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  • Gentle Warriors
    Gentle Warriors

    Original title (in Lithuanan): Švelnūs kariai

    2020 | Documentary | Director: Marija Stonytė

    A girl becomes a warrior in the military- and her own life.

  • Immortal
    Immortal

    Original title in Estonian: Surematu

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Ksenia Ohhapkina

    Born to march to the rhythms of the power, they follow the promise of immortality. The film looks at the making of a Russian citizen from a fresh angle.

  • Blood
    Blood

    2007 | Students film, Short | Director: Jüri Muttika

    The course work of film master's student Jüri Muttika, who, together with screenwriter Piret Sammel, has directed a humorous, but at the same time set in real Estonian society, story about a conscript serving time in the Estonian Defense Forces and his Russian bride, who urgently needs a blood transfusion from her loved one to save the life of her brother injured in the riots, based on the events that became known as Bronze Night.

  • Fortieth War
    Fortieth War

    Original title: Neljakümnes sõda

    2005 | Documentary | Director: Andres Sööt

    Documentary by Andres Sööt about the Narva Battalion. The greatest value of the battalion was the Estonian men who volunteered to the Estonian Legion in the autumn of 1942.

  • Meie
    Meie

    2000 | Documentary | Director: Renita Lintrop, Hannes Lintrop

  • The State Elder, Part II
    The State Elder, Part II

    Original title: Riigivanem II

    1991 | Documentary | Director: Mark Soosaar

  • Auvahtkond
    Auvahtkond

    1987 | Documentary | Director: Illis Vets

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1962 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Reet Kasesalu

  • Nõukogude Eesti
    Nõukogude Eesti

    1957 | Newsreels, Newsreel 1940 II half-1991 | Director: Viktor Nevežin

  • Birth of Estonia's Independence
    Birth of Estonia's Independence

    Title in Estonian: Eesti iseseisvuse sünd

    1950 | Amateur films, Newsreel | Director: Harald Perten

    Documentary by Harald Perten about the birth of the Republic of Estonia.

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