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.
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her...
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...
Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodo...
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...
As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in th...
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent...
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...
United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima...
Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hosp...
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journe...
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...
Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, mil...