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

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

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

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

The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early...

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

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes ...

Documentary about the life and work of Ray Harryhausen.

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...

From Star Wars to Jedi: The Making of a Saga is a 1983 television documentary special that originall...

Margarita Mamun, an elite Russian rhythmic gymnast, is struggling to become an Olympic champion. It ...

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

Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation....

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hosp...

Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, expe...

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

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

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...

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

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and...