The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An account of the sixty critical minutes prior to the explosion of the nuclear power plant on the night of April 26, 1986.

A story about the clash of two cultures, two worlds - traditional Tajik culture and the new, invadin...

A chronicle of the civil uprising against the regime of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych that t...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

Set in the 16th century, this is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to defe...

A documentary portrait of legendary Perfect Ten gymnast Nadia Comaneci after becoming an icon in the...

Documents the cultural and ecological impacts of coal stripmining, uranium mining, and oil shale dev...
The title is a reference to the Book of Isaiah 42:6, “I, the LORD, have called thee in righteousness...

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subje...

A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainia...

When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijack...

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...

This mountain region that reaches across several countries in Eastern Europe is the home to gold dig...

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, mil...

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...

The sad story of a drunken athlete.
Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Alb...