Roman Karmen

Grenada, Grenada, My Grenada (1975)

The Spanish Civil War—newsreels filmed by Roman Karmen in 1937–38—was a defining experience: faces at war, privately witnessed trembling moments, the concrete reality of suffering, and indescribable anguish. Those images form the basis of the film, b ...

Blazing Continent (1972)

Roman Karmen's documentary on the political turmoil of 1970s Latin America. ...

Двадцать пятый сентябрь (1969)

Comrade Berlin (1969)

Documentary about East Berlin, commemorating 20th anniversary of German Democratic Republic formation. ...

Death of the Commissary (1966)

Cinerama's Russian Adventure (1966)

Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet Union. Highlights include the historic buildings and churches of Moscow, as the Kremlin; its subway and streets ...

The Great Patriotic War (1965)

This communist history film recalls the heroism of Soviet soldiers fighting the Nazis in World War II. Forty of the 236 cameramen used for the feature were killed during their mission filming the Red Army. ...

The Magic Beam (1963)

"The Magic Beam" is a film essay woven together from newsreels and documentary material from different decades, fragments of hundreds of non-fiction and fiction Soviet films of the 1910s-1960s. ...

Guest from the Island of Freedom (1963)

A documentary about Fidel Castro's visit to the USSR from April 28 to June 3, 1963 and how the Cuban leader traveled throughout the Soviet Union for 40 days, from Severodvinsk to Khiva in Uzbekistan. ...

To Die in Madrid (1963)

Morir en Madrid brings together several papers on the Spanish Civil War and integrates capturing different points of view, intended to represent the continuity of the suffering of the Spanish during the Franco regime. The death of Federico Garcia Lorca, Gu ...

Island Ablazed (1961)

Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba. ...

Sea Conquerors (1959)

Great Is My Country (1958)

First feature motion picture photographed in Kinopanorama, the Soviet equivalent of Cinerama. ...

Vietnam (1955)

Story of the First Indochina War (1946-1954) in which Soviet Union has actively supported Vietnamese side. ...

The Caspian Story (1953)

A story of the exploits carried out by the oil technicians of Baku for the exploitation of the black gold deposit of the Caspian Sea. ...

Nuremberg Trials (1946)

This riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals, brought to trial to account for their actions. The footage includes excerpts from the trials of many of the senior Nazis including Goebels and Goring. ...

Film Documents of the Atrocities of the German Fascist Invaders (1946)

This Soviet-made film was screened on February 19, 1946 on the 62nd day of the Nuremberg Trial and submitted as evidence relevant to the indictment for "crimes against humanity." The one-hour film with voiceover commentary shows visual evidence of the exte ...

The Fall of Berlin (1945)

A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany's capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts captured the battle and its aftermath, supplemented with seized German footage. The film rec ...

Albania (1945)

Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Albanian life immediately after the communists came to power in 1944. The film is especially memorable since it's missing much of the heavy socialist realism t ...

Majdanek - Cemetery of Europe (1944)

Filmed immediately after the Red Army liberated the Majdanek concentration camp, this documentary is regarded as the first cinematic record of Nazi genocide. Shot on July 24–25, 1944, it presents stark evidence of atrocities alongside testimony from surv ...

Leningrad in Struggle (1943)

Frustration of the German attempt to capture Leningrad, 1941, the besieging of the city. ...

Oryol Battle (1943)

One Day in Soviet Russia (1941)

On August 24th of 1940 a group of cameramen cross the immense territory of the Soviet Union before it was attacked by Nazi Germany, and capture multiple aspects of life in this new world. ...

China Is Fighting (1941)

A Soviet documentary by Roman Karmen and Mikhail Slutsky, assembled from 1938–41 footage in Yan'an and at the front, chronicling China's anti-Japanese resistance—from Eighth Route Army actions to civilian mobilization and daily life in the base areas. ...

Spain (1939)

A feature-length documentary based on film reports from the Spanish civil war. ...

Spain 1936 (1937)

A Spanish documentary from Jean-Paul Le Chanois & Luis Buñuel made during the Spanish Civil War. ...

K Sobytijam v Ispanii (1936)

Moskva–Karakum–Moskva (1933)

Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2023)

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). ...

With Roman Karmen. Travel in the Youth (2006)

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Roman Carmen. The authors tracked down his former students, whom he brought to the documentary. Almost half a century ago, they, then still children, first crossed the threshold of the VGIK whe ...

Roman Karmen Whom We Do And Do Not Know (1987)

World Without a Game (1966)

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema. ...

Our Cinema (1940)