Stalingrad

1990

The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war....

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Russian, German   1990   196 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-08-22

Vernymi ostanemsya

1989

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Bulgarian, Czech, German, Hungarian, Polish, Russi   1989   192 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-11-22

Pestalozzis Berg

1989

In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the i......

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German   1989   119 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-29

Na iskhode nochi

1988

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Russian   1988   139 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-27

Stielke, Heinz, Fifteen

1987

Follows the 15-year-old, Heinz Stilke, a member of the Hitler Youth. Heinz is proud of his father, who died bravely for his fatherland, but suddenly learns that he himself is half Jewish. Heinz leaves his gymnasium and is forced t......

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German   1987   95 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-28

Die Russen kommen

1987

Frühjahr 1945 in einem kleinen Ort an der Ostsee. Am Strand finden der 15-jährige Günter (Gert Krause-Melzer) und ein gleichaltriger russischer Fremdarbeiter (Viktor Perewalow) einen toten Soldaten. Wenig später hetzen Günter, der......

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German, Russian, English   1987   92 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-09

The House on the River

1986

This is the story of four German women during the Second World War. The mother Voß, her two daughters Agnes and Lisabeth, and her daughter-in-law Emmi, all live in a house on the river. They accept the war as inevitable and decide......

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German   1986   89 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-26

Jan auf der Zille

1986

1934, Germany. Jan is a 13 year old boy, who is raised without a mother. His father, a communist, is accused of a political murder, and predicted to be shot by the police when he was on the run. Jan lives with his aunt and finds a......

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German   1986   86 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-26

Jorinde und Joringel

1986

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German   1986   75 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-26

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   War Movies from East Germany   2023-08-21

Bitva za Moskvu

1985

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....

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Russian, German   1985   358 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-08-22

Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria - Aus dem siebenjährigen Krieg

1985

Anna Constantia von Brockdorff - the Countess of Cosel - rises to become the mistress of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. After the ruler's death in 1733, his art-loving son Augustus III takes over the re......

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German   1985   165 min   War Movies from East Germany   2024-01-13

Sachsens Glanz und Preußens Gloria: Brühl

1985

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German   1985   182 min   War Movies from East Germany   2024-01-14

Front ohne Gnade

1984

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German   1984   780 min   War Movies from East Germany   2024-02-16

Romanze mit Amelie

1982

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German   1982   116 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-21

Rächer, Retter und Rapiere

1982

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German   1982   45 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-09-14

Mercenaries' Trap

1981

In 1918 a defeated Austro-Hungarian Baron Colonel Von Görtz returns home to Transylvania which has just been lost to Romania. A vengeful Von Görtz punishes the nearby villagers but Romanian Major Tudor Andrei aids them....

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Romanian   1981   111 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-18

Pugowitza

1981

World War II is over and Heinrich, a German young boy, influenced by the Russians, starts to act according to the Communism in a small German village....

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German   1981   101 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-19

Das große Abenteuer des Kaspar Schmeck

1981

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German   1981   176 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-12-02

Little Alexander

1981

A realistic portrayal of the early days in the Russian occupation of Berlin....

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Russian, German   1981   98 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-19

Cherez Gobi i Khingan

1981

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Russian   1981   167 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-08-22

Polonia restituta

1981

A historical reconstruction of dramatic events leading to creation of Polish state. Covers the First World War and the postwar period up to the Treaty of Versailles....

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Polish   1981   219 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-20

Meines Vaters Straßenbahn

1980

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German   1980   152 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-12-02

Archiv des Todes

1980

Deutsche partizan serie, Georg und freunden...

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German, Polish   1980   742 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-18

Trini

1979

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German   1979   86 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-16

Scharnhorst

1978

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German   1978   N/A   War Movies from East Germany   2023-11-13

Eine Handvoll Hoffnung

1978

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German   1978   78 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-16

Ursula

1978

Switzerland 1523. The mercenary Hansli Gyr returns with his soldiers from Italy to his home in the Oberland. They have fought for the Pope and now find a religious upheaval in Switzerland....

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German, Swiss German, Italian, Latin   1978   110 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-17

The Liberation of Prague

1977

On 20 April 1945 the Soviet army launches its attack on Berlin. The end has come for Nazi Germany, and Hitler decides to commit suicide. In Prague, K.H. Frank, German secretary of state and chief of police in the Protectorate of B......

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Slovak, Russian, German, English, Czech   1977   140 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-07-29

Mama, ich lebe

1977

Four young Germans in a Soviet POW camp decide to join the Red Army to hasten the end of the war. Their new identities elicit different reactions from Germans and Russians, and are difficult to live up to when they are sent behind......

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German, Russian   1977   103 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-14

Soldaty svobody

1977

Tens of images of historical characters are shown. People who have taken part in fighting against Nazi Germany as well as the activity of the leaders of the communist parties of the USSR, Rumania, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia ......

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Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, German, Hungarian,   1977   599 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-16

Am Ende der Welt

1975

In May 1945, the small town of Weißenthal was no man's land, neither the Americans nor the Soviets occupied it. The soldier Michael Duda, returning to his hometown, meets the escaped concentration camp prisoner Arno Laube. After t......

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German   1975   100 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-13

Das Schilfrohr

1974

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German   1974   86 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-12

Das Geheimnis des Ödipus

1974

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German   1974   97 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-08-20

Trotz alledem!

1972

Biographical war drama about the life of German socialist Karl Liebknecht....

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German, Russian   1972   125 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-11

Das Licht der schwarzen Kerze

1972

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German   1972   N/A   War Movies from East Germany   2023-09-19

Die große Reise der Agathe Schweigert

1972

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German   1972   102 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-11

Gesine

1971

A girl befriends a Russian prisoner of war during World War II who is brought into her village as a forced laborer. Danger ensues for her and her mother when this prisoner escapes....

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German   1971   85 min   War Movies from East Germany   2024-01-28

Rottenknechte

1971

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German   1971   340 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-08

KLK an PTX - Die Rote Kapelle

1971

East German film about the history of Red Orchestra, a real life German pro-Soviet spy ring created after the rise of Hitler that turned into a resistance movement led by a leftist Nazi officer, Harro Schulze-Boysen, and Arvid Har......

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German   1971   178 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-09

Artur Becker

1971

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German   1971   312 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-11-21

Jeder stirbt für sich allein

1970

A German couple start a silent campaign against Hitler's dictatorial reign after the loss of their only son at the front...

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German   1970   307 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-09-30

Der Streit um den Sergeanten Grischa

1970

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German   1970   97 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-10-01

Aus unserer Zeit

1970

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German   1970   129 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-08

Junge Frau von 1914

1970

The year 1914 is not a good time for the love between the young banker's daughter Leonore Wahl and the destitute philosopher and budding writer Werner Bertin....

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German   1970   152 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-08

Meine Stunde Null

1970

Captured by the Red Army, a German soldier is recruited to aid in the kidnapping of a high-ranking Wehrmacht officer....

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German, Russian   1970   92 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-08

The Great Battle

1969

Two great armies duel to the death with a million guns and ten thousand tanks - THE GREAT BATTLE....

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Serbo-Croatian, French, Italian, Polish, Russian,   1969   118 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-08-07

Geheime Spuren

1969

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German   1969   230 min   War Movies from East Germany   2024-01-17

I Was Nineteen

1968

Gregor Hecker, who fled Germany with his parents, returns to Germany as a lieutenant in the Red Army....

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German, Russian   1968   115 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-05

Wege übers Land

1968

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German   1968   438 min   War Movies from East Germany   2023-06-06