Top 100 Best Films about Nagorno-Karabakh War
Movies about Nagorno-Karabakh War: Khojaly Genocide. The destruction of Aghdam. Invasion of Azerbaijani lands. Millions of exiled refugees. Aghdaban massacre.
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- DirectorCeyhun MirzäyevStarsCeyhun MirzäyevMälik DadashevHaci IsmayilovThe film based loosely on the Nagorno-Karabakh War and Khojaly Genocide. The movie also includes scenes from Khojaly Genocide documentary by Chingiz Mustafayev.
- DirectorElkhan JafarovStarsMemmed SefaRza RzayevElvin AhmadovThe film based on Agil Abbas's novel about Nagorno-Karabakh War.
- DirectorElchin MusaogluStarsFatemah Motamed-AriaVidadi EliyevRamil ZeynalovAn elderly couple confront the ravages of war in their poverty-stricken village.
- DirectorVagif MustafayevStarsYasar NuriyevEldäniz ZeynalovCahangir AslanogluThe events occur during the Armenian-Azerbaijanian/Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Because of a corpse in a zinc coffin with an arguable address two families get excited. Having cut the lid off the coffin for identification of a dead soldier they find out that he is not Azerbaijanian but Armenian - former dweller of Baku.
- StarsAnar UsubovThe story of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict through the eyes of 8-year-old Anar Usubov, a boy from the town of Khojaly. The film opens during the collapse of the Soviet Union and chronicles the tragedies of the war and its aftermath. The film features moving interviews and straightforward historical facts to educate world audiences about the continuing conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
- DirectorOruc QurbanovStarsNushaba AbdullayevaKonstantin ArtyomovTajir AzizovThe movie is about Khojaly Genocide.
- DirectorEldar KuliyevStarsGyuliar NabiyevaGurban IsmailovVidadi EliyevDuring the late 1980s and early 1990s the Armenian minority in Nagorono-Karabakh attempted to break away from Azerbaijan, one of the former Soviet republics. Overnight these former neighbors became enemies, and simple village folk were suddenly made hostages in a complex power game. One of the Azerbaijani villages right on the border is home to the family of the peasant farmer Kerim, who has just been captured by the Armenians. The village council decides to take an Armenian in order to arrange a hostage exchange. They imprison the wounded man in the barn next to Kerim's house, where his wife and three children desperately await the husband's return. The captive from the other side of the border finds himself in exactly the same situation - he, too, has three children, he finds it hard to scrape a living together, he has never done anything to harm anyone and, like Kerim, he just wants to go back home. But life in Karabakh is far more complex now. Blood calls for blood.
- DirectorElkhan QasimovStarsAyan MirkasimovaParvaz IbrahimliOmur NagiyevInspired by true story which is genocid comitted by armenia against unarmed innocent Azerbaijani people who lived in Khojali 1992 25-26 february. Story tells about the refugee life of a kid and his pregnant mother in Baku which is capital of Azerbaijan. Zakir Qasimov following kid has great voice, and life made him grow up at early ages for making money. You can see the hard days of this familiy during the movie, among this hard days the voice of Zakir is only way out. At last he won song contest, but he chose different way to continue his life.
- The photo-documentary about Aghdam's destruction by Armenian military.
- DirectorVahid MustafayevStarsTelman AliyevAzer AydemirNigar BahadirqiziThe film on the Khojaly tragedy, tells the story of a young officer, unfolding against the backdrop of the terrible events of February 1992. The film immediately attracted the attention of the country. On the day of the premiere halls were crowded with spectators, whose flux has not subsided to this day.
- StarsSimon ReeveNagorno-Karabakh, Armenia and Azerbaijan Azerbaijan and Armenia became independent after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but a mountainous area of Azerbaijan called Nagorno-Karabkh (NK) triggered war. Historically it was mainly Armenian Christian, and when it wanted its own independence, Armenian troops helped the Karabkh army push Azeris out. Azerbaijan is still officially at war over NK, and Simons journey starts in Azerbaijan on the frontline overlooking NK; he sprints across open ground to avoid sniper fire. Thousands of people fled during the war. Simon finds Azeri children and the elderly still living in rusty train carriages in a siding. Everywhere Simon goes there are reminders of the war. Everyone mentions it, including the countrys top pop star a crack-shot with an AK-47. Simon heads to NK, but the border with Azerbaijan is closed. A massive detour takes him across the border into Georgia, over stunning snowy mountains into Armenia, then south over icy mountain passes into NK. Inside the breakaway state he finds bombed-out villages and abandoned buildings, and Christians who view Muslims with suspicion and fear. In a village locals walk through a minefield in front of him. Despite mines and war, Simons guide tells him NK would have the worlds highest longevity rate if recognized as a state. A graveyard contains endless people aged more than 100, and there is a suggestion of a live 120-year-old. Simon travels to the NK frontline trenches with Azerbaijan. Very few people go from one side to the other; Simon reflects on the stalemate, and the unlikely prospect of peace. The programme finishes at a wedding where the electricity has died. Luckily, bride and groom emerge into the light to a rapturous reception.