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1. Come and See (1985)
Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Votes: 97,859
2. Enemy at the Gates (2001)
R | 131 min | Action, Drama, War
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud | Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz
Votes: 278,094 | Gross: $51.40M
3. Ivan's Childhood (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, War
During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky, Eduard Abalov | Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov, Stepan Krylov
Votes: 40,024
4. T-34 (2018)
TV-14 | 139 min | Action, War
An SS Panzer Division uses a T-34 manned by Soviet POWs as a training target, but the prisoners plot a daring maneuver.
Director: Aleksey Sidorov | Stars: Alexander Petrov, Irina Starshenbaum, Viktor Dobronravov, Vinzenz Kiefer
Votes: 14,405
5. The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Romance, War
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin
Votes: 19,841 | Gross: $0.02M
6. The Ascent (1977)
111 min | Drama, War
Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova
Votes: 10,157
7. The Red Ghost (2020)
99 min | Action, History, Horror
A detachment of Soviet soldiers, including a dangerous half-man, half-ghost, come up against an elite death squad within the Wehrmacht.
Director: Andrey Bogatyrev | Stars: Aleksey Shevchenkov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Yura Borisov, Polina Chernyshova
Votes: 2,177
8. Kalashnikov (2020)
110 min | Biography, Drama, War
Wounded as a tank driver in 1941 during World War II, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov sees the latest Soviet machine gun fail. As he's also an inventor, he starts making improvements and in 1947 ends up creating the AK-47 assault rifle.
Director: Konstantin Buslov | Stars: Yura Borisov, Olga Lerman, Artur Smolyaninov, Sergey Gazarov
Votes: 4,847
9. Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
110 min | Action, Biography, Drama
A story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.
Director: Sergey Mokritskiy | Stars: Yuliya Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Oleg Vasilkov, Nikita Tarasov
Votes: 13,992
10. Panfilov's 28 Men (2016)
PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Drama, History
In November 1941, remaining squad of Soviet soldiers must stop a column of Nazi Germany tanks.
Directors: Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa | Stars: Maksim Abrosimov, Sergey Agafonov, Pavel Aseev, Ivan Batarev
Votes: 6,024
11. Berenshtein (2021)
105 min | Biography, History, War
The last of the great partisans, who located Hitler's "wonder weapon", returns to the war that took away his feelings and identity, but failed to rob him of his values as a human being.
Director: Roman Shumunov | Stars: Leonid Berenshtein, Yaroslav Kucherenko, Anton Karlinsky, Lilya Ostapovich
Votes: 450
12. Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973)
830 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II, a Soviet undercover spy manages to infiltrate the Nazi elite.
Stars: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Yefim Kopelyan, Leonid Bronevoy, Ekaterina Gradova
Votes: 4,991
13. Fortress of War (2010)
Not Rated | 138 min | Action, Drama, History
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
Director: Aleksandr Kott | Stars: Aleksey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Aleksandr Korshunov
Votes: 10,539
14. Only Old Men Are Going to Battle (1974)
92 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During World War II, a Soviet veteran pilot teaches newcomers that war is transient, and music is eternal.
Director: Leonid Bykov | Stars: Leonid Bykov, Sergey Podgornyy, Sergei Ivanov, Rustam Sagdullaev
Votes: 5,797
15. The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
PG-13 | 188 min | Drama, History, War
During World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.
Director: Stanislav Rostotskiy | Stars: Andrey Martynov, Irina Dolganova, Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova
Votes: 4,787
16. The Fall of Berlin (1950)
167 min | Drama, War
A years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.
Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Vladimir Savelev, Marina Kovalyova
Votes: 552
17. White Tiger (2012)
Not Rated | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Great Patriotic War, early 1940s. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov | Stars: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov
Votes: 4,913
18. They Fought for Their Country (1975)
158 min | Drama, War
July 1942. Soviet forces are retreating in the face of a massive German onslaught towards Stalingrad. An infantry platoon is tasked with holding a vital hill in order to give their comrades time to cross the Don River and regroup.
Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Georgiy Burkov
Votes: 3,236
19. Dot (2009 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama, War
1941 was a year of turmoil in Russia. Nazi troops advancing rapidly, and the front line pushed further and further to the east. The Nazi war machine was upon the Russian steppe. The war ... See full summary »
Director: Anatoliy Mateshko | Stars: Tatyana Cherkasova, Evgeniy Ganelin, Anatoliy Gnatyuk, Igor Gnezdilov
Votes: 18
20. Leningrad (2009)
R | 110 min | Drama, War
Winter, 1941. World War II rages on as Nazi troops invade the Soviet Union and besiege the devastated city of Leningrad. Foreign journalists are quickly evacuated, but in the chaos that ensues, Kate Davies is left behind.
Director: Aleksandr Buravskiy | Stars: Mira Sorvino, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Olga Sutulova, Gabriel Byrne
Votes: 4,800
21. Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolay Kryuchkov
Votes: 11,321
22. We Are from the Future (2008)
172 min | Action, Drama, Fantasy
Four present-day Russian men dig for Nazi memorabilia at a WWII battlefield. A wormhole lake sends them back to a battle in 1942 USSR.
Stars: Danila Kozlovskiy, Andrey Terentyev, Vladimir Yaglych, Dmitriy Volkostrelov
Votes: 4,133
23. Father of a Soldier (1964)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, War
An old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.
Director: Rezo Chkheidze | Stars: Sergo Zakariadze, Vladimir Privaltsev, Aleksandr Nazarov, Aleksandr Lebedev
Votes: 4,580
24. Italiani brava gente (1964)
137 min | Drama, History, War
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Director: Giuseppe De Santis | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu, Tatyana Samoylova
Votes: 413
25. Red Cherry (1995)
120 min | Drama, War
It is 1940. Chuchu and Luo Xiaoman are Chinese students who have been sent to study in Moscow, at the international school. She is 13; he is 12. Xiaoman is from Yanan, Mao's base after the ... See full summary »
Director: Daying Ye | Stars: Ke-Yu Guo, Xiao-Li Xu, Igor Ledogorov, Vyacheslav Butenko
Votes: 748
26. Shtrafbat (2004)
550 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.
Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Yuriy Stepanov, Vladimir Priezzhev, Aleksandr Chernyavskiy
Votes: 1,547
27. Wings (1966)
85 min | Drama
A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the ... See full summary »
Director: Larisa Shepitko | Stars: Mayya Bulgakova, Sergey Nikonenko, Zhanna Bolotova, Panteleymon Krymov
Votes: 2,248
28. Bitva za Moskvu (1985)
358 min | Drama, History, War
The battle of Moscow was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. The film is dedicated to some fighting events that took place in the USSR after Hitler's conquest of western Europe.
Stars: Helmut Hellstorff, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Artyom Karapetyan, Yakov Tripolsky
Votes: 473
29. Ballada o bombere (2011 Video)
181 min | Action, Drama, War
The Bomber (2011) / (Russian language title: Ballada o Bombere) Storyline During World War II, a soviet aircraft crashes on Nazi-occupied territory. But the pilot Grivtsov and his beloved ... See full summary »
Director: Vitaliy Vorobyov | Stars: Nikita Efremov, Ekaterina Astakhova, Aleksandr Davydov, Vladislav Abashin
Votes: 617
30. Trial on the Road (1986)
96 min | Drama, War
A Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans.
Director: Aleksey German | Stars: Rolan Bykov, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Oleg Borisov
Votes: 2,597
31. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
157 min | Documentary, History, War
The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand
Votes: 1,123
32. Officers (1971)
G | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War
Wars and time could not break the connection between the fates of Alexei and Ivan. Soviet drama about lifelong friendship.
Director: Vladimir Rogovoy | Stars: Georgiy Yumatov, Alina Pokrovskaya, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Andrei Anisimov
Votes: 2,140
33. Osvobozhdenie: Ognennaya duga (1970)
93 min | Drama, History, Romance
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuriy Ozerov | Stars: Nikolay Olyalin, Larisa Golubkina, Boris Seidenberg, Sergey Nikonenko
Votes: 547
34. Shchit i mech (1968)
341 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
The title refers to the emblem of the Soviet NKVD. The story involves a spy who infiltrates the German SS during World War II.
Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Alla Demidova, Valentina Titova, Oleg Yankovskiy
Votes: 695
35. The Battle of Russia (1943)
Not Rated | 83 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.
Directors: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Anthony Veiller, Ion Antonescu, Nikolay Cherkasov, Anthony Eden
Votes: 1,617
36. Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Documentary, History, War
In June 1941, Hitler took his greatest gamble - launching an attack against the Soviet Union. Despite being the largest German operation of WWII, Operation Barbarossa was one of his biggest failures.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Nathan Rippy, Stephen Rashbrook
Votes: 212
37. Osvobozhdenie: Napravlenie glavnogo udara (1971)
125 min | Drama, History, Romance
This five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.
Director: Yuriy Ozerov | Stars: Mikhail Nozhkin, Nikolay Olyalin, Mikhail Ulyanov, Larisa Golubkina
Votes: 773
38. Red Dog (2017)
99 min | Action, Drama, History
An action packed and heartwarming story of the friendship formed between a tank-destroyer dog of the Red Army during WWII and a group of soldiers.
Directors: Aleksandr Basaev, William De Vital | Stars: Mikhail Zhigalov, Aleksandr Volkov, Oksana Skoropad, Tatyana Cherdyntseva
Votes: 148
39. The Great War (2010–2012)
50 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Twelve hour-long documentary depicting World War II's major Eastern Front events/battles. Combines CGI, reenactments and archival footage to illustrate the war's history.
Stars: Anatoliy Bogush, Evgeniy Sinchukov, Olga Radchuk, Andrey Vlasov
Votes: 320
40. In the Fog (2012)
Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, History, War
Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa | Stars: Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin, Sergey Kolesov, Nikita Peremotov
Votes: 3,338 | Gross: $0.01M
41. Two Soldiers (1943)
75 min | Drama, Romance, War
A story of infantry soldiers on the Leningrad front during the German invasion of Russia in WWII, which stresses the importance of friendship between combatants from different regions and ethnicities.
Director: Leonid Lukov | Stars: Mark Bernes, Boris Andreyev, Vera Shershnyova, Yanina Zheymo
Votes: 320
42. Pop (2009)
Not Rated | 130 min | Drama, History, War
Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the German occupation of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Director: Vladimir Khotinenko | Stars: Sergey Makovetskiy, Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov
Votes: 1,334
43. The Unknown War (1978– )
1,040 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary film history of the Nazi-Soviet conflict in world War II.
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Averell Harriman
Votes: 299
44. Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu oznakoyu (1971)
99 min | Drama, War
Colourful 'optimistic tragedy' of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the ... See full summary »
Director: Yuri Ilyenko | Stars: Larisa Kadochnikova, Ivan Mikolaychuk, Bogdan Stupka, Yuri Mikolajchuk
Votes: 612
45. V avguste 44-go (2001)
109 min | Action, Mystery, Drama
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 Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
Director: Mikhail Ptashuk | Stars: Evgeniy Mironov, Vladislav Galkin, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Aleksey Petrenko
Votes: 1,846
46. Zhivye i myortvye (1964)
201 min | Drama, War
Journalist Ivan Sintsov news of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany during the catches of southern vacation. As a war correspondent, he becomes a witness to the difficult events of the first months of the war - many departures in 1941.
Director: Aleksandr Stolper | Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Oleg Efremov
Votes: 425
47. Aty-baty, shli soldaty... (1977)
87 min | Drama, War
The families of 18 soldiers who heroically died in 1944 are meeting at the place of the squad last battle.
Director: Leonid Bykov | Stars: Leonid Bykov, Vladimir Konkin, Elena Shanina, Leonid Bakshtaev
Votes: 1,033
48. Osvobozhdenie: Proryv (1970)
87 min | Drama, History, Romance
A five part WW2 epic drama that gives a dramatized detailed account of Soviet Union's war against Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945.Each of the five parts represents a separate major eastern ... See full summary »
Director: Yuriy Ozerov | Stars: Nikolay Olyalin, Larisa Golubkina, Boris Seidenberg, Sergey Nikonenko
Votes: 465
49. V nebe 'Nochnye vedmy' (1981)
80 min | War
This war film tells about the feat of Soviet women-pilots, who during the WWII, mostly at night, bombed the positions of German-fascist troops and enemy communications. The Germans were ... See full summary »
Director: Yevgeniya Zhigulenko | Stars: Valentina Grushina, Yana Drouz, Dmitri Zamulin, Nina Menshikova
Votes: 136
50. At War as at War (1969)
90 min | Drama, War
To the young lieutenant Maleshkin the war is a minor obstacle, if compared to his personal battle to command his subordinates, while conducting an armored vehicle at the same time he's ... See full summary »
Director: Viktor Tregubovich | Stars: Mikhail Kononov, Oleg Borisov, Viktor Pavlov, Fyodor Odinokov
Votes: 661