This excellent and breathtaking documentary is the result of a long study on the Gulag to try to understand why more than 60 million Soviet citizens were sent to the camps from 1918 to 1956, how such a massive confinement could take place during two generations. From the Solovki in the north-west to the Kolima in Siberia, from Lenine to Kroutchev, a polar geography is erected into the Gulag system. One does not escape from camps. After ten years of imprisonment, one dies. Some survived, some left traces; they witness: organisation, work and discipline, but also resistance, repression and revolt.

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

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

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

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

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of al...

United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima...

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

Three family cope with having lost their only child in 2008 deadly Chinese earthquake.

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and em...
Poland under Stalinist rule, 1953. A young nun Anna is brought to a prison where an influential prie...

Mosquitos, freezing cold, mysterious taiga. Inhospitable places where thousands of prisoners have su...

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in th...

The defeated remnants of vile Ukrainian nationalists, headed by the leader of the Ukrainian liberati...