Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the 20th century. Following the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Russia faces the venom of Nazi aggression. 1940's film footage reveals the harsh reality of total war, as the Red Army and Soviet civilians alike confront a brutal and tenacious enemy. The following decades are darkened by tensions between the USSR and foreign powers, and violent measures taken to silence voices of dissent. Finally, the Soviet people's yearning for a freer society leads to accelerating reforms and the ultimate dissolution of the USSR.

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

The Moscow Case is a 52 minute documentary with never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson in Mosc...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...
Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union.

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
In 1955, Albert Maysles traveled by motorcycle throughout Russia. During this trip, he shot what was...

Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ...

Documentary movie about testing of the largest nuclear weapon in history, the Tsar Bomba. Declassifi...

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, mil...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

This lesson in political revelation focuses on the shooting down of the Malaysian passenger jet MH17...

Filmmaker Steve York explores the controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, during which c...

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Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...