Mikhail Gorbachev

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.

  • Title: Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Popularity: 2.522
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1931-03-02
  • Place of Birth: Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
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  • Also Known As: Михаил Горбачев, Mikhail Gorbachyov, Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, Mikhaïl Gorbatchov, Michail Gorbačov , Michail S. Gorbatschow
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Mikhail Gorbachev Movies

  • 2023
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    In the Grip of Gazprom

    In the Grip of Gazprom

    8 2023 HD

    The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become...

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  • 2003
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    Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde

    Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde

    1 2003 HD

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  • 2021
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    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

    7.7 2021 HD

    Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single...

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  • 2009
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    Here to Stay

    Here to Stay

    5.6 2009 HD

    Urban sprawl, extinct species, depletion of natural resources and global warming are all causes of deep anxiety. Here to stay takes an uncompromising...

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  • 2015
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    Laissez-faire

    Laissez-faire

    10 2015 HD

    A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...

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  • 2021
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    Mr. Landsbergis

    Mr. Landsbergis

    8.2 2021 HD

    This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the Soviet Union. This period of peaceful protests...

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  • 1987
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    Der springende Punkt

    Der springende Punkt

    1 1987 HD

    Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

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  • 2015
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    Those Who Dare

    Those Who Dare

    1 2015 HD

    When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for...

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  • 2011
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    A Bitter Taste of Freedom

    A Bitter Taste of Freedom

    6.3 2011 HD

    In her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. At age 48...

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  • 2021
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    The Art of Dissent

    The Art of Dissent

    1 2021 HD

    "The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The...

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  • 2019
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    30 Years of Democracy

    30 Years of Democracy

    8 2019 HD

    Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The...

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  • 1996
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    Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

    Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2

    1 1996 HD

    Historic 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...

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  • 2022
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    Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

    Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes

    7.6 2022 HD

    Thirty-six years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine, newly uncovered archival footage and recorded interviews with those...

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  • 2006
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    Freedom's Fury

    Freedom's Fury

    7.6 2006 HD

    A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were...

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  • 2020
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    The Long Breakup

    The Long Breakup

    5.5 2020 HD

    Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties...

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  • 2014
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    Quando c'era Berlinguer

    Quando c'era Berlinguer

    7.2 2014 HD

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  • 1999
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    Die Sekretäre

    Die Sekretäre

    1 1999 HD

    The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together,...

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  • 2017
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    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

    À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

    7 2017 HD

    Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

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  • 1989
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    The Abyss

    The Abyss

    7.351 1989 HD

    A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself...

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  • 1998
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    Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial

    Mikhail Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial

    1 1998 HD

    Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, was featured in a 1998 television advertisement for Pizza Hut.

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  • 1999
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    When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World

    When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World

    1 1999 HD

    A detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down, on a local, national and...

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  • 2024
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    Gorbacheva

    Gorbacheva

    1 2024 HD

    Raisa Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher. Their names have been in the same row for a long time. This film is a bold...

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  • 1984
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    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

    6.2 1984 HD

    A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

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  • 2007
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    Hammer & Tickle

    Hammer & Tickle

    7.4 2007 HD

    Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.

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  • 2021
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    Stasi, un État contre son peuple

    Stasi, un État contre son peuple

    9 2021 HD

    After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six...

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  • 2016
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    Zero Days

    Zero Days

    7.31 2016 HD

    Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently...

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  • 1992
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    Strictly Propaganda

    Strictly Propaganda

    6.2 1992 HD

    A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the...

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  • 1989
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    Day of Revelation

    Day of Revelation

    1 1989 HD

    About the leaders and the nature of the activities of informal groups in Moscow: “Democratic Union” and “People’s...

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  • 1999
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    The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files

    The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files

    5 1999 HD

    On Nov. 22, 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The mystery surrounding this history-changing event has led to many...

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  • 1993
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    Faraway, So Close!

    Faraway, So Close!

    6.9 1993 HD

    Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more...

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  • 2004
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    Disaster at Chernobyl

    Disaster at Chernobyl

    7.5 2004 HD

    The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An...

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  • 1991
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    Desert Storm: The War Begins

    Desert Storm: The War Begins

    1 1991 HD

    An historic presentation by CNN documenting the lead up to and the beginning of the war in Iraq.

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  • 2007
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    The Battle of Chernobyl

    The Battle of Chernobyl

    7.5 2007 HD

    On April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant just exploded....

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  • 2017
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    Free to Rock

    Free to Rock

    6.4 2017 HD

    Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it...

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  • 2015
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    The Russian Woodpecker

    The Russian Woodpecker

    6.3 2015 HD

    As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether...

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  • 1994
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    But... Seriously

    But... Seriously

    10 1994 HD

    A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

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  • 2017
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    Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

    Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired

    6 2017 HD

    This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and...

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  • 2010
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    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

    The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu

    7.8 2010 HD

    The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the...

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  • 1998
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    Reagan

    Reagan

    6 1998 HD

    In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the...

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  • 2018
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    Lusia in Wonderland

    Lusia in Wonderland

    1 2018 HD

    How Lyusia Stein - a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow - went to work for Ksenia Sobchak's campaign headquarters.

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  • 2018
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    Putin's Witnesses

    Putin's Witnesses

    6.5 2018 HD

    Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president...

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  • 2009
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    Disco and Atomic War

    Disco and Atomic War

    5.6 2009 HD

    A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers...

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  • 2019
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    Meeting Gorbachev

    Meeting Gorbachev

    6.583 2019 HD

    Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the...

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  • 2019
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    Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party

    Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party

    8 2019 HD

    The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonstrations were violently and bloodily repressed....

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  • 2019
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    The Man Who Defied Beijing

    The Man Who Defied Beijing

    6.5 2019 HD

    A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly...

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  • 1990
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    Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

    Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

    7.3 1990 HD

    Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture....

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  • 2017
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    The Arrow of Time

    The Arrow of Time

    1 2017 HD

    President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

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  • 2012
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    41

    41

    5.8 2012 HD

    An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.

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  • 2019
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    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

    Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe

    7 2019 HD

    Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union...

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  • 2020
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    Frenemies: Putin and Trump

    Frenemies: Putin and Trump

    7.5 2020 HD

    Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in...

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  • 2020
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    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

    Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

    6.857 2020 HD

    The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over...

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  • 2012
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    Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende

    Der Sturz - Honeckers Ende

    1 2012 HD

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  • 2006
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    The Collapse of The Soviet Union

    The Collapse of The Soviet Union

    1 2006 HD

    The film is using episodes filmed mainly at the Kremlin, Soviet Union's headquarters which enable to have a glance to world's most well-known...

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  • 1991
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    Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

    Ceausescu: Behind the Myth

    3 1991 HD

    Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989,...

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  • 2006
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    Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!

    Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo!

    1 2006 HD

    After years of requests, Nardwuar the Human Serviette has finally entered the digital age with a compilation of over 60 of his favourite video...

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  • 2011
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    He Came to Give Us Freedom

    He Came to Give Us Freedom

    1 2011 HD

    Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist...

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  • 2021
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    Gorbachev. Heaven

    Gorbachev. Heaven

    8.2 2021 HD

    An immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect of perestroika and glasnost, who was praised in the...

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  • 2020
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    My Favorite War

    My Favorite War

    6.7 2020 HD

    Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the...

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  • 2019
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    Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

    Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

    6.4 2019 HD

    Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph...

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  • 2020
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    The Way I See It

    The Way I See It

    7.724 2020 HD

    Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret clearance and total access to the President.

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  • 2017
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    Era Of Dance

    Era Of Dance

    8 2017 HD

    The film tells a story about the latest musical revolution in recent history – the early days of the rave scene and the golden age of techno...

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  • 2018
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    Our Africa

    Our Africa

    1 2018 HD

    1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the...

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  • 2011
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    The Last Days of the USSR

    The Last Days of the USSR

    8 2011 HD

    From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic...

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  • 2021
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    Sakharov. Two Lives

    Sakharov. Two Lives

    1 2021 HD

    Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over the world: someone as the creator of the hydrogen bomb,...

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  • 2021
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    Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR

    Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR

    8.5 2021 HD

    Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and sanitary disaster that made Pripiat a part of...

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  • 1988
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    Children of the 20th Congress

    Children of the 20th Congress

    1 1988 HD

    In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties.

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  • 2024
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    USSR (1917-1991)

    USSR (1917-1991)

    1 2024 HD

    Experimental short film that explores the rise and decline of the Soviet Union, from the revolutionary spark of 1917 to the challenges and sacrifices...

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  • 2008
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    The Soviet Story

    The Soviet Story

    7.1 2008 HD

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

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  • 1999
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    Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

    Faith of the Century: A History of Communism

    8.5 1999 HD

    Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women...

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  • 2002
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    The School for Scandal

    The School for Scandal

    4.3 2002 HD

    A talk show

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  • 2012
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    Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

    Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States

    7.8 2012 HD

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

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  • 1991
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    The Second Russian Revolution

    The Second Russian Revolution

    1 1991 HD

    The acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet Union and the battle for perestroika.

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  • 2004
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    Zero Hour

    Zero Hour

    7.3 2004 HD

    Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and...

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  • 2023
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    Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator

    Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator

    7.2 2023 HD

    In-depth documentary mini-series presenting the rise, rule and fall of communist Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and the way he shaped both...

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  • 2003
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    Days That Shook the World

    Days That Shook the World

    6.3 2003 HD

    Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various...

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  • 1995
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    Goldene Henne

    Goldene Henne

    1 1995 HD

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  • 2022
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    Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

    Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

    9.2 2022 HD

    What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

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  • 2024
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    Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

    Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

    7.679 2024 HD

    With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.

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  • 1998
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    Die Johannes B. Kerner Show

    Die Johannes B. Kerner Show

    4 1998 HD

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  • 2023
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    Three Wars

    Three Wars

    1 2023 HD

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  • 1991
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    DAS!

    DAS!

    4.8 1991 HD

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  • 1999
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    Maybrit Illner

    Maybrit Illner

    8 1999 HD

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  • 1999
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    Beckmann

    Beckmann

    3 1999 HD

    Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.

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  • 1998
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    Ein Herz für Kinder

    Ein Herz für Kinder

    10 1998 HD

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  • 2020
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    History 101

    History 101

    7.053 2020 HD

    Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.

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  • 1982
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    Menschen

    Menschen

    4 1982 HD

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  • 2024
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    Traitors

    Traitors

    1 2024 HD

    A documentary series that explores who brought Vladimir Putin to power, and why. It meticulously reconstructs the sequence of events that have led us...

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  • 2020
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    First Ladies

    First Ladies

    5.3 2020 HD

    Blending in-depth interviews, rare archival footage, and cinematic recreations, this docuseries on the lives of America's most iconic First Ladies is...

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  • 2024
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    Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?

    Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World?

    1 2024 HD

    No easy answers? Decision-makers from Kissinger to Rice revisit how the US responded to conflicts from Rwanda to Iraq. Faced with human suffering -...

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