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.

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

Filmmaker Steve York explores the controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, during which c...
Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against ...

The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound...

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write...

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...

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented...

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

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

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

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

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

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

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

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of ...

Alyona, Alika and Katya dream of love and friendship, but most of all of leaving Putin’s Russia. Whe...

On the eve of Russia's war against Ukraine, a Russian journalist from a pro-Kremlin TV channel bring...