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?
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...
The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on hi...
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and ...
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine...
The peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire recogni...
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behin...
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally ...
Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime...
A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.
The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination ...