1. FDR: A Presidency Revealed
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pull America through the Great Depression and WWII. From his legendary Fireside Chats to his sweeping New Deal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt revolutionized the American way of life. FDR: A Presidency Revealed examines one of history's most compelling figures. Inspired by his cousin Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt rose to the nation's highest office during the depths of one of its darkest periods. A man of few words, he brought a nation together through his revolutionary Fireside Chats. He introduced vast reforms like Social Security and work relief for the unemployed. At the same time, his administration hid a dark underbelly teeming with covert maneuvers, spy rings, and powerful enemies.
2. Marion de Lorme (Marion de Lorme)
The romantic drama based on the play of the same name, depicting the life of a 17th-century French courtesan.
3. Carmen (Carmen)
Feyder's scenario very closely follows Don José's own account of his story and his fatal relation with the gypsy Carmen in the third chapter of Mérimée's short novel.
It has an average vote of 6.1 on TMDB.
4. Bockerer (Der Bockerer)
A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
5. The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday spent much of her career being adored by fans. In the 1940s, the government targeted Holiday in a growing effort to racialize the war on drugs, ultimately aiming to stop her from singing her controversial ballad, "Strange Fruit."
It has an average vote of 6.59 on TMDB.
6. Dawn of the Nazis (Dawn of the Nazis)
How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just one man to world domination. A real-life horror story, an ominous tale of violence and deception, which takes place from 1919 to 1934.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
7. Gino: A Child of War
An account of a young Italian boy who was taken in by a Canadian military unit during World War II.
8. 1940: Taking over French Cinema (1940, main basse sur le cinéma français)
Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the best artists and technicians of French cinema to produce successful, highly entertaining films, which are also strategically devoid of propaganda. Simultaneously, he takes advantage of the confiscation of Jewish property to purchase film theaters, studios and laboratories, in order to control the whole production line. His goal: to create a European Hollywood. Among the thirty feature films thus produced under the auspices of Continental, several are, to this day, considered classics of French cinema.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
9. A Propos of the Truce with Finland (К вопросу о перемирии с Финляндией)
A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in 1941–1944. The main emphasis is on the resolution of the war. The film contains plenty of unique footage of the final stages of the Continuation War.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
10. The Official Story (La historia oficial)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1983. In the last and turbulent days of the military dictatorship, Alicia, a high school history teacher, begins to ask uncomfortable questions about the dark origins of Gaby, her adopted daughter.
It has an average vote of 7.517 on TMDB.
11. Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
It has an average vote of 6.76 on TMDB.
12. The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
13. Eight Women Fighters (八女投江)
Women soldiers of the Volunteer Army battle the Japanese in Northeast China in 1936.
It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.
14. Spell Your Name
Survivors tell the story of the Babyn Yar massacre from WWII, where some 100,000 people were massacred by German forces.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
15. Red Snow (Roter Schnee)
A young lieutenant must persuade a captive resistance fighter to betray his comrades, or enforce a law which states that for every German soldier killed, one hundred civilians must be executed.
16. A Happy Day of Jinsa Maeng (孟進士宅慶事)
Jinsa Maeng's daughter is contracted to marry a nobleman's son, however, Jinsa Maeng is upset when he hears about a rumor that the fiance of his daughter is lame. Finally, he decides to take on the idea of arranging his maid to take his daughter's place in the wedding.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
17. Marketa Lazarová (Marketa Lazarová)
Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
18. The Witch (Відьма)
In the Ukrainian village of Konotop, the chief Centurion wants to marry a beautiful girl and asks for the help of a young witch.
It has an average vote of 3 on TMDB.
19. Lisa Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb (Lise Meitner - Die Mutter der Atombombe)
To historians, physicist Lose Neither deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg, and Otto Hahn. In the 1930s, on the verge of World War II, she led a small group of scientists who discovered that splitting the atomic nucleus of uranium releases enormous energy. This extraordinary film tells the story of a woman who was far ahead of her time as a scientist and a pioneer of feminism.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
20. Ragtime
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.