UKRAINE
Kazimierz Wielki (Casimir the Great) (1976) -- a Piast king of Poland (1333-1370) who doubled his country in size (mostly through addition of lands in the Ukraine)
Ogniem i mieczem (With Fire and Sword) (1961) Cossacks vs. Poles; first part of a trilogy set in mid-17th century
Taras Bulba (1962) -- Cossack life in the Ukraine
X Vsadniki (aka Guerilla Brigade; Riders) (1939) -- Ukrainian resistance against Germans in 1918
Arsenal (1928) -- Dovzhenko's "Ukraine Trilogy" (along with Zvenigora and Earth)
Earth (1930) -- collective workers in Ukraine against rich landowner win the day
Italiani brava gente (Attack and Retreat) (1999) -- Italian army up against the Russians at the Battle of the Don during the Stalingrad counteroffensive
The North Star (1943) -- a Ukrainian village under Nazi invasion, June 1941
X Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu vidznakoyu (White Bird with Black Mark) (1971) -- Ukrainian film, set in 1937-1947, where one brother joins the Red Army and another the UPA (Ukrainian insurgent army)
X Shchors (Shors) (1939) -- Russian/Ukrainian film, commissioned by Stalin, about the partisan leader and Ukrainian Bolshevik Nikolai Shchors
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