Leonid Brezhnev

The Cars We Drove into Capitalism (2021)

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; t ...

1979: Big Bang of the Present (2019)

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The ...

The Spy Who Fell to Earth (2019)

Based on Dr. Ahron Bregman's book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian billionaire and double agent. ...

Going to Hell (2019)

A documentary film exposing the truth about psychics and fortune-tellers. All the ins and outs of magical TV shows and services of the most famous psychics with evidence, names and prices. ...

Agnelli (2017)

Documentary about the life of Giovanni "Gianni" Agnelli, an influential Italian industrialist and principal shareholder of Fiat. ...

Burden of the Gypsies (2016)

A film about the life of the Roma people, the most closed ethnic group today. Influential thieves' clans, barons and drug lords, early marriages, artists on stage and in life, anti-Roma riots in Europe and Roma riots in Russia - the whole truth about the p ...

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)

The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania. ...

Space Sailors (2010)

They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women. Salt-of-the-earth, strapping young men, model husbands, who believed in communism with all their hearts. Bright futures lay ahead of them. In the n ...

Disco and Atomic War (2009)

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular cult ...

:03 from Gold (2002)

The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA suffered their first ever loss in Games competition, was one of the most controversial events in the history of both the Olympics and basketball. ...

Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team (2002)

At the Winter Olympics of 1980, after two tense weeks amidst growing Cold War fears, the U.S. Olympic hockey team found themselves playing improbably against the legendary unbeatable Soviet Army hockey team for Olympic Gold. From the live footage taken at ...

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 (1996)

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 20th century. Following the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Russia faces the venom of Nazi aggr ...

Case of Joseph Brodsky (1991)

A 23-year-old man was tried for choosing poetry as his life's work. His poems and translations were professional. Many people thought so, but not literary officials. It was published sparingly. But in his place could be any talented or simply capable young ...

Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House (1991)

A special that takes a look inside the White House. ...

O Sport, You Are Peace! (1981)

A 1981 documentary film directed by Yuri Ozerov. It showed the opening and closing ceremonies of the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow. The director was awarded the State Prize of the USSR in 1982. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best ...

Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)

About the difficult political situation in the world related to the arms race. ...

The Story of the Communist (1976)

A Soviet biographical documentary devoted to Leonid I. Brezhnev, portraying his life "at work and at home" and tracing his path from the son of a metalworker to General Secretary of the CPSU and Marshal of the Soviet Union. ...

The Society of the Spectacle (1974)

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society. ...

Venceremos, solidaridad (1973)

Anonymous short documentary released immediately after the Chilean military coup of 1973. It recapitulates the presidency of Salvador Allende which was terminated by the military coup that assassinated him and installed a dictatorship. The documentary capt ...

Czechoslovakia 1968 (1969)

Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images. ...

Urho Kekkonen - valtiomies, presidentti (1967)