Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event puts an end to the long dynasty that had ruled the country with an iron hand since the coronation of Michael I Romanov in 1613.
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The inside story of Alexander Litvinenko's murder in London and the subsequent international manhunt...
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In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...
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