GREECE & MACEDONIA

GREEK CITY STATES

Helen of Troy (1956)

The Trojan Horse (1962)

Trojan Women (1972)  --  women after fall of Troy

Troy  (2004)

The Odyssey (1977)

The Odyssey (1997)  TV miniseries   --  based on the return voyage of the Greeks from Troy

Ulysses (1954)

300 Spartans (1962) -- Greek stand against the Persians at Thermopylae

Socrates (1970)  TV  --  last days of Socrates, a philosopher who was a social gadfly in Athens

Barefoot in Athens (1966)  TV  --  Socrates

Alexander the Great (1956) --  the great Mesopotamian empire builder

Alexander the Great (2004)  -- 

PRE-WORLD WAR I GREECE:

Elefterios Venizelos (1980)  --  famed Greek politician of the 1909-1920 period

POST-WORLD WAR II GREECE

Eleni (1985)  --  a grown-up son searches for the murderers of his Greek mother in the Greek Civil War

Petrina Chronia (Stone Years) (1985)  --   1954-1974; a couple is separated by the Greek Civil War

Z (1969) -- 1963 killing of the Greek liberal politician Gregorios Lambrakise

Happy Day (1976)  --  the story of the director’s exile to an island by the Greek military dictatorship

Telos Epochis (End of an Era) (1995)  --  1969-1970 Greece as seen through the eyes of a group of high school seniors

Ap’to Hioni (From the Snow) (1993)  --  1990 Greece as seen through the eyes of travelers heading from Corfu to Athens

Before the Rain (1995)   -- ethnic conflict in Macedonia