Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "russian-occupation-of-poland"

1. The Promised Land (1975)

Not Rated | 170 min | Drama

Three friends hope to build a factory but their plans are quickly jeopardized by local politics and one of the partner's dangerous love affair.

Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Andrzej Seweryn, Anna Nehrebecka

Votes: 4,035

2. Chopin: Desire for Love (2002)

R | 134 min | Drama, Romance, Music

A tangled web of unruly passion lies at the center of this drama, chronicling the stormy affair between the great piano virtuoso Frédéric Chopin and the flamboyant feminist writer George Sand.

Director: Jerzy Antczak | Stars: Piotr Adamczyk, Danuta Stenka, Adam Woronowicz, Bozena Stachura

Votes: 810

3. Pilsudski (2019)

108 min | Biography, History

The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Pilsudski (Borys Szyc). The Polish underground independence movement is ... See full summary »

Director: Michal Rosa | Stars: Borys Szyc, Magdalena Boczarska, Jan Marczewski, Maria Debska

Votes: 521

4. Battle for Warsaw (1978)

Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

Using rare newly found footage and eye-witness accounts from survivors, 'Battle for Warsaw' tells the tragic story of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in which nearly a quarter of a million Poles lost their lives.

Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Wladyslaw Sikorski

Votes: 16

5. Tyrannenherrschaft (1916)

Drama, History

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Director: Franz Porten | Stars: Franciszek Fraczkowski, Marian Jednowski, Stanislaw Polanski, Helena Zahorska

6. Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (2005)
Episode: Liberation & Revenge (2005)

TV-14 | 48 min | Documentary, History, War

In 1945, Red Army soldiers liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau. As other liberations occur in the following months, the world is appalled. Surviving Jews face horrors as they try to return to their lives, and few SS-men are found and put on trial.

Directors: Laurence Rees, Catherine Tatge | Stars: Gert Heidenreich, Linda Hunt, Samuel West, Vasily Gromadsky

Votes: 168

7. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Distant War: September 1939-May 1940 (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The invasions of Poland, the Winter War, the sinking of the Graf Spee, the "phony war" and Norwegian Campaign, and the elevation of Winston Churchill to Prime Minister.

Director: David Elstein | Stars: Laurence Olivier, R.A. Butler, Bernard Kops, Robert Boothby

Votes: 563

8. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: The Bomb: February-September 1945 (1974)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Following the events from the death of US President Roosevelt through to the dropping of the two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that prompted Japan's surrender.

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Averell Harriman, Alger Hiss, Anthony Eden

Votes: 357

9. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: Reckoning: 1945... and after (1974)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

As wretched survivours suffer deprivations amongst the ruins, half of Germany and eastern Europe trade one socialist tyranny for another as the Soviets take power. Japan is occupied by the U. S., but the colonial empires disintegrate.

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Stephen Ambrose, William Robertson, Kay Summersby

Votes: 337

10. 1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Episode: Yalta, the Twilight of the Big Three

56 min | Documentary, History, War

Hear how the Yalta Conference of 1945 - in which Franklin D Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin met to discuss Europe's post-war reorganization - led to enmity.

Director: Emilie Lançon | Stars: Curtis Roosevelt, Robert Franck, François Kersaudy, André Kaspi

11. The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Episode: Yearning to Breathe Free (1938-1942) (2022)

TV-14 | 138 min | Documentary, History

As WWII begins, Americans are divided over whether to intervene against Germany. Some individuals and organizations work tirelessly to help refugees escape. Germany invades the USSR and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.

Directors: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick | Stars: Peter Coyote, Daniel Mendelsohn, Guy Stern, Peter Hayes

Votes: 157

12. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: The Soviet Steamroller (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

Their attack on the Soviet Union having failed, the German Army suffers a series of counter-offensives on the Eastern Front. Hitler's constant orders to stand ground backfire, and the ... See full summary »

Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Erich von Manstein, Walter Model

Votes: 243

13. Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)
Episode: Barbarossa Unleashed (2021)

45 min | Documentary, History, War

More than three million Axis soldiers, the largest invading force in history, storm across the Soviet Union border as if it didn't exist in June 1941.

Directors: Dominic Saville, Lyndy Saville | Stars: Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor, Richard John Evans, Donald Rayfield

Votes: 6

14. Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode: Rise of the Sycophants (2018)

TV-14 | 51 min | Documentary, Biography, History

At a critical juncture of the war in 1942, Germany's manufacturing capacity is strained and Hitler turns not to a general but architect Albert Speer.

Director: Simon Deeley | Stars: Roger Moorhouse, James Holland, Sönke Neitzel, Emma Craigie

Votes: 149