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...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hosp...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...

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

A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and em...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...