List of films about revolution

This article is a selection of films both fictional and non-fictional which focus on revolution, revolutionary movements and/or revolutionary characters as a theme.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Films

Year Title Director Genre Themes
1914 La Commune Armand Guerra Drama Paris Commune
1919 The New Moon Chester Withey Adventure Drama Russian Revolution
1925 Strike Sergei Eisenstein Historical drama Class struggle
1925 Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein Historical drama 1905 Russian Revolution
1928 Revolution: Ten Days that Shook the World Sergei Eisenstein Historical drama October Revolution
1929 The New Babylon Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg Historical drama Paris Commune
1932 ¡Que viva Mexico! Sergei Eisenstein Historical drama History of Mexico (Mexican Revolution)
1933 Prisoner 13 Fernando de Fuentes War Drama Mexican Revolution
1933 Godfather Mendoza Fernando de Fuentes War Drama Mexican Revolution, Zapatistas
1936 Let's Go with Pancho Villa Fernando de Fuentes War Drama Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa
1937 Aurora de esperanza Antonio Sau Drama Spanish Revolution of 1936
1952 The Fighter Herbert Kline Film noir Mexican Revolution
1952 Viva Zapata! Elia Kazan Historical drama Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution
1954 Animal Farm John Halas & Joy Batchelor Drama Anti-Stalinism, Russian Revolution
1960 Spartacus Stanley Kubrick Historical drama Third Servile War
1963 Ganga Zumba Carlos Diegues Historical drama Revolution, Brazil
1964 Zulu Cy Endfield Historical drama Battle of Rorke's Drift
1966 Khartoum Basil Dearden Historical drama Siege of Khartoum
1966 Here Is Your Life Jan Troell Coming-of-age Drama Revolutionary Socialism, World War I
1967 The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo Historical drama Algerian Revolution
1970 Cromwell Ken Hughes Historical drama Revolution, England
1970 Emiliano Zapata Felipe Cazals Historical drama Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution
1970 Metello Mauro Bolognini Drama Class struggle
1970 Wind from the East Dziga Vertov Group Drama Class struggle
1971 Mexico, The Frozen Revolution Raymundo Gleyzer Documentary Mexican Revolution
1971 A Fistful of Dynamite Sergio Leone Epic Western Mexican Revolution
1972 Sambizanga Sarah Maldoror Historical drama Angolan War of Independence
1972 Pink Flamingos John Waters Exploitation comedy Sexual revolution
1972 A Luta Continua Robert Van Lierop Historical drama Mozambican War of Independence
1972 Tout Va Bien Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin Political drama Class struggle, May 68
1973 El principio Gonzalo Martínez Ortega Historical drama Mexican Revolution
1975 Winstanley Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo Biographical Revolution, England
1978 Ora sí ¡tenemos que ganar! Raúl Kamffer Drama Magonism, Mexican Revolution
1979 Zulu Dawn Douglas Hickox Historical drama Battle of Isandlwana
1979 The Battle of Chile Patricio Guzman Documentary Counterrevolution
1979 Siberiade Andrei Konchalovsky Historical drama Russian Revolution
1981 Reds Warren Beaty Historical drama Russian Revolution
1982 Gandhi Richard Attenborough Biographical Indian Independence Movement
1985 Revolution Hugh Hudson Historical drama American Revolutionary War
1986 Salvador Oliver Stone Historical drama Salvadoran Revolution
1989 China: A Century of Revolution Sue Williams Documentary Revolution, China
1989 The French Revolution Robert Enrico (Part 1) Richard T. Heffron (Part 2) Documentary French Revolution
1992 The Crying Game Neil Jordan Historical drama Revolution, Ireland
1995 Braveheart Mel Gibson Historical drama Revolution, Great Britain
1996 Michael Collins Neil Jordan Biographical Revolution, Ireland
1996 Evita Alan Parker Socio-Political Musical Film Peronism
1997 Living Utopia Juan Gamero Documentary Anarcho-syndicalism, Spanish Revolution
1998 A Place Called Chiapas Nettie Wild Documentary Zapatista Army of National Liberation
1998 Jose Rizal Marilou Diaz-Abaya Biographical Philippine Revolution
2000 Lumumba Raoul Peck Biographical Congolese National Movement
2000 The Patriot Roland Emmerich Historical drama American Revolutionary War
2002 Bringing Down a Dictator Steve York Documentary Otpor!
2003 To Kill a King Mike Barker Historical drama Revolution, England
2004 In My Country John Boorman Historical drama Anti-Apartheid Movement
2005 V for Vendetta James McTeigue Political action film Revolution
2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley Ken Loach Historical drama Irish War of Independence
2006 Alatriste Agustín Díaz Yanes Historical fiction Revolution, Netherlands
2006 Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man Robin Shuffield Documentary Revolution, Burkina Faso
2007 Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation Charles Burnett Historical drama Namibian War of Independence
2008 Baler Mark Meily Historical drama Philippine Revolution
2008 Che Steven Soderbergh Biographical Cuban revolution
2009 Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution Carl Hindmarch Documentary French Revolution
2009 Bodyguards and Assassins Teddy Chan Historical drama 1911 Revolution
2009 Iran and the West Norma Percy Documentary Iranian revolution
2010 Revolución: el cruce de los Andes Leandro Ipiña Historical drama Argentina War of Independence
2010 Hidalgo: The story never told Antonio Serrano Biographical Mexican War of Independence
2010 Outside the Law Rachid Bouchareb Historical drama Revolution, Algeria
2010 Taita Boves Luis Alberto Lamata Biographical Revolution, Venezuela
2010 Amílcar Cabral Ana Ramos Lisboa Documentary Revolution, Guinea Bisseau
2011 How to Start a Revolution Ruaridh Arrow Documentary Revolution
2012 Toussaint Louverture Philippe Niang Biographical Haitian Revolution
2011 Merdeka 17805 Yukio Fuji Historical drama Indonesian National Revolution
2013 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Justin Chadwick Biographical Anti-Apartheid Movement
2013 Tula: The Revolt Jeroen Leinders Historical drama Slave Revolt of 1795
2013 The Liberator Alberto Arvelo Historical drama Revolution, South America
2013 7 Assassins Hung Yan-yan Historical drama Revolution, China
2015 Michiel de Ruyter Roel Reiné Historical drama Revolution, Netherlands
2016 Kalushi Mandla Dube Historical drama Revolution, South Africa
2016 The Birth of a Nation Nate Parker Historical drama Nat Turner's slave rebellion
2017 Revolution Selfie Steven de Castro Documentary New People's Army
2019 Ginnen Upan Seethala Anuruddha Jayasinghe Biographical Revolution, Sri Lanka

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pick, Zuzana M. (2010). Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution. University of Texas Press. doi:10.7560/721081. ISBN 978-0-292-72108-1. JSTOR 10.7560/721081.
  2. ↑ Rose, Steve (2019-11-29). "An ugly truth: is cinema finally facing up to Britain's colonial past?". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  3. ↑ Schickel, Richard (1973-05-06). "The Man and the Medium Made History". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  4. ↑ Landy, Marcia (2001-01-01). The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media. A&C Black. ISBN 978-0-485-30096-3.
  5. ↑ Hughes-Warrington, Marnie (2007). History goes to the movies: studying history on film. London: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN 978-0-415-32828-9.
  6. ↑ Rosenstone, Robert A. (2017). History on Film/Film on History. doi:10.4324/9781315113654. ISBN 9781315113654.
  7. ↑ "The power of film propaganda : myth or reality? | WorldCat.org". www.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
  8. ↑ Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey; Nowell-Smith, Project Director for European Filmography and Fellow of the European Humanities Research Center Geoffrey (1996-10-17). The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-19-811257-0.
  9. ↑ “The Compilation Film of the Mexican Revolution: History as Catalogue and Monument.” 2017. Film History 29 (1): 30–56. doi:10.2979/filmhistory.29.1.03
  10. ↑ Harison, Casey. “The French Revolution on Film: American and French Perspectives.” The History Teacher 38, no. 3 (2005): 299–324. doi:10.2307/30037010.
  11. ↑ Rhoden, Nancy L. 2007. “Patriots, Villains, and the Quest for Liberty: How American Film Has Depicted the American Revolution.” Canadian Review of American Studies 37 (2): 205–38. doi:10.3138/cras.37.2.205
  12. ↑ Reeves, Nicholas (2003). The power of film propaganda : myth or reality?. London: Contunuum. ISBN 9780826473905.
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