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- DirectorAndrzej WajdaStarsSerge MerlinAlina JanowskaElzbieta KepinskaDuring the Nazi occupation, Jewish prisoner Jakub Gold is released from jail and works as a gravedigger in the Warsaw ghetto. Although he manages to escape and keeps hiding in private apartments, he tries to get back to the ghetto.
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDavid NivenKim HunterRobert CooteA British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
- DirectorUldis BraunsBiruta VeldreLaima ZurginaAn emotional and visually attractive portrait of timeless moments in human life. 235 000 000 was made on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution. Without any commentary, allowing images to speak for themselves to music.
- DirectorDarin J. SallamStarsKaram TaherAshraf BarhomAli SulimanA 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home.
- DirectorJan RybkowskiStarsAndrzej LapickiBeata TyszkiewiczJadwiga ChojnackaAn unlikely couple - a Polish concentration camp inmate and a young German girl - stick together and try to survive the RAF bombing of Dresden in February 1945.
- DirectorVladimir DenisenkoStarsAnatoliy SokolovskiyViktor MalyarevichNikolay OleynikThe story is set in a small village during the German occupation of Ukraine. When one of the local partisans kills a German officer, the occupants vow to kill the whole village if the perpetrator is not found and delivered to them.
- DirectorRobert BressonStarsFrançois LeterrierCharles Le ClaincheMaurice BeerblockA captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.
- DirectorArdak AmirkulovStarsDokhdurbek KydyraliyevTungyshpai ZhamankulovBolot BeyshenalievThis historical epic charts political intrigue among the Kipchaks, a confederation of tribes on the steppes of central Asia, before they were overrun by Genghis Khan.
- DirectorArdak AmirkulovStarsDokhdurbek KydyraliyevRaikhan AitkozhanovaJanel MakazhanovaTanabay is a proud Kazakh war hero and loyal Communist who is pressured into taking a position as a herdsman in a collective farm after WWII. The pride and joy of the collective is a beautiful stallion named Gulsary. After Gulsary wins a race, the new commissar of the collective lays claim to the beloved and headstrong horse, which leads to a battle of wills. Tanabay and Gulsary are both punished and separated for their refusal to bend to the rules.
- DirectorWalter HeynowskiGerhard ScheumannReconstruction of the last hours in the presidential palace La Moneda during the coup d'état in Santiago de Chile in 1973. Salvador Allende enters his office on September 11th at 7.30 in the morning. In the early afternoon he leaves it - wrapped in a blanket, dead.
- DirectorJean-Pierre MelvilleStarsLino VenturaPaul MeurisseJean-Pierre CasselAn account of underground resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied France.
- DirectorEmile de AntonioMary LampsonHaskell WexlerStarsBill AyersKathy BoudinEmile de AntonioIt's the mid 1970s and the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), a radical (and violent) offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society, explains to leftist filmmakers the difficulties and experiences of being underground and wanted by the federal government.