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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

Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts

A story of a legendary battle, where seventeen fearless warriors defend their land against an army of thousands well-trained soldiers. In...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ilya Malakov

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 ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sergey Dreyden

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vitaly Mansky

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages....

Genre: Documentary

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The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Morrissey

2017 marks the centenary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century - the Russian Revolution. Using the private journals of Pierre...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marie-Cécile Lucas

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes and consequences are examined. In addition, a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vladimir Usatenko

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ethel Barrymore

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

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

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 shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexey Smirnov

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

A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vladimir Purishkevich

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

Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Volker Bruch

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Andrey Rudensky

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Dmitriy Zolotukhin

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Yuri Tarasov

Russian Empire. The second decade of the twentieth century. As a result of the conflict between the Entente and the bloc of the Central Powers led by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aleksandr Baluev

A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jon Hamm

Russia’s War provides an important and in-depth account of the nation’s history throughout the period of Joseph Stalin's rule (1924-53)....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christian Gonon

Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georgi Yepifantsev

A Prussian princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Ormond

Genre: Documentary

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Explores history through the stories of three major Russian cities: St Petersburg, Volgograd – the former Stalingrad, and Moscow.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steven Charles

Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Documentary

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Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Maria Wimmer