Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (Russian: Михаи́л Серге́евич Горбачёв; 2 March 1931 - 30 August 2022) was a Russian and former Soviet politician. The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. He was also the country's head of state from 1988 until 1991, serving as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990, and president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, he initially adhered to Marxism–Leninism although by the early 1990s had moved toward social democracy.
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear...
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Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR
as Self (archive footage)Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological...
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Faraway, So Close!
as Mikhail GorbachevDamiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The...
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Zero Days
as Self (archive footage)Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in...
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In the Grip of Gazprom
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics....
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The Way I See It
as Self (archive footage)Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret...
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Putin's Witnesses
as Self - Politician (archive footage)Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation,...
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The Battle of Chernobyl
as SelfOn April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor...
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The Russian Woodpecker
as Former President Russia (archive footage)As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear...
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Meeting Gorbachev
as SelfMikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog...
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
as Self (archive footage)Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world...
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
as Self - Homme d'État soviétique et russe (archive footage)Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the...
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as Self (archive footage)An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st...
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks...
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Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
as Self (archive footage)Thirty-six years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine, newly uncovered...
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
as Self (archive footage)The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable...
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Frenemies: Putin and Trump
as Self - Politician (archive footage)Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump...
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The Long Breakup
as Self - Politician (archive footage)Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes...
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The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files
as SelfOn Nov. 22, 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The mystery...
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The Soviet Story
as Self (archive footage)“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which...
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Disco and Atomic War
as Self (archive footage)A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze...
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Ceausescu: Behind the Myth
as Self (archive footage)Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of...
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Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party
as Self - Politician (archive footage)The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy...
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The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
as uncreditedThe three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made...
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USSR (1917-1991)
as Self (archive footage)Experimental short film that explores the rise and decline of the Soviet Union, from the...
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Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
as Self (archive footage)Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of...
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Freedom's Fury
as uncreditedA documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in...
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The Man Who Defied Beijing
as Self - Politician (archive footage)A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre...
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Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!
as Self (archive footage)After years of requests, Nardwuar the Human Serviette has finally entered the digital age with a...
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Free to Rock
as SelfRock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe...
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30 Years of Democracy
as Self (archive footage)Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in...
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as SelfA film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the...
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My Favorite War
as Self - Politician (archive footage)Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a...
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Era Of Dance
as Self (archive footage)The film tells a story about the latest musical revolution in recent history – the early days of...
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Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe
as Self - Politician (archive footage)Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność...
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The Art of Dissent
as Self - Subject (archive footage)"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in...
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A Bitter Taste of Freedom
as uncreditedIn her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired...
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Disaster at Chernobyl
as Self (archive footage)The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a...
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Mr. Landsbergis
as Self (archive footage)This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the...
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
as Self (archive footage)Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew...
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Children of the 20th Congress
as (archive footage)In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties.
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Gorbachev. Heaven
as SelfAn immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect...
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Sakharov. Two Lives
as Self (archive footage)Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over...
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Hammer & Tickle
as Self (archive footage)Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes"...
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Laissez-faire
as Self (archive footage)A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today...
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Reagan
as SelfIn 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular...
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The Last Days of the USSR
as SelfFrom 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry...
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Here to Stay
as SelfUrban sprawl, extinct species, depletion of natural resources and global warming are all causes...
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Desert Storm: The War Begins
as Self (archive footage)An historic presentation by CNN documenting the lead up to and the beginning of the war in Iraq.
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Our Africa
as Self1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly...
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Stasi, un État contre son peuple
as Self (archive footage)After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded...
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Gorbacheva
as uncreditedRaisa Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher. Their names have been in...
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Those Who Dare
as Self (archive footage)When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement...
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The Arrow of Time
as SelfPresident Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.
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He Came to Give Us Freedom
as uncreditedBiographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom...
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Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired
as SelfThis is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country...
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The Collapse of The Soviet Union
as SelfThe film is using episodes filmed mainly at the Kremlin, Soviet Union's headquarters which...
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Day of Revelation
as uncreditedAbout the leaders and the nature of the activities of informal groups in Moscow: “Democratic...
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
as SelfOliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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History 101
as Self (archive footage)Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs,...
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Days That Shook the World
as Self (archive footage)Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two...
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Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
as Self (archive footage)With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive...
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First Ladies
as Self (archive footage)Blending in-depth interviews, rare archival footage, and cinematic recreations, this docuseries...
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Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator
as Self (archive footage)In-depth documentary mini-series presenting the rise, rule and fall of communist Romanian...
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Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?
as Self (archive footage)No easy answers? Decision-makers from Kissinger to Rice revisit how the US responded to...
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The Second Russian Revolution
as SelfThe acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet...
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Zero Hour
as SelfZero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they...
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Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
as Self (archive footage)Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over...
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Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone
as Self (archive footage)What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by...
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Traitors
as Self (archive footage)A documentary series that explores who brought Vladimir Putin to power, and why. It meticulously...
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