Movies

Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president,...

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

Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the...

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...

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

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...

A brief overview of Vladimir Lenin's life and the revolutionary ideas that he relied upon to build the Soviet Union.

February 28 is Deniz Gezmiş's birthday… He would have been 75 years old today; but it only lived for 25 years, and in those 25 years, it...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Romanovs that eventually led to the Russian...

Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by...

A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.

A satire on Soviet propaganda based on Mayakovsky's poems.

A guide to human history through its most audacious power grabs. From Julius Caesar to Napoleon; from Mussolini to the strongmen of the present day -...

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on...

Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.

After escaping Russia's communist revolution, Léon Theremin travels to New York, where he pioneers the field of electronic music with his...

The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood...