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1. The Death of Stalin (2017)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 113,691 | Gross: $8.05M
2. Stalin (1992 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 172 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 2,787
3. Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Directors: Werner Herzog, André Singer | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, André Singer, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 2,743 | Gross: $0.25M
4. Cold War (1998)
47 min | Documentary, History
A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara, Vladimir Yerofeyev
Votes: 1,039
5. Anna ot 6 do 18 (1994)
100 min | Documentary, Biography
Director Nikita Mikhalkov documents the history of Russia from 1980 to 1991 by annually asking his daughter Anna questions.
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov | Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Anna Mikhalkova, Nadezhda Mikhalkova
Votes: 734
6. Strana Sovetov. Zabytye vozhdi (2017–2019)
Documentary, History
This is a project that tells about the key figures in the leadership of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1953.
Stars: Lyubov Germanova, Ilya Isaev, Sergey Chonishvili, Zurab Miminoshvili
Votes: 16
7. Gulag: The History (2019– )
167 min | Documentary, History
Soviet prison camps were a criminal system of oppression that was widespread and long-lasting. The writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn named it the Gulag Archipelago.
Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Gary Whitaker, James Hogg
Votes: 222
8. The Unknown War (1978– )
1,040 min | Documentary, History, War
Documentary film history of the Nazi-Soviet conflict in world War II.
Stars: Burt Lancaster, Averell Harriman
Votes: 298
9. World War Two: Behind Closed Doors (2008– )
300 min | Documentary, History, War
A story showing the 3 allied leader's, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin's actions and relationships behind the scenes during World War 2. It isn't as friendly as it seems. Shows how close ... See full summary »
Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Bob Gunton, Paul Humpoletz, Samuel West
Votes: 542
10. Stalin: Man of Steel (2003 TV Movie)
Documentary
Directors: Peter Adler, Alexander Berkel, Stefan Brauburger, Oliver Halmburger, Ralf Piechowiak | Stars: Edward Herrmann, David Brandenberger, Jonathan Brent, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 7
11. Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020 TV Movie)
97 min | Documentary, History
The Soviet Union commanded the killing of 22 000 Polish prisoners in 1940. 4500 of them were killed in the Katyn forest, in Russia. This sheds light on the paranoid and cruel Soviet top ranks that made it happen.
Director: Cédric Tourbe | Stars: Lavrenti Beria, Wassili Michailowitsch Blochin, Winston Churchill, Józef Czapski
Votes: 116
12. Afghanistan 1979 (2014)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, War
'Afghanistan 1979: the war that changed the world', is a French documentary about the Sovjet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. It was one of the most crucial events of the 20th century, and ... See full summary »
Director: Gulya Mirzoeva | Stars: Hafizullah Amin, Yuri Andropov, Ruslan Aushev, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam
Votes: 84
13. Brezhnev (2005– )
208 min | Drama
The Film depicts last month of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev as the head of USSR and also how he became the man he was.
Stars: Sergey Vorobyov, Natalya Orlova, Boris Sokolov, Valeriy Ivchenko
Votes: 261
14. The Fight for Peace (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Documentary, War
A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.
Stars: David Ross, Kai-Shek Chiang, Georges Clemenceau, Engelbert Dollfuss
15. Russian Jews: Film 1918-1948 (2017)
120 min | Documentary, History
The second film of the trilogy covers the thirtieth anniversary from 1918 to 1948. Unprecedented until that time in any country of the world, a bright and massive Jewish participation in all spheres of state policy and culture.
Director: Sergey Nurmamed | Star: Leonid Parfyonov
Votes: 192
16. Sovetskaya elegiya (1990)
35 min | Documentary, Short
In "The Soviet Elegy" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait of Yeltsin. At the time of shooting Yeltsin had fallen down from the assembly of ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov | Stars: Boris Yeltsin, Mikhail Gorbachev, Aleksandr Sokurov
Votes: 156
17. Krasnaya strela (1987)
92 min | Drama, History
Krasnaya strela (The Red Arrow) is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s during perestroika in the Soviet Union. Kropotov (Lavrov) is communist ... See full summary »
Directors: Iskander Khamrayev, Igor Sheshukov | Stars: Kirill Lavrov, Elena Prudnikova, Andrey Smirnov, Osvalds Berzins
Votes: 122
18. Qamin unaynutyan (1990)
99 min | Drama
Two friends decide to visit friends who left Armenia since long in search of happiness and their own better welfare.
Director: Harutyun Khachatryan | Stars: Rouben Hakhverdian, Gevorg Aghegian, V. Ananyan, Haig Katchadrian
Votes: 44
19. Le pacte Hitler-Staline (2019 TV Movie)
102 min | Documentary, History
Chronicle of the diplomatic fiasco that lead to the pact between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR
Director: Cédric Tourbe | Stars: Louis Barthou, Józef Beck, Eduard Benes, Georges Bonnet
Votes: 50
20. Furtseva. Legenda o Ekaterine (2011– )
Stars: Irina Rozanova, Artur Sopelnik, Elena Skvortsova, Anatoliy Belyy
Votes: 41
21. SSSR. Krusheniye (2011)
Documentary, History
Stars: Dmitry Kiselyov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Victor Chernomyrdin, Leonid Kravchuk
Votes: 9
22. Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2001 Video)
48 min | Documentary, History
This is a documentary about the historical context of the Cuban Missile Crisis, that is available on the DVD for the film, Thirteen Days (2000). Using archival footage and new interviews ... See full summary »
Director: Alita Holly | Stars: Sam Donaldson, Ernest R. May, Sergei Khrushchev, Marvin Kalb
Votes: 61
23. The Scientist, the Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People (2018)
55 min | Documentary
Director: Gulya Mirzoeva | Stars: Hester Wilcox, Vladimir Lenin, Trofim Lysenko, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 27
24. Thank You, Mr. President: The Press Conferences of JFK (1983 Video)
32 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Arthur J. Bressan Jr. | Stars: John F. Kennedy, E.G. Marshall, Pierre Salinger
Votes: 6
25. Les trois vies d'Edouard Chevardnadze (2003)
58 min | Documentary
Director: Nino Kirtadze | Star: Eduard Shevardnadze
Votes: 8
26. Die Matrosen von Kronstadt (1983 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, History, War
Director: Jürgen Klauß | Stars: Siemen Rühaak, Gottfried John, Pinkas Braun, Gert Haucke
27. Kanuvshee vremya (1989)
118 min | Drama
Director: Solomon Shuster | Stars: Stanislav Lyubshin, Nina Ruslanova, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Oleg Korchikov
Votes: 21
28. Kylmän sodan Suomi (2021–2022)
30 min | Documentary, History
Stars: Jari Tervo, Antti Seppänen, Kari Heiskanen, Mato Valtonen
Votes: 89
30. Der Mann ohne Gesicht (1998 TV Movie)
87 min | Documentary
Markus Wolf was head of the Main Directorate for Reconnaissance, the foreign intelligence division of East Germany's Ministry for State Security, commonly known as the Stasi). He was the ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Hohmann | Stars: Egon Bahr, Valentin Falin, Erich Honecker, Sergej Kondraschov
Votes: 18
31. Svoboda po russki (2006)
260 min | Documentary
Documentary covering 100 years of Russian history.
Directors: Irina Bessasrabova, Aleksandr Guryanov, Slava Padalka, Andrey Smirnov | Stars: Yuriy Shevchuk, Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Yakovlev
32. Facing Berlin
Drama, History | Announced
President John F. Kennedy's firm stance against Soviet pressure to control and govern West Berlin becomes one of the many strengths of his Cold War administration. From the first 30 days in... See full summary »
33. Panoptikum (1990–1991)
30 min | Documentary
Assorted investigative reports on late USSR and then Russia conducted by Aleksandr Nevzorov.
Stars: Franz Martin Kuhn, Konstantin Filippov, Günther Krause, Henning Voscherau
34. Stalins Tod - Das Ende einer Ära (2013 TV Movie)
43 min | Documentary, History
March 5, 1953. Stalin is dead. One day later, he is lying in state in an open coffin as more than 1.5 million mourners make their way through the streets of Moscow to pay their last respects.
Directors: Jürgen Ast, Martin Hübner | Stars: Joseph Stalin, Sergei Khrushchev, Igor Prelin, Oleg Chlevniuk
35. Nikita Khrushchev. Golos iz Proshlogo (2011– )
208 min | Documentary
In the autumn of 1964, as a result of a government coup, Nikita Khrushchev, from the almighty master of the largest country in the world, suddenly turned into a pensioner forgotten by ... See full summary »
Star: Sergey Chonishvili
36. Molotov: The Man Behind the Cocktail (2010 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary
Director: Ullrich Kasten | Star: Vyacheslav Molotov
Votes: 18
37. Notes on Nuclear War (1983)
60 min | Documentary
The development of nuclear weapons, their effects and how they have affected contemporary politics and military strategy.
Director: Tina Viljoen | Star: Gwynne Dyer
Votes: 8
38.
Generation of Change (2017)
Episode:
Aufstieg und Fall
(2017)
90 min | Documentary
Directors: Sebastian Dehnhardt, Matthias Schmidt, Maarten van der Duin | Stars: Vladimir Afanyuk, Leszek Balcerowicz, Leonid Brezhnev, Winston Churchill
Votes: 6
39.
Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode:
Origines : 1917-1933
(2020)
54 min | Documentary, History
From experimentation to setting up the forced labour system (1918-1936).
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Louisa Gummer, Florence Pernel, Andrei Roschin, Dmitriy Likhachyov
Votes: 37
40.
Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode:
Prolifération : 1934-1945
(2020)
57 min | Documentary, History
The Gulag in the turmoil of the "Great Terror" and war (1937-1945).
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Alexander Prokhorov, Olga Adamova-Sliozberg
Votes: 30
41.
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
42.
Strana Sovetov. Zabytye vozhdi (2017–2019)
Episode:
Andrey Gromyko
(2019)
52 min | Documentary, History
Director: Pavel Sergatskov | Stars: Vitaliy Filippovykh, Sergey Zagrebnev, Anastasiya Bekova, Vladislav Semiletkov
43.
Longines Chronoscope (1951–1955)
Episode:
Episode dated 6 January 1954
(1954)
News, Talk-Show
Larry Lesueur and Charles Collingwood, correspondents for CBS News, interview W. Averell Harriman, the former Director of the Mutual Security Agency. Topics include the decline of U.S. ... See full summary »
44.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Stalin's Spies
(1999)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War
Richard Sorge, a German journalist and communist tasked to set up a spy ring in 1930s Tokyo, and Leopold Trepper, a successful construction company head who secretly led the Red Orchestra ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksandr Ivankin | Stars: Charlton Heston, Igor Chevtsov, Thomas B. Allen, Christopher Andrew
Votes: 17