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?
The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination ...
October 23-26, 2002 – one of the many bloody periods in the modern history of Russia. And the most t...
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine...
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...
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...
When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in E...
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 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...
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behin...
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 ...
A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.
Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...