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.

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

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

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

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

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...

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: 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...

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

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

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

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

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

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...

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

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes ...

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

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