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 |
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 |
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