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.

Between 1930 and 1945, Eastern Europe experienced mass violence on an unprecedented scale. Hitler an...

Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish act...

How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivati...

Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the m...

This film discusses conditions in the Soviet Union, including party activity and influence, the shor...

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...

The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly...

The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA suffered their first ever loss in Games c...

The village of Yahidne in northern Ukraine is coming back to life. Dogs are running around. Gardens ...

With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor M...

A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds ...

How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their ...

Strange images hide in my mother's photo album, snapshots of her youth in Russia inside a colorful y...

Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six wom...

A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the...

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustra...

For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war b...

Documentary footage of late 1950s Russia covers such cities and towns as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Ya...

Analysis of the impact of natural gas - more specifically, the Ukrainian and European dependence on ...