Joseph Stalin

Born: 1878-12-18

Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) was born in Gori, Tiflis province, Russian Empire - a Soviet political, statesman, military and party figure, a Russian revolutionary. Actual leader of the USSR. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1922-1953). Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945). People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (since July 19, 1941), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee. He also held the following positions: From April 3, 1922 to February 10, 1934 - Secretary General, then - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (from 1952 - CPSU), from December 19, 1930, after Vyacheslav Molotov took the post of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR instead of Alexey Rykov. In 1912, at the suggestion of V.I. Lenin was included in the Central Committee of the RSDLP. At the same time, Joseph Dzhugashvili finally chose the pseudonym "Stalin" for himself. During the October Revolution, the Second All-Russian Congress was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars. In 1922, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), he was elected a member of the Orgburo and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), as well as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) (when Lenin was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR). In 1930, after the weakening and death of Lenin, Stalin finally emerged victorious from the internal party struggle, becoming the leader of the state. Stalin was the actual founder of the totalitarian dictatorship in the USSR. In 1928-1929 he was the initiator of the transition from the course of the New Economic Policy (NEP) to the course of industrialization, collectivization and building a planned economy, and intensified the policy of the cultural revolution in the USSR.


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Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin

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Released: 1925-01-21

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel made to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of...

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The Corporation

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Released: 2003-09-10

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational...

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The Bloody Hundredth

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Released: 2024-03-14

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and...

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The Untold History Of The United States

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Released: 2012-11-12

Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.

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When the Wind Blows

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Released: 1986-10-24

With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and...

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Capitalism: A Love Story

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Released: 2009-09-06

Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous...

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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

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Released: 2019-09-29

Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world...

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#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump

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Released: 2020-10-22

Medical doctors and mental health professionals go on camera, on the record, for the record, for...

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The Chosen

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Released: 2016-09-02

Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet...

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The Hitler–Stalin Pact

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Released: 2019-01-02

How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The...

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Korea: The Never-Ending War

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Released: 2019-04-29

Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio...

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The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill

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Released: 2017-09-20

Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of...

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The Russian Revolution

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Released: 2017-06-15

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the...

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In Search of Dr. Seuss

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Released: 1994-11-06

A nosy reporter wants to find out all she can about Dr. Seuss, aka Ted Geisel, and gets told the...

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Filmmakers for the Prosecution

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Released: 2023-01-27

In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to...

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A Compassionate Spy

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Released: 2022-08-31

Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los...

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Stalin's Daughter

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Released: 2015-10-04

A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During...

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Reagan

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Released: 2011-02-07

Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern...

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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

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Released: 1996-02-20

Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew...

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Imminent Threat

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Released: 2015-09-04

A look at the War on Terror and the threat it's causing to our civil liberties and political...

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Three Songs About Lenin

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Released: 1934-11-06

This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in...

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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century

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Released: 2014-10-20

A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history...

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The Girls

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Released: 1968-09-16

A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to...

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Sputnik Mania

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Released: 2007-06-01

Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite...

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Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku

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Released: 2015-05-04

This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital...

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1945: The Savage Peace

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Released: 2015-05-24

How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were...

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The Soviet Story

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Released: 2008-04-09

“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which...

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Mission to Moscow

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Released: 1943-04-29

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns...

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The Mistake that Killed Hitler

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Released: 2023-09-14

In April 1945, as Stalin's Red Army approach from the East and the Western Allied forces quickly...

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USSR (1917-1991)

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Released: 2024-10-15

Experimental short film that explores the rise and decline of the Soviet Union, from the...

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State Funeral

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Released: 2019-10-22

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The...

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A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History

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Released: 2024-02-20

A critical and objective look back at Ukraine's tumultuous and tragic history, from its mythical...

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Human Remains

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Released: 1998-03-21

Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating...

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A Grin Without a Cat

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Released: 1977-11-23

French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the...

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The Long Breakup

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Released: 2020-10-24

Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes...

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The Society of the Spectacle

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Released: 1974-05-01

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

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Laboratory Greece

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Released: 2019-12-08

A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the...

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Laissez-faire

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Released: 2015-01-30

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today...

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Russia, China, Iran: The Axis of Revenge

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Released: 2024-05-16

Russia, China and Iran: three former empires are determined to take their revenge and reassert...

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Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II

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Released: 2021-06-01

Based on Worldwide Defeat by Salvador Borrego, it exposes the forbidden side of history and...

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Stalin's Last Plot

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Released: 2011-08-26

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish...

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Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

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Released: 2018-06-10

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October...

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The Secret Masonic Victory of World War II

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Released: 2022-01-01

Western Freemasonry and Eastern communists won WW2, leading to a secret holy war aiming for a...

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Big Data, Big Brother

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Released: 2020-11-11

The story of the cross destiny of George Orwell (1903-50) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the...

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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle

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Released: 2021-04-27

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister...

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Hitler & Stalin: Roots of Evil

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Released: 2004-08-27

An examination of the paranoia, cold-bloodedness, and sadism of two of the 20th century's most...

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Storm Front in Mayo

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Released: 2019-05-28

Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on...

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Rita the Field Marshal

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Released: 1967-12-21

A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.

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Stalin's James Bond

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Released: 2017-12-30

An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who...

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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1

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Released: 1996-02-20

Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew...

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New World Order: Communism by the Backdoor

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Released: 2014-05-07

A step-by-step illustration of how institutions including the United Nations and secret...

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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman

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Released: 2018-01-24

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life...

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To Arms, We Are Fascists!

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Released: 1962-04-25

Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of...

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A Web of War

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Released: 1996-01-01

The stories of the battles that brought together a Polish cavalry officer, a Canadian captain,...

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Korea, A Hundred Years of War

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Released: 2020-06-11

A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history...

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High Voltage

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Released: 1981-02-23

After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is...

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Herrliche Zeiten

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Released: 1950-06-04

Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century.

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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

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Released: 2020-02-18

The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable...

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Life Begins Tomorrow

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Released: 1950-09-13

Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La...

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Our Cinema

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Released: 1940-07-01

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I Betrayed Hitler

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Released: 2016-03-27

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing...

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Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid

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Released: 2020-03-05

A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism,...

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Beginning

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Released: 1967-02-01

Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny...

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Stalin: Man of Steel

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Released: 2003-01-01

Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted...

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A War in Hollywood

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Released: 2009-10-16

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American...

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Berlin Conference

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Released: 1945-08-08

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:03 from Gold

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Released: 2002-06-18

The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA was accorded their first ever loss...

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How we built the Moscow metro

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Released: 2014-03-18

In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to...

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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility

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Released: 2009-04-08

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated...

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Velikoye proshchaniye

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Released: 1953-08-05

March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that...

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Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death

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Released: 2015-09-08

For 20 years, theirs was an ideological duel between two visions of Communism; a political duel,...

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I Was Stalin's Bodyguard

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Released: 1989-12-01

This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent,...

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Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb

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Released: 2015-08-06

On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the...

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Stalin's Wife

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Released: 2005-04-29

At the tender age of sixteen Nadezhda Alliluyev married Joseph Stalin, twenty three years her...

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Reza Shah

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Released: 2013-07-10

The documentary "Reza Shah" begins with the rise of Reza Khan to power and looks at his reign...

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Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution

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Released: 1969-06-08

Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the...

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The Oath of the Albanian People Before the Great Stalin

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Released: 1953-03-05

The Albanian people mourn the death of Stalin.

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I Invite You to My Execution

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Released: 2019-10-30

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor...

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Trouble in the Barbary

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Released: 2024-07-23

This film recounts the steps of Algerian communist revolutionary Rashid Al Masri and his...

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Pétain, such a popular hero

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Released: 2010-11-15

On October 24, 1940, Philippe Pétain met Adolf Hitler in Montoire and led the French into...

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The Soviet Union: A New Look

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Released: 1978-01-01

This film discusses conditions in the Soviet Union, including party activity and influence, the...

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The Fight For Peace

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Released: 1939-01-01

A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and...

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World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel

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Released: 2011-06-13

This is an interesting documentary about Stalin, his rise to power, and the invasion of the USSR...

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The Battle of France

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Released: 1964-06-03

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

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Executions 2

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Released: 1995-01-01

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When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)

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Released: 1978-07-10

In 1978, just after Le fond de l'Air Est Rouge, which mercilessly analyzed the previous ten...

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Crimean Conference

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Released: 1945-07-13

The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler...

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Stalin, the Red Tyrant

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Released: 2007-03-13

On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral...

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Condom

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Released: 1990-09-07

About the history of the contraceptive tool and reminds us of the importance of using a condom...

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The Russian German War

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Released: 1995-01-01

This is a rare look at one of the worst horror stories in the long infamous history of warfare....

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CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin

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Released: 2016-04-14

For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence...

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Stalin In Color

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Released: 2014-09-22

March 9th, 1953, 5 million people attend Stalin’s funeral. A revolutionary lacking in both...

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Svetlana About Svetlana

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Released: 2008-07-24

Svetlana Parshina was deeply moved by her childhood reading of Twenty Letters to a Friend by...

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The Beating: Last Stand

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Released: 2022-04-14

Mr Hillbilly and Pitrensky return after escaping Dark Portal Penitentary and are forced to keep...

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Balancing Acts: A Jewish Theatre in The Soviet Union

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Released: 2008-11-09

Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish...

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Cannibal Island

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Released: 2009-06-23

A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin...

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Prelúdio

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Released: 2022-08-07

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Mentiras verdaderas

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First aired: 2011-10-11

Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.

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The Vietnam War

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First aired: 2017-09-17

An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never...

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The UnXplained

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First aired: 2019-07-19

Explore the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Each episode features...

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Apocalypse: The Second World War

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First aired: 2009-09-08

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage...

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Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

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First aired: 2024-03-12

With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive...

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Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

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First aired: 2019-07-12

Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from...

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Days That Shook the World

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First aired: 2003-11-01

Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two...

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World War II in Colour

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First aired: 2009-09-04

World War II In Colour is a 13-episode television documentary miniseries recounting the events...

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How to Become a Tyrant

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First aired: 2021-07-09

The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.

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Apocalypse: D-Day

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First aired: 2024-06-05

6 June 1944. A titanic fleet launched an assault on the beaches of Normandy. Objective: to...

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Three Wars

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First aired: 2023-01-25

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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

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First aired: 2012-11-12

Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.

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Brecht

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First aired: 2019-03-22

East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks...

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Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

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First aired: 1999-10-06

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over...

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Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on The East (1941-1943)

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First aired: 2021-10-18

June 1941, Hitler attacks the USSR: he wants to conquer this "Living space" which he dreams of...

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Apocalypse: Stalin

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First aired: 2015-11-03

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

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Crusade in Europe

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First aired: 1949-05-05

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Fox News Tonight

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First aired: 2016-11-14

Veteran political journalist Tucker Carlson hosts this nightly series that bears his name. Fox...

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Le Siècle des icônes

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First aired: 2022-12-27

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A History of Antisemitism

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First aired: 2022-04-12

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews,...

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Warlords

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First aired: 2007-01-07

4 part TV documentary series about the 4 leaders in World War 2. Original aired by Channel Four...

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WWII: The Lost Color Archives

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First aired: 2000-07-05

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Korea: The Forgotten War in Colour

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First aired: 2010-01-01

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Russlands Kriege

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First aired: 2023-02-22

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