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...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on hi...

Into an era seething with war and revolution, a man comes with an incredible power to heal a nation....

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 ...

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...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime...

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves ...

In the late 1980s, an era of great hopes and great disasters for Russia, art proved to be a social b...

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and ...

Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behin...