Movies: Mikhail Gorbachev

  • 2008
    The Soviet Story

    The Soviet Story (2008)

    The Soviet Story

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    “The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the compl...

    The Soviet Story
  • 2006
    Freedom's Fury

    Freedom's Fury (2006)

    Freedom's Fury

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    A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were in Budapest, stomping out a popular revolt....

    Freedom's Fury
  • 2017
    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)

    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

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    Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s....

    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
  • 2020
    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)

    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

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    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
  • 2020
    The Long Breakup

    The Long Breakup (2020)

    The Long Breakup

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    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
  • 2019
    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

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    Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun....

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
  • 1984
    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

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    A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party....

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
  • 2019
    The Man Who Defied Beijing

    The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)

    The Man Who Defied Beijing

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    A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. S...

    The Man Who Defied Beijing
  • 2020
    My Favorite War

    My Favorite War (2020)

    My Favorite War

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    Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War....

    My Favorite War
  • 2011
    The Last Days of the USSR

    The Last Days of the USSR (2011)

    The Last Days of the USSR

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    From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic results of his perestroika, and Yeltsin, embodying the hopes of the Russian people. Illustrated with in...

    The Last Days of the USSR
  • 2019
    Meeting Gorbachev

    Meeting Gorbachev (2019)

    Meeting Gorbachev

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    Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the talks to reduce nuclear weapons, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of his country....

    Meeting Gorbachev
  • 2021
    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! (2021)

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

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    Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left th...

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
  • 2010
    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)

    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

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    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....

    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
  • 2015
    The Russian Woodpecker

    The Russian Woodpecker (2015)

    The Russian Woodpecker

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    As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it....

    The Russian Woodpecker
  • 1991
    Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

    Ceausescu: Behind the Myth (1991)

    Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

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    Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people, and in the west. Behr's film reveals the truth behind the myth...

    Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
  • 2017
    Free to Rock

    Free to Rock (2017)

    Free to Rock

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    Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thous...

    Free to Rock
  • 1996
    Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

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

    Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

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    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 Naz...

    Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
  • 2017
    Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

    Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)

    Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

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    This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country, and how h...

    Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
  • 2021
    Stasi, un État contre son peuple

    Stasi, un État contre son peuple (2021)

    Stasi, un État contre son peuple

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    After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and...

    Stasi, un État contre son peuple
  • 1998
    Reagan

    Reagan (1998)

    Reagan

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    In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a simple gospel...

    Reagan