The Guns of August
Dec 24, 1964Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.
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Leon Trotsky
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All'armi siam fascisti!
Apr 25, 1962Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience.
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Human Remains
Mar 21, 1998Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
Feb 20, 1996Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the 20th century. Following the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Russia faces the venom of Nazi aggression. 1940's film footage reveals the harsh reality of total war, as the Red Army and Soviet civilians alike confront a brutal and tenacious enemy. The following decades are darkened by tensions between the USSR and foreign powers, and violent measures taken to silence voices of dissent. Finally, the Soviet people's yearning for a freer society leads to accelerating reforms and the ultimate dissolution of the USSR.
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Tsar to Lenin
Mar 06, 1937A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.
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L'Anniversaire de la révolution
Nov 07, 1918Une chronique de la révolution russe de 1917, de la révolution démocratique bourgeoise de février à la grande révolution socialiste d'octobre et au triomphe final.
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История гражданской войны
Jun 01, 1921The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.
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Stalin: Man of Steel
Jan 01, 2003Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
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Murnau, Borzage and Fox
Dec 09, 2008Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.
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Мозг Советской России
Apr 30, 1919This film shows us leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution.
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Herrar i storm och herrar i krona
Dec 12, 1934“A retrospect of European events during the past forty years, composed from early documentary material, and including one of the earliest extant specimens of news-reel film dating from 1897.” - The [London] Film Society, 1936.
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Возвращение Вертова
Apr 19, 2024The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life. It is a documentary about the work of Dziga Vertov, a prominent soviet director, and the restoration of the director’s original concept of the films Anniversary of the Revolution (1918), The History of the Civil War (1921), Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
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Кино-Правда № 14
Jan 29, 1923Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Profintern.
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The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
Mar 22, 2005Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the full spectrum of the historical and cultural influences that shaped her. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRIDA KAHLO explores the 20th century icon who became an international sensation in the worlds of modern art and radical politics.
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Halfway to Hell
Feb 21, 1953Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps.
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Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death
Sep 08, 2015For 20 years, theirs was an ideological duel between two visions of Communism; a political duel, a duel for power, and above all, a duel to the death. By having Trotsky exiled and finally assassinated, Stalin gained sole control of Russia and became the unassailable dictator of the country.
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Lénine : une autre histoire de la révolution russe
Jun 10, 2018En faisant revivre pas à pas la, ou plutôt les révolutions de 1917, de février à octobre, ce documentaire tissé d'archives exceptionnelles montre un Lénine ballotté par la puissance des événements, bien loin de sa légende.
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Trotsky y México. Dos revoluciones del siglo XX
Jan 01, 2006"Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolutionary asylum by President Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico.
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El elegido
Sep 02, 2016Un homme nommé Jacques Mornard arrive au Mexique en 1940, prétendant être un Belge qui fuit la guerre en Europe pour rejoindre sa petite amie, l'une des secrétaires du réfugié Léon Trotsky. Mais personne ne sait qu'en réalité ce jeune homme conventionnel et joyeux est en réalité un agent du GRU (Services secrets soviétiques) et a été envoyé pour assassiner Trotsky.
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Les Bourreaux de Staline : Katyn, 1940
Feb 18, 2020Le massacre de Katyn, perpétré par le NKVD soviétique en 1940, n'était qu'un des nombreux crimes innommables commis par les bourreaux de Staline pendant trois décennies. En fait, le meurtre en masse de 4 400 officiers polonais s'inscrivait dans le cadre d'une purge implacable dont les secrets n'ont été que récemment partiellement dévoilés.
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Apr 27, 2021Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.
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La Foi du siècle
Oct 27, 1999Le communisme a suscité sur tous les continents, à travers quatre générations et sept décennies, l’engagement fraternel et généreux de centaines de millions de femmes et d’hommes qui ont servi l’un des systèmes les plus injustes et les plus sanglants de l’Histoire. « La Foi du siècle », en trois heures et demie d’images d’archives inédites, explore le mystère d’une machine totalitaire qui a séduit une part de l’humanité et restitue à chaque époque ce qui a entraîné les hommes à adhérer à cette religion terrestre.
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Histoire de l'antisémitisme
Apr 12, 2022Un récit détaillé des deux millénaires d'intolérance et de persécution subis par les Juifs, de l'Antiquité à nos jours.
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