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1. The Travelling Players (1975)
230 min | Drama, History, Music
Greece, 1939-1952: Fascist, Nazi, and Communist conflict, as seen through the eyes of a family of travelling provincial players.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Eva Kotamanidou, Vangelis Kazan, Aliki Georgouli, Kiriakos Katrivanos
Votes: 4,351
2. Oi kynigoi (1977)
168 min | Drama
On New Year's Eve, a group of hunters finds the frozen body of a dead WWII partisan fighter. They spend the night debating what to do with it.
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Giorgos Danis, Mary Hronopoulou
Votes: 1,043
3. Karavan Sarai (1986)
115 min | Drama
Set during the Greek Civil War, a family is displaced from its village and moved to a derelict building along with hundreds of others. The film documents their lives and struggles during those trying times.
Director: Tasos Psarras | Stars: Thymios Karakatsanis, Dimitra Hatoupi, Mirka Kalatzopoulou, Vasilis Kolovos
Votes: 86
4. O kloios (1987)
120 min | Action, Thriller
A commercial flight from Athens to Thessaloniki was hijacked by six young communists who asked the pilots to fly to Yugoslavia.
Director: Kostas Koutsomytis | Stars: Socrates Alafouzos, Dimitris Karambetsis, Vladimiros Kyriakidis, Aias Manthopoulos
Votes: 42
5. To kokkino treno (1982)
103 min | Action, War
Captain Angelos and the soldier Memos participate in a group of experienced ELAS's guerrillas. The team assumes the dangerous mission to reach the center of Athens, under the control of the... See full summary »
Director: Takis Simonetatos | Stars: Lakis Komninos, Nikos Galanos, Georgia Zoi, Stefanos Stratigos
Votes: 46
6. Gehlen: Hitler's Superspy (1974 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, History, War
This is the remarkable story of Reinhard Gehlen, former Head of the German Secret Service, who helped to found the CIA, the American Central Intelligence Agency.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Siegfried Westphal, Walter Warlimont, Kenneth Strong, Lyman Kirkpatrick
Votes: 24
7. Children of the Wind (2015)
5 min | Short
It takes on the journey of all people who have to leave their homeland behind due to any kind of racial atrocity, political force or economical hardship. It's about the struggle that is ... See full summary »
Director: Iván Vas-Zoltán | Star: Zoi Florosz
8. Ta hronia tis thyellas (1984)
113 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Two fighters, cut up in the mountains, after the defeat of the Democratic Army in 1949, are trying to return to their homes.
Director: Nikos Tzimas | Stars: Mihalis Stamatakis, Katerina Koutrouvida, Menelaos Daflos, Manos Katrakis
Votes: 91
9. En plo (1985)
90 min | Adventure, Drama
A young man, Kostas, together with two friends, sets for a journey on a sailboat, looking for something precious that his father hid on one of the Aegean islands during the years of Greek Resistance and Civil War.
Director: Stavros Konstandarakos | Stars: Giorgos Kimoulis, Stratis Tsopanellis, Lila Kafantari, Nikos Kalogeropoulos
Votes: 40
10. Ouloi emeis, efenti (1998)
105 min | Drama, History
The film is a documentary and a fiction movie, outlines a true story: At the end of the Civil War, a group of eight persecuted fighters of the Democratic Army of Greece and exiled to Ikaria... See full summary »
Director: Leonidas Vardaros | Stars: Vasilis Kolovos, Periklis Moustakis, Antonis Vlisidis, Andonis Mombaitzis
Votes: 26
11. The Promise of Tomorrow 1940- 1960 (2009)
60 min | Documentary
An examination of first and second generation Greek-Americans and the challenges facing them as they become integral parts of the community as a whole, while still maintaining their unique cultural identity.
Director: Anna Giannotis | Stars: Phil Angelides, John Aniston, Michael Constantine, Spero Dedes
Votes: 34
12. The Truth About the Children of Greece (1948)
26 min | Documentary, Short, History
During the Greek Civil War, the Greek Democratic Army provides refuge for many suffering children in socialist states.
Director: Manos Zacharias | Star: Manos Zacharias
Votes: 8
13. Dimitris, Nikos... and the Uncertainty Principle (2021)
79 min | Documentary
The story of a young child who was forcibly abandoned in the forest during the Greek civil war, managed to survive and grew up as a refugee in Poland.
Director: Costas Aenian | Stars: Maria Papatheodorou, Dimitris Papatheodorou, Nikos Kyrkos, Christos Eleftheriades
14. Next Year in Lerin (2000)
43 min | Documentary, Short
In 1948 during the Greek civil war, 28 thousand children, Greek and Macedonian, were taken from their villages by the communist-led Democratic Army and raised in orphanages in Eastern ... See full summary »
Director: Jill Daniels
15. Kainourgios ouranos: Oi gynaikes ston Dimokratiko Strato Elladas (2021)
75 min | Documentary, History
This was a revolutionary army and a large number of women joined its ranks and played a substantial role in it, taking part in battles and decision making.
Directors: Tasos Konstantopoulos, Giannis Xydas | Star: Thanos Mikroutsikos
Votes: 9
16.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 11
17.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
The Cold War: Part 1
(2019)
TV-14 | 16 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains The Cold War, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 37
18.
1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Episode:
Yalta, the Twilight of the Big Three
56 min | Documentary, History, War
Hear how the Yalta Conference of 1945 - in which Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization - led to enmity.
Director: Emilie Lançon | Stars: Curtis Roosevelt, Robert Franck, François Kersaudy, André Kaspi
19.
Mr. Beat (2011– )
Episode:
NATO Explained
(2018)
9 min | Documentary, History
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military defense alliance born of the Cold War that now (2017) consists of 29 countries including several from its formal rival Warsaw Pact. Mr. ... See full summary »
Star: Matthew Beat
20.
World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode:
Closing the Ring
(2009)
TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War
The Western Allies secure supply routes that will allow them to enter Germany, and the Ardennes counter-offensive fails. The Red Army advances rapidly, and Stalin shows uses the war for Empire-building. The SS implements the Holocaust.
Stars: Robert Powell, Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 221
21.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Why Did Britain Attack the Greeks in 1944?
(2022)
19 min | Documentary, Animation
The pro- and anti-communist guerrillas eventually managed to defeat the occupying German army by 1944, setting the stage for a long-running civil war where the anti-communist forces in ... See full summary »
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen