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poster
92
9.0
/1570725/
88
/25579/
85
/17050/
4.5
/1273030/
98
/135/
97
/22910/
95
/30/
cc age 15+

Schindler's List (1993)
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.6
/1620300/
85
/32155/
82
/16824/
4.2
/1322650/
94
/148/
95
/41373/
91
/38/
cc age 16+

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
poster
Kanopy
89
8.3
/120189/
82
/2976/
82
/1738/
4.6
/414511/
90
/60/
95
/931/
cc age 16+

Come and See (1985)
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.
poster
Criterion Channel
87
8.1
/33621/
78
/555/
78
/600/
4.3
/48088/
94
/51/
93
/387/
86
/19/

Z (1969)
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth. But, a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
85
8.0
/14989/
79
/456/
81
/850/
4.2
/35420/
100
/14/
94
/81/
89
/10/

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
poster
The Roku Channel
79
7.6
/10515/
76
/307/
73
/241/
3.8
/22975/
96
/25/
91
/219/
69
/23/

Butterfly (1999)
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.
poster
Fandor
78
7.4
/3861/
72
/122/
67
/47/
3.6
/2520/
92
/59/
87
/211/
77
/23/

The Weather Underground (2002)
The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.
poster
77
7.6
/211309/
73
/4969/
74
/3207/
4.1
/193110/
80
/106/
80
/5228/
78
/32/
cc age 15+

The Thin Red Line (1998)
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
poster
Kanopy
75
7.3
/101009/
73
/2244/
73
/2136/
3.6
/122449/
77
/159/
85
/2516/
61
/38/
cc age 16+

Frida (2002)
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.
poster
75
7.2
/2703/
63
/23/
64
/45/
3.7
/2639/
79
/1/

The War Is Over (1966)
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.3
/41483/
74
/896/
69
/633/
3.6
/20995/
85
/98/
80
/1005/
76
/22/

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Meinhof rebels against her dishonest marriage, walks away from her children and joins radical anarchist Andreas Baader. Together with Baader's girlfriend, Gudrun Ensslin, they form the violent Red Faction Army, and together perpetrate a slew of terrorist attacks as a way of disrupting the fabric of what they see as an increasingly fascist state.
poster
Kanopy
74
7.5
/134753/
71
/2613/
70
/1486/
3.6
/64255/
82
/235/
70
/7071/
67
/43/
cc age 16+

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
poster
Peacock Premium
74
7.5
/691177/
78
/41307/
77
/20463/
3.7
/1930988/
78
/257/
81
/165083/
71
/37/
cc age 12+

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)
Returning for his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is stunned to find that his warnings about the return of Lord Voldemort have been ignored. Left with no choice, Harry takes matters into his own hands, training a small group of motivated students to defend themselves against the Dark Arts.
poster
74
7.2
/5328/
67
/132/
63
/76/
3.5
/2975/
85
/48/
78
/327/
78
/16/

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008)
Examines the public scandal and private tragedy which led to legendary director Roman Polanski's sudden flight from the United States.
poster
Kanopy
75
73
7.7
/14558/
74
/348/
74
/212/
3.8
/7754/

Unknown Soldier (2017)
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
poster
72
6.9
/2544/
66
/33/
58
/31/
3.5
/882/
80
/15/
75
/18/

The Legend of Rita (2000)
Radical West German terrorist Rita Vogt abandons the revolution and settles in East Germany with a new identity provided by the secret service. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, which unavoidably happens after the reunification.
poster
Hoopla
71
7.2
/2602/
71
/36/
70
/39/
3.3
/1960/
80
/10/
80
/94/

Romero (1989)
Romero is a compelling and deeply moving look at the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, who made the ultimate sacrifice in a passionate stand against social injustice and oppression in his county. This film chronicles the transformation of Romero from an apolitical, complacent priest to a committed leader of the Salvadoran people.
poster
Netflix
75
68
7.2
/7792/
73
/509/
68
/258/
3.7
/10095/
88
/25/
82
/13/
73
/4/
cc age 16+

The Endless Trench (2019)
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
poster
67
6.7
/16333/
68
/338/
65
/296/
3.4
/7501/
61
/38/
70
/396/
cc age 15+

The Last Supper (1995)
A group of idealistic but frustrated liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering right-wing pundits for their political beliefs.
poster
Kanopy
65
6.0
/4864/
62
/487/
60
/144/
3.2
/6773/
85
/40/
50
/27/
70
/13/
cc age 15+

Ted K (2021)
An exploration of Ted Kaczynski's life in Lincoln, Montana in the years leading up to his arrest as The Unabomber.
poster
fuboTV
61
6.5
/7299/
64
/84/
62
/82/
3.2
/1687/
51
/87/
49
/253/
60
/30/

The White Countess (2005)
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
poster
Kanopy
76
61
7.3
/6175/
73
/279/
74
/458/
3.8
/10514/
87
/10/

Mr & Mme Adelman (2017)
How did Sarah and Victor get along for more than 45 years? Who was this enigmatic woman living in the shadow of her husband? Love, ambition, betrayals and secrets feed the story of this extraordinary couple, as they experience both the large and small moments of the last century's history.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
60
7.6
/3641/
72
/78/
74
/151/
3.9
/5171/
87
/26/

Hands Over the City (1963)
Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.
poster
Hoopla
60
6.3
/2458/
70
/43/
55
/33/
3.2
/573/
52
/42/
71
/104/
36
/26/
cc age 16+

Steal This Movie (2000)
Five years after Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman goes underground to avoid a drug-related prison sentence, he contacts a reporter to get out the story of the FBI's covert spying, harassment and inciting of violence they then blame on the Left.
poster
82
58
9.0
/6289/
81
/33/
79
/26/
3.9
/2661/

Sandhesam (1991)
After his retirement, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family is thwarted after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences.
poster
71
57
7.2
/3549/
66
/71/
68
/63/
3.5
/1570/
83
/78/

Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006)
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
6.0
/12105/
59
/256/
58
/234/
2.8
/18273/
54
/26/
33
/201/
61
/7/

Boxcar Bertha (1972)
"Boxcar" Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early '30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man "Big" Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.
poster
The Roku Channel
56
6.5
/18655/
69
/569/
66
/396/
3.2
/5026/
31
/71/
63
/404/
40
/25/
cc age 13+

Jakob the Liar (1999)
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
56
7.5
/2448/
69
/20/
76
/34/
3.9
/2891/
100
/10/
88
/14/

Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
poster
70
55
7.5
/2300/
74
/124/
66
/66/
3.8
/3871/
59

The Heifer (1985)
During the Spanish Civil War a platoon of mismatched Republican soldiers cross the front-line to steal the bull that the enemy is going to fight on the local holiday of the nearby village. In addition to ruining the Nationalist faction's celebration they want the animal in order to butcher it and feed their famished troops. They get caught in the process and have to go through a series of funny and pathetic incidents before they can get back to their side.
poster
Criterion Channel
63
53
6.5
/4114/
63
/60/
65
/69/
3.6
/11407/
50
/8/
62
/124/

Tout Va Bien (1972)
A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
poster
Criterion Channel
72
53
6.7
/3048/
74
/53/
59
/50/
3.6
/5248/
92
/12/
73
/14/

The Third Generation (1979)
A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies.
poster
69
52
6.6
/2301/
71
/124/
65
/93/
3.5
/3443/
77
/27/

The 13 Roses (2007)
True story of thirteen totally normal young women that suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s. Despite of their innocence, the thirteen were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrong doing.
poster
Kanopy
77
50
7.0
/579/
78
/15/
71
/24/
3.8
/1777/
100
/8/
72
/4/

A German Youth (2015)
At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they believed they saw fascist tendencies. This generation included journalist Ulrike Meinhof, lawyer Horst Mahler, filmmaker Holger Meins as well as students Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader.
poster
Kanopy
74
50
7.4
/2049/
68
/52/
69
/28/
3.8
/1826/
85
/35/

In the Year of the Pig (1969)
Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.
poster
70
50
7.1
/3558/
66
/106/
66
/85/
3.7
/5285/
74
/12/

Ay, Carmela! (1990)
During the Spanish Civil War, a group of comics lightens the days of the Republican troops. Tired of life in the front lines, they make their way to Valencia, accidentally entering enemy land and falling prisoner.
poster
Kanopy
70
47
7.3
/2921/
65
/50/
70
/75/
3.8
/4500/
69
/10/

Marianne and Juliane (1981)
Germany, 1968: The priest's daughters Marianna and Juliane both fight for changes in society, like making abortion legal. However their means are totally different: while Juliane's committed as a reporter, her sister joins a terroristic organization. After she's caught by the police and put into isolation jail, Juliane remains as her last connection to the rest of the world. Although she doesn't accept her sister's arguments and her boyfriend Wolfgang doesn't want her to, Juliane keeps on helping her sister. She begins to question the way her sister is treated.
poster
Kanopy
72
46
7.1
/945/
70
/22/
63
/31/
3.7
/1174/
100
/15/
64
/15/
67
/5/

United Red Army (2007)
Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leaders begin to arbitrarily persecute their followers, a harrowing ordeal that culminates in violence and murder.
poster
Criterion Channel
68
46
6.9
/2087/
67
/54/
66
/53/
3.6
/2721/
80
/10/
54
/5/

Rosa Luxemburg (1986)
Polish socialist and Marxist Rosa Luxemburg works tirelessly in the service of revolution in early 20th century Poland and Germany. While Luxemburg campaigns for her beliefs, she is repeatedly imprisoned as she forms the Spartacist League offering a new vision for Germany.
poster
The Roku Channel
70
46
6.9
/2317/
67
/62/
63
/63/
3.6
/1982/
83
/17/

Freedomfighters (1996)
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel, until it is liberated by a woman's anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The women's group faces the problems of fighting not only the nationalists, but also factions on the left seeking to impose a more traditional military structure.
poster
Criterion Channel
45
6.0
/4530/
51
/95/
56
/75/
3.4
/4596/
12
/1/

I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
Lena, aged twenty, wants to know all she can about life and reality. She collects information on everyone and everything, storing her findings in an enormous archive. She experiments with relationships, political activism, and meditation. Meanwhile, the actors, director and crew are shown in a humorous parallel plot about the making of the film and their reactions to the story and each other. Nudity, explicit sex, and controversial politics kept this film from being shown in the US while its seizure by Customs was appealed.
poster
68
44
7.0
/4398/
70
/63/
68
/51/
3.5
/1277/
65
/12/

The Battle of Neretva (1969)
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
poster
67
44
6.7
/1868/
69
/65/
63
/61/
3.4
/1921/

Neue Vahr Süd (2010)
Frank Lehmann, 20, still lives with his parents in the dreary high-rise housing project "Neue Vahr" in Bremen. It's the year 1980 and Frank gets drafted to the army even though his friends assure him that "he's not really the guy for it". When he gets back home, after his first week at the army, his Dad has turned his room into a TV repair shop, so Frank has to move out. Luckily his old friend Martin is starting a commune with two other Punks in Bremens leftist borough "Viertel". Frank, without further ado rents the unlivable walk-through room. From now on Frank is a traveler between the Worlds. Each week he goes from the Army, with all the unconditional rules and regulations to the commune where his friends are preaching the world revolution. Frank is trying to avoid to stick out, but fails miserably, in both worlds.
poster
Kanopy
73
43
7.6
/2161/
71
/46/
73
/140/
3.8
/2503/
71
/4/

Many Wars Ago (1970)
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
poster
76
42
7.4
/1958/
69
/59/
76
/181/
3.8
/6062/
85
/3/

Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
poster
45
41
5.5
/4013/
57
/407/
52
/487/
2.3
/4860/
15
/2/

With Open Arms (2017)
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
poster
55
40
5.9
/2221/
55
/46/
60
/22/
3.3
/3455/
71
/7/
20

Together 99 (2023)
A group of very different individuals who in 1975 lived in a commune called "Together". Now it is 1999, and the collective has turned into the world's smallest. The commune consists of only two people - Göran and Klasse. Feeling a bit lonely, the idea occurs of a reunion with their old friends.
poster
Kanopy
75
40
7.3
/950/
69
/64/
67
/14/
3.5
/673/
97
/31/
78
/10/
73
/10/

1971 (2014)
Forty years before WikiLeaks and the NSA scandal, there was Media, Pennsylvania. In 1971, eight activists plotted an intricate break-in to the local FBI offices to leak stolen documents and expose the illegal surveillance of ordinary Americans in an era of anti-war activism. In this riveting heist story, the perpetrators reveal themselves for the first time, reflecting on their actions and raising broader questions surrounding security leaks in activism today.


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