USSR and Eastern Bloc history and politics

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Doctor Zhivago falls for Lara despite being engaged. Their forbidden love blossoms amidst the upheaval of the Russian Revolution, impacting his career and family.

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

An old Ukrainian man protects and searches for a legendary treasure in the midst of political upheavals.

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.

A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s.

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.

About Stalin's inner circle who he starts seeing as untrustworthy.

The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator's death. Told from Sanchin's view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife's affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the camp doctor and begins to come back to life.

In the USSR in 1936, shadows of Stalin's repressions fall on a famous, revolutionary hero. The accusations of him being a foreign spy are nonsense, and everyone knows that. However, a slow process of his downfall has already started.

In 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-combatants.

A story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most successful female sniper in history.

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.

Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.

During WWII, Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev strikes up a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers while working as a scout behind the German lines.

Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.