Movies: Nikita Khrushchev

  • 2012
    Palme

    Palme (2012)

    Palme

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    Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden was transfigured. “Palme” is about his life, his time, and about the Sweden he had created. About a...

    Palme
  • 2009
    It Felt Like a Kiss

    It Felt Like a Kiss (2009)

    It Felt Like a Kiss

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    The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959, using archival footage and US pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds....

    It Felt Like a Kiss
  • 2008
    La Rabbia di Pasolini

    La Rabbia di Pasolini (2008)

    La Rabbia di Pasolini

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    An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia....

    La Rabbia di Pasolini
  • 2002
    Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

    Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002)

    Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

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    illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel Radicals" features clips from such seminal films as Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967); Mike N...

    Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
  • 1962
    Law of Baseness

    Law of Baseness (1962)

    Law of Baseness

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    Taking the viewer on a tour through several African nations and using the full range of agit-prop aesthetics in its imagery, didactic voice-over and melodramatic soundtrack, Law of Baseness offers a scathing anti-colonialist and anti-capitalist indic...

    Law of Baseness
  • 2017
    El Che

    El Che (2017)

    El Che

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    Ernesto "Che" Guevara's controversial story told by the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He revisits places where the guerrilla and revolutionary leader has passed and interviews people who knew Che, making revelations about this important figur...

    El Che
  • 2017
    De Gaulle, the Last King of France

    De Gaulle, the Last King of France (2017)

    De Gaulle, the Last King of France

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    Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality t...

    De Gaulle, the Last King of France
  • 1968
    A Wall in Jerusalem

    A Wall in Jerusalem (1968)

    A Wall in Jerusalem

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    A brilliant documentary about the growth of Israel into the Jewish homeland. Seventy-three years of struggle for religious freedom is vividly recorded using rare archive film footage and photographs of historic events in the development of 20th centu...

    A Wall in Jerusalem
  • 2010
    How to Win the TV Debate

    How to Win the TV Debate (2010)

    How to Win the TV Debate

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    With Britain's first-ever political leaders' television debate imminent, award-winning reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers what it's like to take part in these contests and how leaders try to win them. He tells the inside story of why it has taken so...

    How to Win the TV Debate
  • 2007
    Sputnik Mania

    Sputnik Mania (2007)

    Sputnik Mania

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    Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth, bringing America to its knees in awe - then fear. Initially thrilling as a marvel of science, Sputnik was soon viewed by America a weap...

    Sputnik Mania
  • 2007
    Oswald's Ghost

    Oswald's Ghost (2007)

    Oswald's Ghost

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    For the Baby Boomers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy took on the same sense of tragedy as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks did for Generation Y - not only for the effect that it had on the nation's morale but for the conspirac...

    Oswald's Ghost
  • 2023
    In the Grip of Gazprom

    In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)

    In the Grip of Gazprom

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    The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more...

    In the Grip of Gazprom
  • 2020
    Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

    Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice (2020)

    Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice

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    How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power...

    Camp Century: The Hidden City Beneath the Ice
  • 2016
    Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes

    Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes (2016)

    Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes

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    Historian Andrew Cohen discusses Robert Drew's 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment....

    Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes
  • 2019
    I Invite You to My Execution

    I Invite You to My Execution (2019)

    I Invite You to My Execution

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    As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it supposedly shows a critical view of the October Revolution, he decides to smuggle several copies of the m...

    I Invite You to My Execution
  • 2025
    America at War

    America at War (2025)

    America at War

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    The United States of America has been at war for almost all of its 250 years of existence. From the wars of independence to current armed conflicts, its armed forces have not only shaped American identity, but also influenced the political decisions ...

    America at War
  • 2012
    The Man Who Saved the World

    The Man Who Saved the World (2012)

    The Man Who Saved the World

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    During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war and total destruction....

    The Man Who Saved the World
  • 2014
    Året var 1964

    Året var 1964 (2014)

    Året var 1964

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    1964 - the year when Astrid Lindgren's 'Vi på Saltkråkan' is shown on TV, UN Swedes smuggle weapons, Khrushchev is visiting, car testing starts, the KDS is formed and the long-haired fashion starts trending - for guys....

    Året var 1964
  • 2018
    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman (2018)

    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

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    The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffoc...

    Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
  • 1945
    Vsesoyuznyy parad fizkul'turnikov

    Vsesoyuznyy parad fizkul'turnikov (1945)

    Vsesoyuznyy parad fizkul'turnikov

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    Vsesoyuznyy parad fizkul'turnikov