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Kanopy
87
8.6
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80
/246/
4.3
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20 Days in Mariupol (2023)
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war's atrocities.
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Fandor
76
6.9
/2946/
67
/72/
66
/51/
3.6
/4799/
97
/35/
68
/7/
85
/10/

Atlantis (2020)
A soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
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Kanopy
69
6.6
/5190/
63
/181/
68
/111/
3.5
/4684/
88
/57/
73
/8/
78
/17/

Donbass (2018)
In the historic Donbass region of eastern Ukraine, despite the cruel war that has been raging since 2014 between the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the Ukrainian government, people try to survive in the rotten heart of chaos, where violence disguises itself as peace, propaganda becomes univocal truth and hatred reigns in the name of love.
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Kanopy
66
62
6.4
/7975/
67
/854/
76
/842/
3.1
/4503/
72
/18/
73
/19/
54
/5/

Sniper: The White Raven (2022)
Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins in Donbas, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and burn his home to the ground. Recovered, he makes a cardinal decision and gets enlisted in a sniper company. Having met his wife’s killers, he emotionally breaks down and arranges “sniper terror” for the enemy.
poster
73
52
7.5
/8059/
76
/98/
72
/60/
3.6
/964/

Cyborgs (2017)
‘The Cyborgs’ is re-telling the recent history of Ukraine – the legendary fight for Donetsk Airport in 2014 during Russian invasion. The freedom fighters from various divisions of Ukrainian army and volunteer battalions took a 242-days stand against the Russian backed militants until the complete destruction of the airport’s terminal.
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Kanopy
75
50
7.2
/863/
66
/20/
72
/18/
3.7
/1803/
93
/15/
78
/5/

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020)
Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster. How to picture war through fiction? For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.
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71
45
7.3
/2243/
73
/42/
72
/30/
3.8
/1923/
77
/13/
60
/4/

Homeward (2019)
Having lost his oldest son in the war between Russia and Ukraine, Mustafa resolves to bring the boy’s body to the land of his birth: Crimea. Together, he and his younger son set out on a journey that will profoundly mark their relationship.
poster
72
44
6.6
/713/
60
/12/
61
/9/
3.5
/1280/
95
/21/
85
/4/

Reflection (2022)
The film centers on Ukrainian surgeon Serhiy, who is captured by the Russian military forces in the conflict zone in Eastern Ukraine, and while in captivity, he is exposed to horrifying scenes of humiliation, violence and indifference toward human life. After his release, he returns to his comfortable middle-class apartment and tries to find a purpose in life by rebuilding his relationship with his daughter and ex-wife. He learns how to be a human being again, how to be a father and help his daughter, who needs his love and support.
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Kanopy
72
44
6.7
/928/
68
/20/
72
/28/
3.5
/819/
90
/10/
66
/6/

Bad Roads (2021)
Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenseless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking charge.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
29
6.5
/1541/
63
/50/
65
/55/
3.4
/335/

U311 Cherkasy (2020)
The crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.
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Amazon Prime Video
62
27
5.9
/1225/
61
/37/
66
/74/
3.1
/388/

Winter of The Braves (2019)
1918 Ukraine. Patriotic students, protagonists of the film, get ready to defend Kyiv and fight heroically in the Battle of Kruty. On this historical background reveals the story of the Savytskyi family - the general of Ukraine's counterintelligence and his two sons, Andrii and Oleksa.
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Kanopy
56
20
3.5
/8152/
62
/23/
50
/13/
78
/10/

A Sniper's War (2018)
A Sniper’s War is a story of a sniper, whose anti-US views led him to join the pro-Russian rebels in the ongoing Ukrainian conflict—a primary source of tension between the United States and Russia. When social media becomes a communication platform to schedule sniper duels, Deki’s rival threatens to kill him. The New York-based filmmaker, Olya Schechter, obtains unprecedented access to military bases and front line battles to paint an intimate portrait of the complex and fascinating nature of a man walking the tightrope that often comes to the morality of war: is Deki a solder or a killer?
poster
51
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5.7
/835/
71
/20/
49
/29/
3.2
/761/
14
/7/
56
/3/

Frost (2017)
Rokas and Inga, a couple of young Lithuanians, volunteer to drive a cargo van of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. They cross the vast snowy lands of the Donbass region, drifting into the lives of those affected by the war.
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6.4
/60/

Debaltseve (2016)
Defense of Debaltseve. The brutal battle that unfolded in early 2015 and ended on February 18-19, when Ukrainian troops had to leave the base. This documentary tells the truth about one of the bloodiest and most controversial episodes of the war in Ukraine. Incredible stories of feats, facts of heroism and betrayal. Little-known details and evidence of participants of the events. The dark and terrible truth, real story about modern heroes.
poster
32
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4.4
/119/
20
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Phone Duty (2018)
A Donbass rebel fighter with a nom de guerre Cat is ordered to sit on phone duty, but it's not as easy as it may seem.
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?
7.7
/13/

Airport Donetsk (2015)
The Donetsk Airport, Ukraine. Rebuilt in 2012, but now a scene of utter devastation - shortly after Russian-backed separatists have taken it over. Weaving together the voices of fighters on both sides supported by battle video, we tell an unvarnished story of war through the eyes of those who were there. The desperate fight for an airport whose capture seems more symbolic than strategic, they also show how human nature can adapt - in sometimes disturbing ways - when one's life is on the line.
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5.0
/12/

Flight of a Bullet (2017)
The documentary about the Ukrainian Aidar battalion was filmed in a single 80-minute sequence.
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?
6.0
/8/
60
/2/

Shadows from Within (2016)
Domenico Quirico, correspondent for the daily La Stampa, was abducted in Syria in 2013 and released after 152 days of captivity. Here he evokes a career spent collecting fragments of other people's lives, and journeys back to the cell where he found himself sharing the fate of the people he writes about. His words, the narrative fabric of the film, turn into action: we follow him first along the Donbass front and then on his return journey, to the place "where it all began and where it all ended:" Syria. Because "it's not about going home; it's about coming back here."
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76
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7.8
/226/
71
/16/
79
/4/

Mariupol. Unlost Hope (2022)
A testimony to the Russian-Ukrainian war by ordinary people who lived in Mariupol during the first month of the invasion. The film is based on the diaries of Mariupol journalist Nadiya Sukhorukova: she wrote down what she saw around her at that time.
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Kanopy
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5.8
/21/

Oleg's Choice (2016)
Fighting in eastern Ukraine broke out in early 2014. Since the summer, thousands of young Russians, driven by television propaganda and a thirst for adventure, began to pour in. Among these volunteers were Oleg and Max. Oleg became a battalion commander and Max remained an ordinary soldier. While they prepare to fight, they discuss their motivations and share their own perspective on the conflict. The image becomes a unique personal testimony of one side of the war, one rarely seen in the western media.
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?
7.0
/8/

Once Upon a Mine (2015)
Desperate to escape from his home village which has been overtaken by the war in Donbas, a young man deals with numerous obstacles, following his dream. The last obstacle, however, can take his life. A story about a war inside of each person, a mine that many Ukrainians stepped on, and being afraid to accept change.
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?
7.2
/8/
70
/1/

The Bright Path (2022)
Eastern Ukraine, May 2014. Part of the historic Donbas region falls to pro-Russian separatists. Young journalist Stanislav Aseyev reports for several Ukrainian media outlets from Donetsk, his hometown. In May 2017, he is kidnapped and spends 962 days in detention, mainly in a former cultural center, converted into a prison, called Izolyatsia —or Isolation.
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85
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8.5
/166/
90
/2/
80
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Myth (2018)
"Myth" was the callsign of Vasyl Slipak, the world-famous Ukrainian opera singer, a soloist of the Parisian National Opera, who left the big stage to become a volunteer, a warrior fighting in the East of Ukraine. The Hero of Ukraine, the Knight of the Order "Golden Star" and the Order "For Courage", Vasyl Slipak gave his life, defending Ukraine. This documentary is a real story of heroism and self-sacrifice, which makes us think over our own lives.
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?
7.7
/34/

Invisible Battalion (2017)
Military actions have been ongoing in the East of Ukraine for 3 years now. From the first days of war in different hot military action zones women are part of the actions and perform military tasks. However, society still retains an ambiguous, stereotypical attitude towards women in the army...
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?
5.7
/41/
65
/2/
37
/3/

Alisa in Warland (2015)
In the midst of revolution and civil war, a filmmaker sets out to find herself. From the barricades of Maidan Square, to the safety of a Parisian apartment, Alisa struggles with her love for boyfriend Stephane, her impartiality as a journalist and her duties as a proud Ukrainian. Treading the line between director and subject, will Alisa leave this conflict with her love and her life, intact?
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?
80
/1/

Novorossiya (2022)
Brand new film from the Ukrainian eastern fronts of Donetsk and Luhansk where the Russian army and pro-Russian separatists had been waging a war against Ukraine even before Putin’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
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Kanopy
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6.9
/63/
68
/7/
65
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Putin: The Return of the Bear in the Dance (2022)
After twenty years in power, Vladimir Putin continues to implement his geopolitical strategy with Russia’s comeback on the big stage of world politics. He already announced his ambitions in 2007 – and still, it seems like the western governments were hit completely unprepared. What is behind this repeat of the Cold War?
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Kanopy
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5.3
/8/
70
/1/
62
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Donetsk: The Battle for Ukraine (2017)
A story from the very center of events about the birth of a new country, the Donetsk People's Republic. Filming took place over six weeks from April to May 2014. The camera follows 300 revolutionaries who took over the building of the Regional State Administration in the center of Donetsk and declared the independence of the region. The revolutionaries see themselves as the saviors of their people from the bloodthirsty fascist government based in Kyiv. This is a story about how to make a revolution and what happens after that when you get the power. The heroes of the film are Andrei ("Lenin"), who leaves home and mother to change history; the speaker of the new government, Vladimir, and the head of the internal anti-corruption security service, whose task is to capture and interrogate traitors, fascists and enemies of the Revolution. When the heroes believed they had won, their fates abruptly changed course.
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8.2
/15/

Tangible Freedom (2018)
A short form documentary about five ordinary Ukrainians who were taken hostage in occupied Luhansk.
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?
8.5
/13/

Once Upon a Time in the City on the Stone (2019)
The film tells about the adventures of an anti-terrorist operation veteran from Donbass nicknamed (with a call sign) "Odynak", who, having lost his home and a loved one in the war, came to Kamyanets-Podilsky in search of a new life. the sun, and the head of the local bandit group Sasha, who dreams of realizing his "Ukrainian dream".
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?
5.6
/7/

Letter to a Turtledove (2020)
Experimental short film with animation and appropriation of amateur footage shot during the war in the Donbass region of Ukraine, recombined into a surreal anti-war film-poem.
poster
60
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4.5
/749/
64
/24/
71
/36/

Hotsunlight (2021)
Lugansk region, May 2014. The Novozhilov family, by chance, finds itself in the thick of events in Lugansk. Vlad Novozhilov is a former participant in the war in Afghanistan. He knows firsthand what war is. Having seen enough of the horrors of war in his time, in principle he does not even want to touch a weapon. In a situation, he sees only one way out - to leave the country. But you can't run away from the war, the border is already closed. To save his family, he will have to make difficult moral choices.
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7.5
/49/
75
/2/
80
/1/

The War of Chimeras (2017)
The story of war, love and death that was documented by the immediate participants of events. Off screen and later on it are the two - a boy and a girl. He volunteered for the front; she went to the place just after the battle. He got into Ilovaysk cauldron, lost his closest brother-soldiers. She, while travelling along the ruined towns, strives to understand the essence of war and love. Both tell openly one another about their feelings during the war, escaping the cauldron, a try to live together after, and a common trip to the frontline.
poster
61
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6.8
/317/
62
/23/
54
/11/

Donbass (2016)
Anne-Laure Bonnel, a young director and mother of a French family, decides to accompany Alexander, a father of Ukrainian family, to the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine in a pro-Russian zone. At the heart of the war, she captures the terrible images of a deadly conflict and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.
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?
10
/2/

No! No! No! (2017)
The main heroes of the film are the young people from Kharkiv, a city located in the Eastern part of Ukraine. Reaching their early twenties coincided with the breakout of the war in the neighboring region of Donbass. An LGBT activist and poet, a fashion model, a group of street artists, a creator of a computer game - all of them are artists or working in the creative industries, typical for a peaceful life of a big city. However, the proximity to the war affects each of the characters and their activities. Heroes react and reflect political events through their specific relationships with the urban space and the reality of the social media.
poster
74
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7.4
/297/
76
/8/
71
/9/

Close Relations (2016)
Vitaly Mansky’s intimate and insightful new documentary finds him crisscrossing Ukraine in the wake of the Maidan uprising, which has left his relatives scattered on both sides of a highly charged and dizzyingly complex political situation.
poster
57
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6.6
/2967/
63
/39/
44
/17/

Revealing Ukraine (2019)
A sequel of Oliver Stone-produced conspiracy film "Ukraine on Fire", analyzing the current political backstage and its supposed dangerous potential for the world.
poster
?
7.8
/12/

Postcards from Ukraine (2017)
Documentary follows five young Ukrainians from Donetsk suburbs, Luhansk camps, Mariupol block posts, Kharkhiv oligarch estates, and Maidan Square. Amid referendums, elections, and mass propaganda, their diverse backgrounds reveal how a new generation navigates values, dreams, and turmoil in Ukraine’s East–West crisis.
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6.1
/22/
60
/1/
60
/1/

Demon (2020)
The film investigates the kidnapping and alleged murder of a soldier in Donbas, in 2014. Together with his father, an elderly fisherman from the Southern Ukraine, we follow the trail of his captors. Traveling from the calm Azov coastline to industrial conglomerates, from the furious mining region to the sleepless capital, we try to find the witnesses of the young soldier's final hours, as well as those who could have seen his body. The film uses a wide range of video and audio material including news, voice recordings and interviews. Its complex narrative construction shows the long and winding path of a father who seeks justice for his son's murderers.
poster
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7.4
/45/
65
/2/

The Cacophony of the Donbas (2018)
A contemplative film whose idea is to explore the creation of the myth about the Donbas by using archive footage from documentary and feature films. The film's plot develops along two planes. The first is life through the eyes of Soviet propaganda and the Donbas as a showcase of ideology. The second is real life, hidden from unwelcome eyes. The film uses archive footage and recordings of interviews with former Donbas residents who witnessed Russian aggression and became its victims. Life promised to become a symphony of work, joy and welfare, but turned out to be a delusion and a manipulation. Now there are no illusions left. The symphony of the Donbas has turned into a cacophony of the Donbas.
poster
89
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8.4
/235/
90
/2/
95
/4/

The Ukrainians: Battle for Donetsk Airport (2015)
Documentary about specific phases of the battle for the Donetsk airport and about the hero-fighters of the Ukrainian Volunteer corps in Pisky. The film presents the war in extreme focus – adrenaline, humor, pain, anguish, and courage are tightly packed into 82 minutes of screen time. It shows scenes of the battle, evacuation of the wounded, the capture of the new airport terminal, and civilians, who live near the fighting’s epicenter. It features death and frontline humor, and a bit of philosophical discussions as well.
poster
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7.5
/36/
70
/3/

Stronger than Arms (2014)
"Stronger than Arms", is the history that heats our hearts up with the memory of events and people, who from the time of Euromaidan to the war in the East were building a new Ukraine.
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70
/1/

2014 (2020)
"War, why have you taken away my childhood?" Over the last seven years, the people of Eastern Ukraine have forgotten what a calm and peaceful life is like. The military attacks do not stop, and the sounds of shelling dictate the rules. Krasnohorivka is a small town near Donetsk that regularly suffers from shelling. Everyone who is here has experienced their tragedy, so has the family that told their story.
poster
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8.7
/95/
77
/4/
80
/1/

War Note (2021)
Personal videos from the phones, camcorders, cameras and GoPros of Ukrainian soldiers are woven into a surreal journey to the frontline of the war with Russia. The film shows a bizarre world whose laws are quite different from what we are used to. The behaviour is different, the relationships unfold differently and the humour takes on different notes. The heroes wake up and fall asleep, rejoice and cry, always feeling that the recording may end at any moment.
poster
?
7.9
/26/

War for Peace (2020)
War with Russia on the east of Ukraine through the director's lens who stayed for a year in the centre of the conflict zone. He became a paramedic volunteer and continued filming everything what was happening in front of his eyes, making a rare true document of this brutal war that continues to happen in the centre of Europe.
poster
26
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2.3
/257/
10
/1/
47
/7/

Militia Girl (2019)
Propaganda film about the "militia" of Donbass. Spring-summer 2014. Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. Radically-minded local residents, who consider what is happening in the country as a threat to their usual existence, form separatist detachments of the "people's militia". Among them are young women - the main character of the film, who becomes a tank gunner, before that she was a modest history teacher, whose husband was afraid to join the militia.
poster
71
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6.7
/117/
75
/4/
72
/4/

Eastman (2020)
This is a portrait of a man, for whom the war in Eastern Ukraine has become a personal challenge. Beard is a native of the Donbas, a man of about forty-five, a family guy, an ordinary worker. Director is a young man of about twenty-six, single, a west-man, coming from the intelligentsia. This is the usual day of the ordinary military. These are events and people whom you can meet there. This is the relationship between people who have to be here and now during the war. This is not only a unique life experience but also a kind of cultural exchange between different social strata and communities. This is the birth of new, special traditions.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
69
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6.6
/1011/
78
/16/
63
/15/

Call Sign "Banderas" (2018)
In the autumn of 2014, in the ATO zone, an intelligence group headed by experienced captain Anton Saienko (called by nickname "Banderas") tries to prevent sabotage and neutralize the Russian saboteur.


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