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.
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally ...
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...
Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" rev...
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivati...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine...
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet int...
Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six wom...
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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 disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her...