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1. The Death of Stalin (2017)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.

Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough

Votes: 113,490 | Gross: $8.05M

2. The Winds of War (1983)

126 min | Drama, Romance, War

The trials of the Henry and Jastrow families in the early years of World War II.

Stars: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman

Votes: 4,664

3. War and Remembrance (1988–1989)

Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, War

The trials of the Henry and the Jastrow families amidst the events after the U.S.'s entry into World War II.

Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant

Votes: 3,129

4. Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)

GP | 183 min | Biography, Drama, History

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble, Ania Marson

Votes: 5,568 | Gross: $3.96M

5. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)

R | 114 min | Adventure, Comedy

After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.

Director: Felix Herngren | Stars: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, David Wiberg, Mia Skäringer

Votes: 42,652 | Gross: $1.08M

6. Archangel (2005 TV Movie)

R | 133 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A British college professor, working in Russia, investigates certain mysteries surrounding the life and death of Joseph Stalin.

Director: Jon Jones | Stars: Daniel Craig, Yekaterina Rednikova, Gabriel Macht, Lev Prygunov

Votes: 6,161

7. Bitter Harvest (2017)

R | 103 min | Drama, History, Romance

Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death-by-starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainians.

Director: George Mendeluk | Stars: Max Irons, Samantha Barks, Terence Stamp, Barry Pepper

Votes: 4,168 | Gross: $5.66M

8. Stalin (1992 TV Movie)

TV-MA | 172 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.

Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé

Votes: 2,783

9. Fairytale (2022)

78 min | Fantasy

A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Igor Gromov, Vakhtang Kuchava, Lothar Deeg, Tim Ettelt

Votes: 561

10. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)

Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, War

After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.

Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest

Votes: 7,944

11. 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

12. World War II: When Lions Roared (1994)

Not Rated | 194 min | Drama, History, War

As the world was at the brink, the three most powerful men in world history met and decided its fate.

Stars: Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, John Lithgow, Ed Begley Jr.

Votes: 636

13. Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010)

181 min | Drama, History, War

A look at the horrors of the Eastern Front of World War II from the points of view of repressed soldier of penal battalion and his young daughter, who stayed behind enemy lines.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Sergey Makovetskiy

Votes: 4,487

14. The Girl in the Kremlin (1957)

Approved | 81 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

In 1953, Soviet dictator Stalin fakes his own death, undergoes plastic surgery and vanishes but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe.

Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Lex Barker, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jeffrey Stone, Maurice Manson

Votes: 191

15. Gitler kaput! (2008)

95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A Russian WW2 spy spoof following misadventures of a clueless Soviet secret agent trapped inside Hitler's inner circle.

Director: Marius Vaysberg | Stars: Pavel Derevyanko, Anna Semenovich, Yuriy Galtsev, Yuriy Stoyanov

Votes: 2,234

16. Tanks for Stalin (2018)

95 min | Action, Comedy, History

1940. A prototype of a new cutting edge tank is being taken on a secret mission to Moscow, to Comrade Stalin. Soon the cross-country run turns into a ruthless race.

Director: Kim Druzhinin | Stars: Andrey Merzlikin, Anton Filipenko, Aglaya Tarasova, Dmitriy Podnozov

Votes: 1,137

17. Bitva za Moskvu (1985)

358 min | Drama, History, War

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.

Stars: Helmut Hellstorff, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Artyom Karapetyan, Yakov Tripolsky

Votes: 470

18. The Fall of Berlin (1950)

167 min | Drama, War

A years-long struggle of the Soviet people against the German war machine is shown from the point of view of Stalin and from the point of view of an ordinary soldier and his beloved girl.

Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Vladimir Savelev, Marina Kovalyova

Votes: 551

19. Osvobozhdenie: Napravlenie glavnogo udara (1971)

125 min | Drama, History, Romance

This five part WW2 epic drama gives a dramatized detailed account of the five major eastern front Soviet campaigns against Nazi Germany.

Director: Yuriy Ozerov | Stars: Mikhail Nozhkin, Nikolay Olyalin, Mikhail Ulyanov, Larisa Golubkina

Votes: 768

20. Utomlennye solntsem 2 (2011)

157 min | Drama, History, War

A bitter story from World War II, which depicts that for the victims of Stalin's repression peaceful life was sometimes even worse than burdens of battlefields against the Germans.

Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Anna Mikhalkova, Oleg Menshikov

Votes: 2,144

21. Herr Meets Hare (1945)

7 min | Family, Animation, Short

Bugs disguises himself as Hitler, Stalin and Brunhilde when he confronts Nazi Hermann Goering in the Black Forest.

Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 753

22. Lenin in October (1937)

Approved | 93 min | Biography, Drama, History

The movie about events of October revolution of 1917 and Lenin's role in the organization of revolt of Bolsheviks.

Directors: Mikhail Romm, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Boris Shchukin, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Vasili Vanin, Nikolai Svobodin

Votes: 413

23. World War Two: Behind Closed Doors (2008– )

300 min | Documentary, History, War

A story showing the 3 allied leader's, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin's actions and relationships behind the scenes during World War 2. It isn't as friendly as it seems. Shows how close ... See full summary »

Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Bob Gunton, Paul Humpoletz, Samuel West

Votes: 542

24. Piry Valtasara, ili noch so Stalinym (1989)

88 min | Drama, History

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.

Director: Yuriy Kara | Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Aleksandr Feklistov, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Sergey Nikonenko

Votes: 215

25. Lenin in 1918 (1939)

130 min | Drama

Historical-revolutionary film about Lenin's activities in the first years of Soviet power.

Directors: Mikhail Romm, Yefim Aron, Isidor Simkov | Stars: Boris Shchukin, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Aleksandr Shatov, Vasiliy Markov

Votes: 305

26. Holodomor: Ukraine's Genocide of 1932-33 (2008)

93 min | Documentary, Short

In 1932-33, Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe, had bountiful crops of grain, yet its people were dying of starvation. In order to crush the will of the independent-minded Ukrainian ... See full summary »

Director: Bobby Leigh | Stars: Jim Henderson, Bobby Leigh, Jonny Lewis, Greg Halek

Votes: 54

27. HG Wells' War with the World (2006 TV Movie)

Biography, Drama

Drawing upon H.G. Wells' An Experiment in Autobiography and framed by his 1934 visit to the Soviet Union to interview its leader Joseph Stalin, the movie follows Wells' transformation from ... See full summary »

Director: James Kent | Stars: Michael Sheen, Sally Hawkins, Sarah Winman, Dermot Crowley

Votes: 110

28. The Vow (1946)

98 min | Drama

In 1924, veteran Bolshevik Petrov, a resident of Tsaritsyn, carries a letter to Vladimir Lenin, to inform him of the Kulak brigands that roam the land, spreading death and misery. The ... See full summary »

Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Mikheil Gelovani, A. Mansvetov, Aleksey Gribov, Nikolai Ryzhov

Votes: 114

29. The Man with the Gun (1938)

88 min | Drama, History, War

A propaganda comedy that tells the story of the Bolshevik revolution through the eyes of an ignorant and easy-going peasant who, as a soldier, gets caught up in the proceedings. He does ... See full summary »

Director: Sergei Yutkevich | Stars: Maksim Shtraukh, Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Tenin, Vladimir Lukin

Votes: 155

30. Fatherland (2018)

15 min | Short

In 2016, on the 63rd anniversary of his death, Stalin's worshippers gather outside his birthplace in Georgia to demand his canonization as a saint. Then something uncanny happens.

Director: George Sikharulidze | Stars: Anzor Gvadzabia, Soso Lagidze, Beka Lemonjava

Votes: 43

31. They Wanted Peace (1938)

73 min | Drama, History, War

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Director: Mikheil Chiaureli | Stars: Konstantin Myuffke, Mikheil Gelovani, B. Poltavtsev, Spartak Bagashvili

Votes: 46

32. Vrag naroda - Bukharin (1991)

102 min | Biography, Drama

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Director: Leonid Maryagin | Stars: Aleksandr Romantsov, Sergey Shakurov, Evgeniy Lazarev, Gennady Sayfulin

Votes: 35

33. Mausoleum (2016)

26 min | Short, Comedy, History

Pathologist Abrikosov gets a phone call that a fly has taken a refuge inside Lenin's sarcophagus. No one knows how to get rid of it. Its Mayday 1936 and Stalin himself is about to come to inspect the body prior to Mayday festivities.

Director: Lauri Randla | Stars: Victor Lanberg, Aleksander Okunev, Matti Onnismaa, Eduard Toman

Votes: 51

34. Lénine (1982 TV Movie)

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Director: Jeannette Hubert | Stars: Jean Négroni, Claire Mafféi, Jacques Giraud, Lucien Melki

35. Amkhanag Stalinis mogzauroba aprikashi (1991)

80 min | Comedy

This mock documentary mixes actual private footage of Stalin with reconstructed dramatic sequences with doubles.

Director: Irakli Kvirikadze | Stars: Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Janri Lolashvili, Zura Kipshidze, Soso Lagidze

Votes: 22

36. Stalin and Hitler: The Motion Picture (2009)

Not Rated | 38 min | Short, Comedy

In an alternate Post-WWII history, Stalin and Hitler are pursuing degrees at a small liberal arts college in the mountains of North Carolina. However, when these two titans clash over the ... See full summary »

Directors: Jonathan Dantzler, Daniel Dockery, Zaque Smith | Stars: Nathan Paul Barker, Beckie Dillon, Daniel Dockery, Corina Penn-Bartoo

Votes: 20

37. Drunk History (2013–2019)
Episode: Behind Enemy Lines (2019)

TV-MA | 21 min | Comedy, History

Marina Raskova forms an all-women Air Force regiment to fight Nazis in World War II; smuggler James J. Andrews hijacks a Confederate train for the Union.

Director: Derek Waters | Stars: Derek Waters, Jessica McKenna, Jon Gabrus, Emily Deschanel

Votes: 65

38. DC's Legends of Tomorrow (2016–2022)
Episode: Swan Thong (2020)

TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Still controlled by the Fates, the Legends find themselves in 1984-esque world, they soon discover that things aren't as they thought they would be. The Legends must convince the civilians ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Mock | Stars: Caity Lotz, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Tala Ashe, Jes Macallan

Votes: 1,160

39. Red Dwarf (1988– )
Episode: Cured (2017)

TV-14 | 29 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

The crew uncover an abandoned research facility where several infamous historical figures have been rehabilitated of their evil ways.

Director: Doug Naylor | Stars: Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn

Votes: 513