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...

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

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

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

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

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

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

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

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...

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

Poland under Stalinist rule, 1953. A young nun Anna is brought to a prison where an influential prie...

The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet ...

About the first years of the formation of Soviet power, about the life and work of Feliks Dzerzhinsk...

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