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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.
The Yellow Birds (film)
The Yellow Birds is a 2018 Iraq War drama directed by Alexandre Moors, adapted from Kevin Powers' 2012 novel, starring Alden Ehrenreich, Tye Sheridan, Jennifer Aniston, and Toni Collette; premiered at Sundance 2017, released by Saban Films.
The Zone of Interest (film)
The Zone of Interest (2023), Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust drama starring Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel as the Höss family beside Auschwitz, loosely based on Martin Amis's 2014 novel; Cannes Grand Prix winner and Oscar winner for Best International Feature and Best Sound.
Threads (1984 film)
Threads (1984) is a BBC docudrama directed by Mick Jackson and written by Barry Hines, depicting a nuclear attack on Sheffield and 13 years of aftermath; first broadcast 23 September 1984, about seven million viewers, four BAFTAs, distinct from The Day After.
Tigerland
Tigerland (2000) is a Joel Schumacher war drama starring Colin Farrell as rebellious recruit Roland Bozz at Fort Polk's Vietnam-era infantry training camp; shot in 28 days on 16mm, it flopped at the box office but launched Farrell's career.
Tjoet Nja' Dhien
Tjoet Nja' Dhien (Cut Nyak Dhien) is a 1988 Indonesian epic war drama by Eros Djarot starring Christine Hakim, about the Acehnese guerrilla leader who fought Dutch colonial rule after Teuku Umar's 1899 death; it won nine Citra Awards and was the first Indonesian film at Cannes.
Triumph of the Heart
Triumph of the Heart is a 2025 historical drama film, also released in France as Maximilien Kolbe, about St. Maximilian Kolbe's 1941 Auschwitz starvation-bunker sacrifice. Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Anthony D'Ambrosio, it opened September 12, 2025 and scored 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Triumph of the Will
Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens) is Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 black-and-white propaganda film of the 1934 Nuremberg Nazi Party Congress, commissioned by Hitler, premiered March 28, 1935, shown in German schools, banned by the Allies in 1945, and a lasting case study in propaganda film form.
Triumph of the Will (upcoming film)
Triumph of the Will (2026) is a WWII-era historical drama written and directed by Gabriel Nussbaum, starring Shira Haas, produced by Kaplan Morrison and Bank Street Films, in post-production. Distinct from Riefenstahl's 1935 propaganda film of the same title.
Two Women
Two Women (La ciociara) is Vittorio De Sica's 1960 Italian-French war drama adapted from Alberto Moravia's novel, starring Sophia Loren as widowed mother Cesira; it won her the 1962 Best Actress Oscar, the first for a foreign-language performance.
Under Capricorn
Under Capricorn (1949) is Alfred Hitchcock's Technicolor costume melodrama set in 1831 Sydney, starring Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Michael Wilding; the second and final Transatlantic Pictures release, known for long takes, a $1 million loss, and later French critical reevaluation.
United Red Army (実録・連合赤軍 あさま山荘への道程)
United Red Army (実録・連合赤軍 あさま山荘への道程) is Koji Wakamatsu's 190-minute 2007 Japanese docudrama on the United Red Army's 1971 formation, internal purge killings, and the 1972 Asama-Sanso siege; it won NETPAC and CICAE awards at Berlinale 2008.
Untold Herstory (流麻沟十五号)
Untold Herstory (流麻溝十五號) is a 2022 Taiwanese historical drama directed by Zero Chou, depicting women held for thought re-education on Green Island during the 1950s White Terror.
Viceroy's House (film)
Viceroy's House (Partition: 1947 in India) is Gurinder Chadha's 2017 historical drama about the 1947 Partition of India, starring Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mountbatten, with an upstairs-downstairs structure and a Churchill-conspiracy thesis drawn from Sarila's The Shadow of the Great Game.
Voyage of the Damned
Voyage of the Damned is a 1976 Stuart Rosenberg drama, based on Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts's 1974 book, dramatizing the 1939 MS St. Louis voyage of 937 Jewish refugees denied landing in Havana; three Oscar nominations.
Waterloo (1970 film)
Waterloo (1970), Sergei Bondarchuk's Italian-Soviet epic produced by Dino De Laurentiis with Mosfilm, depicts Napoleon's return from Elba and defeat by Wellington, staged with 17,000 Red Army extras in Ukraine; a box-office failure later prized for its battle spectacle.
Where Hands Touch
Where Hands Touch is a 2018 historical drama written and directed by Amma Asante, starring Amandla Stenberg and George MacKay, about a biracial German teen and a Hitler Youth member in 1944; Metascore 44, RT 43%.
White Bird (film)
White Bird (White Bird: A Wonder Story) is a 2024 Marc Forster drama adapted from R.J. Palacio's graphic novel, a Wonder companion film starring Helen Mirren, Ariella Glaser, and Gillian Anderson about a Jewish girl hidden in Nazi-occupied France; released October 4, 2024, Metascore 54, RT 75%.
White Vengeance (鸿门宴)
White Vengeance (鸿门宴传奇, Hong Men Yan) is Daniel Lee's 2011 Chinese historical action film about the Hongmen Banquet between Liu Bang (Leon Lai) and Xiang Yu (Feng Shaofeng), released 29 November 2011, grossing about 160 million yuan in China and $992,195 internationally.
Wil (film)
Wil (Will) is a 2023 Belgian historical drama by Tim Mielants, adapted from Jeroen Olyslaegers' 2016 novel, about two auxiliary policemen in Nazi-occupied Antwerp in 1942 torn between collaboration and resistance; released via Kinepolis and Netflix, Ensor winner.
Young Washington
Young Washington is a 2026 Jon Erwin historical biopic from Angel Studios and Wonder Project about George Washington's early years and the French and Indian War, starring William Franklyn-Miller, released July 3, 2026, grossing $20.8 million on opening weekend.