The Rise of ISIS

IMDB: 7.6/10

FRONTLINE investigates the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. As part of a special FRONTLINE series, correspondent Martin Smith reports from Iraq on how the country began coming undone after the American ...

Zeitgeist

IMDB: 8.1/10

Mythology and belief in society today, presenting uncommon perspectives of common cultural issues.

Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (AKA: The Baader Meinhof Complex)

IMDB: 7.3/10

A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings, and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

IMDB: 8.7/10

In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.

Jariskatsis mama (AKA: Father of a Soldier)

IMDB: 8.3/10

An old man goes to visit his wounded son in a hospital, but it turns out that he's already been released and is back on the front lines. Reluctant to return home empty-handed, he tries to follow and find him.

9 rota (AKA: 9th Company)

IMDB: 7.1/10

A group of Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late-1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.

Carlos

IMDB: 7.6/10

The story of Venezuelan revolutionary Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, who founded a worldwide terrorist organization and raided the 1975 OPEC meeting.

Vals Im Bashir (AKA: Waltz with Bashir)

IMDB: 8.0/10

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.