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.

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

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

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

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...

The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites ...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

Multimillionaire Steven Beard, a retired broadcasting executive, who fell hard for Celeste , an attr...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

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

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

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

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

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

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and...

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