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A Taxi Driver (택시 운전사)
A Taxi Driver (택시 운전사, Taeksi Woonjunsa) is Jang Hoon's 2017 South Korean historical drama starring Song Kang-ho and Thomas Kretschmann, based on German reporter Jürgen Hinzpeter and driver Kim Sa-bok during the 1980 Gwangju Uprising; it sold over 12 million admissions and was South Korea's Oscar submission.
Schindler's List
Schindler's List (1993), Steven Spielberg's black-and-white drama adapted from Thomas Keneally's Booker-winning Schindler's Ark, stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, who saved over 1,100 Jews; it won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture.
Shadow of Fire
Shadow of Fire (ほかげ, Hokage) is a 2023 Japanese anti-war drama by Shinya Tsukamoto, set in postwar black markets, starring Shuri, Mirai Moriyama, and Ouga Tsukao; it won the Venice Orizzonte NETPAC Award.
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days
Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (Sophie Scholl – Die letzten Tage) is a 2005 German drama by Marc Rothemund starring Julia Jentsch, dramatizing the White Rose member's arrest, Gestapo interrogation, trial, and 1943 execution; Oscar-nominated, with two Silver Bears.
Stalingrad (1993 film)
Stalingrad is a 1993 German anti-war film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. It chronicles a fictional Wehrmacht platoon's experience during the encirclement of the German 6th Army in 1942–43.
Stop-Loss (film)
Stop-Loss (2008) is Kimberly Peirce's Iraq War drama starring Ryan Phillippe as Sgt. Brandon King, a soldier ordered back to duty under the Army's stop-loss policy who goes AWOL. Paramount release, $10.9M gross, 64% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Suffragette (film)
Suffragette is Sarah Gavron's 2015 historical drama, written by Abi Morgan, starring Carey Mulligan as fictional laundry worker Maud Watts drawn into the militant WSPU, with Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst; it premiered at Telluride, earned £35m, and drew controversy over casting and Pankhurst T-shirts.
Suriyothai (2001 film)
Suriyothai (สุริโยไท), aka The Legend of Suriyothai, is a 2001 Thai historical epic by Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol about the 16th-century Ayutthaya queen who died defending her king; Thailand's costliest and highest-grossing film of its era, commissioned by Queen Sirikit.
Taebak Mountains
Taebak Mountains (태백산맥, The Taebaek Mountains) is Im Kwon-taek's 1994 Korean war drama adapted from Cho Jeong-rae's ten-volume novel, depicting left-right conflict in Beolgyo from the 1948 Yeosu–Suncheon incident through the Korean War; it won the Blue Dragon Best Film award.
Tales of the Taira Clan
Tales of the Taira Clan (新・平家物語, Shin Heike monogatari; Taira Clan Saga) is Kenji Mizoguchi's 1955 Daiei color film adapting Eiji Yoshikawa's novel, starring Raizo Ichikawa as young Taira no Kiyomori in 1137 Kyoto.
Tea with Mussolini
Tea with Mussolini (Un tè con Mussolini) is Franco Zeffirelli's 1999 semi-autobiographical Italy-UK comedy-drama, written with John Mortimer, about the Scorpioni expatriate women raising young Luca in fascist Florence; Maggie Smith won a BAFTA.
Temptation of a Monk (诱僧)
Temptation of a Monk (誘僧, You Seng) is a 1993 Hong Kong period film by Clara Law, adapted from Lilian Lee's novel, starring Joan Chen and Wu Hsing-kuo as a Tang dynasty general turned monk after the Xuanwu Gate Incident; Venice Golden Lion nominee, banned in China.
Thank You for Your Service (2017 film)
Thank You for Your Service (2017) is Jason Hall's directorial debut war drama, adapted from David Finkel's 2013 book, starring Miles Teller as Sgt. Adam Schumann, about Iraq veterans facing PTSD and VA bureaucracy; released October 27, 2017, grossing $9.4 million.
That Night in Varennes
That Night in Varennes (La Nuit de Varennes, Italian Il mondo nuovo) is Ettore Scola's 1982 French-Italian historical drama about a stagecoach of passengers, including Restif de la Bretonne, Casanova, and Thomas Paine, who follow Louis XVI's 1791 flight and witness his arrest at Varennes; Cannes competitor and triple David di Donatello winner.
The Secret Path
The Secret Path (also Chasing Secrets) is a 1999 CBS TV drama directed by Bruce Pittman, based on Rose Mary Evans' memoir Childhood's Thief, starring Della Reese and Ossie Davis as a couple sheltering an abused white girl.
The Sign of the Cross
The Sign of the Cross (1932) is Cecil B. DeMille's pre-Code Paramount epic from Wilson Barrett's 1895 play, starring Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, and Charles Laughton as Nero; notorious for its milk-bath and arena scenes, cut in 1935, restored in 1993.
The Sleeping Voice
The Sleeping Voice (La voz dormida) is Benito Zambrano's 2011 Spanish drama adapted from Dulce Chacón's novel, about sisters in Francoist Madrid in 1940; it won three Goyas and the San Sebastián Silver Shell for María León.
The Story of Dr. Wassell
The Story of Dr. Wassell is Cecil B. DeMille's 1944 Paramount Technicolor WWII film starring Gary Cooper as Navy doctor Corydon Wassell, who evacuated twelve wounded sailors from Java; based on James Hilton's commissioned 1943 book, inspired by Roosevelt's radio broadcast.
The Swedish Connection
The Swedish Connection (Den svenska länken) is a 2026 Swedish WWII drama directed by Thérèse Ahlbeck and Marcus Olsson, starring Henrik Dorsin as bureaucrat Gösta Engzell, who saved Jews via legal loopholes; Netflix release February 19, 2026.
The Tasters
The Tasters (Le assaggiatrici) is Silvio Soldini's 2025 German-language Italian-Belgian-Swiss historical drama adapting Rosella Postorino's novel At the Wolf's Table about women forced to taste Hitler's food at the Wolf's Lair, inspired by Margot Wölk's disputed testimony.
The Throne (사도) (film)
The Throne (사도, Sado) is Lee Joon-ik's 2015 South Korean historical drama starring Song Kang-ho and Yoo Ah-in as King Yeongjo and Crown Prince Sado, depicting Sado's 1762 death in a rice chest; it drew 6.25 million admissions and was Korea's 2016 Oscar entry.
The Time That Remains (الزمن الباقي)
The Time That Remains (الزمن الباقي) is Elia Suleiman's 2009 semi-autobiographical Palestinian drama in four episodes, 1948 to the present, based on his father's diaries and mother's letters; a Cannes Palme d'Or nominee and third in his Nazareth trilogy.
The Travelling Players
The Travelling Players (Ο Θίασος, O Thiasos) is Theo Angelopoulos's 1975 Greek epic, 230 minutes long, following a troupe performing Golfo the Shepherdess from 1939 to 1952 while enacting the Oresteia; it won the FIPRESCI Grand Prix at Cannes 1975.
The Twilight Samurai (たそがれ清兵衛)
The Twilight Samurai (たそがれ清兵衛, Tasogare Seibei) is Yoji Yamada's 2002 Shochiku period drama based on Shuhei Fujisawa, starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Rie Miyazawa; it won 12 Japan Academy Awards and was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Uprising (1999 film)
The Uprising (이재수의 난) is a 1999 South Korean historical action film directed by Park Kwang-su, starring Lee Jung-jae and set during the 1901 Jeju rebellion.
The Valley of the Bees
The Valley of the Bees (Údolí včel) is František Vláčil's 1967 Czechoslovak black-and-white medieval drama about Ondřej, a Teutonic Knight who escapes and is hunted by Armin; a reappraised Czech classic.
The Vikings
The Vikings (1958) is a Richard Fleischer adventure film produced by and starring Kirk Douglas, with Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Ernest Borgnine, adapted from Edison Marshall's novel The Viking, shot in Norway and Brittany, and ranked by Variety as 1958's fifth top-grossing film.
The Water Diviner
The Water Diviner (2014) is Russell Crowe's directorial debut, a Gallipoli drama starring Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, and Yilmaz Erdogan; released by Warner Bros. in April 2015, it grossed $34.6M in the US and won three AACTA Awards.
The Weight (2026 film)
The Weight is a 2026 action-adventure crime film directed by Padraic McKinley in his feature debut, starring Ethan Hawke as a 1930s convict who smuggles stolen gold through the Oregon wilderness for his freedom.
The World Will Tremble
The World Will Tremble is a 2025 Lior Geller war drama, also called Świat będzie drżał, dramatizing the 1942 Chełmno camp escape of Szlama Ber Winer and Michał Podchlebnik, who delivered the first Holocaust eyewitness account.