Occupation Movies

Between 1930 and 1945, Eastern Europe experienced mass violence on an unprecedented scale. Hitler and Stalin exploited the vast region for their...

They Break the Tree of Peace explores the reality of life under military occupation in Masafer Yatta, documenting the violence, intimidation, and...

Kherson, Ukraine's embattled city, has endured invasion, occupation, and liberation. On February 24, 2022, Russian tanks entered Kherson, leading to...

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

In 2009, a group of military enthusiasts led by the commander France (Gojmir Lešnjak - Gojc) decides to occupy Trieste. The group that stages...

A documentary set in the Ciudad Oculta neighborhood that shows the daily lives of Ramona and Graciela, residents of what was supposed to become the...

For the first time, some of Vidkun Quisling's closest followers as well as his opponents come forward and describe their impressions of the Norwegian...

Iben Holt, a rich bohemian, lives in an occupied country. On his way home from a party he hears an explosion and sees flames rising from a factory....

The year is 1658 and the King of Sweden has seized large parts of Denmark. A tenant farmer and his family on Falster are forced to look on while...

This experimental short traces the lifespan of the graffiti and murals present at the occupation of NYC’s City Hall in June and July of 2020....

Twelve Palestinian women sit before us and talk of their life before the Diaspora, of their memories, of their lives and of their identity. Their...

From the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Laila sets out to cross the border into Syria to attend her father’s funeral. At one of the...

Yugoslav Partisan propaganda film about the post-World War II events in Pula.

Since the war in Gaza and the expanding occupation of the West Bank, a peaceful resolution to the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians feels...

3 CM LESS (the title comes from projections that the Palestinian children of today will grow up on average three centimeters shorter than their...

Louka, whose parents were killed in the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, persuades a beautiful smuggler to take him over the border to visit his village,...

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island as...

The film documents Palestinian everyday's life under Isreali occupation in East Jerusalem. It uncovers Isreals policy of judaizing the city in order...