French Revolution Movies
- 1897
Death of Marat
Death of Marat4.41897HD
This early film made by Georges Hatot for the Lumière Company is a brief single shot-scene of the assassination of the French revolutionary...
- 1937
Song of Revolt
Song of Revolt61937HD
This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
- 2018
1789 -Lovers of the Bastille-
1789 -Lovers of the Bastille-02018HD
A beautiful love story that bloomed in Paris and scattered in the Bastille. France at the end of the 18th century, where the populace struggled with...
- 1981
Lenin in Paris
Lenin in Paris3.81981HD
- 2008
Charlotte Corday
Charlotte Corday62008HD
Set in July 1793 during the outbreak of the French Revolution and the unleashing of the Reign of Terror, a young girl from Caen named Charlotte...
- 1985
Die Gänse von Bützow
Die Gänse von Bützow01985HD
- 1907
On the Barricade
On the Barricade5.11907HD
During the Paris Commune, a boy runs across trouble at the barricade.
- 1989
Reunion in Travers
Reunion in Travers01989HD
The time is the French Revolution; the place is the village of Travers, ensconsed in neutral Switzerland. Prussian aesthete Herman Beyer is on the...
- 1978
Amours sous la révolution: André Chénier et la jeune captive
Amours sous la révolution: André Chénier et la jeune captive01978HD
- 2015
Louis XVI: The Unknown Versailles
Louis XVI: The Unknown Versailles02015HD
Stéphane Bern tells the story of King Louis XVI, deposed by the revolution and guillotined on January 21st, 1793. He was a cultured man,...
- 1989
J'écris dans l'espace
J'écris dans l'espace5.51989HD
- 1950
1848
184801950HD
The film explains the French Revolution of 1848. Bernard Blier's narration is supported by pictures once drawn by contemporary artists including...
- 1916
Madame Guillotine
Madame Guillotine51916HD
“Madame Tallien” (1916) depicts the libertine life and loves of the eponymous decadent aristocrat, an important activist who was ahead of...
- 1912
La cassette de l'émigrée
La cassette de l'émigrée01912HD
- 2009
The Sleepy Revolution
The Sleepy Revolution02009HD
In the eighteenth century the mystical midnight hour disappeared and the modern night was born. We now aim to keep sleep at an efficient minimum, but...
- 1977
One Day Before Our Era
One Day Before Our Era71977HD
Montage of still photos with lighting effects.
- 2019
Sur les pas de Robespierre
Sur les pas de Robespierre02019HD
- 2016
Robespierre
Robespierre02016HD
A still drawing film on the personality of Robespierre and the French Revolution.
- 1971
The Scarlet Sail of Paris
The Scarlet Sail of Paris31971HD
Virtually unseen since its Soviet television broadcast in 1971, the film, Peter Rollberg writes, is “devoted to the anniversary of the Paris...
- 1969
Le Soulèvement de la jeunesse Mai 68
Le Soulèvement de la jeunesse Mai 6801969HD
Maurice Lemaître had the ambition to make a really creative film about the revolt of May 68. For this, he did not renounce any of his filmic...