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.
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...
During the 18th century, German noblewoman Sophia Frederica, who would later become Catherine the Gr...
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 ...
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
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...
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...