In Northern Russia, a few dozen people still live in their traditional houses surrounded by water, stone, and sand. Cut off from vital infrastructure, almost forgotten by regional governance, these people have to cope with their everyday struggles.

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

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

After the Cold War, a breakaway Russian republic with nuclear warheads becomes a possible worldwide ...

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

Smilla Jaspersen attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apar...

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

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...
General arrives in Baden-Baden with his stepdaughter Polina and his mother, seeking social standing ...

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...

The lifestyle, self-styling and political opinions of Chechen dictator Ramsan Kadyrov are examined i...

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a...

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

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to me...

Imagine one of the most remote wildernesses in the world. Granddaughter Masha and Vladimir, the prot...

A story of survival about a woman's first night in a Soviet prison camp. After committing a crime to...

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes ...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
Captain Kleinschmidt leads an expedition sponsored by the Carnegie Museum to the arctic regions of A...