1941, syv krigsfanger flygter fra den frygtelige sovjetiske Gulag-lejr. Igennem 11 måneder kæmper de sig over 6.500 km fra Sibirien over den glohede Gobi-ørken i Mongoliet og videre over Himalaya bjergene. De tvinges igennem en udmattende overlevelsekamp mod det barske terræn, sult, tørst, sol og frost. Men de kæmper også en indre kamp for att træffe de vanskelige valg, der udfordrer samvittigheden, når mennesket presses til den yderste grænse og kæmper for sin frihed.
Panserkrydseren Potemkin skildrer mytteriet i Sortehavsflåden i 1905 og den efterfølgende folkelige opstand mod zarstyret. Filmen var oprindeligt et bestillingsarbejde - et stykke sovjetisk propaganda, der skulle markere revolutionens spæde begyndelse og endelige sejr tyve år senere. Da matroserne på panserkrydseren Potemkin får leveret råddent, maddikebefængt kød til deres suppe, begynder oprøret mod de tyranniske officerer, og det lykkes matroserne at få kontrol over skibet. Matrosen Vakulinchuk, som har stået i spidsen for mytteriet, bliver skudt af en officer under oprøret, og skibets besætning tager hans lig med ind til havnebyen Odessa, hvor han bliver lagt lit de parade. Rygterne om mytteriet spredes hurtigt. Folk strømmer til for at vise sympati med oprørerne og samles på Odessatrappen.
36 år efter at Tjernobyl-atomreaktoren eksploderede i Sovjet-Ukraine, tegner nyligt afdækkede arkivoptagelser og optagede interviews med tilstedeværende et følelsesladet og gribende portræt af katastrofens omfang og alvor, og hvor langt den sovjetiske regering gik for at dække over hændelsen, inklusive de soldater, der blev sendt ind for at "likvidere" skaderne. Tjernobyl: De forsvundne bånd er den fulde, usminkede sande historie om, hvad der skete i en af de mindst forståede tragedier i det tyvende århundrede.
Summer 1980. While the Olympics held in the USSR, strange and horrible things are happening in a run-of-the-mill pioneer camp. It turns out pioneer vampires exist not only in horror stories. Smart beyond his years, independent, sensitive and determined to go all the way for the right reasons, main hero Valerka, arrives at summer camp ‘Thunderbird’ for 3 weeks of carefree recreation. Little brave boy secretly aim to discover the reason behind his brother death. Harmless and eternal journey begins to turn around when he soon discovers that one of his roommates is actually sucking the blood. Now, the independent hero must team up to find out how the vampires ended up in a Soviet summer camp, how to destroy them, and who actually killed his brother. Upon the way, Valerka learn how to trust, meet friends and sacrifice himself to the one he truly fell in love. The cost of everyone`s freedoms turned him into a vampire. Has he turned into a monster forever?
The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.
USSR, 1980s. The Elista Children's Hospital is experiencing the country's first major HIV outbreak, with more than 70 children and several adults infected. Now everyone: doctors, patients, relatives need to preserve human dignity in the face of a terrible disease for which there is no cure yet.
Tells the story of Cornelia Titko, a brave scientist with remarkable memory, whose childhood was destroyed by the premature death of her parents and older sister. Cornelia's mother, Teresa Titko, was an outstanding nuclear physicist; in the Gierek nuclear program, she played the role of the right hand of its creator, general-professor Grzegorz Giedrowicz. Years later, a mysterious man appears in Cornelia's life, claiming that he was once accused of murdering her sister. The heroine begins a private investigation. Who is the mysterious man and what really connects him with the death of Cornelia's two closest women? What price will she be charged for trespassing into forbidden territories? What role in this history were played by the officers of the PRL counterintelligence - Captain Ewa Wolańska and Second Lieutenant Tadeusz Mróz? Who wanted Poland not to join the small group of countries that counted in the nuclear race?
Tragedy of the Zitars family based on the novel by Vilis Lacis.
It is a moment unlike any other in time. From coast to coast, Canada is united by the game we call our own. The outcome of this historic "Summit Series" is decided in the final minute of the final game. After playing the Soviets in the Forum, Maple Leaf Gardens, Winnipeg and Vancouver, Team Canada leaves for Moscow with only one victory on home ice. Behind the Iron Curtain, they lose the first of the remaining four at the Luzhniki Ice Palace. What follows, is the most dramatic hockey series ever played.
The story of an empire: From its founding in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was shaped by revolutionary idealism, but also by oppression and decay. The USSR evolved from Stalinist terror through the Thaw under Khrushchev to political processes such as glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev. Finally, in 1991, it collapsed.
