Russian History Movies

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the...

Russian Dramedy

Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in...

An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.

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

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

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

When Richard Marlow buys a taxidermy hare from an old antiques shop, he inadvertently draws the attentions of a sinister Russian warlock - on the...

A short film by Barry Lowe and Dino Mahoney, starring Pauline Burton as Anna. The film is an introduction to the great Soviet era modernist poet,...

October 23-26, 2002 – one of the many bloody periods in the modern history of Russia. And the most terrible days for people whose relatives and...