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.
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An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodo...
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A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent...
A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her...
Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, mil...
The defeated remnants of vile Ukrainian nationalists, headed by the leader of the Ukrainian liberati...
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and inc...
The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...
The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet ...