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1. Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
R | 157 min | Drama, History, Thriller
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt, Mark Strong
Votes: 319,244 | Gross: $95.72M
2. The Tin Drum (1979)
R | 142 min | Drama, War
In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach
Votes: 25,780
3. Madam Kitty (1976)
X | 129 min | Drama, War
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power-hungry army official, who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself.
Director: Tinto Brass | Stars: Helmut Berger, Ingrid Thulin, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner
Votes: 5,036
4. Cold War (2018)
R | 89 min | Drama, Music, Romance
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Votes: 61,985 | Gross: $4.57M
5. Green Border (2023)
147 min | Drama
A family of refugees from Syria, an English teacher from Afghanistan and a border guard all meet on the Polish-Belarusian border during the most recent humanitarian crisis in Belarus.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Behi Djanati Atai, Tomasz Wlosok
Votes: 5,438
6. Kundun (1997)
PG-13 | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin, Tenzin Yeshi Paichang
Votes: 30,522 | Gross: $5.53M
7. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Romance, War
As World War II and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Soviet forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Zbigniew Cybulski, Ewa Krzyzewska, Waclaw Zastrzezynski, Adam Pawlikowski
Votes: 13,490
8. The Aristocrats (2005)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Comedy
One hundred superstar comedians tell the same very, VERY dirty, filthy joke--one shared privately by comics since Vaudeville.
Directors: Penn Jillette, Paul Provenza | Stars: George Carlin, Don Rickles, Chris Rock, Chris Albrecht
Votes: 17,064 | Gross: $6.38M
9. Amen. (2002)
Not Rated | 132 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world.
Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Mathieu Kassovitz, Ulrich Mühe, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 14,983 | Gross: $0.27M
10. Blind Chance (1987)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Romance
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Boguslawa Pawelec
Votes: 11,219
11. An American Rhapsody (2001)
PG-13 | 106 min | Drama
A young Hungarian girl struggles to find her place in the world when she's reunited with her parents in the USA years after she was left behind during their flight from the communist country in the 1950s.
Director: Éva Gárdos | Stars: Nastassja Kinski, Scarlett Johansson, Raffaella Bánsági, Tony Goldwyn
Votes: 4,599 | Gross: $0.85M
12. Interrogation (1989)
TV-MA | 118 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tonia goes out drinking. She wakes up in prison, not having a clue why she's there. She is tortured to encourage her to confess to a crime she is not aware of.
Director: Ryszard Bugajski | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Adam Ferency, Janusz Gajos, Agnieszka Holland
Votes: 3,687
13. The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Musical
A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Mark McKinney, Maria de Medeiros, David Fox
Votes: 6,323 | Gross: $0.67M
14. Man of Marble (1977)
160 min | Drama
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki
Votes: 4,787
15. Bogowie (2014)
120 min | Biography, Drama
The early career of cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa. Despite the harsh reality of 1980s Poland, he successfully leads a team of doctors to the country's first human heart transplantation.
Director: Lukasz Palkowski | Stars: Tomasz Kot, Piotr Glowacki, Szymon Piotr Warszawski, Magdalena Czerwinska
Votes: 7,708
16. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Approved | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Germans seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker
Votes: 3,267 | Gross: $0.86M
17. The Rape of Europa (2006)
Unrated | 117 min | Documentary, History, War
The story of Nazi Germany's plundering of Europe's great works of art during World War II and Allied efforts to minimize the damage.
Directors: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen, Nicole Newnham | Stars: Joan Allen, E. Randol Schoenberg, Maria Altmann, Wolfgang Fischer
Votes: 1,660
18. Man of Iron (1981)
PG | 156 min | Drama, History
A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkut's son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Wieslawa Kosmalska
Votes: 3,800
19. The Deluge (1974)
287 min | Adventure, History, Romance
During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.
Director: Jerzy Hoffman | Stars: Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Kazimierz Wichniarz
Votes: 3,192
20. Nightmares (1979)
100 min | Drama
The life and times of a sensitive, poetic Polish boy who watches his country strive towards the liberation movement.
Director: Wojciech Marczewski | Stars: Piotr Lysak, Tomasz Hudziec, Hanna Skarzanka, Maria Chwalibóg
Votes: 295
21. I'm a Killer (2016)
117 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Inspired by true events from the 1970s, the story revolves around a young detective who becomes the head of a police unit focused on catching a rampant serial killer of women, nicknamed 'The Silesian Vampire'.
Director: Maciej Pieprzyca | Stars: Miroslaw Haniszewski, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Agata Kulesza, Magdalena Poplawska
Votes: 3,264
22. Countdown to War (1989 TV Movie)
78 min | Drama, History, War
Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between the UK, France, Poland, Nazi Germany, and the U.S.S.R. from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany, caused by Hitler's invasion of Poland.
Director: Patrick Lau | Stars: Ian McKellen, Michael Aldridge, Tony Britton, John Woodvine
Votes: 204
23. Naked Among Wolves (1963)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, War
In the last weeks of World War II, inmates of Buchenwald concentration camp hide a Polish child from the SS guards, hoping that the advance of the American forces will set them free.
Director: Frank Beyer | Stars: Erwin Geschonneck, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Krystyn Wójcik, Fred Delmare
Votes: 837
24. From a Far Country (1981)
140 min | Biography, Drama
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Thirteen years later, Nazi Germany attacks ... See full summary »
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow, John Welsh
Votes: 202
25. Gebürtig (2002)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A holocaust survivor now living as a respected writer in Manhattan is the only person who can identify a suspected Nazi back in his native Austria. When a beautiful reporter eager for a ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Schindel, Lukas Stepanik | Stars: Peter Simonischek, Ruth Rieser, August Zirner, Katja Weitzenböck
Votes: 233
26. Black Fox: The True Story of Adolf Hitler (1962)
89 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.
Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 208
27. The Calm (1976 TV Movie)
81 min | Drama
After a three-year sentence, a man tries to start a new life.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Jerzy Stuhr, Izabella Olszewska, Jerzy Trela, Michal Sulkiewicz
Votes: 686
28. Matka Królów (1987)
127 min | Drama, History, War
Story opens with Lucja Krol's husband under the tram. She gives birth to her fourth son on the floor of their new apartment. Neighbor Wiktor, a communist intellectual, befriends the ... See full summary »
Director: Janusz Zaorski | Stars: Magda Teresa Wójcik, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Franciszek Pieczka, Boguslaw Linda
Votes: 307
29. Fever (1981)
116 min | Drama, History
The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker... See full summary »
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Barbara Grabowska, Adam Ferency, Boguslaw Linda, Olgierd Lukaszewicz
Votes: 288
30. Saloon Gier (2005)
Animation, Comedy
In this satirical animated miniseries, Polish politicians show their real faces in an underground gambling saloon created in the basement of the parliament.
Stars: Adam Cywka, Wojciech Ziemianski, Aldona Struzik, Andrzej Olejnik
31. Cwal (1996)
104 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In the early 1950s, a 10-year-old boy moves to Warsaw to stay with his bourgeois aunt. In spite of harsh Stalinist times, they are both fascinated by horses.
Director: Krzysztof Zanussi | Stars: Maja Komorowska, Bartosz Obuchowicz, Karolina Wajda, Piotr Adamczyk
Votes: 357
32. Inside Nazi Germany (1938)
Approved | 18 min | Documentary, Short, History
A newsreel made to condemn the militarization, oppressiveness, and ideology of the Nazi regime - using reedited stock footage of Nazi rallies in both Germany and the United States, with added narration to drive home its points.
Director: Jack Glenn | Stars: Jackson Beck, Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler, Fritz Kuhn
Votes: 249
33. Lieutenant Rakoczy (1954)
114 min | Adventure, History, Romance
Historical drama about the Austrian occupation at the beginning of the 18th century.
Director: Frigyes Bán | Stars: Tibor Bitskey, Éva Vass, Endre Gyárfás, Ferenc Zenthe
Votes: 119
34. Animated History of Poland (2011)
8 min | Animation, Short, History
An 8 minute video, depicting the history of Poland through animation, prepared by Tomasz Baginski for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
Director: Tomasz Baginski
Votes: 879
35. Dziecinne pytania (1981)
97 min | Drama, Romance
A rebellious architecture student is sent to jail where he reminisces the last years of his uncompromising life.
Director: Janusz Zaorski | Stars: Adam Ferency, Gustaw Holoubek, Miroslaw Konarowski, Agnieszka Mandat
Votes: 39
36. Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride (2009)
PG-13 | 87 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Before the 30th anniversary, Vancouver's Gay Pride Parade director examines relevance of Pride celebrations internationally. He travels to places where Pride is steeped in protest to ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Christie | Star: Ken Coolen
Votes: 142
37. Polonia restituta (1981)
219 min | Drama, History, War
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.
Director: Bohdan Poreba | Stars: Krzysztof Chamiec, Edmund Fetting, Józef Fryzlewicz, Ignacy Gogolewski
Votes: 21
38. Nocna zmiana (1995 TV Movie)
72 min | Documentary
The brutal truth about the degeneration of the political elite, every day with a mouth full of platitudes about good manners. The fact that exposed a culture of the most hypocritical events... See full summary »
Director: Michal Balcerzak | Stars: Jacek Kurski, Adam Glapinski, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Antoni Macierewicz
Votes: 191
39. Kalte Heimat (1995)
157 min | Documentary, History
In this documentary 'Volker Koepp' shows part of the history of Prussia. He begins 700 years ago with the land of the Pruzzen situated between the rivers Weichsel and Memel and proceeds the development of the state.
Director: Volker Koepp
Votes: 18
40. Billy Graham: God's Ambassador (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
The life and times of the evangelist Billy Graham are the subject of this documentary.
Director: Michael Merriman | Stars: John Akers, Cliff Barrows, Ralph Bell, Richard Bewes
Votes: 76
41. Mama's Heart. Gongadze (2017)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Most intimate, heartbreaking and inspiring confessions by and about Lesya Gongadze's life and her son's disappearance that prompted a revolution.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Lesya Gongadze, Georgiy Gongadze, Lubomyr Husar, Tamila Alexanian
Votes: 545
42. Stan strachu (1989)
121 min | Drama, Romance
Realistic account of the 1981 events in Poland during the martial law. The plot takes place in a theater company and revolves around a mysterious briefcase, contents of which are never ... See full summary »
Director: Janusz Kijowski | Stars: Jerzy Atlas, Boguslaw Augustyn, Piotr Bajor, Krzysztof Bauman
Votes: 40
43.
The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode:
The Time Has Come to Stand Against the European Union on Censorship and Legalism
(2017)
G | 17 min | News
Styx stands for free speech against the European Union.
Star: Styxhexenhammer666
44. Mieszko Minkiewicz: Zólc (2023 TV Special)
73 min | Comedy
Mieszko's 5th stand up comedy special in which he targets polish political scene, political correctness, taboo jokes, internet hate and everything that makes him angry and enraged.
Stars: Mieszko Minkiewicz, Krzysztof Kasparek
45. Zasieki (1983)
98 min | Drama, History, Romance
Set in 1943, the film deals with the battle of Lenino, even though not openly stated. Central to the story are three recruits to the 2nd Polish Army: Pawel, who is listed as Soviet soldier ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Jerzy Piotrowski | Stars: Edward Apa, Andrzej Bielski, Halina Buyno-Loza, Janusz Bylczynski
Votes: 18
46. Amerykanin w PRL-u (2009)
42 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Directors: Ryszard Kaczynski, Piotr Morawski | Stars: Robert F. Kennedy, Adam Tkaczyk
Votes: 6
47. Avant la bataille (1983)
90 min | Documentary
Director: Janusz Kijowski | Stars: Seweryn Blumsztajn, Marek Edelman, Adam Ferency, Andrzej Gwiazda
48. Meines Vaters Haus (2008)
83 min | Documentary, History, War
The last surviving Polish and German contemporary witnesses who had direct contact with the former enemy immediately after the war break their long-standing silence. They tell their ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Majerski
49.
Part of the Problem (2018– )
Pro War Media Strikes Again
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Dave Smith, Robbie Bernstein
50.
Part of the Problem (2018– )
Pentagon Leak Arrest
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News, Talk-Show
Star: Dave Smith