The Complete Kubrick: Releasing October 20. Pre-Order Now.
Foreign-Language Oscar Winners

Foreign-Language Oscar Winners

9 Episodes

A cross section of the last seven decades of international cinema, this lineup of past winners of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film includes masterpieces by titans like Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, and Luis Buñuel; hot-button political thrillers ripped from the headlines in Greece and Argentina; high-water marks of the Czechoslovak New Wave; a Soviet epic of unparalleled scale; and, of course, a handful of left-field surprises (it is the Academy Awards, after all). 

Subscribe Share
Foreign-Language Oscar Winners

9 Episodes

  • Rashomon
    1:28:32
    Rashomon
    Episode 1

    Rashomon

    Episode 1

    Directed by Akira Kurosawa • 1950 • Japan
    Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori

    A riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice, RASHOMON is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. Four people give different accou...

  • Through a Glass Darkly
    1:29:56
    Through a Glass Darkly
    Episode 2

    Through a Glass Darkly

    Episode 2

    Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1961 • Sweden
    Starring Harriet Andersson, Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand

    While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family finds its fragile ties tested when daughter Karin (an astonishing Harriet Andersson) discovers her father (Gunnar Björnstrand) has be...

  • 8½
    2:19:11
    8½
    Episode 3

    8½

    Episode 3

    Directed by Federico Fellini • 1963 • Italy

    Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand...

  • WAR AND PEACE: Part 1
    2:27:26
    WAR AND PEACE: Part 1
    Episode 4

    WAR AND PEACE: Part 1

    Episode 4

    ANDREI BOLKONSKY
    Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk • 1966 • Soviet Union

    At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fate...

  • WAR AND PEACE: Part 2
    1:38:01
    WAR AND PEACE: Part 2
    Episode 5

    WAR AND PEACE: Part 2

    Episode 5

    NATASHA ROSTOVA
    Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk • 1966 • Soviet Union

    At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fates...

  • WAR AND PEACE: Part 3
    1:21:40
    WAR AND PEACE: Part 3
    Episode 6

    WAR AND PEACE: Part 3

    Episode 6

    THE YEAR 1812
    Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk • 1967 • Soviet Union

    At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fates o...

  • WAR AND PEACE: Part 4
    1:36:37
    WAR AND PEACE: Part 4
    Episode 7

    WAR AND PEACE: Part 4

    Episode 7

    PIERRE BEZUKHOV
    Directed by Sergei Bondarchuk • 1967 • Soviet Union

    At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet film industry set out to prove it could outdo Hollywood with a production that would dazzle the world: a titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Tolstoy’s classic tome in which the fates...

  • Z
    2:07:12
    Z
    Episode 8

    Z

    Episode 8

    Directed by Costa-Gavras • 1969 • Algeria, France
    Starring Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Irene Papas

    A pulse-pounding political thriller, Greek expatriate director Costa-Gavras’s Z was one of the cinematic sensations of the late sixties, and remains among the most vital dispatches fro...

  • The Tin Drum
    2:43:30
    The Tin Drum
    Episode 9

    The Tin Drum

    Episode 9

    Directed by Volker Schlöndorff • 1979 • Germany
    Starring David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler

    Oskar is born in Germany in 1924 with an advanced intellect. Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, he refuses to grow older after his third birthday. While th...

×