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.

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

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

Documentary - This 1982 film explains the KGB infiltration of America. Who they are, what they are d...
Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ...
In 1955, Albert Maysles traveled by motorcycle throughout Russia. During this trip, he shot what was...

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

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

The Russians are interested in us. There is a great concern that the British State has been compromi...

The film tells about the birth of a new wave in the USSR under a strict political regime and about t...