Soviet Union History Movies
- 1981
Reds
Reds6.91981HD
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical...
- 2007
Katyn
Katyn6.72007HD
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish...
- 2016
The Chosen
The Chosen5.82016HD
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top...
- 2017
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution32017HD
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless...
- 2018
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman72018HD
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental...
- 2012
This Ain't California
This Ain't California6.42012HD
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...
- 2013
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars6.22013HD
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event...
- 2019
I Invite You to My Execution
I Invite You to My Execution72019HD
As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it...
- 2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre6.8572020HD
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...
- 2020
The Long Breakup
The Long Breakup5.52020HD
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties...
- 1921
The History of the Civil War
The History of the Civil War3.31921HD
The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the...
- 1918
Anniversary of the Revolution
Anniversary of the Revolution6.71918HD
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the...
- 2023
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History9.32023HD
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...
- 2024
Kasparov: Chess Rebel
Kasparov: Chess Rebel82024HD
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and charismatic, but also rebellious, favorite son of...
- 2021
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle42021HD
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective...
- 2018
Extinction
Extinction6.22018HD
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...
- 2018
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution82018HD
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...
- 2006
Gulag
Gulag02006HD
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...
- 2016
Woman with an Editing Bench
Woman with an Editing Bench72016HD
Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s...
- 2016
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court5.82016HD
St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential...