St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov.

In 2021, an extreme heatwave gave rise to huge wildfires in the vast subarctic forests of Sakha, a n...

The life and death of Grigori Efimovich Rasputin.

The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination ...
After 20 years of wandering taiga weather stations searching for a suitable place for having a life,...

The incredible life of Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): son of a republican intellectual; exiled in the ea...

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but ...

The 14th of June 1941, Soviet-occupied Latvia: Without warning, the authorities break into the house...

A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to c...

Imagine one of the most remote wildernesses in the world. Granddaughter Masha and Vladimir, the prot...
Captain Kleinschmidt leads an expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Museum to the arctic regions of A...

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

Captured by the Red Army during World War II, Hungarian soldier András Toma was admitted to a Soviet...

In the middle of the Siberian taiga, 450 miles from the nearest village, live two families : the Bra...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

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

In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who th...