People's Avengers

People's Avengers 1943

8.50

About the partisan movement during the Great Patriotic War.

1943

Cinema in Russia

Cinema in Russia 1979

4.00

Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.

1979

Island Ablazed

Island Ablazed 1961

1

Documentary recounting the story of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the young people of Cuba.

1961

Auschwitz

Auschwitz 1945

1

Soviet documentary shot right after liberation of Auschwitz. Ot was used as evidence by the Soviet prosecution at the Nuremberg trials. In 2014, footage shot by cameraman Aleksandr Vorontsov, as well as his interview given in 1986 for German television, were included in Andre Singer’s documentary “Night Will Fall”.

1945

The Last Judgement

The Last Judgement 1987

5.80

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his emotional journey through the trial, imprisonment and beyond.

1987

Nuremberg Trials

Nuremberg Trials 1946

4.80

This riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals, brought to trial to account for their actions. The footage includes excerpts from the trials of many of the senior Nazis including Goebels and Goring.

1946

The Three Andreis

The Three Andreis 1966

6.00

A documentary about the making of Andrei Tarkovsky's ANDREI RUBLEV, and Andrei Konchalovsky's THE STORY OF ASYA KLYACHINA.

1966

Cinerama's Russian Adventure

Cinerama's Russian Adventure 1966

5.70

Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet Union. Highlights include the historic buildings and churches of Moscow, as the Kremlin; its subway and streets, a spring carnival, the seaside resorts on the Black Sea, a trip down the Volga River, skiers, a troika racing along a snow-covered road, a helicopter view of the North Pole, an Antarctic whale hunt, the capture of a wild boar in the Moyun-Kum of Central Asia, a race by reindeer-drawn sleds, divers in the Sea of Okhotsk, battling an octopus, the capture of antelopes, rafting logs down the Tisza River, and the development of new towns in Siberia. Other scenes include a visit to the Moscow Circus, where the renowned clown Oleg Popov performs, the dancing of the Moiseyev and Piatnitsky companies, and excerpts from the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theater Ballet.

1966

Velikoye proshchaniye

Velikoye proshchaniye 1953

5.50

March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin.

1953

Stars Meet in Moscow

Stars Meet in Moscow 1959

1

Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum.

1959

Victory Parade

Victory Parade 1945

2.00

Soviet Documentary film of the 1945 victory parade in Moscows Red Square.

1945

World Without a Game

World Without a Game 1966

1

Documentary portrait of Dziga Vertov, father of documentary cinema.

1966

Remembering Kharlamov

Remembering Kharlamov 1982

1

About the Soviet hockey player V. Kharlamov. Teammates, children's coach B.P. Kulagin, and national team coach A. Tarasov share their memories.

1982

A Propos of the Truce with Finland

A Propos of the Truce with Finland 1944

6.00

A rare documentary that shows how Soviet war propaganda presented the events of the Finnish front in 1941–1944. The main emphasis is on the resolution of the war. The film contains plenty of unique footage of the final stages of the Continuation War.

1944

Ukraine in Flames

Ukraine in Flames 1943

5.20

A 1943 Soviet documentary war film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary, and dealt with the Battle of Kharkov. The film incorporates German footage of the invasion of Ukraine, which was later captured by the Soviets.

1943