The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in St. Petersburg, Klushantsev pioneered and invented legendary techniques for filming the planets, stars and weightnessless - long before anyone else. He went on to redefine the science fiction genre and influence the way Hollywood made their science fiction films, including the Academy Award-winning Visual Effects Master, Robert Skotak, a man who spent years trying to track Klushantsev down

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

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

He is a nobleman, and she is a serf. They are not meant to be together. Perhaps this love story woul...

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...

This MGM short film highlights the work of master make-up artist William Tuttle. As the head of MGM'...

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

Correspondent Nick Schifrin and producer Zach Fannin take us inside Vladimir Putin's Russia, with an...

A documentary about the poisoning of political opponents by Russia. Focuses on specific cases of pol...

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A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

Douglas Trumbull does a true deep dive into the making of the movie.

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

Documentary about the life and work of Ray Harryhausen.

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The Moscow Case is a 52 minute documentary with never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson in Mosc...

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

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A documentary about the production of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the people who made it.