Tangerines
IMDb: 8.2 2013 87 min 46 views
War in Abkhazia 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man ...
T-34
IMDb: 6.6 2018 139 min 870 views
T-34 is a recent Russian WWII movie about a group of Russian soldiers who escape from the Nazis in a T-34 tank. It’s available to stream ...
Enemies
IMDb: 5.8 2007 78 min 3619 views
Enemies is a piercing and believable drama set in a small Belarussin village during WWII. Local villagers live side-by-side with German soldiers ...
Captive
IMDb: 5.8 2008 80 min 1622 views
Captive is a Russian-Bulgarian film by acclaimed director, Alexei Uchitel. It is based on the novel by Vladimir Makanin, “Prisoner of the ...
No Path Through Fire
IMDb: 7.5 1967 95 min 1859 views
No Path Through Fire is acclaimed director Gleb Panfilov’s first feature film. It tells the interesting story of a talented nurse trying to ...
Trial on the Road
IMDb: 7.9 1971 96 min 3495 views
Trial on the Road (Проверка на дорогах) is the directorial debut of acclaimed director, Aleksey German. In English, it is also sometimes known as ...
Indestructible
IMDb: 5.2 2018 90 min 6325 views
The film is based on the true story about a Soviet KV-1 crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank, under the command of Semyon Konovalov , whom despite being ...
Beginning of an Unknown Era
IMDb: 6.9 1967 73 min 1421 views
Two young directors adapted the short stories of two Russian authors whose works had been banned for decades, and so their film ended up in the ...
Triumph Over Violence
IMDb: 8.2 1965 138 min 5422 views
Romm’s “Ordinary Fascism” pulls out all the stops in its selection of documentary material to draw the viewer not only into ...
Fate of a Man
IMDb: 8.0 1959 103 min 4451 views
The film debut of famed director, Sergei Bondarchuk, Fate of a Man tells the gripping story of a man who lost everything. Based on the book of ...
Moscow Strikes Back
IMDb: 6.9 1942 55 min 3586 views
This movie, the Soviet Union’s first Academy Award, is still the only Russian-language winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. The ...
Bastards
IMDb: 6.1 2006 97 min 3810 views
A “Hitlerjugend” kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous ...
The Fall of Berlin
IMDb: 6.1 1949 167 min 4142 views
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The “Little Father of the ...
Decision: Liquidation
IMDb: 5.4 2018 96 min 5806 views
The ruthless extremist Bazgaev responsible for terrorist attacks which lead to deaths of hundreds of civilians, among them school children, is ...
Panfilov’s 28 Men
IMDb: 6.8 2016 105 min 12791 views
This is a pretty recent Russian WWII movie well worth checking out. It’s based on the Soviet legend about a group of 28 Red Army soldiers ...
Live and Remember
IMDb: 6.6 2008 100 min 2103 views
Based on Valentin Rasputin’s story of the same title. The winter of 1945. In a village on the Angara embankment the women wait the return ...
War and Peace
IMDb: 8.3 1966 422 min 12333 views
War and Peace (Война и мир / Voyna i mir) is a historical epic shot between 1961-1967 and released over 1965–67. This Soviet movie, co-written ...
Ballad of a Soldier
IMDb: 8.2 1959 89 min 6930 views
Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате / Ballada o soldate) is a 1959 film directed by World War Two veteran, Grigoriy Chukhray. It’s one ...
The Youth of Maxim
IMDb: 6.7 1935 90 min 1255 views
A 1935 USA trade-paper reviewer called it… “an impressive and technically outstanding historical drama dealing with czarist terrorism ...
Kutuzov
IMDb: 7.1 1943 95 min 1481 views
Kutuzov is a biopic about Prince Kutuzov, the Russian Field marshal who defeated Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande Armée in a brutal war of ...
Mashenka
IMDb: 7.5 1942 66 min 1864 views
The tumultuous life of a young telegraph operator during the war years.
The New Babylon
IMDb: 7.4 1929 120 min 1066 views
In the early days of the industrial revolution, a young shop worker falls in love with a soldier before he goes off to war.
Outskirts
IMDb: 7.2 1933 98 min 1593 views
Outskirts is an internationally renowned masterpiece of early sound cinema. In a remote Russian village during World War I, colorful and nuanced ...
Little Alexander
IMDb: 7.1 1981 98 min 1295 views
Little Alexander is a story about the end of WWII. It’s May, 1945 and Soviet soldiers in Germany are making efforts to create conditions ...
The Turning Point
IMDb: 6.3 1945 108 min 2034 views
The Turning Point is a classic Soviet war film released in 1945 that told the story of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942. For five long, cold ...
Chapaev
IMDb: 7.3 1934 93 min 2603 views
Chapaev (Чапаев) is known as one of the finest cinematic works of the Socialist Realism movement. Based on a real life Red Army commander, ...
The Commissar
IMDb: 7.4 1967 110 min 3345 views
Klavdia Vavilova (Nonna Mordyukova) serves as a political officer – a Commissar – in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. Her ...
Arsenal
IMDb: 7.2 1929 87 min 1538 views
Set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobbed soldier, Timosh, returns to his hometown Kiev, after having ...
Aleksa Dundic
IMDb: 7.0 1958 115 min 1699 views
Aleksa Dundic (Oleko Dundich) is joint Soviet-Yugoslav production that celebrates the life and times of a famous Serbian soldier. Dundic ...
The Fall of Berlin
IMDb: 6.9 1945 70 min 2410 views
The Fall of Berlin is a 1945 documentary film directed by Yuli Raizman. It is made up of collection of Soviet footage from Red Army cameramen ...
The Hot Snow
IMDb: 7.1 1972 105 min 3672 views
In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command ...
Miles of Fire
IMDb: 6.1 1957 85 min 1276 views
Civil War. Southern steppes of Russia. Circumstances bring together various people: the Chekist, professor, actor, nurse and White Guard officer ...
Liberation V: The Last Assault
IMDb: 7.3 1972 75 min 1994 views
Liberation is a five-part epic documentary about WWII from the perspective of the Eastern Front. Created by Yuri Ozerov, the series was primarily ...
Liberation IV: Battle For Berlin
IMDb: 7.1 1972 1770 views
Liberation is a five-part epic documentary about WWII from the perspective of the Eastern Front. Created by Yuri Ozerov, the series was primarily ...
Liberation I: The Fire Bulge
IMDb: 7.1 1970 88 min 4090 views
Liberation is a five-part epic documentary about WWII from the perspective of the Eastern Front. Created by Yuri Ozerov, the series was primarily ...
Liberation II: The Break Through
IMDb: 7.1 1970 87 min 1568 views
Liberation is a five-part epic documentary about WWII from the perspective of the Eastern Front. Created by Yuri Ozerov, the series was primarily ...
Road to Berlin
IMDb: 6.3 2015 82 min 9779 views
A story about two young men during the last days of WWII.
The Star
IMDb: 7.1 2002 97 min 4622 views
The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named ...
White Tiger
IMDb: 6.1 2012 105 min 6710 views
Great Patriotic War, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov ...
Admiral
IMDb: 6.8 2008 123 min 7845 views
Admiral (Адмиралъ) is a Russian historical biopic film about the one-time leader of the White Russians, Alexander Kolchak. The film is directed ...
Fortress of War
IMDb: 7.5 2010 138 min 6822 views
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days. ...
Heroes of Shipka
IMDb: 7.0 1954 123 min 1774 views
Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. As ...
The Captain’s Daughter
IMDb: 5.9 1928 86 min 1078 views
An adaptation of Pushkin’s historical novel about the Pugachev’s Rebellion in 1773–1774.
9th Company
IMDb: 7.1 2005 139 min 3693 views
Please note, unfortunately this film is no longer available free on this site. However, it is free to stream on Amazon Prime. The film starts in ...
In August of 1944
IMDb: 7.6 2001 109 min 2695 views
The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a ...
Alexander Nevsky
IMDb: 7.7 1938 109 min 2683 views
Alexander Nevsky (Александр Невский) is a 1938 Soviet classic directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The film depicts famed Russian historical figure, ...
One-Two, Soldiers Were Going…
IMDb: 7.8 1976 87 min 2851 views
One-Two, Soldiers Were Going… is another superb war movie by director, Leonid Bykov, of Only Old Men Are Going to Battle fame. The film was ...
Officers
IMDb: 7.8 1971 96 min 3062 views
Officers is a movie about two friends’ love for their motherland, for life itself, and, of course, for a woman. Through the lifelong ...
Liberation III: Direction of the Main Blow
IMDb: 7.8 1971 125 min 2525 views
Liberation is a five-part epic documentary about WWII from the perspective of the Eastern Front. Created by Yuri Ozerov, the series was primarily ...
Tomorrow Was the War
IMDb: 7.8 1987 89 min 2416 views
Tomorrow Was the War is an exquisite drama about the life of Soviet schoolchildren during the last quiet days before WWII. The film centers ...
Twenty Days Without War
IMDb: 7.9 1977 101 min 1795 views
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the ...
At War as at War
IMDb: 8.0 1969 90 min 2150 views
To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting ...
Two Comrades Were Serving
IMDb: 8.0 1968 99 min 2019 views
Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, ...
Days of the Turbins
IMDb: 7.9 1976 223 min 1921 views
Masterfully done re-telling of Bulgakov’s brilliant play (itself a version of the novel, “White Guard”), “Days of the ...
The Flight
IMDb: 8.0 1970 196 min 1752 views
The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn’t have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral ...
Siberiade
IMDb: 8.1 1979 275 min 4514 views
The evolution of a nation during six decades of turbulent history is dramatized via two families from opposing classes.
They Fought for Their Country
IMDb: 8.1 1975 137 min 5939 views
Sergei Bondarchuk’s They Fought for Their Country has often been called the best film about WWII. In the summer of 1942, the Soviet Union ...
Ivan’s Childhood
IMDb: 8.1 1962 95 min 5248 views
Ivan’s Childhood is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth. You can watch it on Amazon Prime ...
Come and See
IMDb: 8.2 1985 137 min 139727 views
Come and See (Иди и смотри) is renowned Soviet director, Elem Klimov’s final feature film. It takes place in Belarus during WWII and tells ...
The Ascent
IMDb: 8.3 1977 111 min 3926 views
Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go ...
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
IMDb: 8.3 1972 188 min 5402 views
The Dawns Here Are Quiet (А зори здесь тихие / A zori zdes tikhie) is a 1972 Soviet film directed by Stanislav Rostotsky. It is based on the 1969 ...
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle
IMDb: 8.5 1973 92 min 4909 views
Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (В бой идут одни «старики» / V boy idut odni “stariki”) is a Ukrainian war movie directed by Leonid ...
Seventeen Moments of Spring
IMDb: 7.9 1973 4909 views
Can you name the TV show that was more popular than Cheers or Seinfeld and that also contributed to Vladimir Putin’s rise to power? Well, have a ...
The Cranes Are Flying
IMDb: 8.3 1957 97 min 7103 views
The Cranes Are Flying (Летят журавли / Letyat zhuravli) is a 1957 Soviet film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. It is set mostly in Moscow and the ...