Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "mujahedin"

1. Leaving Afghanistan (2019)

113 min | Action, Drama, War

1988-1989. The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after ... See full summary »

Director: Pavel Lungin | Stars: Kirill Pirogov, Yan Tsapnik, Mikhail Kremer, Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Votes: 1,308

2. Tengri (2008)

96 min | Drama, Romance

This is a love story set in the steppes of Central Asia of today. Temür a thirty year old Kazakh decides to start life again in his ancestral village in the Kyrghyz Mountains. He discovers ... See full summary »

Director: Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville | Stars: Albina Imasheva, Elim Kalmouratov, Hélène Patarot, Taalai Abazova

Votes: 162

3. Parviz Sabeti (2023)

120 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Parviz Sabeti's documentary is a narrative of the important political and security events of Iran until the 1979 revolution in the words of one of the highest security officials of the imperial government of Iran.

Star: Parviz Sabeti

Votes: 25

4. The Disintegration (2011)

78 min | Drama

A realistic description of unemployed young Muslims who live in the french suburbs, lost generation ostracized by the racism which slowly push them to the Muslim extremism.

Director: Philippe Faucon | Stars: Rashid Debbouze, Yassine Azzouz, Ymanol Perset, Mohamed Nachit

Votes: 313

5. Awakening Dreams (2010)

Drama, War

Hamid's brother has been missing in action, presumed dead, for twenty-two years. Coming to terms with the loss, Hamid has now moved on and, as custom dictates, married his brother's widow. But ...

Director: Mohammad Ali Bashe Ahangar | Stars: Hamed Aghaei, Alireza Aghazade, Mehri Sadat Alagha, Amir Hossein Arman

Votes: 114

6. Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) (2010)

86 min | Documentary, Family

Through encounters in these otherwise ordinary places (but places that, here, take on another meaning), the film portrays a different Gaza. Poetic, surreal at times. "Aisheen" is a tribute to life.

Director: Nicolas Wadimoff

Votes: 67

7. Inside Afghanistan (1988)

Not Rated | 56 min | Documentary

Inside Afghanistan examines the struggle for the future of Afghanistan between urbanized, Westernizing modernizers and the traditional Muslim world of the villages, still based on clan and ... See full summary »

Director: Pacho Lane

8. 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

9. 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

10. Afghanistan: The Wounded Land (2020)
Episode: Mudjahedin und Taliban (2020)

53 min | Documentary, History

The Soviet army left Afghanistan, but the war continued between Mujahideen commanders. The country fell into chaos, until a new force emerged: the Taliban.

Directors: Mayte Carrasco, Marcel Mettelsiefen | Stars: Nadja Berlinghoff, Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Ghulam Dastgir, Shukria Barakzai

Votes: 44

11. Afghanistan: The Wounded Land (2020)
Episode: Die NATO-Truppen (2020)

53 min | Documentary, History

Following 9/11 and the overthrow of the Taliban, an international coalition tried to bring peace and democracy to Afghanistan. But hopes were short-lived.

Directors: Mayte Carrasco, Marcel Mettelsiefen | Stars: Nadja Berlinghoff, Khaled Hosseini, Sima Samar, Shukria Barakzai

Votes: 39

12. Tales of the Gun (1998– )
Episode: AK-47 (2008)

Documentary, Biography, History

Mikhail Kalashnikov's design for the prototypical assault rifle, Ak-47, remains the most recognized and popular small arm over sixty years later and made a legend of its inventor. The ... See full summary »

Director: Wayne Weiss | Star: Mikhail Kalashnikov

Votes: 14

13. The Balkans in Flames (2021–2022)
Episode: A State Falls Apart (2021)

Documentary, History, War

We are in the fateful year of Yugoslavia's first free elections since World War II: 1990. It is the hour of the nationalists, and the collapse of the multi-ethnic state is only a matter of ... See full summary »

Stars: Vjekoslav Skrinjar, Marie-Janine Calic, Laura Silber, James Gow

14. Frontline (1983– )
Episode: America and the Taliban (1) (2023)

TV-PG | 53 min | Documentary, News

How America's 20-year investment in Afghanistan culminated in the Taliban victory. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground reporting and interviews with Taliban and US officials.

Directors: Marcela Gaviria, Martin Smith | Stars: Martin Smith, Jason Dempsey, Abdul Salam Zaeef, Marc Grossman

Votes: 54

15. A Day in History (2021– )
Episode: These Documents Expose MI6's MOST Horrifying Secrets (2023)

18 min | Documentary, History

Following World War Two MI-6 remained active in the Middle East often initiating operation that the CIA and American military following up later. Unfortunatly, though several major ... See full summary »

Star: Stephan Vox