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

Imagine one of the most remote wildernesses in the world. Granddaughter Masha and Vladimir, the prot...

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

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

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

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

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of al...

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

Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nic...

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

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

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

In the summer of 1939, people enjoyed the good weather, ignoring politics and pessimistic prediction...

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

Pre-WWII Czech democratic politician Milada Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist r...

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

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