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?
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...
When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in E...
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...
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 ...
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally ...
A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine...
The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination ...
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...