Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A peasant buys a receiver at the radio shop / Instructions to attach an antenna / A broadcast-station is developed / A concert is broadcast. Though only a third of this final issue of Kino-Pravda seems to survive, there still exists Aleksandr Bushkin’s time-lapse animation and the sequence in which, as Yuri Tsivian describes, “a cross-section of a photographically correct izba (Russian peasant’s log hut) is penetrated by schematically charted radio waves”—a testament to the magical properties and propagandistic uses of radio in reaching out to Russia’s distant peasantry.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A bet is placed on the outcome of the Trial of the S...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Congress of the "Living Church" / Opening of the hor...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: International Youth Day and demonstrations / All-Rus...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions / Delegations a...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Prof...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Arts and crafts exhibition / Actions against hunger ...

The sequel of feature-publicistic film «You Can’t Live Like That». Showing the countrymen charmless ...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Rebuilding ...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Against war / Against Gods / Education / Agitation /...

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

This film shows the leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution. It is the fr...

Dr. Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book a...

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: The opening of an electric generating station / Tria...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel. The first themed issue of Kino-Pravda, devoted to the fifth a...

A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Demonstrato...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries / Motor race ...