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: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Prof...

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

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

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

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

The story of five lesbian and gay seniors in the Northwest Florida region as they navigate coming ou...

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

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