From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic results of his perestroika, and Yeltsin, embodying the hopes of the Russian people. Illustrated with interviews of top protagonists such as Mikhail Gobachev himself, the documentary recounts the critical last two years of the former USSR.
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to ...
March 1965. In the heat of the Cold War, the USA and the USSR are competing for supremacy in space. ...
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
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...
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and fac...
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...
The CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an age...
Late 18th-century Joseon dynasty. The King is beleaguered and surrounded by traitors of the ruling e...
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
Highlights boy bands and their rise — and fall — to fame, from The Beatles to Jackson 5 to the Jonas...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...