Definitively proving that all the "B" Science Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s do not hold a candle to the 'real thing,' Pavel Medvedev's surreal 45 minute documentary Ascension is certainly one to look for. Composed entirely out of archival footage, much of it from the Soviet science and space archives, delicately scored and building to an undeniable mood of surreal (perhaps even ominous) energy, it charts (and re-purposed) the progress of man into to the unknown area of space exploration with a flair for creating art out film that was shot by scientists and engineers as a mundane record.
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is th...
The inside story of SpaceX's plan to get humanity to Mars, providing an unprecedented glimpse into o...
A documentary, originally produced for Dutch television, on the life and works of Osip Mandelstam (1...
When the first manned flight to Venus returns to Earth, the rocket crash-lands in the Mediterranean ...
A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist time...
Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of Apollo 8, the first manned mission to the m...
After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by th...
The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly...
For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war b...
In the 22nd century, scientists from an energy-depleted Earth research new fuel sources in the far c...
In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close b...
This FitzPatrick Miniature visits the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the largest geogra...
As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a ...
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...
The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.
Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals...
Filmmakers Laura Mulvey and Mark Lewis use rare archival footage and interviews with artists, art hi...
Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Uni...
A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...
Two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other are transported to the planet Pluke in the Kin-dz...