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 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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In Northern Russia, a few dozen people still live in their traditional houses surrounded by water, s...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

A candid, fly-on-the-wall BBC television documentary portrait of Russian Nationalist politician, Vla...

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

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...

Margarita Mamun, an elite Russian rhythmic gymnast, is struggling to become an Olympic champion. It ...

Since her debut at the age of 18, musician, civil rights campaigner and activist Joan Baez has been ...