European History Films

[DougD]

OK, need help brainstorming: I am looking for names of movies / films that do a good, or reasonable, job of portraying an event in European History...

ex: Cromwell - The English Civil war
ex2: Downfall - End of the TR

So, if you know any, post film and topic, I need as many as possible.

DougD

[matteti]

Originally Posted by DougD

OK, need help brainstorming: I am looking for names of movies / films that do a good, or reasonable, job of portraying an event in European History...

ex: Cromwell - The English Civil war
ex2: Downfall - End of the TR

So, if you know any, post film and topic, I need as many as possible.

DougD

Hello Doug,
Just coming back from Ukraine, I can think of some Ukrainian movies by Oles Yanchuk.
- Holod 33 (Famine 33) is about the great famine in Ukraine.
- The Undefeated and A Company of Heroes are two movies about the OUN-UPA (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalist-Ukrainian Insurgent Army). The first one covers from before the invasion of West-Ukraine until 1950 when Roman Shukevich (the hero of the movie) was captured and killed by the Red Army.

Also, I have some interesting movies in my collection that can worth sharing...

- The Tunnel (German Movie - Der Tunnel, 2001)
Based on a true story a group of East Berliners escaping to the West. Story takes place in 1961 or so when the tunnel was just constructed.

- Earth (Zemlya, 1930) Dovzhenko's "film poem" style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian proles, examining natural cycles through his epic montage. He explores life, death, violence, sex, and other issues as they relate to the collective farms. An idealistic vision of the possibilities of Communism made just before Stalinism set in and the Kulack class was liquidated, "Earth" was viewed negatively by many Soviets because of its exploration of death and other dark issues that come with revolution.

- Battleship Potemkin (1925 movie by Eisenstein about the uprising of 1905 in Odessa)

- October (another Eisenstein movie, made in 1928) In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 to the end of the provisional government and the decrees of peace and of land in November of that year. Lenin returns in April. In July, counter-revolutionaries put down a spontaneous revolt, and Lenin's arrest is ordered. By late October, the Bolsheviks are ready to strike: ten days will shake the world. While the Mensheviks vacillate, an advance guard infiltrates the palace. Anatov-Oveyenko leads the attack and signs the proclamation dissolving the provisional government.

- The End of St-Petersburg (also about the Russian revolution, made in 1927)