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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against ...

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

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

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

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

Ten years ago, Volodymyr Zelensky was just one of the many faces on Ukrainian television screens. He...

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

Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba.

Film cameras cruise the Soviet Union's mighty Volga River, providing a view of the Russian people al...