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?
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...
When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in E...
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
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 end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet ...
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and ...
Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime...
Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on hi...
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behin...