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...
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent...
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her...
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...
Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hosp...
An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in th...
At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journe...
Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, mil...
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted por...
Based on Nicole Valery-Grossu's European best seller autobiographic novel "Bless you, prison", the f...
Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and inc...
About the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsk...
Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six wom...