86 Films & TV Shows Set In Poland During The 20th Century
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All That I Love
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1980sFollows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by social turmoil and outside perceptions.
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Little Moscow
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1960sDuring the Cold War, a local Polish officer and a young Soviet woman wedded to a Soviet officer are drawn together by music.
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Katyn
๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1930sThe untold story of the crime Stalin could not hide โ On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
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Strike
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1970s The 1980s The 1960sA nearly illiterate woman becomes one of the founders of Poland's Solidarity union.
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The Pianist
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940s The 1930sMusic was his passion. Survival was his masterpiece. โ The true story of pianist Wลadysลaw Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a cafรฉ; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
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Amen.
๐ป๐ฆ Holy See ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1930sTwo Men Two Worlds One Cause โ Kurt Gersteinโa member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SSโis horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
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The Grey Zone
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sA Nazi doctorโalong with the Sonderkomando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jewsโfind themselves in a moral grey zone.
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Shadow of the Vampire
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ธ๐ฐ Slovakia The 1920sAn Unspeakable Horror. A Creative Genius. Captured For Eternity. โ Director F.W. Murnau makes a Faustian pact with a vampire to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
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X-Men
New York District of Columbia Mississippi ๐ต๐ฑ Poland Africa - General ๐จ๐ฆ Canada The 2000s The 1940sEvolution Begins โ Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
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Jakob the Liar
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sWhen all hope was lost, he invented it. โ In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
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World War III
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1980sThis mock documentary uses archival footage, interviews and reports taken out of context and staged interviews to highlight a possible escalation into a nuclear war. In this feature, tension in East Germany, and an uprising triggered by a visit by Gorbachev sees a successful military coup taking place in the USSR. Western actions against brutal crack-downs on civilians involved increases tension between the sides, finally resulting in nuclear war.
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The Truce
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sAlthough liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.
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The Island on Bird Street
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sAlex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
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At Full Gallop
๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1950sZanussi has described the film as his most autobiographical work. A young boy in post-World War II, Communist-dominated Poland, whose father's decision to remain in Britain after the war has made his family politically-suspect with the local Party authorities, is sent by his mother to stay with an "aunt" (in reality an old family friend) in Warsaw.
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An Impossible Job
England ๐ณ๐ด Norway ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ฎ๐น Italy ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1990sDo I Not Like That โ A fly-on-the-wall documentary following England manager Graham Taylor and the team through the 18 months leading to the failure to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup
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Schindler's List
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sWhoever saves one life, saves the world entire. โ The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Psy
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1990sIn good old days Franz Maurer and his partners from secret police used to live like kings. Now, they all must adapt to new post-communist environment where they are scorned and losing all the privileges. Some, like Franz, are like ordinary police fighting against drug dealers. But Franz would soon find that some of his friends are on the other side.
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Controlled Conversations
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1980sBrilliantly funny comedy finds humor in what was otherwise a terrifying time, the outbreak of Martial Law in Poland in 1981.
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Eminent Domain
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1970sThey kidnapped his daughter, drugged his wife and then demanded one last thing... his trust. โ A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.
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Europa Europa
๐ง๐พ Belarus ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ต๐ฑ Poland ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940sA Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war hero' and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth.
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Interrogation
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1950sIn Stalinist Poland, cabaret singer Tonia decides to spend the evening drinking with a group of friends. The next morning, she awakes to find that, for reasons unknown to her, she has been jailed as a political prisoner. As prison officials interrogate, torture and humiliate her, she fights for survival and to maintain her innocence by refusing to sign a false confession. As her years of imprisonment pass, her relationship with her captors grows more complicated.
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Triumph of the Spirit
๐ฌ๐ท Greece ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sFact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he fought for the amusement of his captors. His father and brother were also held as insurance that he would continue to fight.
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The Great Escape II: The Untold Story
England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sAllied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag, then return to avenge fellow escapees executed by the Nazis.
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Escape from Sobibor
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1940sThe true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
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The Magnate
๐ต๐ฑ Poland The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 1900sThis Polish historical drama film traces the fascinating saga of a wealthy, princely Polish dynasty in years 1900-1935.
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