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.
In 1955, Albert Maysles traveled by motorcycle throughout Russia. During this trip, he shot what was...
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working ...
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound...
Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodo...
A look inside the Russian assault on Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, told by displaced famil...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
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Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...
President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.
2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...
Personal stories from civilians, children, soldiers, doctors, the country’s elderly, journalists, re...
Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and...
A portrait of the great theatre actor Evgeniy Lebedev.
Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ...
This film examines Trotsky, the revolutionary; venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive ...
Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.
Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
This lesson in political revelation focuses on the shooting down of the Malaysian passenger jet MH17...