Soviet Union History Movies

  • 1981
    Reds

    Reds

    Reds

    6.91981HD

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

    Reds
  • 2007
    Katyn

    Katyn

    Katyn

    6.72007HD

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

    Katyn
  • 2016
    The Chosen

    The Chosen

    The Chosen

    5.82016HD

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

    The Chosen
  • 2017
    Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

    Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

    Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

    32017HD

    Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless...

    Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
  • 2018
    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

    72018HD

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

    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
  • 2012
    This Ain't California

    This Ain't California

    This Ain't California

    6.42012HD

    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...

    This Ain't California
  • 2013
    The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars

    The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars

    The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars

    6.22013HD

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

    The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
  • 2019
    I Invite You to My Execution

    I Invite You to My Execution

    I Invite You to My Execution

    72019HD

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

    I Invite You to My Execution
  • 2020
    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

    6.8572020HD

    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...

    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
  • 2020
    The Long Breakup

    The Long Breakup

    The Long Breakup

    5.52020HD

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

    The Long Breakup
  • 1921
    The History of the Civil War

    The History of the Civil War

    The History of the Civil War

    3.31921HD

    The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the...

    The History of the Civil War
  • 1918
    Anniversary of the Revolution

    Anniversary of the Revolution

    Anniversary of the Revolution

    6.71918HD

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

    Anniversary of the Revolution
  • 2023
    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

    9.32023HD

    The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...

    The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
  • 2024
    Kasparov: Chess Rebel

    Kasparov: Chess Rebel

    Kasparov: Chess Rebel

    82024HD

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

    Kasparov: Chess Rebel
  • 2021
    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

    42021HD

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

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
  • 2018
    Extinction

    Extinction

    Extinction

    6.22018HD

    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...

    Extinction
  • 2018
    Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

    Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

    Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

    82018HD

    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...

    Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
  • 2006
    Gulag

    Gulag

    Gulag

    02006HD

    This excellent and breathtaking documentary is the result of a long study on the Gulag to try to understand why more than 60 million Soviet citizens...

    Gulag
  • 2016
    Woman with an Editing Bench

    Woman with an Editing Bench

    Woman with an Editing Bench

    72016HD

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

    Woman with an Editing Bench
  • 2016
    Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

    Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

    Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

    5.82016HD

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

    Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court