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.
Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.
In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write...
Green lights dance across a star-filled sky, and snowflakes sparkle on the trees. It is little wonde...
Film cameras cruise the Soviet Union's mighty Volga River, providing a view of the Russian people al...
The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustra...
A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the...
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is th...
The village of Yahidne in northern Ukraine is coming back to life. Dogs are running around. Gardens ...
Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and...
January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish docto...
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...
The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA suffered their first ever loss in Games c...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
Russia, China and Iran: three former empires are determined to take their revenge and reassert their...
With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor M...
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted por...
A Russian propaganda film produced by Oliver Stone that presents the NATO-American participation con...
A look inside the Russian assault on Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, told by displaced famil...
For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war b...