Nella notte del 2 marzo 1953, c'è un uomo che sta morendo. Non si tratta di un uomo qualunque: è un tiranno, un sadico, un dittatore. È Joseph Stalin, il Segretario Generale dell'Unione Sovietica (che forse in questo momento si sta pentendo di aver fatto rinchiudere nei Gulag tutti i medici più capaci…). È li lì, non ne avrà ancora per molto, sta per tirare le cuoia… e se ti giochi bene le tue carte, il suo successore potresti essere tu!
1947 Bristol. Nel dopoguerra, Stephen Underwood, giornalista ambizioso desideroso di fama e successo, si imbatte accidentalmente nel suicidio di un soldato polacco del campo profughi locale. Seguendo il suo istinto giornalistico, Stephen scopre informazioni su ciò che è realmente accaduto a Katyn. La loro divulgazione influenzerà il destino di tutta l'Europa e metterà a repentaglio la sua stessa vita
Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German ‘Werewolf’ partisans and picked off one-by-one. Brana leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their ‘cargo’ doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would see it buried in order to hide the truth forever.
Tra il 1949 e il 1952, anni durante i quali la sovietizzazione della Polonia ha assunto le forme più radicali e il realismo socialista è divenuto il modello obbligato di espressione artistica, il pittore d'avanguardia Wladyslaw Strzeminski è vittima delle persecuzioni del regime comunista per non aver adeguato la sua arte astratta ai dettami del realismo socialista.
La vita del dittatore Josef Stalin, dalle umili origini alla carriera militare fino agli eccidi compiuti durante gli anni di incontrastato dominio sull'Unione Sovietica post-rivoluzione.
A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.
Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco that led to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact and its devastating consequences.
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
Film biografico sul contadino Ciapaiev che, durante la guerra civile in Urali nel 1919, si rivolta contro le truppe bianche....
January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later this documentary returns to the island.
Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.
A prototype of a new cutting edge tank is being taken on a secret mission to Moscow, to Comrade Stalin. Soon the cross-country run turns into a ruthless race. Followed by Nazis, the tanks' team defeats their pursuers and proves the great ability and vast superiority of the machine that is about to become a legendary T-34.
Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, millions of people died in the camps. The film explores the Gulag legacy, hearing from victims and perpetrators of the system.
Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin.