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.

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

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

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...

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

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

A revealing and moving portrait of lives compromised by war, filmed exclusively by Ukrainian soldier...

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

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

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

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

The Russians are interested in us. There is a great concern that the British State has been compromi...
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...
Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against ...

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly i...

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

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish docto...

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

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on ...