History -- Russia

Travelogue in which Simon Reeve embarks upon an epic three-part journey across Russia one hundred years after the Russian Revolution.

Don't call him Dimon is a 2017 Russian documentary film about the corrupt affairs of Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. According to the film, Dmitry Medvedev has stolen property estimated to be worth about $1.2 billion.

The day before Vladimir Putin's inauguration, a march takes place on Moscow's Bolotnaya Square - a protest against the Russian government's unyielding grip on power. This peaceful march is brutally dispersed by the police. The film's protagonist, Solidarity activist Vselovod Chernozub, decides to stay on Bolotnaya Square until the end. They do not know that May 6th 2012 will mark the end of their generation's revolution and the start of a new era that has no place for them. But Vselovod is young, and convinced that peaceful protest will win out. He hopes to set up a tent city in Pushkin Square (Moscow) the day after the presidential elections and nudge society towards peaceful politics change... It is an attempt to answer some questions: Who is Putin for Russians, really? Is power in his hands, or in the hands of those who live in Russia? Why do people in Russia not to want changes? Could the Putin era last forever?

An intimate documentary portrait of one of Russia's most influential opposition politicians, shot dead near the Kremlin in February 2015.

Russia is a highly developed, wired, and educated nation, but endures third-world levels of corruption and a repressive, autocratic government. Many Russians explain this paradox by citing the Russian soul, a unique national mindset, born out of their turbulent history, that wants dictatorship. Is that possible, or are free speech and democracy universal values? The Russian Soul film answers this question against the backdrop of the historic protest movement unfolding in Russia today, in conversations with all parts of Russian society, from political, academic and media elites to street protesters, schoolchildren, and ordinary citizens.

The film is a view from the inside on how it is to be in opposition in Russia of Putin. Attempts, mistakes, political tricks, seen through the eyes of the opposition leaders.

As most of the world moves forward toward gay equality, Russia is seemingly heading backward. Antigay sentiment and legislation are spreading rapidly throughout the country. In 2013, the Russian parliament passed a ban on so-called 'gay propaganda' that effectively makes nearly any public discussion of gay equality a crime. It is my hope that this documentary will educate viewers to their reality.

Four-part documentary exploring how Russia has been resurrected by Vladimir Putin.

From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic results of his perestroika, and Yeltsin, embodying the hopes of the Russian people. Illustrated with interviews of top protagonists such as Mikhail Gobachev himself, the documentary recounts the critical last two years of the former USSR.

Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world of their childhood crumble and change beyond recognition. Through the lives of these former schoolmates, this intimate film reveals how they have adjusted to their post-Soviet reality in today's Moscow.

Jonathan Dimbleby makes an epic journey from one end of Russia to the other killing cliches and reveling in the unpredictable.

Born in the USSR: Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life.

A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.

A thorough and intelligently summarized history of the Soviet Union, from the socio-political origins for the Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917 to the near end of Mikhail Gorbachev's government, immediately prior to the downfall of "real communism" and the splitting of the USSR. Conducted by British historian Robert Conquest, narrative benefits from a careful research of archive footage and from recent interviews with mostly common who participated in the events.

The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.

Go beyond the numbing statistics of horror and misery to probe the soul of one of the 20th century's most reviled figures. * Secrets held for decades are exposed in this incisive series. * Highly-placed sources and leading experts reveal long-suppressed stories. * Meet the men and women whose support was critical to Stalin's campaigns. They are the stories that have been suppressed or overlooked for years and even generations. They expose the dark side of heroes, the humanity of villains, and the behind-the-scenes deals and bargains struck on the eve of history's most important events. Filled with extraordinary footage and interviews with eyewitnesses and those who have dedicated the lives to exposing the truth, DECLASSIFIED illuminates fresh facets of some of the most compelling personalities and moments of the past. Joseph Stalin remains a powerful and dark figure even 50 years after his death. His legacy as a personification of evil in the 20th century rivals Adolf Hitler's. Using newly unearthed materials and testimony, DECLASSIFIED reveals a never-before-seen Stalin. Archival material helps illuminate the vast foundation--human, psychological, and physical--that supported and encouraged him. And experts present portraits of the men and women who did his bidding, lived in fear of him and, more often than not, were betrayed by him.

Eyewitness and survivor accounts of Stalinist purges in Ukraine in 1930s and 1940s.

Documentary covering 100 years of Russian history.

The story of the Russian Revolution.

TV series about the mad monk Grigoriy Rasputin, who became a hugely influential figure at the court of Tsar Nicholas II.

British historian Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to investigate the 300-year reign of the Romanov dynasty.