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Kanopy
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8.6
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/1036/
80
/264/
4.3
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83
/19/

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.
poster
81
7.9
/685/
76
/10/
80
/6/
3.8
/1746/
100
/14/

Intercepted (2025)
Intercepted is a journey through Ukraine that reveals the banality of evil behind the Russian invasion with the shocking juxtaposition of two realities: the Ukrainians who have been suffering and resisting the war violence, and the Russian military, and civilians, who have been perpetrating it.
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Fandor
76
6.9
/2965/
67
/72/
66
/54/
3.6
/4869/
97
/35/
68
/6/
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
66
6.6
/5214/
63
/184/
68
/111/
3.5
/4794/
73
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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Amazon Prime Video
66
62
6.4
/8118/
67
/871/
76
/851/
3.1
/4791/
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.
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Kanopy
75
50
7.2
/868/
66
/20/
72
/18/
3.7
/1834/
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.
poster
71
45
7.4
/2254/
73
/42/
72
/30/
3.8
/1969/
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.
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Kanopy
71
44
6.7
/930/
68
/20/
70
/29/
3.5
/832/
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.
poster
68
34
6.6
/719/
60
/12/
61
/10/
3.5
/1289/
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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80
30
7.2
/155/
80
/7/
77
/10/
93
/14/

Stay Online (2024)
Katia, a volunteer from Kyiv fighting against the invasion of Ukraine, uses a laptop donated to the resistance and comes into contact with the young son of the computer’s original owner, who is desperately in search of his missing parents. Her attempts to help the child will see her risk all she holds dear.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
30
6.5
/1560/
63
/52/
64
/56/
3.4
/359/

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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80
28
7.6
/672/
67
/12/
76
/15/
3.6
/559/
93
/15/
100
/1/

The Distant Barking of Dogs (2017)
Hnutove, Donbass, eastern Ukraine, 2015. Young Oleg lives in a war zone where anti-aircraft gunshots and missile attacks often resonate dangerously near. Although many inhabitants have already left this dangerous area, he remains with his grandmother, who has cared for him since his mother's death, because they have nowhere to go. They are just waiting for the war to end.
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69
24
7.4
/141/
70
/1/
53
/3/
3.6
/776/
79
/4/

Timestamp (2025)
Despite the war, school life continues in Ukraine, with pupils and teachers striving to continue learning even under constant threat. The film is a mosaic of the everyday lives of teachers and students from different corners of Ukraine.
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Kanopy
56
20
3.5
/8156/
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?
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51
17
5.7
/843/
71
/20/
49
/29/
3.2
/776/
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.
poster
21
4
1.4
/2408/
10
/3/
12
/5/
2.4
/214/

Borderless (2022)
Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Denys is forced to leave his country. He has nothing left but the hope of seeing Dmitrii, a young recruit of the Russian army.
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8.7
/10/

Slaughter of Ghosts. How Russian Prisoners Fight in Ukraine (2025)
The documentary film explores a top-secret Russian government experiment involving the recruitment and deployment of prisoners to the war in Ukraine. This investigation vividly exposes the brutal cruelty of the Russian military machine and the Kremlin’s disregard for legality and human rights. The film reveals previously unknown details of one of the most ruthless and cynical military projects of the 21st century, based on the analysis of several hundred Ministry of Defense documents, as well as testimonies from the soldiers themselves, their relatives, and publicly available data.
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?
7.5
/16/

Kraina (2015)
Kyiv, Ukraine, Spring 2015. The war with Russia is five hundred miles to the East, but since the revolution of 2013-14, every moment of Kristina's life has been affected by the conflict.
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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.
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?
9.2
/90/

Closest to God (2016)
An inspiring story of modern Ukraine based on the example of two families destroyed by war, but which strengthen our spirit. A motivated lawyer from a wealthy family in the city of Dnipro, who has just started a family, volunteers for the front and dies in the hell of Donetsk airport shortly before demobilization. His mother also leaves this world after him. What remains are his grandfather, granddaughter, and our hope.
poster
32
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4.4
/119/
20
/2/

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.
poster
?
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.
poster
?
8.7
/37/

To the Zero Line (2023)
A documentary about the horrific and destructive war that is currently taking place in Ukraine. The film tells the true stories of Ukrainians who have been forced to flee their homes, lose loved ones, and live in fear for their lives. It is a story about the courage, strength of will, and resilience of the Ukrainian people.
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True Story
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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."
poster
?
80
/1/

In the Field (2017)
Ukraine. ATO. This is a story about a father who learns about his son's death in the war. The body of the young soldier remains in the eastern part of Ukraine controlled by separatists. The father, refusing to accept the terrible realities of war, goes to the war zone in search of his dead son.
poster
67
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6.1
/207/
62
/16/
78
/7/

Ukraine: The People's Fight (2023)
Filmmaker Olly Lambert spends two months on Ukraine’s southern frontline with volunteer special forces as they begin the push to capture Kherson. The film follows “Hummer”, an experienced military commander who now finds himself a chaperone to completely inexperienced forces on the frontline.
poster
76
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7.8
/229/
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.
poster
?
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.
poster
?
7.5
/14/

I'm Burning! (2022)
An ordinary case in one ordinary yard, the most ordinary town.
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Takflix
85
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8.5
/168/
90
/2/
80
/4/

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.
poster
?
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?
poster
?
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
/2/

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
?
5.3
/8/
70
/1/
62
/2/

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.
poster
?
8.2
/15/

Tangible Freedom (2018)
A short form documentary about five ordinary Ukrainians who were taken hostage in occupied Luhansk.
poster
?
7.9
/10/

Long Echo (2020)
Dobropillia is a town located in Eastern Ukraine: 70 km from the border where conflicts with the breakaway republics are raging on and people feel always like being on the verge of total war. The sheer uncertainty about the future pushes folks to cling on to their daily habits while trying to get along with the ever-shifting political landscape. A wide array of wildly diversified characters try to cope as good as they can with the hardships in their town. A death metal band keeps rehearsing daily. A teacher guides visitors through the story of the city. The wonders of a vibrating armchair are tested as a tool against stress and anxiety. An elderly lady who has lost her son tries to talk some sense into her fellow citizens urging them to accept peace.
poster
?
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".
poster
?
6.2
/9/
100
/1/

God Will Forgive (2021)
The Ukrainian chaplain trying to get out of the Donbas gray area, stumbles upon a shot convoy of separatists, where he encounters a mortally wounded mercenary and is faced with a choice - to help or continue to flee, but suddenly inadvertently steps on an antipersonnel mine.
poster
?
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
/748/
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.
poster
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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
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6.4
/82/
35
/2/
58
/5/

Inner Wars (2020)
Since the uprising of a pro Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine in 2014, hundreds of women joined the army. Only a few made it to the front line. Filmmaker Masha embeds herself in the war zone to follow the daily life of three of them. By sharing the intimacy of these fighters, Masha soon becomes a victim of this brotherhood conflict jeopardizing this film and her life.
poster
?
7.9
/58/
83
/3/

Roses. Film-Cabaret (2022)
Once upon a time in the dressing room of the famous Dakh theatre in Kyiv, seven actresses came up with the Dakh Daughters project. At their first solo show, Roses, they presented the world with a contemporary interpretation of the art of cabaret, which, in its absolute carnival freedom, knows how to entertain the public with the most serious topics. At the same time, Ukraine found itself on the threshold of significant change, not just in society, but also in the consciousnesses of thousands of people. The Revolution of Dignity and the war in the East reveal the nuances of the protagonists’ personalities, worldviews, creative reflections.
poster
62
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7.0
/187/
67
/4/
52
/11/

Ukraine in Flames (1943)
A 1943 Soviet documentary war film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary, and dealt with the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.
poster
61
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6.8
/316/
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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