The Russian Woodpecker (2015)
• January 31st, 2015 • 1h 20min
Documentary, History
Overview
As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Released on: 2018-06-10
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Leninland
Released on: 2013-11-30
Documentary
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
Russian Ark
Released on: 2002-05-22
Drama, Fantasy, History
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes ...
Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage
Released on: 2015-05-06
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
Released on: 2021-04-14
History, Documentary, Drama
Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and...
Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Released on: 1996-06-14
History, Drama
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and...
Zembla - The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump Part 1: The Russians
Released on: 2017-05-03
Documentary
For months, the FBI have been investigating Russian interference in the American presidential electi...
Reds
Released on: 1981-12-25
Drama, History, Romance
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
Life After People
Released on: 2008-01-21
Documentary
In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other exper...
Europa Europa
Released on: 1990-11-14
History, Drama, War
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...
Andrei Rublev
Released on: 1966-12-16
Drama, History
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
Inside Chernobyl's Mega Tomb
Released on: 2016-12-21
Documentary
Documentary which follows the construction of a trailblazing 36,000-tonne steel structure to entomb ...
Alexander Nevsky
Released on: 1938-11-24
Drama, History, War
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...
Pussy Versus Putin
Released on: 2013-08-30
Documentary, Music
In 2012 two members of anarchistic female band Pussy Riot were sentenced to two years in a Mordovian...
The Spacewalker
Released on: 2017-04-06
Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. ...
Not My Job
Released on: 2015-12-09
Documentary
The documentary follows the life of Farroukh, a young Tajik immigrant who lives in Moscow outskirts ...
Chernobyl Heart
Released on: 2003-08-22
Documentary
This Academy Award-winning documentary takes a look at children born after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclea...
Tripping with Zhirinovsky
Released on: 1995-07-16
Documentary
A candid, fly-on-the-wall BBC television documentary portrait of Russian Nationalist politician, Vla...
The Scarlet Empress
Released on: 1934-05-09
Drama, History, Romance
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...
The Russian Revolution
Released on: 2017-06-15
Documentary, History
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...