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.

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

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

The sequel of feature-publicistic film «You Can’t Live Like That». Showing the countrymen charmless ...

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

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

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

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

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

Only women, children and old people live in this Armenian village, while the men work in Russia. A l...

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

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...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A bet is placed on the outcome of the Trial of the S...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Congress of the "Living Church" / Opening of the hor...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: International Youth Day and demonstrations / All-Rus...

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

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Prof...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Arts and crafts exhibition / Actions against hunger ...

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