Movies like 20 Days in Mariupol

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   2000 Meters to Andriivka

   Same director

   2025 · 108 min · Documentary · War

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   Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • the same director
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap

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   Russians at War

   Strong story similarity

   2024 · 134 min · Documentary · War

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   Anastasia Trofimova, a Russian-Canadian filmmaker, gains unprecedented access to follow a Russian Army battalion in Ukraine. Without any official clearance or permits, she earns the trust of foot soldiers and embeds herself over the span of a year with one battalion as it makes its way across Eastern Ukraine. What she discovers is far from the propaganda and labels pushed by the East or West: an army in disarray, soldiers disillusioned and often struggling to understand what they are fighting for.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: russo-ukrainian war and war documentary

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   Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom

   Strong story similarity

   2015 · 98 min · Documentary

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   Over 93 days in Ukraine, what started as peaceful student demonstrations became a violent revolution and full-fledged civil rights movement.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • shared themes: russo-ukrainian war and ukraine
   • substantial genre overlap

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   Inner Wars

   Strong story similarity

   2020 · 68 min · Documentary · War

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   Since the uprising of a pro Russian insurgency in eastern Ukraine in 2014, hundreds of women joined the army. Only a few made it to the front line. Filmmaker Masha embeds herself in the war zone to follow the daily life of three of them. By sharing the intimacy of these fighters, Masha soon becomes a victim of this brotherhood conflict jeopardizing this film and her life.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: russo-ukrainian war and war in ukraine

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   They Shall Not Grow Old

   Similar atmosphere

   2018 · 99 min · Documentary · History · War

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   A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.

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   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • similar audience response

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   The Architects of Hope: The First Steps in Rebuilding Ukraine

   Strong story similarity

   2024 · 75 min · Documentary · War

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   This feature documentary follow 5 architects on their determined journeys to continue building during wartime, as they seek a new people-focused identity for Ukrainian architecture. While Russia continues to turn former Ukrainian cities to dust, Ukraine’s leading architects are already building upwards & advanced new buildings are rising again as symbols of hope.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: documentary and war documentary

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   Region of Heroes

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   2022 · 80 min · Documentary · Drama · War

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   Film reconstruction of five real stories about the heroic deeds of the residents of Kyiv region during the Russian occupation. A story about those who heroically and selflessly saved tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: russo-ukrainian war and ukraine

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   Grandmother Told Grandmother

   Strong story similarity

   2018 · 69 min · Documentary · History · War

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   The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and Soviet fronts in World War II. Spending their childhood as refugees in Europe, these inspiring individuals later immigrated to the United States, creating new homes and communities through their grit, faith and deep belief in the importance of preserving culture.

   Why it connects

   • strong story and style similarity
   • strong genre and movie-style overlap
   • shared themes: russian invasion of ukraine (2022) and ukraine

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   Welcome to Chechnya

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   2020 · 107 min · Documentary

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   This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocity–and an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.

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   • strong story and style similarity
   • substantial genre overlap
   • a closely matched era

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    Father Soldier Son

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    2020 · 99 min · Documentary · War

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    When Sgt. First Class Brian Eisch is critically wounded in Afghanistan, it sets him and his sons on a journey of love, loss, redemption and legacy.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era

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