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A Great Awakening
A Great Awakening is a 2026 American faith-based historical drama directed by Joshua Enck, dramatizing the friendship between preacher George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin during the first Great Awakening.
Escape from Germany
Escape from Germany is a 2024 T.C. Christensen faith-based drama about the August 1939 evacuation of American LDS missionaries from Nazi Germany, based on Terry Bohle Montague's book Mine Angels Round About, released April 11, 2024.
Evil Unbound
Evil Unbound (731) is a 2025 Chinese war drama directed by Zhao Linshan about Japan's Unit 731 human experiments in Harbin, starring Jiang Wu; it earned over 1.25 billion yuan in China. Distinct from the 2022 horror film Unbound Evil and the 2026 film Evil's Return.
Fat Man and Little Boy (film)
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989), also released in the UK as Shadow Makers, is Roland Joffé's drama about the Manhattan Project, starring Paul Newman as General Groves and Dwight Schultz as Oppenheimer; a critical and commercial failure.
Firebird (2021 film)
Firebird (2021 film), also known from Sergey Fetisov's memoir The Story of Roman (A Tale About Roman), is a UK-Estonia romantic drama directed by Peeter Rebane, starring Tom Prior, Oleg Zagorodnii, and Diana Pozharskaya, about a forbidden gay love affair in the 1970s Soviet Air Force in occupied Estonia; it premiered at BFI Flare 2021 and was released in the US on April 29, 2022.
Fly High Run Far (개벽)
Fly High Run Far (개벽) is Im Kwon-taek's 1991 Korean historical drama about Donghak leader Choi Si-hyeong; 146 minutes, Daejong Grand Prize winner, but only 45,566 admissions.
Gaua (film)
Gaua (The Night) is a 2025 Basque-language folk horror film by Paul Urkijo Alijo, his third feature after Errementari and Irati. Set in 17th-century Basque mountains during Inquisition witch hunts, Kattalin flees her husband and meets three storytelling women; premiered at Sitges 2025.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack is a 2025 UK documentary by Basement Films, directed by Karim Shah, reported by Ramita Navai; dropped by the BBC, aired by Channel 4 on 2 July 2025, released by Zeteo, and winner of the 2026 BAFTA TV Award for Current Affairs.
Gezhi Town
Gezhi Town (得闲谨制) is a 2025 Chinese war drama directed by Kong Sheng, written by Lan Xiaolong, starring Xiao Zhan as machinist Mo Dexian; Nanjing refugees defend a mountain town from Japanese soldiers in 1944, grossing about $56 million.
GomBurZa (film)
GomBurZa is a 2023 Filipino historical biographical film directed by Pepe Diokno about martyred priests Gomes, Burgos, and Zamora, executed in 1872; an MMFF 2023 entry that won seven awards including Best Actor for Cedrick Juan.
Good Men, Good Women
Good Men, Good Women (好男好女) is Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1995 Taiwan-Japan drama, last of his Taiwan trilogy, adapted from Lan Bo-chou's Sapporo Carriage Song; a 1990s actress plays White Terror victim Chiang Bi-yu. Cannes 1995 competition; three Golden Horse awards.
Grand Tour (film)
Grand Tour (壮游) is Miguel Gomes's 2024 Portuguese-led feature about Edward fleeing his fiancée Molly across 1917 colonial Asia; his sixth film, it won Best Director at the 77th Cannes Film Festival.
Hamnet (film)
Hamnet (2025) is Chloé Zhao's drama, adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's novel, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes and Shakespeare; it imagines their son's 1596 death inspiring Hamlet, and won the Golden Globe for Best Drama and two BAFTAs.
Handia
Handia (Giant) is a 2017 Basque-language Spanish historical drama by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño about Miguel Joaquín Eleizegui, the Giant of Altzo; it won ten Goya Awards and the San Sebastián Special Jury Prize.
Harakiri (1962 film)
Harakiri (切腹, Seppuku) is Masaki Kobayashi's 1962 Shochiku black-and-white samurai drama, screenplay by Shinobu Hashimoto from Yasuhiko Takiguchi, starring Tatsuya Nakadai; it won the 1963 Cannes Special Jury Prize.
Hibiscus Town (芙蓉镇)
Hibiscus Town (芙蓉镇) is Xie Jin's 1986 Shanghai Film Studio drama adapted from Gu Hua's Mao Dun Prize novel, starring Liu Xiaoqing and Jiang Wen; it swept the 1987 Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers awards, won at Karlovy Vary, and earned 120 million yuan.
Hope and Glory (film)
Hope and Glory (1987) is John Boorman's autobiographical comedy-drama about his London Blitz childhood, seen through young Bill Rowan; Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe winner, followed by Queen and Country (2014).
In the Land of Blood and Honey
In the Land of Blood and Honey is Angelina Jolie's 2011 directorial debut, a Bosnian-language war drama about lovers Danijel and Ajla divided by the Bosnian War; Golden Globe-nominated, mixed reviews (RT 57%).
Ivan's Childhood (Иваново детство)
Ivan's Childhood (Иваново детство, Ivanovo detstvo), also released as My Name Is Ivan, is Andrei Tarkovsky's 1962 debut feature, a Soviet WWII drama about a twelve-year-old orphan scout that won the 1962 Venice Golden Lion.
John Rabe (2009 film)
John Rabe (2009) is a German-French-Chinese historical drama directed by Florian Gallenberger, starring Ulrich Tukur as the Siemens manager and Nazi Party member who led the Nanking Safety Zone; it won four Lolas including Best Film.
Johnny Got His Gun (film)
Johnny Got His Gun (1971) is Dalton Trumbo's only film as director, adapted from his 1939 anti-war novel about WWI soldier Joe Bonham, who loses limbs and face but remains conscious. It won Cannes' Jury Special Grand Prix and FIPRESCI in 1971 and gained fame through Metallica's "One" video.
Joyeux Noël
Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas), 2005 war drama by Christian Carion about the 1914 WWI Christmas truce; Oscar-nominated French co-production starring Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, and Guillaume Canet; distinct from the unrelated 2023 Hallmark film of the same name.
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American courtroom drama directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy, dramatizing the postwar trial of German judges who served the Nazi regime.
King & Country
King & Country is a 1964 British antiwar drama by Joseph Losey, also known as King and Country, in which Tom Courtenay's WWI private faces court-martial for desertion and Dirk Bogarde defends him; distinct from the for KING & COUNTRY duo and the WorldService Project album.
Kokuho (国宝) (film)
Kokuho (国宝, "National Treasure") is Lee Sang-il's 2025 Japanese drama adapted from Shuichi Yoshida's novel, starring Ryo Yoshizawa as a yakuza's son who becomes a kabuki onnagata; it became Japan's highest-grossing live-action film and earned a 2026 Oscar makeup nomination.
La Grande Illusion
La Grande Illusion (Grand Illusion) is Jean Renoir's 1937 French anti-war film about French POWs in German camps in WWI, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, and Erich von Stroheim, centered on class solidarity across national lines.
La Reine Margot (1994 film)
La Reine Margot (1994), Patrice Chéreau's French historical drama adapted from Dumas, starring Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Virna Lisi; Cannes Prix du jury, five 1995 Césars, two cuts.
Lacombe Lucien
Lacombe Lucien (Lacombe, Lucien) is Louis Malle's 1974 French drama, co-written with Patrick Modiano, about a peasant youth rejected by the Resistance who joins the Gestapo; it won a BAFTA and an Oscar nomination.
Land of Mine
Land of Mine (Under sandet) is Martin Zandvliet's 2015 Danish-German drama about teenage German POWs forced to clear over two million landmines from Denmark's west coast after May 1945; Oscar-nominated, EFA-winning.
Last Flag Flying
Last Flag Flying is a 2017 Richard Linklater comedy-drama, co-written with Darryl Ponicsan from his 2005 novel, starring Cranston, Fishburne, and Carell as Vietnam vets burying a son killed in Iraq.