Best Serbian history movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch history films from Serbia, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Dara of Jasenovac

    Dara of Jasenovac 2020

    During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".

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  • Poster for Toma

    Toma 2021

    Biopic about Serbian folk singer Toma Zdravković, the man who is remembered not only for his songs and unique way he was singing them, but also as a bohemian, both in his behavior and his soul.

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  • Poster for Montevideo, God Bless You!

    Montevideo, God Bless You! 2010

    A story about one team that decides to follow a dream that takes them on a journey to the First World Football Championship in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1930. A dream that allows them to become true stars and living legends.

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  • Poster for The Long Road to War

    The Long Road to War 2018

    We all learned in schools that the WWI began with the assasination of Franz Ferdinand done by a young Bosnian Gavrilo Princip. In fact, the war was brewing much longer.

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  • Poster for King Petar the First

    King Petar the First 2018

    The story of the Serbian army, led by the King Peter, through the World War I.

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  • Poster for We Will Be the World Champions

    We Will Be the World Champions 2015

    The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970, is based on real events and is dedicated to personalities who have contributed to the emergence and development of basketball in their country.

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  • An Early Frost 2010

    Dramatization of a story of Vasa Ladački, inspired by the famous Balašević song. The story of a man who didn't have the courage to stand for the one he loved.

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  • Poster for Vera

    Vera 2022

    Vera has young woman as the main heroine, who is in the jaws of the war spy network in WW2 and also of the patriarchal society in the Balkans with full of powerful, arrogant men with whom she deals bravely and arrogantly.

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  • Poster for Where the Yellow Lemon Blooms

    Where the Yellow Lemon Blooms 2006

    By the end of 1915, during the second half of World War I, which had started by the Austro-Hungarian Empire's attack on a small Kingdom of Serbia, Serbian people, its army, and the state found themselves in the greatest tribulation in its long history. Serbia is attacked by the combined militaries of Austro-Hungarian Empire, Germany, and Bulgaria. Defending every road, every hill, every creek, during the time when every village, every plato, every crossing was becoming a historical landmark, Serbia, relying on the Allies, moved its people, its government, and its remaining troops to Kosovo--the only unoccupied part of the Serbian territory, but soon had to cross Albania in the hopes of reaching the Allies' ships in the Mediteranian.

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  • Poster for You Leave, I Won't!

    You Leave, I Won't! 2015

    Story about the suffering of the Serbian people on Kosovo and Metohija based on Metropolitan Amfilohio's book "The Chronicle of the New Kosovo Crucifixion".

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  • Bullets Over Marseille 2021

    The film follows the trial of terrorists Zvonimir Pospišil, Mijo Kralj and Ivan Rajić, accomplices of the assassin Vlado Georgiev Chernozemski, who killed King Alexander of Yugoslavia and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Louis Barthou, on October 9. 1934 in Marseille, France.

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  • Poster for The Name of the People

    The Name of the People 2020

    Life of Serbian patriot and intellectual Svetozar Miletic and his family in a fight to free Serbian people from Austria-Hungary.

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  • Poster for The Heroes

    The Heroes 2022

    A story set in the Middle Ages about a warrior knight who survived the historic Battle of Kosovo in 1389. Along the way, he meets a wild boy, all alone. And they continue this journey together. This man is a personification of all small heroes, that no songs are sang about.

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  • Poster for The Principality of Serbia

    The Principality of Serbia 2008

    The main plot of the film "The Principality of Serbia" was put in the first seven decades of the nineteenth century when the state was being formed and strengthened together with its historical fate. This film shows the Serbs as people who fought during the two Risings while trying to liberate by themselves hardly and for a long time. It also shows how they hardly got the recognition to their liberty and the international recognition to the right to have their own state.

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  • Poster for For the King and Fatherland

    For the King and Fatherland 2015

    The film is picturing the faith of the old Serbian warrior Milisav Janjic, who fought against the German occupation in the Second World War as a member of the "Ravnogorski pokret". The storyline narrates his memories of the past and the war events in the spring of 1941 interwoven with the contemporary moments, the author features the attack of fascist Germany, the April war and the fall of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the misfortune placed upon the Serbian people, loss of freedom, birth of the freedom movement in Serbia and one Serbian soldier, who after 70 years of expatriation in America returns to his homeland.

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  • Poster for The Kingdom of Serbia

    The Kingdom of Serbia 2008

    A documentary re-enactment of the last few hundred years in Serbian history.

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  • Poster for The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Vožd Karađorđe

    The Life and Deeds of the Immortal Vožd Karađorđe 1911

    A biography of Karađorđe, the famed leader of the rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in 1804, tracing his whole life from childhood until his death in 1817.

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  • Poster for The Duke and the Poet

    The Duke and the Poet 2023

    While a deadly conspiracy was plotted against him to thwart the liberation of Serbia from the Ottoman rule, the Serbian Duke, in love with his much younger cousin, is torn between his sense of duty and his feelings. This historical thriller – romance is based on real events.

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  • Poster for A Cross in the Desert

    A Cross in the Desert 2022

    Pious girl Paraskeva became Saint after spending 40 years of her life in Jordan desert fighting temptations, sins and inner demons.

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  • Poster for The Path Covered in Roses

    The Path Covered in Roses 2013

    Life path of Serbian princess Olivera, youngest daughter of King Lazar and Queen Milica, which is given as a peace offer to Sultan Bajazit's harem.

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  • Poster for Trail of the Beast

    Trail of the Beast 2022

    An aspiring journalist in Communist Yugoslavia, sets out on a journey to investigate a brutal murder in rural countryside.

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  • Poster for Besieged

    Besieged 2022

    Serbia, autumn 1942, The SS has dispatched 200 men to the mountains to flush-out Commander Nikola Kalabic after receiving intelligence from a local informer of his whereabouts. The commander is accompanied by an elite unit of his Royal Mountain Corp troops.

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  • Poster for Spring on the Last Lake

    Spring on the Last Lake 2020

    The film follows the celebrated writer and Nobel prize winner Ivo Andrić during WWII, when diplomats and diplomatic staff from Yugoslav missions from countries occupied by the Third Reich, including Andrić, who was ambassador of the Yugoslav diplomatic mission in Berlin, were deported to a hotel on Lake Constance.

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  • Hand of Justice 2025

    Blagoje Jovović, a war hero, after World War II moves to Buenos Aires. There he tries to lead a normal life, but an encounter with a man with ustasha tattoo brings up old wounds and desire for vengeance.

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  • Poster for The Children of Kozara

    The Children of Kozara 0

    Based on the novel of Arsen Diklić which describes the horror’s of concentration camp Jasenovac.

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  • Poster for Prince Rastko of Serbia

    Prince Rastko of Serbia 2021

    The story of the life of a Serbian prince Rastko Nemanjić - Saint Sava.

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