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Plot Summary:
In 1877 during the Russo-Turkish war the Kingdom of Romania joins the war on Russia's side and declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: History, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 192 min
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The Battle of 1894 (1962)
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In 1894 the Japanese Imperial Navy provokes the Chinese navy to test defenses. Some Chinese want to make concessions while others want to fight. When Japan invades, some naval officers put up a heroic resistance.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: History, War
Country: China
Duration: 95 min
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Bloody Nitrate (1969)
Plot Summary:
Chilean soldiers try to survive in the desert after they are attacked by Peruvian troops. The 17 survivors are held together by the Captain (Hector Duvauchelle). The Lieutenant (Jaime Vadell) is a civilian attorney who clashes with the Captain as he pursues the valuable rights to nitrate deposits in the area. When the fighting was over, 25,000 soldiers from Chile, Peru and Bolivia had perished while trying to secure the coveted mineral rights for foreign companies.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Chile
Duration: 128 min
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Andreas Hofer (2002)
Plot Summary:
Based on historical events, this is the story of the Austrian folk hero Andreas Hofer. Hofer was an innkeeper in the Tyrol in Austria, who emerged as the leader of the populace in their effort to withstand the occupation of their land by Bavarian troops, which were bound in alliance to Napoleon of France. Initially mentored and supported by a man of the church, Hofer soon became the sole leader of the Austrian freedom fighters and a hero among the population. However, powerful people in his own country soon used him to further their own political interests. Hofer, whose fighting had been motivated by a desire for social justice, did not find any support from the Austrian rulers when Napoleon was set on revenge. In 1810, Hofer paid the ultimate price for his bravery and was executed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min
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Exodos 1826: A Road of No Return (2017)
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Captain Mihos Floros returns to Samarina to gather more men and lead them to the besieged by the Ottomans, Missolonghi, in order to assist the fight of the resistance at General Makris' bastion. With his personal friend Elias Manakas and 25 more men by his side, begins the long journey to get to Missolonghi and join Zisis Hatzimatis and the rest of their fellow countrymen. On March 1826, they start a journey full of adversities through the mountains. Back at the village of Samarina, the women try to find out from Heleni Floros the real reason their husbands had to leave in a hurry. Meanwhile, Ibrahim Pasha and the Turkish commandant of Arta, N. Servan, get ready to launch the final assault on Missolonghi.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Adventure, Biography, History, War
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Desert of the Tartars (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, light, period drama
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War and Peace: Part III (1967)
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In 1812, Napoleon's Army invades Russia. Kutuzov asks Bolkonsky to join him as a staff officer, yet the prince requests a command in the field. Pierre sets out to watch the upcoming confrontation between the armies. During the Battle of Borodino, he volunteers to assist in an artillery battery. Bolkonsky's unit waits in the reserve, but he is hit by a shell. Both Anatol and Bolkosnky suffer severe wounds. The French Army is victorious and advances on Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: historical drama, period drama
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The Legions (2019)
Plot Summary:
A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great history is the background for the love story unfolding in the foreground: Józek, a deserter from the tsarist army who joins the emerging Legions, an intelligence agent for the I Brigade and Women’s Leage member – Ola, and Tadek, her fiancée, a member of Shooting Team.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 731
Genere: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: serious, tense, rough, suspense, disturbing
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Battalion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating
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The Mace with Three Seals (1977)
Plot Summary:
At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia,Transylvania and Moldavia into a single country known as The United Principalities.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Biography, History, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 177 min
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Colonel Wolodyjowski (1969)
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In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, History, War
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 160 min
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The Soimaresti Clan (1965)
Plot Summary:
Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Adventure, Biography, History, Romance, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 137 min
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Battle of Kosovo (1989)
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Battle of Kosovo (Serbian: Boj na Kosovu) is a 1989 Yugoslav historical drama/war film filmed in Serbia. The film was based on the drama written by poet Ljubomir Simovic. It depicts the historical Battle of Kosovo between Medieval Serbia and the Ottoman Empire which took place on June 15 (according to the Julian calendar, June 28 by the Gregorian calendar) in a field about 5 kilometers northwest of Pristina.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: light, epic, dark, crying
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The Crown of Fire (1990)
Plot Summary:
In medieval Wallachia a young prince battles his twin brother for their father's throne and for their ancestors' crown of fire.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Adventure, History, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 94 min
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Vlad the Impaler: The True Life of Dracula (1979)
Plot Summary:
Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad the Impaler and Dracula, fights the Ottoman Turks on the battlefield and the Hungarian Boyars in his court.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Romania
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: gothic, political
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Vlad The Impaler (2018)
Plot Summary:
The true story of 7 oddly dressed fearless men of ottoman army fight against cruel Vlad.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, History, War
Country: Turkey
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Mercenaries' Trap (1981)
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The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part of his fortune burned to ashes during late 1918 when power was trasfered from AustroHungary to Romania. Looking for revenge, he ordered the killing of innocent Romanian peasants from a neighbouring village, which he suspected to be guilty for the losses he suffered. A Romanian officer from Romanian Transylvanian Volunteers Corp, decides to help the villagers to face the menace of the nobleman.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Romania, East Germany
Duration: 111 min
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Lines of Wellington (2012)
Plot Summary:
Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal in Valeria Sarmiento’s intimate epic.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags: serious, stylized, exciting, realistic, epic, weird, period drama
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The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 (2012)
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Storyline: In the summer of 1683, 300 000 Ottoman Empire's warriors begin the siege of Vienna. City's fall, will open way to conquer the Europe. The Sept 11 is the day of main battle between Polish cavalry under the King Jan III Sobieski and Turks.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, bleak, epic, serious, realistic, christian film, contemplative
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The Column (1968)
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The Roman Emperor Trajan has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Rumania. He places a Roman centurion in his place to occupy his latest conquest. After lopping off the head of the Dacian warlord, the soldier uses his blood-stained hands to dine on cheese and bread, unable to suppress his laughter. The centurion has a change of heart when he is put in charge of the region, freely dispensing justice and forgiveness to the conquered inhabitants. When the peace is threatened by marauding barbarians in masks of fur, the locals help the Romans fend off the invasion.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Romania, West Germany
Duration: 133 min
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Tobruk (2008)
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It is the story of Jiri and Jan, two Czech soldiers, battling alongside the allied forces against the Germans, during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Jiri Pospichal, eighteen years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: History, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, disturbing, realistic
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Ghetto (2005)
Plot Summary:
In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, becoming the master of life or death. When he finds the gorgeous Hayyah sneaking with one kilo of beam stolen from the German army, he sentences her to death; but when he is informed that she was a former successful singer, he decides to activate the old theater and promote shows in the ghetto. The Jew Chief of Police Gens uses the theater and a sewing factory to save as much lives as he can; in his ambiguous position, he kills Jews to save lives of others.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: History, War
Country: Germany, Lithuania
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: bleak, serious, realistic, emotional, rough, suspense, sad, captivating
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The Dawns Here Are Quiet (1972)
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Based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev, the film is set in Karelia (North-West of Russia, near Finland) in 1941 during WWII. In a beautiful and quiet wilderness far from the front-line there is an anti-aircraft artillery point, where corporal Vaskov is stationed with a group of many young women in training.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tragic ending, epic, sad, patriotic, serious, realistic, scenic
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Zulu (1964)
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In 1879, during the Zulu wars, man of the people Lt. John Chard (Stanley Baker) and snooty Lt Gonville Bromhead (Michael Caine) were in charge of defending the isolated Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes, holding out during an Alamo-like siege until they are overwhelmed, losing the battle, but going down in history as heroes. 150 soldiers defended a supply station against some 4000 Zulus, aided by the Martini-Henry rifle "with some guts behind it". In the hundred years since the Victoria Cross was created for valour and extreme courage beyond that normally expected of the British soldier in face of the enemy only 1344 have been awarded. Eleven of these were won by the defenders of the mission station at Rorke's Drift, Natal, January 22nd to the 23rd 1879.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: realistic, epic, suspense, factual, psychological, exciting, serious, breathtaking, period piece, inspirational
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The Immortals (1974)
Plot Summary:
In 1611,a few years after the death of Prince Michael the Brave,ruler of Wallachia,Moldavia and Transylvania,the remnants of his loyal personal guard wonder through medieval Europe.The faithful soldiers,under the command of their leader,Captain Costea,carry a treasure-filled trunk and their old battle flag.With their treasure they hope to return to Romania,recruit a new army,buy weapons and fulfill Prince Michael the Brave's dream.With their battle flag they hope to rally new recruits and old ex-soldiers to their cause.Former ex-Captain Andrei of Prince Michael's guard is also on their side.However,their return journey home is a perilous one, with many enemies,new and old,wishing to seize their treasure chest.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Action, Adventure, History, Thriller, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 103 min
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Proud Heritage (1989)
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Following the 1394 Battle of Rovine between the Wallachian and Ottoman armies Wallachian ruler Mircea the Elder consolidates his reign.In a small civil war he manages to oust his brother Dan from Wallachia.Dan's dream of usurping the Wallachian throne is destroyed and he is banished from the kingdom.After this confrontation Prince Mircea the Elder ruler of Wallachia receives envoys from the Polish king and from the Ottoman sultan.In their attempt to conquer Europe the Ottoman Turks are seeking European allies.Their envoys to Wallachia want to persuade Prince Mircea to join them but the Polish envoys also are hoping to sway Wallachia to their side.Prince Mircea of Wallachia hesitates.An alliance with fellow Christian Poles seems logical but their conditions are harsh.The conditions of a possible military alliance with the Ottoman Turks are more attractive.However,the Ottoman Turks are Muslim and they also are the traditional enemies of the small Christian kingdom of Wallachia.Caught.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 136 min
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Stephen the Great - Vaslui 1475 (1975)
Plot Summary:
In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Romania
Duration: 137 min
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The Dacians (1966)
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The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus a young roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choose between his blood origins and the culture he was raised to.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 110 min
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Nomad: The Warrior (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Dzungar invaders.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: Kazakhstan, France, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, epic
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Gettysburg (1993)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1863. The Confederacy pushes north into Pennsylvania. Union divisions converge to face them. The two great armies clash at Gettysburg, site of a theology school. For three days, through such legendary actions as Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge, the fate of "one nation, indivisible" hangs in the balance.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 271 min
Plot tags: epic, factual, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting, breathtaking, intense, period piece, patriotic
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Michael the Brave (1971)
Plot Summary:
An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pätrascu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who united the three provinces: Transalpine Vallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia, into the country of Romania, at the end of the 16th century (1599-1601) against the opposition of the Ottoman and Austrian Empires, this movie features large scale battle scenes mixed with political intrigues, murderous treachery, and family drama.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Romania, France, Italy
Duration: 203 min
Plot tags: breathtaking, exciting, epic, serious, captivating, realistic