Dr. Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and fear, set against a backdrop of revolution and violence. The film is what most people remember, but the story of the writing of the book has more twists, intrigue and bravery than many a Hollywood blockbuster. In this documentary, Stephen Smith traces the revolutionary beginnings of this bestseller, to it becoming a pawn of the CIA at the height of the Cold War.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: All-Russian Congress of Trade Unions / Delegations a...

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...

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

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian ...

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and...

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...

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

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

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

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

A film about the struggle of Baltic Fleet sailors for revolutionary Petrograd in the autumn of 1917....

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

During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...