2020

The Long Breakup

5.5/4

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

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2023

The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

9.3/3

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

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The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History

2019

Namibia: The Story of a German Colony

6/2

Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 to the end of the World War I. The story of the so...

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Namibia: The Story of a German Colony

2004

Disaster at Chernobyl

7.5/13

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 accoun...

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Disaster at Chernobyl

2001

Black Box BRD

6.2/12

Black Box BRD steps back into German history, showing the Federal Republic of Germany of the 70s and 80s. The country is polarized due to the power st...

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Black Box BRD

2008

Аркаим. Стоящий у солнца

6/1

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Аркаим. Стоящий у солнца

2017

Who was Hitler

5.7/3

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, only contemporaries and Hitler himself speak: no inte...

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Who was Hitler

2015

Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage

7.6/9

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes and consequences are examined. In addition, a rep...

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Chernobyl 30 Years On: Nuclear Heritage

2018

Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

8/1

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 wh...

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Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

2017

Napoleon’s James Bond

5.5/2

Charles Louis Schulmeister (1770-1853) was a smuggler and a revolutionary, but also a chief of police and Napoleon Bonaparte's favorite spy. A look ba...

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Napoleon’s James Bond

2007

Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna

10/1

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

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Tolstoy: The Man Behind Anna

2017

100 Years of the UFA

5/1

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and t...

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100 Years of the UFA

2016

Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

5.8/7

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

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Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

2012

This Ain't California

6.4/27

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 wo...

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This Ain't California

2017

In the Turmoil of the Russian Revolution

7.8/5

2017 marks the centenary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century - the Russian Revolution. Using the private journals of Pierre Gill...

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In the Turmoil of the Russian Revolution

2010

My Perestroika

6.4/14

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 US...

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My Perestroika

2024

Kasparov: Chess Rebel

8/5

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

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Kasparov: Chess Rebel

2017

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

3/1

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

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Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

2018

Extinction

6.2/6

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 conf...

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Extinction

2017

The Gutenberg Enigma

7.5/4

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring businessman...

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The Gutenberg Enigma