Topic: Soviet-Afghan War

Direction Mayte Carrasco · Marcel Mettelsiefen

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (2020). 4 Episodes. Look at 40 years of war through the eyes of those who suffer most from it - the women of Afghanistan. The documentary begins in the 1960s, when peace reigns in the Kingdom of Afghanistan....

Direction Marc Forster

Cast Khalid Abdalla · Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada · Zekeria Ebrahimi · Saïd Taghmaoui

Synopsis Based one on of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Kite Runner is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir...

Direction Aleksei Balabanov

Cast Agniya Kuznetsova · Aleksei Poluyan · Aleksey Serebryakov · Leonid Gromov

Synopsis 1984 in the USSR. The exhaustion of the regime is plain for everyone to see and the strictness of the past is beginning to loosen up. There is one year to go before Gorbachov makes it to power and perestroika...

Direction Kevin Reynolds

Cast Jason Patric · George Dzundza · Steven Bauer · Stephen Baldwin

Synopsis The director of Waterworld teams up with playwright William Mastrosimone for a story of a lost Russian tank during the Afghan war; doesn't sound like your normal action fare, does it? Despite its awkward origins, The Beast is a satisfying...

Direction Fedor Bondarchuk

Cast Fedor Bondarchuk · Aleksey Chadov · Mikhail Evlanov · Ivan Kokorin

Synopsis The film is based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in the 1980's. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from a boot camp into the middle of the war in Afghanistan. The...

Direction Anca Damian

Cast Christophe Miossec · Jean-Marc Barr · Jerzy Radziwilowicz

Synopsis The Magic Mountain investigates the adventures of mountain climber and photographer Adam J. Winkler, who fought in Afghanistan with the mujahedin against the Soviets in the 1980s. The director employs a highly original artistic technique involving animated collage of period...

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Tom Hanks · Julia Roberts · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Amy Adams

Synopsis Adapted from George Crile's book, Charlie Wilson's War tells the story of a rogue congressman and CIA agent who found the means to secretly arm rebels to fight against invading Soviet troops in Afghanistan in the early 1980s.

Direction John Glen

Cast Timothy Dalton · Maryam d'Abo · Jeroen Krabbé · Joe Don Baker

Synopsis In Timothy Dalton's firsts excursion as 007, he finds himself helping Russian officer Georgi Koskov (Jeroen Krabb) make a daring defection to the West but the intelligence community is shocked when Koskov is abducted from his remote hiding place. Bond...

Direction Pavel Lungin

Cast Aleksandr Kuznetsov · Kirill Pirogov · Yan Tsapnik · Mikhail Kremer

Synopsis The end of the Soviet-Afghan war. The USSR begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. Soviet General Vasiliev's son - a pilot named Alexander gets kidnapped by the mujahideen after his airplane crashes. As a result the 108th motorized infantry division's long...

Direction Peter MacDonald

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Richard Crenna · Marc de Jonge · Kurtwood Smith

Direction Timur Bekmambetov

Cast Barry Kushner · Viktor Verzhbitskiy · David Kheird · Michael Karpinski

Direction Oleg Fomin · Pavel Malkov

Cast Aleksey Anishenko · Olga Pavlovets · Igor Gordin · Olga Kabo

Synopsis Andrei Potyomkin, frontier guard cadet, learns that his MIA father who fought in the Soviet-Afghan war is accused of treason. He is trying to find out the truth about his father's death, and together with a young promising journalist Alyona...

Direction Gulya Mirzoeva

Cast Mikhail Gorbachev

Synopsis French documentary about the Sovjet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. It was one of the most crucial events of the 20th century, and changed the world forever. This documentary gives a good insight in the Afghan-Russian war ; the alliance...

Direction Aleksei Saltykov

Cast Vladimir Litvinov · Aleksandr Barinov · Lev Borisov · Olegar Fedoro

Direction Scott Andrews · Stephen Olsson

Synopsis The searing story of four freelance photographers — American, Russian, British and Japanese — all determined to uncover the horrors of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. All willing to take ever-increasing risks to get the story told back home. And...

Direction Richard Stanley

Synopsis An experimental documentary on the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

Direction Timur Bekmambetov · Gennadi Kayumov

Cast Barry Kushner · Viktor Verzhbitskiy · Aleksey Shemes

Synopsis Peshawar Waltz (Peshavarskiy val's), also known as Escape from Afghanistan is a 1994 Russian action film directed and written by Timur Bekmambetov. The film is a compelling depiction of war in Afghanistan, based on actual events: the uprising of Soviet...

Direction Dmitri Zolotukhin

Cast Marina Levtova · Nikolay Rastorguev · Fyodor Sukhov · Sergey Sazontev

Direction Martyn Burke

Cast Martyn Burke

Synopsis The film is a portrait of the Soviet–Afghan War of the 1980s, as told through the testimonies of various people who had been on the ground as first-hand witnesses to the events.

Direction Vladimir Bortko

Cast Michele Placido · Tatyana Dogileva · Mikhail Zhigalov · Philip Yankovsky

Synopsis The film opens with a scene of an Islamic circumcision. After the opening credits, a line of Mujahedin are shown approaching a roadway where a squad of Soviet soldiers has been slaughtered...