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

For months, the FBI have been investigating Russian interference in the American presidential electi...

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

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

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

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

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

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...

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

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

Right outside of Moscow – home to the highest number of billionaires pr. capita – you’ll find the la...

Tells the story of how Edward Snowden managed to evade capture by the US. For the first time Snowden...

The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of f...

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

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

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

As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chornobyl nuclear disaste...

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...

Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the ...