HUNGARY
c. 858-895 -- High Prince Álmos (first Hungarian leader)
c. 895-907 -- Árpád (led the Magyars into Central Europe)
X Honfoglalás (The Conquest) (1996) – 896 AD, Magyar chief Arpad (Nero) and his seven tribes comes out of the steppes and into the Carpathian basin
997-1038 -- Stefan 1 (last Grand Prince and first King of Hungary)
X Szent Gellért legendája (1994) – 11th century Hungary
X Árpád népe (2006) – 11th century Hungary
X István király (1992) – first king of Hungary, King Stephen (1001-1038)
X István, a király (1984) -- King Stephen of Hungary
1047-1061 -- Andrew I, Árpád dynasty restored; lasted to 1301
X Bánk bán (1987) – 13th century Hungary
1310-1342 -- Charles I, establishes the Angevin dynasty in Hungary; lasts until 1386
1446-1453 -- John Hunyadi serves as regent of Hungary
X The Black Knight (2009) -- General John Hunyadi defends Hungary from the Turks in the mid-15th century
X Ítélet (1970) – 1500s Peasant Revolution in Hungary
1608-1619 -- Matthias II
Bathory (2008) – Countess Elizabeth Báthory (1560-1614) of Hungary, accused serial killer, but rather a modern Renaissance woman
X Die Grafin (The Countess) -- Elizabeth Báthory (in German with German subtitles)
X Csínom Palkó (1973) –1700s Hungarian history
1848-1916 -- Francis Joseph
Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk (Flowers of Reverie) (1984) -- after Russians beat down the 1848-1849 Hungarian revolution, Hungarian soldier wrestles with his accepting a forced enrollment into the Austrian army
X Szegénylegények (The Hopeless Ones; The Poor Outlaws; The Round-Up) (1966) -- after the Kossuth Rebellion, the Hungarian police round up peasants and subjected them to psychological torture
X 80 huszár (80 Hussars) (1978) – Hungarian revolution of 1848-1849
A Hídember (The Bridgeman) (2002) -- story of Istvan Szechenyi, the nineteenth-century Hungarian revolutionary
X Szabadságharc Szebenben (2007) – 1860s Hungary
X A komáromi fiú (1987) – 19th century Hungry
Behind the Iron Curtain:
Tüzoltó utca 25 (25 Fireman's Street) (2004) -- Hungary and trouble with Nazis and the Communists
Csend és kiáltás (Silence and Cry) (1967) -- the rightist police in Hungary track down and kill former Hungarian Red Army soldiers
X Szökés (Escape from Recsk) (1997) -- political Hungarians of the wrong persuasion secretly arrested and sent to labor camp at Recsk
A Tanú (The Witness) (1969) -- satire of Stalinist government in Hungary
Guilty of Treason (1950) -- Cardinal Josef Mindszenty protests against Soviet occupation of Hungary and is persecuted for it
Sunshine (1999) -- three generations of Hungarian Jews from c. 1900 to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
X Szabság, Szabszerelem (Children of Glory) (2006) -- a growing number of Hungarians are demanding independence
X A temetetlen halott (The Unburied Man) (2004) – Imre Nagy (1896–1958) was PM of Hungary; his second term was ended by the Soviet invasion during Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (no English options)
X Liberté '56 (Liberty '56) (2007) -- Hungarian Revolution
X Köszönet a szabadság höseinek (2006) – Hungarian Revolution
X Csendkút (2007) – Hungarian Revolution
X A nap utcai fiúk (2007) -- Hungarian Revolution
X Napló apámnak, anyámnak (1990) -- a young female student grows to adulthood in the shadow of the Hungarian Revolution
X Megáll az idö (Time Stands Still) (1982) -- two brothers during the uprisings of the 1960's in Budapest
No Greater Love (2005) -- a 16 minute short film about the Hungarian refugees following the Hungarian Revolution
X Szabadság tér '56 (56 Freedom Square) (1997) – Hungarian Revolution
X Budakeszi srácok (2006) -- Hungarian Revolution
X Az asszony (1996) – Hungarian Revolution
X The Journey (1959) -- Lady Ashmore is caught in Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution and wants to get into Austria; hidden on the bus is a Hungarian dissenter wanted by the police