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An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren Beatty

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margarita Terekhova

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andrzej Chyra

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfonso Herrera

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maksim Shtraukh

A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Kai Hillebrand

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Boris Babochkin

Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Katya Soldak

The defeated remnants of vile Ukrainian nationalists, headed by the leader of the Ukrainian liberation movement, Symon Petliura, cannot accept their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mykola Kuchynskyi

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mechthild Großmann

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cédric Tourbe

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gísli Fannar Gylfason

The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and charismatic, but also rebellious, favorite son of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sergueï Jirnov

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frédéric Pierrot

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elsa Lepoivre

Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irina Sherbakova

The end of the Cold War did not bring about a definitive thaw in the former republics of the Soviet Union, so that today there are several frozen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christoph Both-Asmus

Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s...

Genre: History

Cast: Leeanna Walsman

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hervé Pierre

June 1941, during World War II. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler orders the mass abduction of particularly well-bred young children from Poland...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elisabeth Lehmann

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Andrei Alyoshin

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Patrice Chéreau