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This article is a list of films both fictional and non-fictional which focus on revolution, revolutionary movements and/or revolutionary characters as a theme.

Films

Year Title Director Genre Themes
1914 La Commune Armand Guerra Drama Paris Commune
1919 The New Moon Chester Withey Adventure Drama Russian 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 Slave Revolt
1963 Ganga Zumba Carlos Diegues Historical drama Revolution, Brazil
1964 Zulu Cy Endfield Historical drama Revolution, South Africa
1966 Khartoum Basil Dearden Historical drama Revolution, Sudan
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 Revolution, Algeria
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 Revolution, Angola
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 Revolution, South Africa
1979 The Battle of Chile Patricio Guzman Documentary Counterrevolution
1981 Reds Warren Beaty Historical drama Russian Revolution
1982 Gandhi Richard Attenborough Biographical Revolution, India
1985 Revolution Hugh Hudson Historical drama Revolution, USA
1986 Salvador Oliver Stone Fiction 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
1996 Michael Collins Neil Jordan Biographical Revolution, Ireland
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 Revolution, Philippines
2000 Lumumba Raoul Peck Biographical Revolution, Congo
2000 The Patriot Roland Emmerich Historical drama Revolution, USA
2002 Bringing Down a Dictator Steve York Documentary Revolution, Serbia
2003 To Kill a King Mike Barker Historical drama Revolution, England
2004 In My Country John Boorman Historical drama Revolution, South Africa
2005 V for Vendetta James McTeigue Drama Revolution
2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley Ken Loach Historical drama Revolution, Ireland
2006 Alatriste Agustín Díaz Yanes Historical drama 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
2019 Ginnen Upan Seethala Anuruddha Jayasinghe Biographical Revolution, Sri Lanka

See also

Bibliography

  1. "History Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film" edited by Marnie Hughes-Warrington (ISBN 9780415353324)
  2. "Revolutionary Film and Propaganda" by Richard Taylor (ISBN 9780748639342)
  3. "Historical Film: A Critical Introduction" by Marcia Landy (ISBN 9780826416724)
  4. "Revolutionary Cinema: The Politics of Film in the Cold War" by S.M. Eisenstein (ISBN 9780415779276)
  5. "History on Film/Film on History" by Robert A. Rosenstone (ISBN 9780321412235)
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