Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?

The extraordinary story of disco queen Donna Summer through a rich archive of unpublished film excer...

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

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Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

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On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated ...

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

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