Stalin

Apocalypse: Stalin

2025

The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.

Dvojí život jedné strany

2025

InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet

2025

Dashing authors, the first porn sites and the last bastards. How the Russian Internet appeared and how it changed: from complete freedom to the appearance of censorship and the law on isolation.

Moskaus Imperium: Alter Traum von Macht und Stärke

2025

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

2025

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, first broadcast in 1989, is a thirteen-part PBS series on the origins and evolution of nuclear competition between the United States and the former Soviet Union. The series examined the rivalry for power and how it shaped the diplomacy, negotiation, ethical debates, and doctrine of deterrence that ran through the forty-year history of the nuclear age. This collection contains the full interviews and selected stock footage from the series.

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

2025

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

Gulag, the Story

2025

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

2025

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 were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.

Iron Curtain: Life Under Soviet Occupation

2025

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II? The story of how, from 1945 until the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, these countries were gradually subjected to the totalitarian Soviet yoke.

The Cuba Libre Story

2025

Recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.

Крушение СССР

2025

Phantom India

2025

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India, originally shown as a miniseries on European television, is infused with his sense of discovery, as well as occasional outrage, intrigue, and joy.

Kekkonen

2025

The whole story of Urho Kekkonen, the most important statesman during Finland's independence.

Communism: History of an Illusion

2025

It started with Lenin and ended with Gorbachev. In this three-part documentary we highlight the people and events that played key roles in the rise of a revolutionary idea and the fall of an empire. How was it possible that this idea could fascinate so many people, including hundreds of intellectuals? How did so many thousands of people put up with suppression, indignity and economic hardship and still remain true to the fundamental concepts of communism?

The Silent War

2025

The story of the underwater war between US, UK and Soviet submarines in the second half of the 20th century.