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.

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...

In 1829 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt attempted a russian-siberian expedition. Humboldt trav...

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

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...

Anna, the wife of government minister Alexei Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The era of palace coups in Russia ended with the coronation of a prominent historical figure: Cather...

Really strange documentary of Wheeler Dixon production quality on the Tunguska Event and the possibi...

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

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

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

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...