Movies: Soviet union history

  • 1925
    Strike

    Strike (1925)

    Strike

    7.21925HD

    Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression....

    Strike
  • 1981
    Reds

    Reds (1981)

    Reds

    6.81981HD

    An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the memb...

    Reds
  • 2007
    Katyn

    Katyn (2007)

    Katyn

    6.72007HD

    On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and governmen...

    Katyn
  • 2016
    The Chosen

    The Chosen (2016)

    The Chosen

    5.82016HD

    Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political riv...

    The Chosen
  • 2020
    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)

    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

    6.82020HD

    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 three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the se...

    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
  • 2018
    Extinction

    Extinction (2018)

    Extinction

    6.22018HD

    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 conflicts, unresolved for decades, in that vast territory. As in Transnistria, an unrecognized state, se...

    Extinction
  • 2020
    The Long Breakup

    The Long Breakup (2020)

    The Long Breakup

    5.52020HD

    Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties to Russia for centuries; how it broke away from the USSR and began to walk alone; the Orange Revolutio...

    The Long Breakup
  • 2024
    Kasparov: Chess Rebel

    Kasparov: Chess Rebel (2024)

    Kasparov: Chess Rebel

    82024HD

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

    Kasparov: Chess Rebel
  • 2013
    The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars

    The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars (2013)

    The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars

    6.22013HD

    Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event puts an end to the long dynasty that had ruled the country with an iron hand since the coronation of Mic...

    The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
  • 2021
    The Conscience

    The Conscience (2021)

    The Conscience

    102021HD

    Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to put his conscience and his principles before the demands of the cruel system he serves, where law and justice are systematically ignored....

    The Conscience
  • 2016
    Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

    Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court (2016)

    Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court

    5.82016HD

    St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humble peasant who became the most influential adviser to czarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of the last czar, Nicholas II Romanov....

    Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
  • 2018
    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)

    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

    72018HD

    The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffoc...

    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
  • 1926
    P.K.P.

    P.K.P. (1926)

    P.K.P.

    5.61926HD

    The defeated remnants of vile Ukrainian nationalists, headed by the leader of the Ukrainian liberation movement, Symon Petliura, cannot accept their historical fate and are plotting an insurrection against the Soviet regime in Ukraine. There is nothi...

    P.K.P.
  • 2012
    This Ain't California

    This Ain't California (2012)

    This Ain't California

    6.42012HD

    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 world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, throug...

    This Ain't California
  • 1934
    Chapayev

    Chapayev (1934)

    Chapayev

    6.11934HD

    An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War....

    Chapayev
  • 1918
    Anniversary of the Revolution

    Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)

    Anniversary of the Revolution

    6.71918HD

    A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph....

    Anniversary of the Revolution
  • 1921
    The History of the Civil War

    The History of the Civil War (1921)

    The History of the Civil War

    3.31921HD

    The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death....

    The History of the Civil War
  • 2017
    Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

    Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution (2017)

    Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

    32017HD

    Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladim...

    Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
  • 2021
    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

    42021HD

    Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step ...

    The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
  • 2016
    Woman with an Editing Bench

    Woman with an Editing Bench (2016)

    Woman with an Editing Bench

    72016HD

    Inspired by the woman who edited "Man with a Movie Camera" (1929), "Woman with an Editing Bench" reveals the personal impact of Stalin’s censorship of cinema on a woman navigating politics, bureaucracy and the impetuous outbursts of collaborators to ...

    Woman with an Editing Bench