In the Turmoil of the Russian Revolution (2017)
• October 28th, 2017 • 0h 0min
Documentary, TV Movie
Overview
2017 marks the centenary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century - the Russian Revolution. Using the private journals of Pierre Gilliard, tutor to the Romanov children, this film is an intimate and eye-opening account of the Russian Imperial family in those days of turmoil. How did they get through their days? How did they perceive their lives as their world crumbled around them?
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
Released on: 2016-12-10
Documentary, History, TV Movie
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...
Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna
Released on: 2007-04-24
Documentary, History
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...
The Russian Revolution
Released on: 2017-06-15
Documentary, History
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage
Released on: 2015-05-06
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Released on: 2021-04-27
Documentary, History
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Released on: 2018-06-10
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Putin's Witnesses
Released on: 2018-11-08
Documentary, History
Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime...
Frenemies: Putin and Trump
Released on: 2020-03-17
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on hi...
My Perestroika
Released on: 2010-01-24
Documentary, History
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behin...
Ivan the Terrible
Released on: 2014-04-05
Documentary, History
Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
Released on: 2023-11-24
Documentary, History
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Released on: 2020-02-18
Documentary, History, TV Movie
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
Disaster at Chernobyl
Released on: 2004-01-01
Documentary, History, TV Movie
The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination ...
Kasparov: Chess Rebel
Released on: 2024-08-18
Documentary, History, TV Movie
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Released on: 2013-09-01
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally ...
The Long Breakup
Released on: 2020-10-24
Documentary, History
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine...
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Released on: 2017-10-10
Documentary, History
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...
The History of the Civil War
Released on: 1921-06-01
Documentary, History
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...
Viktor Shklovsky and Roman Jakobson: Life is a Novel
Released on: 2009-07-01
Documentary
A two-part documentary about the fraught relationship between Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky and ém...