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.

The plot follows the events surrounding Vladimir from childhood and into adulthood. In the beginning...

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last gover...

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overt...

A new reading of the historical period that began with the reign of the Catholic Monarchs (1479-1516...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

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

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

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

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

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

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

After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siber...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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