Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-lavrentiy-beria"

1. The Living Daylights (1987)

PG | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies, and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé, Joe Don Baker

Votes: 105,852 | Gross: $51.19M

2. The Kremlin Letter (1970)

M/PG | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

During the Cold War a Naval Intelligence officer endowed with a powerful photographic memory is transferred to the CIA to participate in a covert operation in Moscow.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger

Votes: 2,311 | Gross: $0.24M

3. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Cold War: The Strangelove Factor (1998)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

Russian Nuclear Secrets of the Cold War.

Directors: Aleksandr Ivankin, Chip Proser | Stars: Charlton Heston, Nikita Khrushchev, Oleg Troyanovski, John Erickson

Votes: 12

4. Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode: Apogée et agonie : 1945-1957 (2020)

58 min | Documentary, History

The Gulag's peak and decline (1945-1953).

Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Yuri Fidelgolts, David Boudennyi

Votes: 33

5. Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Episode: La Lutte décisive (2021)

Documentary, History, War

October 1941: as Hitler believes his triumph imminent, his men and tanks are freezing where they stand. Meanwhile, the Red Army consolidates his positions.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Lavrenti Beria

Votes: 33

6. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: The Hunt for Atomic Secrets (1999)

TV-PG | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

The all-important race to develop an atomic bomb led to some of the most daring Russian spy operations in the United States. Exclusive interviews with Russian agents detail the inside story of the Soviet atomic spy ring.

Director: Aleksandr Ivankin | Stars: Charlton Heston, Allen Weinstein, Vladimir Chikov, Thomas B. Allen

Votes: 15

7. 1945-1953: From World War to Cold War (2018)
Episode: The Dawn of the Cold War

56 min | Documentary, History, War

For the past four years, the top scientists on the planet had been perfecting what was to become the absolute weapon: the atomic bomb.

Director: Emilie Lançon | Stars: François Kersaudy, Clifton Truman Daniel, Curtis Roosevelt, Yuri Borko

8. Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode: Scorched Earth (2020)

Documentary, History, War

In Kursk, a battlefield the size of Wales, the tide turns and the Soviets push back, but as Germany retreats, they destroy all evidence of their genocidal activities.

Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Sergei Kudryashov, Alexander Vershinin, Ivan Patrylyak, Ihar Melnikau

9. The Great War (2010–2012)
Episode: The Partisan Movement (2012)

44 min | Documentary, Drama, History

The Soviet partisan movement began immediately after the commencement of Operation Barbarossa. It was centrally commanded by OMSBON, very active and well organized to coordinate operations ... See full summary »

Votes: 10

10. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode: L'Homme rouge (2015)

TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War

1942.After blocking the Germans right outside of Moscow, Stalin now faces Hitler's second assault. The world's fate will be decided in Stalingrad. Like in Leningrad, men, women and children, plunged into hell, are sacrificed.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Svetlana Alliluyeva

Votes: 77

11. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode: Le Maître du Monde (2015)

TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War

1944: the Soviets continue on the path to towards liberation. On the road to Berlin, they discover the horror of Hitler's extermination camps. Fifteen years earlier, Stalin transformed his country using every means at his disposal.

Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Olga Balykina

Votes: 76