Soviet Union Movies

A young boy loses his innocence in a pre-perestroika Russian prison during the chaotic last months of the Khrushchev regime

An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary...

Documentary footage of late 1950s Russia covers such cities and towns as Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, the Black Sea, Kharkov, Sochi, Sukumi, Gori,...

"Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolutionary asylum by President Lazaro Cardenas in...

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is...

The Moscow Case is a 52 minute documentary with never-before-seen footage of Michael Jackson in Moscow during the "Dangerous" tour. This film tells...

In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry...

The Man Without a World is credited to the legendary (and imaginary) 1920s Soviet director, Yevgeny Antinov. But the film is anything but old. In...

A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.

Anhology of surprises and a couple of curiosities made by the brothers Adrián and Ramiro García Bogliano in Cuba, Argentina and Spain.

The long lasting Palestinian-Israeli conflict has created appaling phenomenons that have horrified the Israeli society. the "politically...

Three friends meet in a central cheerful pastime. After strolling along the boulevards, they are in nature. The dark side of the forest reveals the...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large serial killers in the world particularly concentrated...

A documentary about Kim Philby, a British member of MI6 who was in reality a spy and defected to the U.S.S.R.

For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of...

At the beginning of the First World War, Alexander Dragovich went to the front as a teenager. The October Revolution caught the hero in captivity in...

A community of Armenians, refugees from the Soviet Union during the Baku pogroms, live in a deep American province. Baku life, Armenian blood, Soviet...

Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, after a long construction, the last and most...

With breathless pace, Hélène Chatelain ("the woman" in "La Jetée") reconstructs the life of Nestor Makhno from his writings,...