Battle for Finland

2007

In the summer of 1944, the Finnish Forces must defend Finland from the invading Soviet Red Army....

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Finnish, Swedish, German   2007   117 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-01-12

9th Company

2005

A group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand....

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Russian   2005   139 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-02-07

Presidentit

2005

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Finnish   2005   30 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-03-29

Shadow of the Eagle

2005

A story about a Finnish poet in the early 20th century under the Russian regime....

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Finnish   2005   113 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-02-21

The Copyist

2005

During the Second World War, Hugo Autere, an elderly cellist with the Helsinki Philharmonic gets a secret assignment from the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius # to copy the manuscript of the ......

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Finnish   2005   86 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-11-02

Fata Morgana

2004

Story about life and death according to Chukchi people who live in Chukchi Peninsula as far in the East as one can go....

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Finnish, Russian   2004   57 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-03-22

Beyond the Front Line

2004

A story of the infantry regiment 61 that fought from Syväri to the Karelian Ishtmus....

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Swedish, Finnish, Russian   2004   127 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-01-11

Elanto. Ei ainoastaan leivästä

2004

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Finnish   2004   N/A   History Movies from Finland   2024-01-29

Sininen laulu - Suomen taiteiden tarina

2004

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Finnish   2004   710 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-02-06

Mannerheim ja Pietari

2003

Documentary about C.G.E. Mannerheim's relation to St. Petersburg where he lived for 30 years from 1887 to 1917....

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Finnish, Russian, German, Swedish   2003   50 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-01-04

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2003

A unique documentary on the notorious S-21 prison, today the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with testimony by the only surviving prisoners and former Khmer Rouge guards....

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Central Khmer, Vietnamese   2003   101 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-01-05

Stalingrad

2003

The World War 2 Battle of Stalingrad from the initial attack to the repatriation of the survivors after the war....

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German, Russian   2003   165 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-01-10

Sibelius

2003

The life story of Jean Sibelius, a Finnish composer....

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Finnish, Swedish, German   2003   120 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-12-07

Mosku - lajinsa viimeinen

2003

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Finnish   2003   136 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-12-16

Historiske arbejdspladser

2003

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Danish   2003   28 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-01-19

White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

2003

Documentary about how King Leopold II of Belgium acquired Congo as a colony and exploited it by reign of terror....

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Dutch, English, French   2003   84 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-01-30

Pietarin myytti

2003

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Finnish, Russian   2003   N/A   History Movies from Finland   2023-12-31

Russian Ark

2002

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years....

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Russian, Persian   2002   99 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-11-30

Rajalla

2002

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Finnish   2002   50 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-03-19

Gustav III:s äktenskap

2001

The Swedish King Gustav III is bold and courageous regarding government. He is to marry a Danish princess. But when it comes to love and courtship, the king feels lost. Therefore he asks the loyal and experienced Captain Munck for......

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Swedish   2001   180 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-11-20

Valtapeliä elokuussa 1940

2001

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Finnish   2001   N/A   History Movies from Finland   2023-11-21

Seitsemän laulua tundralta

2000

Seven Songs of the Tundra takes place amidst the infinite white tundra, where a small religious cult sacrifices a reindeer. A ceremonial song accompanies the sacrifice, triggering a narrative divided into seven chapters, which re-......

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Nenets, Russian   2000   90 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-10-14

Taivasta vasten

2000

A story about dreams and the manipulative power of films in a chaotic Kyrgyzstan, seen through the eyes of two cinema projectionists. The Kyrgyz town of Naryn is preparing for the 1000-year anniversary of Manas, their national her......

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Kyrgyz, Russian   2000   60 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-10-29

Pako punaisten päämajasta

2000

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Finnish   2000   72 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-09-09

Lapin kullan kimallus

1999

After being presented with a treasure map, two men travel to the harsh northern wastelands of Lapland in the hopes of finding gold....

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Finnish, Swedish   1999   111 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-08-12

Hovimäki

1999

The lives of the aristocratic Lindhof family and their servants from 1798 to 1907....

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Finnish, French, Russian, Swedish   1999   50 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-08-12

Hovimäen aikaan

1999

Short introductions to real historical events portrayed in the drama Hovimäki (1999)....

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Finnish   1999   5 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-09-03

Liian paksu perhoseksi

1998

Heavily-built young woman Kaisu comes to work in a small grocery store in the countryside, run by a bossy old lady and her tiny, quiet grown-up son Erni. Faced with a common enemy, the unlikely young couple find support in each ot......

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Finnish   1998   85 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-08-12

Kuka oli Felix Kersten?

1998

Himmler's personal physical therapist with magical power in his fingers, that alleviated the Nazi's severe stomach pains with his skills and gained his trust. Felix Kersten's life (1898-1960) is confusing like a smoke screen....

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English, German, Finnish, Swedish   1998   56 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-12-26

Antiikkia, antiikkia

1997

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Finnish   1997   N/A   History Movies from Finland   2024-03-26

Minu Leninid

1997

Keskküla organizes the so called school of Lenins where the training of Lenin's doubles begins....

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Estonian, Russian, German, English   1997   99 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-07-20

Lotat

1995

Lotat is a Finnish Documentary about the Lotta Svärd, a Finnish voluntary auxiliary paramilitary organization for women....

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N/A   1995   50 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-10-09

44. divisioonan kujanjuoksu

1995

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Finnish   1995   81 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-10-10

The Last Bolshevik

1993

This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film students express their excitem......

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French, Russian, English, German   1993   120 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-07-06

Nuijasota - 1500-luvun tarinoita

1993

Dramatized documentary about the events of the "Cudget War", peasant rebellion in the late 16th century Finland....

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Finnish   1993   320 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-02-15

Fem skott i senaten

1992

Drama documentary about the assissination of Nikolai Bobrikov, Russian governor general in Grand Duchy of Finland. In 16th June 1904 student Eugen Schauman shot Bobrikov at the staircase of Senate in Helsinki and after that himself....

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Swedish   1992   86 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-02-06

Viimeinen kesä

1992

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Finnish   1992   105 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-08-29

Ryska Alaska

1992

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Swedish, English   1992   N/A   History Movies from Finland   2023-12-30

Tjurens år

1989

In a sequel to Förtrollade vägen, Den (1986) (TV), five-year-old Riki's family has moved to the town of Vyborg where he experiences the turmoils of the First World War and the Russian ......

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Finnish, Swedish   1989   88 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-06-29

The Winter War

1989

In 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union....

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Finnish   1989   199 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-07-01

Speculation

1989

Describes speculations about what would have happened if Germany had won the World War II....

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Finnish   1989   16 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-09-25

Asema

1989

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Finnish   1989   29 min   History Movies from Finland   2024-02-25

Kansalaiset

1987

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N/A   1987   N/A   History Movies from Finland   2023-10-15

Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan

1986

A new ice age is coming to England. All energy sources have been depleted and despair is taking over the earth. The young king decides to use his last trump card before his power collapses and anarchy reigns over the island kingdom....

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Finnish   1986   80 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-07-28

Pobeda

1985

30 years after the end of World War II, a Soviet and an American journalist meet again for realizing post-war paths of their countries....

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Russian   1985   160 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-08-21

Mestari Patelin

1985

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Finnish   1985   N/A   History Movies from Finland   2024-02-25

Suomi Pop

1985

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Finnish   1985   N/A   History Movies from Finland   2024-02-25

The Day the Universe Changed

1985

James Burke explores key moments in Western History where new knowledge in science changed the way the modern Western world thinks....

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English   1985   52 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-09-09

Da Capo

1985

A story of a famous young violinist, loosely based on the life of Heimo Haitto....

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Finnish   1985   121 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-06-24

Yhdeksän tapaa lähestyä Helsinkiä

1982

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Finnish   1982   62 min   History Movies from Finland   2023-08-01