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.

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

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

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

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

The Moscow Case is a 52 minute documentary with never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson in Mosc...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

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...

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

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

The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue...

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