Thirty-six years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine, newly uncovered archival footage and recorded interviews with those who were present paint an emotional and gripping portrait of the extent and gravity of the disaster and the lengths to which the Soviet government went to cover up the incident, including the soldiers sent in to “liquidate” the damage. Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes is the full, unvarnished true story of what happened in one of the least understood tragedies of the twentieth century.

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Olmany, Terebejov, Gorodnaïa: Three villages in the Stolyn district, Belarus, 200 kilometers from Ch...

Documentary movie about testing of the largest nuclear weapon in history, the Tsar Bomba. Declassifi...

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

Documentary short about the disastrous dangers of aging, ailing dams.

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
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Follows the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019-2020, known as ‘Black Summer’. Burning is an explora...

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Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...
Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against ...

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

In October 2023, a European research team succeeded in generating an enormous amount of energy from ...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...
Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union.

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