The Soviet Union was a sinister world. Now the Iron Curtain has fallen, and for the first time we can investigate those rumours.

Traces the new Cold War between Russia and the West from the ban on American citizens adopting Russi...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

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

A candid, fly-on-the-wall BBC television documentary portrait of Russian Nationalist politician, Vla...

The Moscow Case is a 52 minute documentary with never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson in Mosc...

Margarita Mamun, an elite Russian rhythmic gymnast, is struggling to become an Olympic champion. It ...

In Northern Russia, a few dozen people still live in their traditional houses surrounded by water, s...

In 2013, Dima Ilukhin, the cousin of the film’s director and a soldier in the Russian army, died on ...

After 20 years of living in Berlin, the director Olga Delane goes back to her roots in a small Siber...

The lifestyle, self-styling and political opinions of Chechen dictator Ramsan Kadyrov are examined i...

This film was broadcast on La Sept in October 1990 as a part of Hélène Mochiri's Cinéma de poche pro...

Kunashir, one of the biggest islands of the Kuril Archipelago, is situated 16 kilometers from Japan....

Twenty-five years after she moved away, Canadian filmmaker Kristina Wagenbauer (a participant in the...

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

Correspondent Nick Schifrin and producer Zach Fannin take us inside Vladimir Putin's Russia, with an...

A documentary about the poisoning of political opponents by Russia. Focuses on specific cases of pol...

Leon Trotsky is considered one of the most controversial revolutionary figures of his time. Was he a...

Alexander Birgukov shot and killed his two commanding officers. He was sentenced to death but when i...

Portrait of a troubled peasant family. The film tells the story of two times widow Anna Belova who l...