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.
England 1905, a letter from Tzar Nicholas to Lord Bartlett recounts the Bloody Sunday Massacre in Sa...
The children who were sent to Siberia in 1941 have not seen their fathers – in their memories they r...
The year 2011 marked the 70th anniversary of the deportations of June 14 1941, when 15 425 residents...
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
It is the night of March 25, 1949. A full moon hangs over Estonia. Endless rows of cattle cars are w...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Could our mounting modern problems have ancient solutions? Travel to the depths of China to find out...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
From the cabinets of curiosities created in Italy during the 16th century to the prestigious cultura...
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...
This excellent and breathtaking documentary is the result of a long study on the Gulag to try to und...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in E...
Harry Palmer heads a private investigation business based in Moscow. His associates are Nikolai "Nic...
The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who...
Climate change has reached the indigenous Nenets people in the north of Siberia. The nomads' herds o...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes ...
The Flemish painter, humanist and diplomat Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) was fortunate to be recogni...
Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to c...