polish history movies

Katyn (2007)
6.719 / 10

Drama, History, War

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish...

Jack Strong (2014)
6.5 / 10

Drama, History, Thriller

Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army...

The Resistance Fighter (2019)
6.1 / 10

War, Drama, Thriller

Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.

The Last Stage (1948)
7.1 / 10

Drama

Poland, during World War II. Martha Weiss, a Jewish woman, arrives at the Auschwitz extermination camp with her family. She is assigned the role of...

The Getaway King (2021)
6.437 / 10

Comedy, Crime, Action

Comedy about Zdzisław Najmrodzki, most famous polish criminal in the times of Polish People Republic, named "the getaway king", known for stealing...

Stanisław Lem: Autor Solaris (2016)
7.2 / 10

Documentary, History

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in science fiction literature involved in mysteries and...

DAAS (2011)
5.7 / 10

History, Drama

Jest rok 1776. Radca wiedeńskiej Kancelarii Nadwornej Henryk Klein (Mariusz Bonaszewski) otrzymuje skargę na hrabiego Jakuba Franka (Olgierd...

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)
6.4 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over...

Polonia Restituta (1981)
0 / 10

Drama, History

A two-part historical film covering the years of the First World War and the post-war period up to 1919 - until the signing of the peace treaty in...

Weekend Stories: A Woman's Business (1996)
5 / 10

Drama, TV Movie

A woman whose passport was denied under the previous Communist regime by a vindictive party secretary is given a chance to confront the woman and...

Poland 1939: When German Soldiers Became War Criminals (2019)
8 / 10

Documentary, Animation, History

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these circumstances, how is it that ordinary German...

Barbed Wire (1983)
0 / 10

War

RaRepublic (2019)
10 / 10

History, War, Drama, Romance

A well-known publisher - Melchior Wańkowicz asks famous writer Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz to create a reportage about "success a la Polonaise"....

An Ordinary Country (2020)
4 / 10

Documentary, History

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interrogations, recruitment attempts, recorded and...

Stolen Children (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland and...

1970 (2021)
7.7 / 10

Documentary, Animation, History

Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist government organizes a crisis team. Soon after, the...

Tales from the Golden Age: The Warsaw Pact (1969)
0 / 10

Comedy, History

A follow up to the 2009 sketch comedy referencing urban legends from the Ceausescu regime, the film is expected to expand to accommodate stories from...

The Spirit Of Witkacy (1989)
0 / 10

Animation, War, Drama, Documentary

Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, better known as Witkacy, enivsages the future horrors of the Polish nation, as embodied by Stalin and Hitler, and the...

Mazeppa, Folk Hero of the Ukraine (1919)
6 / 10

Drama, History

The film tells the story of Ivan Mazeppa, a Ukrainian page at the Polish court who has an affair with the young wife of a much older count. Outraged...