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1. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (2015 Video Game)
M | Action, Adventure, Drama
After awakening from a nine year coma, Big Boss forms a new mercenary group called, Diamond Dogs, and teams up with his former rival, Ocelot, to track down the men responsible for the destruction of MSF.
Directors: Hideo Kojima, Junji Tago | Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Robin Atkin Downes, Troy Baker, Stefanie Joosten
Votes: 8,574
2. The Power of Nightmares (2004)
60 min | Documentary, History
A series of three documentaries about the use of fear for political gain.
Stars: Gilles Kepel, William Kristol, Melvin Goodman, Richard Perle
Votes: 4,552
3. Okhotniki za karavanami (2010 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, War
1986, Afghanistan. The Mujahideen announce the launch of a new air-defense system called Stinger, which could potentially end Soviet supremacy in the air. Commander of Intelligence, Major ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Chekalov | Stars: Aleksey Serebryakov, Vsevolod Khovanskiy-Pomerantsev, Boris Galkin, Igor Mirkurbanov
Votes: 73
4. Noga (1991)
88 min | Action, Drama, War
Surreal drama based on the novel of the same name by William Faulkner. The first Russian film on the war in Afghanistan and Afghan syndrome.
Director: Nikita Tyagunov | Stars: Ivan Okhlobystin, Pyotr Mamonov, Ivan Zakhava, Natalya Petrova
Votes: 262
5. Massoud, l'Afghan (1998)
89 min | Documentary, History, War
The friendship between Christophe de Ponfilly and Commander Massoud, a legendary figure of the Afghan resistance against the Soviet invader, goes back to the filmmaker's first film, "A ... See full summary »
Director: Christophe de Ponfilly | Stars: Christophe de Ponfilly, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Merabuddine
Votes: 130 | Gross: $0.01M
6. Zharkoye leto v Kabule (1983)
87 min | Action, Drama, War
Directors: Ali Khamraev, Wali Latifi | Stars: Oleg Zhakov, Nikolay Olyalin, Laila, Gulcha Tashbayeva
Votes: 41
7. Dar-Badar
45 min | Drama | Completed
Dar-Badar is a human story of displacement, refuge, dreams, reality, success, failure, resilience, challenges, co-incidences and life altering experiences. Dar-Badar is a Farsi and Urdu ... See full summary »
Director: Rohit Khaitan | Stars: Chandan Roy Sanyal, Madhur Bhandarkar, Nidhi Joshi, Shoaib Lodin
8. Echoes of War (I) (2004)
70 min | Documentary, Drama
War and violence leave behind the dead, the wounded, the maimed, the victim and the witness. In ECHOES OF WAR, children left behind in Afghanistan, Colombia, Sierra Leone and New York take ... See full summary »
Director: Joop van Wijk | Star: David Llewellyn Child
Votes: 24
9. The Black Tulip (1988)
Not Rated | 26 min | Short, Documentary
The Black Tulip is what the Soviet soldiers who fought in Afghanistan called the plane that carried the bodies back to home. Opening at a Soviet army base in Kabul, the film visits an ... See full summary »
Director: Pacho Lane
10. Shuravi (1988)
64 min | Drama, War
The film tells the story of a Russian soldier captured by Afghan Mujahideen, and his successful escape.
Director: Sergey Nilov | Stars: Vadim Stepashkin, Juozas Kiselius, D. Bryzzhanov, Ilyas Khasanov
Votes: 12
11. The Soldier's Star (2006)
100 min | Drama, History, War
A Russian guitarist was enlisted in 1984 in the Afghan war. Imprisoned, he will meet an Afghan musician and a French journalist.
Director: Christophe de Ponfilly | Stars: Sacha Bourdo, Patrick Chauvel, Philippe Caubère, Hanns Zischler
Votes: 138
12. Afghanistan, Land of Wonders (2009)
52 min | Documentary, War
Afghan and Russian war veterans look back on Afghanistan, the "Land of Wonders", at the time of the Soviet occupation. Aside from the human suffering and tragedy, there is a room to look at the beautiful aspects of Afghanistan.
Directors: Jorrit Kamminga, Kim Taminiau, Johan Zielstra
13. View from a Grain of Sand (2006)
82 min | Documentary
Combining verite footage, interviews and rare archival material, VIEW FROM A GRAIN OF SAND is a harrowing, thought-provoking, yet intimate portrait of Afghan women's history over the last ... See full summary »
Director: Meena Nanji | Stars: Daoud Hassan, Shapiray Hassan, Roeena Mohmand, Wajia
Votes: 17
14. Afghan Stories (2002)
60 min | Documentary
Horrified by the 9/11 attacks on America, filmmaker Taran Davies and Afghan American, Walied Osman, set out for Afghanistan to observe how the Afghan people have survived 24 years of war. ... See full summary »
Director: Taran Davies
Votes: 44
15.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
Red Star Over Khyber
(1984)
TV-MA | Documentary, News
In 1979, Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. On fifth anniversary of invasion, Frontline correspondent Richard Reeves reports from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Director: David Bowen-Jones | Stars: Hafizullah Amin, Leonid Brezhnev, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Bush
16.
Afghanistan: The Wounded Land (2020)
Episode:
Das Königreich
(2020)
53 min | Documentary, History
In the 1960s, Afghanistan was divided between a westernised elite and a traditional, largely poor majority of the population. A communist revolution set these contradictions on fire.
Directors: Mayte Carrasco, Marcel Mettelsiefen | Stars: Nadja Berlinghoff, Khaled Hosseini, Homayun Assefi, Sima Samar
Votes: 51
17.
Afghanistan: The Wounded Land (2020)
Episode:
Die Sowjetarmee
(2020)
53 min | Documentary, History
In 1979, the Soviet army entered Afghanistan. In response, the Afghans called for Jihad against the godless invaders. The "Soviet Vietnam" began.
Directors: Mayte Carrasco, Marcel Mettelsiefen | Stars: Nadja Berlinghoff, Khaled Hosseini, Ruslan Aushev, Sima Samar
Votes: 42
18.
OverSimplified (2016– )
Episode:
The Cold War: Part 2
(2019)
TV-14 | 17 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Oversimplified explains The Cold War, in two parts.
Director: Stuart Webster | Star: Stuart Webster
Votes: 35
19.
CaspianReport (2010– )
Episode:
What would happen if Russia collapsed?
(2021)
17 min | Documentary
Star: Shirvan Neftchi
20.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Cold War: Brezhnev's Kremlin
(2001)
TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, History, War
Before Leonid Brezhnev signed nuclear arms reduction agreements with the West, he led the Soviets into one conflict after another - from Soviet involvement in Vietnam and its role in ... See full summary »
Stars: Charlton Heston, Vladimir Semichastny, Andrei Gratchev, James Schlesinger
Votes: 19
21.
Mr. Beat (2011– )
Episode:
NATO Explained
(2018)
9 min | Documentary, History
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is a military defense alliance born of the Cold War that now (2017) consists of 29 countries including several from its formal rival Warsaw Pact. Mr. ... See full summary »
Star: Matthew Beat
22.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Evolution of Soviet & Russian Army Uniforms
(2020)
7 min | Documentary, Animation
The Armchair Historian illustrates the evolution of Russian/Soviet army uniforms from the Seven Years War to current times.
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Star: Griffin Johnsen
23.
Military History Visualized (2016– )
Episode:
Russia's BMPT: A Tank for Urban Warfare - The Future of Tank Combat?
(2022)
21 min | Documentary
Russia's BMPT Terminator tanks are based on Russia's main battle tank chassis but forgo the long gun in favor of a collection of lighter guns and missiles making it more suitable for urban warfare.
Star: Bernhard Kast
24.
Narco Wars (2020–2022)
Episode:
Chasing the Dragon: The Mob and the Mujahideen
(2022)
Documentary, Crime, History
An exiled Mafia boss and an Afghan drug trafficker unite to create a 7000-mile-long narcotics pipeline pumping heroin into the USA.
Directors: Joost van der Valk, Adam Warner | Stars: Zakariya Reed, Francesco 'Frank' Fiordilino, Maria Badalamenti, Ralph Blumenthal
25.
The Infographics Show (2011– )
Episode:
Weird Russian Military Equipment Found in Ukraine
(2023)
23 min | Documentary, Animation
Here are some of the intelligence coups and land mine related war crimes from the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
26.
Feature History (2016–2023)
Episode:
Feature History - Soviet-Afghan War
(2017)
10 min | Documentary, Animation, History
A short history of Afghanistan leading up to major events in the soviet-Afgahn War followed by a look at the aftermath, e.g. the continuing war without the Soviets.
27.
Mystères d'archives (2009– )
Episode:
2001: l'enterrement du commandant Massoud
(2012)
Documentary, Short, History
Films of the funeral of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the commander of the anti-Taliban coalition in Afghanistan. He had been assassinated a week before on 9 September 2001.
Directors: Pierre Catalan, Serge Viallet | Stars: Abdullah Abdullah, Mohammed Fahim, Yusuf Jannesar, Ahmad Massoud
Votes: 6
28.
Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun (1999)
Episode:
Age of Kalashnikov's AK 47
(1999)
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Lawrence Bayne, Jack Blum, John Bolton, George Bush