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Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthias Schoenaerts

A story of a legendary battle, where seventeen fearless warriors defend their land against an army of thousands well-trained soldiers. In...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Ilya Malakov

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Warren Beatty

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sergei Dreiden

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christoph Both-Asmus

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vitaly Mansky

The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ethel Barrymore

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Cédric Tourbe

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mechthild Großmann

The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Morrissey

Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander...

Genre: History

Cast: Sergey Bondarchuk

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Irina Sherbakova

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Katya Soldak

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...

Genre: Documentary

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Liane Rudolph

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gísli Fannar Gylfason

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elsa Lepoivre

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Juliet Stevenson

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sandy Boizard

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christian Gonon

Five young German friends promise to meet again after WW2 ends, but soon their naive wishes of peace and happiness will become a long and tragic...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Volker Bruch

A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jon Hamm

Russia’s War provides an important and in-depth account of the nation’s history throughout the period of Joseph Stalin's rule (1924-53)....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nigel Hawthorne

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Maria Wimmer

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Andrey Rudensky

Russian Empire. The second decade of the twentieth century. As a result of the conflict between the Entente and the bloc of the Central Powers led by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aleksandr Baluev

A German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne, but faces plots and intrigues against her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Ormond

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Dmitriy Zolotukhin

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Yuri Tarasov

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Story is set in deep Russia, on a wild river in woods called "Ugrum-reka" - the Moody river. Son of a dishonest trader, Prohor Gromov wants to become...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georgi Yepifantsev

Explores history through the stories of three major Russian cities: St Petersburg, Volgograd – the former Stalingrad, and Moscow.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Steven Charles

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