70'li yaşlarının ortasındaki SSCB lideri Joseph Stalin'in sağlığı gayet yerindedir. Paranoyak yapısı ile düşmanlarına kök söktürmeye, acımasızlığı ile en yakınlarının bile gözünü korkutmaya devam etmektedir. 20 milyon insanın ölümüne sebep olmuş bir diktatör olarak hala tüm gücü elinde bulundurmaktadır. Ta ki bir sabah çalışma odasında ölü bulunana dek... Diktatörün ölümünün ardından 30 yıl demir yumrukla yönetilen ülkenin içine düştüğü kaos kimileri için ise bir fırsat anlamına gelmektedir. Stalin'in çevresindeki yalakalar bir anda iktidar yarışına girişir...

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.

Genç, iddialı bir gazeteci, bir Doğu Avrupalı ​​mültecinin gerçek kimliğini ve Stalin'in en kötü şöhretli suçlarından birinin örtbas edilmesindeki İngiliz Hükümeti'nin gizli tutulmasıyla olan bağlantısını açığa çıkarmak için sevgisini, kariyerini ve nihayetinde hayatını tehlikeye atıyor.

Polonya’nın Oscar adayı Ardıl Görüntü, komünist rejimin toplumsal hafızadan silmeye çalıştığı "çağdaş resim sanatının mesihi" Wladyslaw Strzeminski’nin hayatından bir kesiti anlatıyor. 2. Dünya Savaşı sonrasında Strzeminski, Komünist Parti baskısına boyun eğmeyi reddedince öğrencilerinin desteğine rağmen sefalete sürüklenir. Wajda’ya göre Ardıl Görüntü, "eğilmeyen, kararlarının arkasında duran, kendini tamamen sanata adamış bir adamın portresi."

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.

A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.

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

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.

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.

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.

İlya, Sosyalist Yugoslavya Federasyonu'nda yaşayan sade bir vatandaştır. İmkansızlıkları yüzünden bahçedeki küçük barakasını, yurt dışında yaşamış ve yıllar sonra geri dönmüş Yugoslav bir iş adamına kiralamaya razı olur. Kiracısının kapitalist ve sistem karşıtı bir ajan olduğunu düşünmeye başlayan İlya, gönülden bağlı olduğu devletinin istikrarı için kendini görevlendirir. * Film, sıradan bir aile babasının (İlya) üzerinden seksenli yıllarda çözülmekte olan Doğu Bloku'na büyük bir eleştiri getiriyor * İlya, imkânsızlıklar içinde kötü hayat şartlarıyla mücadele etmesine rağmen devletin dayattığı yönetim şeklini doğru bularak hayat tarzı olarak benimsemiş sıradan bir vatandaş * "Doğu Bloku" insanının kendi dünyasına bir bakış olarak da değerlendirebileceğimiz film, insanların yaşadığı zaman dilimi değiştikçe o güne kadar kendilerine doğru olarak benimsettirilen mantığın zamanla nasıl bir anlamsızlığa dönüştüğünü de çok güzel bir şekilde gösteriyor.

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.