Baku Media Center

This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow. The very rich oil deposits of the region aroused the covetousness of Hitler who needed the oil from Baku to carry out his program of world domination. His entire campaign of 1942-1943 was aimed at seizing them. But the Soviets and the Allies were determined to prevent him from doing so, by all means, including the most radical, even if it meant wiping the city off the map.

The film "Eternal Mission" tells about the tumultuous fate of the delegation of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic sent to the Paris Peace Conference in January 1919 under the leadership of Alimardan Bey Topchubashov, the Speaker of the Parliament.

The movie is about the mixed relationships between a failed artist and his girlfriend. Returning home after a long period of imprisonment, the father tries to improve his son's life in the most radical ways.

A feature-documentary film “Heritage” dedicated to the activity of Nobel brothers in oil industry Azerbaijan has prepared by Baku Media Center. The aim of the film is to describe the role and significance of Nobel Brothers’ activity in the region and in the development of world oil production, as well as to contribute to highlighting and propaganda of the history of oil production in Azerbaijan. The screenplay features Nobel’s major accomplishments including the creation of the world’s first petrol tanker and storage tanks for storage of oil products, the launch of the first European oil pipeline in Baku, and other similar novelties in the company’s oil industry. At the same time, the film speaks about the growing importance of ‘black gold’ as a geostrategic raw material with the development of oil industry, as well as the geopolitical importance of Azerbaijan in the region and the struggle of giant companies from several continents for Baku oil.

A history written with tears and oil... The life story of the great philanthropist Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.

1945. The women do the work in a remote village while the men are fighting the Nazis. A small group of deserters is hiding in the mountains and little Bahtiyar acts as the liaison between the men and the village.

The feature documentary film dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. The film highlights the events that took place on the last days of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.