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...
When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in E...
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...
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...
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
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...
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...
Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...
Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime...
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally ...
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...
The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination ...
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 ...
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine...