This explores the mysterious and catastrophic collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bronze Age, from the Hittites to the Mycenaeans and the Egyptians, revealing the tumultuous events that brought an end to a thriving era of human history, and warns we may be facing similar threats today.

The Interpreter

2005

English

6.4

♡ 47

57%

destruction of a civilization

Sydney Pollack Director

David Zayas as Charlie Russell

Nicole Kidman as Silvia Broome

Sean Penn as Tobin Keller

Jossara Jinaro as Voice

After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.

On the Silver Globe

1988

Polish

7.1

♡ 11

destruction of a civilization

Andrzej Zulawski Director

Wieslaw Komasa as Aktor

Jerzy Trela as Jerzy

Henryk Bista as Malahuda

Andrzej Seweryn as Marek

A small group of cosmic explorers, including a woman, leaves Earth to start a new civilization. They do not realize that within themselves they carry the end of their own dream. They die one by one, while their children revert to a primitive native culture, creating new myths and a new god.

Shooting Dogs

2005

English

7.6

♡ 2

85%

Action

civil war

destruction of a civilization

Michael Caton-Jones Director

Dominique Horwitz as Capitaine Charles Delon

John Hurt as Christopher

Hugh Dancy as Joe Connor

Nicola Walker as Rachel

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.

Night and Fog

1956

French

8.6

♡ 13

Action

auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

destruction of a civilization

Alain Resnais Director

Michel Bouquet as Narrator

Adolf Hitler as Self

Heinrich Himmler as Self

Julius Streicher as Self

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

Murderers Among Us

1946

German

7.4

♡ 5

83%

destruction of a civilization

Wolfgang Staudte Director

Albert Johannes as Bartolomaeus Timm

Wolfgang Dohnberg as Fritz Knochenhauer

Christian Blackwood as Otto

Hildegard Knef as Susanne Wallner

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apartment in bombed out Berlin. Together the two try to move past their experiences during WWII.