Spanish troops—and when the rest of the men plan to just play dead; the cunning women plan other sorts of distractions, hoping to occupy the Spaniards and thus prevent them from causing problems during their overnight stay.

La Otra Conquista (The Other Conquest)

Director: Salvador Carrasco
Release Date: 1998
Production Country: Mexico

A young scribe, Topiltzen, the illegitimate son of the Aztec Emperor, is one of the few survivors of the Spanish massacre of his people. When he is taken by the Spanish priest, Topiltzen must learn not only a new language, but also a new culture, a new name, and a new god. But old beliefs are hard to erase and, in the end, it may be that young "Tomas" is not the only one converted.

Love and Death

Director: Woody Allen
Release Date: 1975
Production Country: France, United States

Nothing should get in the way of great debates and philosophical musings on the meaning of life, the universe, and everything, so when Napoleon's invasion of Russia becomes too great a distraction to bear, neurotic Boris and narcissistic Sonja decide to assassinate him.

Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave or The Last Crusade)

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Release Date: 1971
Production Country: Romania, France, Italy

In the 16th century, Mihai Viteazul unites the people of what will be Romania against the Ottoman and the Austrian Empires.

Mircea (Proud Heritage)

Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Release Date: 1989
Production Country: Romania

King Mircea I of Wallachia repels Ottoman invaders from conquering Romania in the 14th century.

Muyeong geom (Shadowless Sword)

Director: Young-jun Kim
Release Date: 2005
Production Country: South Korea, United States

In a conquered kingdom, the search is on for an exiled prince; but while the new rulers seek to destroy any possibility of future rebellions, one loyal retainer sends out a young swordswoman to find and convince the resentful royal heir to take on a dangerous and possibly fatal journey for a land that rejected him years ago.