Revolutions of 1917 and Civil War in Russia

by antonivakin | created - 01 Oct 2018 | updated - 08 Nov 2021 | Public

The February and the Great October Revolutions in Russia. Civil War 1918-22. War in Poland. Aftermath and diplomacy.

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1. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)

95 min | Drama, History

A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.

Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko

Votes: 8,449

2. Knight Without Armor (1937)

Approved | 107 min | Adventure, Drama, History

After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.

Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas

Votes: 1,460

3. Doctor Zhivago (2002)

TV-14 | 113 min | Drama, Romance

Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is about to get ... See full summary »

Stars: Keira Knightley, Sam Neill, Hans Matheson, Alexandra Maria Lara

Votes: 5,463

4. A Young Doctor's Notebook & Other Stories (2012–2013)

TV-MA | 23 min | Comedy, Drama, History

In the early 20th century, a young doctor arrives in a small Russian village around the time of the Russian Revolution to work in the local hospital.

Stars: Jon Hamm, Daniel Radcliffe, Rosie Cavaliero, Adam Godley

Votes: 16,549

6. The Trotsky (2009)

Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Drama

59 Metascore

A Montreal high school student who believes he is the reincarnation of Lev Trotskiy starts a revolution against apathy among his fellow students.

Director: Jacob Tierney | Stars: Liane Balaban, Jay Baruchel, Taylor Baruchel, Dan Beirne

Votes: 6,368

9. Sergey Lazo (1967)

89 min | Drama

A historical drama about the Communist leader Sergey Lazo.

Director: Aleksandr Gordon | Stars: Regimantas Adomaitis, G. Artyomenko, Yuriy Dubrovin, Aleksandr Korotkevich

Votes: 77

10. Zhizn i priklyucheniya Mishki Yaponchika (2011)

50 min | Action

Mishka Yaponchik is not an ordinary raider with Odessa flavor. Only an extraordinary person could become the king of thieves, keep the whole city in fear and at the same time be the people's favorite.

Stars: Sergey Romanovich, Andrey Da!, Stuart D. Latham, Elena Skvortsova

Votes: 307

12. Neobyknovennoye leto (1979 TV Movie)

308 min | Drama, History, Romance

About life in the Russian city of Saratov in 1919 during the Russian Civil War.

Director: Grigori Nikulin | Stars: Yuriy Demich, Nikolay Volkov, Svetlana Orlova, Oleg Palmov

Votes: 143

13. Kurt Seyit & Sura (2014)

90 min | Drama, History, Romance

The love story of Kurt Seyit, a Crimean Tatar army major, and Sura, a rich Russian woman during the Russian Revolution and in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.

Stars: Kivanç Tatlitug, Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Demet Özdemir, Caglar Ertugrul

Votes: 4,215

14. The Heritage of Love (2016)

76 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Andrey goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, who had been an officer in the White Army. On the headstone of the next grave, he notices the face of a young woman. He will see this face again.

Director: Yuriy Vasilev | Stars: Aleksandr Adabashyan, Aleksandr Baluev, Marat Basharov, Dima Bilan

Votes: 488

15. Voiz (1998)

83 min | Drama

Iskander, a gentle Uzbek man, is convinced by a Russian friend to give an impromptu speech praising the Communist Revolution. Impressed by his eloquence, the Soviets make Iskander a spokesman - a precarious position in a turbulent time.

Director: Yusup Razykov | Stars: Bahodir Odilov, Lola Eltoeva

Votes: 37

16. Kazachya zastava (1982)

80 min | Drama

It became the custom that Cossacks lives in Russia turn to be dramatic and unpredictable, Be it Don Cossacks, Amur or others. The same is about Amur Cossack Aleksey Butov (B.Brondukov). He ... See full synopsis »

Director: Viktor Zhivolub | Stars: Borislav Brondukov, Yana Drouz, Evgeniy Papernyy, Anna Tveleneva

Votes: 18

17. How the Steel Was Tempered (1999– )

Drama, History

Biography of a young Bolshevik fighter, participating the Russia's civil war and Soviet political struggle of the 20s.

Stars: Andrey Saminin, Dmitriy Paleev-Barmanskiy

Votes: 13

18. Mamochka (2015)

Unrated | 9 min | Animation, Short, Drama

Set during the Russian civil wars in 1905 and 1922, a mother undergoes the psychological impact of war losing herself in trauma, patriotism and protest.

Director: Eddy van Hamersveld | Stars: Roberta Mussato, Eddy van Hamersveld, Rebecca Parisi, Bryan Cox

20. The Road to Calvary (2017)

48 min | Drama

Swept up in political unrest during World War I, two sisters in St. Petersburg cope with turbulent romances as Russian history is made around them.

Stars: Yulia Snigir, Anya Chipovskaya, Leonid Bichevin, Andrey Merzlikin

Votes: 905

22. The Conspiracy of Ambassadors (1966)

88 min | Adventure, Crime, History

Propaganda film about "Ambassadors Treason" against the Soviet communist government in 1918.

Director: Nikolai Rozantsev | Stars: Uldis Dumpis, Vadim Medvedev, Igor Klass, Rita Gladunko

Votes: 40

25. Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983)

TV-MA | 720 min | Crime, Drama

A dramatization of the missions and adventures of the greatest spy in British history.

Stars: Sam Neill, Michael Bryant, Norman Rodway, Tom Bell

Votes: 1,692

26. Leaves From Satan's Book (1920)

TV-14 | 167 min | Drama

In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Helge Nissen, Halvard Hoff, Jacob Texiere, Hallander Helleman

Votes: 1,356

27. Ekvtime: Man of God (2018)

132 min | Biography, Drama, History

Man who was a Guardian of The National Treasure of his homeland Sakartvelo (Georgia) in France placed in 39 big boxes, did not lose any item and brought it back in 1945 after 24 years of struggle and became a national hero.

Director: Nikoloz Khomasuridze | Stars: Rezo Chkhikvishvili, Ana Tsereteli, Gogi Turkiashvili, Giorgi Megrelishvili

Votes: 2,743

30. The Traitor (2017)

90 min | Drama

1971. Odessa Film Studio, USSR. To conform to Communists Party revisionist propaganda, the KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of a recently completed film, directed by the studio's ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Hammond | Stars: Darya Astafieva, Gregory Hlady, Timofey Tribuntsev, Andrejs Zagars

Votes: 46

31. Lyubov Yarovaya (1970)

105 min | Drama, History, Romance

This film is set in the time of the Russian Civil War, after the October revolution of 1917. The communist forces are losing a battle over town. They must blow up the strategic bridge, but ... See full summary »

Director: Vladimir Fetin | Stars: Lyudmila Chursina, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Rufina Nifontova, Vasiliy Shukshin

Votes: 165

32. Red Bells Part II: Ten Days That Shook the World (1982)

139 min | Drama, Western

The last of a two-part film centered on the life and career of John Reed, the revolutionary communist journalist.

Director: Sergey Bondarchuk | Stars: Anatoli Ustyzhaninov, Franco Nero, Sydne Rome, Bogdan Stupka

Votes: 176

33. Tikhiy Don (2006)

176 min | Drama, History, Romance

With World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Russian Civil War as backdrop, it's an old-fashioned, blood-and-guts narrative, filled with earthly humor and a wealth of colorful ... See full summary »

Stars: Rupert Everett, Delphine Forest, F. Murray Abraham, Katie McGovern

Votes: 571

35. Minu Leninid (1997)

99 min | Comedy, History

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

Director: Hardi Volmer | Stars: Üllar Saaremäe, Viktor Sukhorukov, Andrus Vaarik, Indrek Taalmaa

Votes: 258

37. The Seventh Companion (1968)

89 min | Drama, War

The film is set in St. Petersburg, Russia after the Russian revolution of 1917. Based on the eponymous book by Boris Lavrenev. Maj. General Yevgeni Pavlovich Adamov (Popov) was a lawyer in ... See full summary »

Directors: Grigoriy Aronov, Aleksey German | Stars: Andrei Popov, Aleksandr Anisimov, Georgiy Shtil, Pyotr Chernov

Votes: 563

38. The Forty-First (1956)

88 min | War, Drama, Romance

An unexpected romance occurs for a female Red Army sniper and a White Army officer.

Director: Grigoriy Chukhray | Stars: Izolda Izvitskaya, Oleg Strizhenov, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Nikolai Dupak

Votes: 1,719

39. Sorok pervyy (1927)

66 min | Drama, War

Tragic romance between a female Red Army sharpshooter and a White Army officer.

Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Ada Voytsik, Ivan Koval-Samborsky, Ivan Shtraukh

Votes: 165

43. Demon of the Steppes (1926)

75 min | Drama, Romance

During the Civil War following the Bolshevik Revolution, a Red cavalry officer is warned by a staffer from headquarters about his dangerous attraction to the female leader of a band of Cossacks, a violent woman who is aroused by killing.

Directors: Cheslav Sabinsky, Lev Sheffer | Stars: Nikolai Saltykov, Oksana Podlesnaya, Natasha Sokolova, Evgenii Nadelin

48. Vechnyy zov (1973–1983)

65 min | Drama

Soviet epic television series based on the novel by Anatoly Ivanov, who starred on "Mosfilm" from 1973 to 1983. On materials of events half a century (from 1906 to 1960) traced the history ... See full summary »

Stars: I. Godlevskiy, Viktor Mikhailov, Pyotr Velyaminov, Ivan Lapikov

Votes: 295

49. Pod znakom skorpiona (1995– )

220 min | Biography, Drama, History

History of the Russian revolution through the eyes of Gorky, the writer and the man. He initially was sympathetic with some of Lenin's promises, but later became shocked with Lenin's bloody... See full summary »

Stars: Valeri Poroshin, Rim Ayupov, Igor Kvasha, Viktor Stepanov

Votes: 39

51. Trotsky (2017)

50 min | Biography, Drama, History

A flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939-1940

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Maksim Matveev, Evgeniy Stychkin

Votes: 2,201

52. Ognennye dorogi (1977–1984)

60 min | Drama

The depiction of the life of Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi (1889 - 1929), an Uzbek author, composer, playwright, poet, scholar, and political activist. Niyazi is considered to be the father of the socialist realism genre in Uzbek literature.

Stars: Ulmas Alikhodzhayev, Clara Jalilova, Bakhtiyar Kasymov, Nabi Rakhimov

Votes: 14

53. Gibel imperii (2005)

520 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

The Fall of the Great Russian Empire is the main storyline of this 10 episode mini series, however, every episode has a separate detective story of its own.

Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Mariya Mironova, Aleksandr Baluev, Sergey Makovetskiy

Votes: 421

54. Doktor Zhivago (2006– )

416 min | Drama

In Doctor Zhivago, the life of a young doctor is intertwined with the fate of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. Yuri Zhivago is orphaned at a young age, and his uncle brings him ... See full summary »

Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Chulpan Khamatova, Varvara Andreeva, Sergey Garmash

Votes: 569

56. Moonzund (1988)

142 min | Drama, History, Romance

Captain Artenyev is in love with a beautiful lady-spy Klara.

Director: Aleksandr Muratov | Stars: Oleg Menshikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Lyudmila Nilskaya, Nikolay Karachentsov

Votes: 374

60. We Are from Kronstadt (1936)

88 min | Drama, War

In 1919, during the post-revolution Russian Civil War, a naval detachment (made up of communist Reds) defends the strategic city of Petrograd from the White Russian counterrevolutionary ... See full summary »

Director: Efim Dzigan | Stars: Vasiliy Zaychikov, Georgi Bushuyev, Nikolay Ivakin, Oleg Zhakov

Votes: 173

61. Pervaya konnaya (1941)

100 min | Drama, History, War

The film tells about some events of the 1920 Polish-Soviet War as is accepted in Soviet history.

Director: Efim Dzigan | Stars: Nikolay Bogolyubov, Semyon Goldshtab, Aleksey Gribov, Vladimir Kabatchenko

Votes: 27

62. Zhizn Klima Samgina (1988)

100 min | Drama, History

40 years of the turbulent life of the Russian intellectual Klim Samgin, from the 1881 association of Alexander II to the 1917 February Revolution.

Stars: Andrey Rudenskiy, Leonid Gorelik, Elena Solovey, Ernst Romanov

Votes: 145

63. A Slave of Love (1976)

Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A fate of popular film actress during the turbulent years of the Russian Civil War.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Elena Solovey, Rodion Nakhapetov, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Oleg Basilashvili

Votes: 1,794

64. The Young Eagles (1927)

78 min | Drama, Romance, War

The film depicts the adventures of three students who enlist in the war when their small country is invaded by the Russian Bolshevists during the Estonian war of independence (1918-1920).

Director: Theodor Luts | Stars: Arnold Vaino, Juhan Nõmmik, Ruut Tarmo, Elly Põder-Roht

Votes: 104

65. Arsenal (1929)

Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, War

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman

Votes: 2,335

66. The Last Command (1928)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond

Votes: 4,519

67. Cud nad Wisla (1921)

51 min | Drama, Romance, War

Quiet and monotonous life in the countryside is abruptly interrupted by the moving front of the Polish-Russian war.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Jadwiga Smosarska, Anna Belina, Wladyslaw Grabowski, Edmund Gasinski

Votes: 104

68. Maschenka (1987)

103 min | Drama, Romance

A story about true love, set in the Berlin of the 1920s. In a shabby lodging-house inhabited by a number of faintly ludicrous characters, the young Russian exile Ganin is unexpectedly confronted with his past.

Director: John Goldschmidt | Stars: Irina Brook, Cary Elwes, Sunnyi Melles, Jonathan Coy

Votes: 63

69. 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

72. Zoya (1995 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 171 min | Drama, Romance

A young Russian Countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.

Director: Richard A. Colla | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner, Denise Alexander, Don Henderson

Votes: 696

73. The First Day (2015)

12 min | Short

Despite of his young age, the protagonist has to make a tough choice: which side of barricades to take.

Directors: Svyatoslav Fedoriv, Nazariy Shpilchak | Stars: Tetyana Kaspruk, Oleksandr Mishchuk, Mykhaylo Ponzel, Oleh Tsiona

75. Zvyozdy ne gasnut (1971)

104 min | Biography, History

The film consists of several short stories reproducing the brightest pages of the biography of the first Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Azerbaijan, Nariman Narimanov.

Director: Azhdar Ibragimov | Stars: Yevgeniy Agurov, Akhmed Akhmedov, Mammad Alili, Rahib Aliyev

Votes: 9

77. Artakarg handznararutyun (1966)

102 min | Action, Adventure

The second film of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Simon Ter-Petrosyan (1882-1922) known as Kamo.

Directors: Erazm Karamyan, Stepan Kevorkov | Stars: Gurgen Tonunts, Boris Chirkov, Elza Lezhdey, Semyon Sokolovsky

Votes: 35

78. Kamoyi verjin skhranqe (1974)

91 min | Action, Adventure

The third movie of the trilogy about Armenian Bolshevik revolutionery Kamo. He is sent abroad to his last assignment.

Directors: Stepan Kevorkov, Grigori Melik-Avakyan | Stars: Gurgen Tonunts, Anatoliy Falkovich, Iya Savvina, G. Khazhakyan

Votes: 41

82. Amangeldy (1939)

79 min | Drama

In 1916, a new Russian governor arrives in the Kazakhstan steppes. A Kazakh kero, Amangeldi Imanov, leads the people to revolt against the invader, and allies with the Bolsheviks against some kazakh clans subdued to the tsar.

Director: Moisei Levin | Stars: Yeleubai Umurzakov, Shara Zhiyenkulova, Serke Kozhamkulov, Kurmanbek Zhandarbekov

Votes: 19

85. Corto Maltese: Secret Court of the Arcanes (2002)

92 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama

In 1918, civil wars are tearing Russia and China apart. Laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is hired by a Chinese secret society to capture a train that's taking Tzar's gold abroad. His friend Rasputin joins him, but only hell awaits them.

Director: Pascal Morelli | Stars: Richard Berry, Patrick Bouchitey, Barbara Schulz, Marie Trintignant

Votes: 1,455

86. Belaya gvardiya (2012)

47 min | Drama, War

The protagonist, Alex Turbin - military medic, who had seen and lived through a lot in three years of World War I. He is one of the thousands of officers who, after the revolution faced a difficult choice.

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mikhail Porechenkov, Evgeniy Dyatlov, Andrey Zibrov

Votes: 302

87. Forgotten by God (2017)

TV-14 | 110 min | Drama, Family, War

The story of a Russian family living and dying through four wars: the Russian Civil War in 1920, the Great Patriotic War in 1942, the First Chechen War in 1996, and the Russian military intervention in Ukraine in 2017.

Director: Aleksey Muradov | Stars: Mikael Amirkhanov, Dmitriy Arbenin, Alina Babak, Dmitriy Bogdan

Votes: 31

88. Demon revolyutsii (2017)

100 min | History

Alexander Parvus is a Russian exile who fled to Germany during World War One. He finances and stimulates protest actions in St Petersburg, leading to the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II.

Stars: Elizaveta Arzamasova, Sergey Gromov, Felix Schulthess, Maksim Stoyanov

Votes: 182

89. Haikara-san ga tôru (1978–1979)

25 min | Animation, Drama, Romance

Set in the 1920s, Haikara-san ga Tooru is the story of the high-spirited tomboy Benio and her relationship with a handsome half-German soldier named Shinobu.

Stars: Ichirô Nagai, Keiko Yokozawa, Kazuko Sugiyama, Hiroshi Masuoka

Votes: 42

90. Dina (1990)

87 min | Drama, Horror

Dina's father, a district doctor, mysteriously disappears. After this event, Dinu is visited at night by a ghost predicting misfortune for his fellow villagers. Dina tries to warn trouble, but they do not believe her.

Director: Fyodor Petrukhin | Stars: Yanina Lisovskaya, Tatyana Skorokhodova, Aristarkh Livanov, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Votes: 41

91. Zitaru dzimta (1989)

Like many families Zitars family choose to leave by a foreign power occupied Latvia. The tragic fate destroys the family both physically and morally.

Director: Aloizs Brencs | Stars: Eduards Pavuls, Lilita Ozolina, Juris Zagars, Remigijus Sabulis

Votes: 33

92. 1917 - Der wahre Oktober (2017)

90 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography

The Russian revolutionary year narrated from the point of view of the involved artists.

Director: Katrin Rothe | Stars: Inka Friedrich, Maximilian Brauer, Hanns Zischler, Claudia Michelsen

Votes: 45

93. Krylya Imperii (2017–2019)

53 min | Drama

The action covers the period from 1913 to 1921, reflecting the dramatic events of Russian history, which swept through the destinies of people and countries like a hurricane, leaving behind... See full summary »

Stars: Milos Bikovic, Kseniya Lukyanchikova, Grigori Nekrasov, Yuri Kolokolnikov

Votes: 103

95. Strasti po Chapayu (2013– )

52 min | Drama, History, War

This is the very first feature to have ever told a story of the Russian revolutionary, Chapaev, in such a gripping and heart-stirring manner. The series takes us through thorny days of the ... See full summary »

Stars: Sergey Strelnikov, Viktor Kostitsin, Borislav Borisenko, Evgeniya Lyutaya

Votes: 64

96. 20-e dekabrya (1982– )

276 min | Biography, Crime, History

In 1917 Lenin and the communists founded the Soviet secret service - Cheka, the predecessor of the KGB.

Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Mikhail Kozakov, Andrey Tolubeev, Igor Komarov

Votes: 109

98. Sunstroke (2014)

180 min | Drama, History, Romance

Officers of the White Army, holding as POWs in a Red Army's camp, try to understand why they lose Civil War and lost the Russian Empire at all.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Martins Kalita, Viktoriya Solovyova, Anastasiya Imamova, Sergey Serov

Votes: 1,177

99. And Quiet Flows the Don (2015)

43 min | Drama, History, War

This complicated drama/war epic follows the life of Kozaks, special cavalry troops of Russian monarchy from the end of 19th century, through the 1918 Revolution and civil war that followed.

Stars: Vitaliya Kornienko, Polina Pushkaruk, Anastasiya Begunova, Yuliya Polynskaya

Votes: 248

100. Chapaev Chapaev (2013)

105 min | Comedy

The events in the film take place in parallel - these are the twenties and sixties of the last century.

Director: Viktor Tikhomirov | Stars: Aleksandr Bashirov, Taras Bibich, Natalya Iokhvidova, Ivan Okhlobystin

Votes: 16



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