Movies: Soviet union

Leon Trotsky is considered one of the most controversial revolutionary figures of his time. Was he a practical revolutionary or a naive idealist? On the practical side, he was the mastermind behind the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, and was tota...

"Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolutionary asylum by President Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico....

Cold War Leningrad: In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state, music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction: they repurposed used x-ray film as the base for records of forbidden son...

In the Russian Empire of the 1910s, a group of visionary painters revolutionized the aesthetic norms of their time and opted for radical abstraction. In the years between the seizure of power by the Russian Bolsheviks and Stalinism in the 1930s, the ...

Compilation short film about the Communist Revolution and Soviet Union....

Մանրունք (Manrunq) means trifles or small inconveniences. This story is aboutt a new building finishing construction in Soviet Armenia by an architect and the troubles which begin once people are settled inside the building....

The film is a travelogue of sorts. Ostrovsky’s personal family footage meets the archives of Soviet propaganda footage. The result is a kind of Khruschev-era mix with a collage of Soviet music and a voice-over of my reminiscences of the Cold War era....

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interrogations, recruitment attempts, recorded and filmed with hidden devices; of how the secret services spied on every activity of ordinary citizens: noth...

In 1955, Albert Maysles traveled by motorcycle throughout Russia. During this trip, he shot what was to become his first film, 'Psychiatry in Russia', an unprecedented view into Soviet mental healthcare. Originally televised by the David Garroway Sho...

Sand Snowman is an original short film by writer and director Yeva-Genevieve Lavlinski. Based on a true events, Sand Snowman reveals the hopes and tragedies that arise from the abundance or lack of parental love. Catch a glimpse of the turmoil in the...

In Soviet Azerbaijan, a divorced Armenian couple fights over the custody of their daughter, Ashen. Stolen from one parent to another, Ashen's guardians are tragically killed in the bloody war surrounding them. Will the arrival of a new savior finally...

Alex and Julia from an early age were tied to each other. However, during the Second World War their relationship was broke and they don’t know what's going on with each other. Sometime after the war, they have not only met, but also understood that ...

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A goat named Adonis XIV is plied with sugar cubes, has bells tied to his horns, and is trained to lead his herd to the slaughterhouse....

A community of Armenians, refugees from the Soviet Union during the Baku pogroms, live in a deep American province. Baku life, Armenian blood, Soviet mentality, and American emigration mix in incredible tragicomic proportion....

A young boy has just moved to America from a foreign country with his mother. He tries to adjust to his new life, specifically in his school. He goes to an American school, and he's the only foreigner in his class. The only English phrase he knows is...

The sad story of a drunken athlete....

Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ride through the Soviet Union in the late 1950s....

Definitively proving that all the "B" Science Fiction of the 1950s and 1960s do not hold a candle to the 'real thing,' Pavel Medvedev's surreal 45 minute documentary Ascension is certainly one to look for. Composed entirely out of archival footage, m...

Short documentary about Emmen, one of the first planned cities in the Netherlands, a home for workers in the textile and metal industry. Emmen was one of the first planned cities in the Netherlands, a home for workers in the textile and metal indust...