Soviet Union Movies

During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war...

The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound impact on the other side of the Iron Curtain....

Ilya Kabakov is considered one of the most important contemporary artists worldwide. Born and raised in the Ukraine in the period between Stalin and...

In the fall of 1938, three former fighters of the international brigade — russian Shukhov, frenchman Henri and american Liz — fall into a...

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interrogations, recruitment attempts, recorded and...

Cosmonauts investigate an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. They believe that it might be the remains of a planet. Parallels are drawn to the...

Poetic film about the struggle of man's will and muscles against nature, about the rock-climbers who prevent landslides and eliminate their...

An ongoing experiment, evolving from a biopic about Soviet physicist Lev Landau into a large scale project – part cinematic cycle, part...

Two parents put their child in his crib for the night and leave the room. The child starts crying, and the Cat comes into the room to keep him...

Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life in the five years following the Chernobyl disaster. In children, doctors witnessed a...

Film deals with Stakhanovite movement. Old miners try to sabotage young man's plan to renew methods of getting coal.

Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba.

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: The opening of an electric generating station / Trial of the Socialist Revolutionaries.

Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.

Three friends meet in a central cheerful pastime. After strolling along the boulevards, they are in nature. The dark side of the forest reveals the...

It depicts the establishment of kolkhoz (collective farming) in Bukhara. Poor dehkans are oppressed by bays and emir. One of them, unable to bear the...

Filmmakers Laura Mulvey and Mark Lewis use rare archival footage and interviews with artists, art historians, and museum directors to examine the...

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