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1. The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin (1997)
77 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Documentary on how composer Dmitri Shostakovich used his Fourth to Ninth Symphony as a silent protest against the crimes of Stalin.
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: Valery Gergiev, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Flora Litvinova, Graham Haley
Votes: 133
2. The Red Stuff (2000)
78 min | Documentary
A detailed and in-depth look at the early days of the Soviet Union's space program as told by cosmonauts themselves.
Director: Leo De Boer
Votes: 53
3. The Mark of Cain (2001)
73 min | Documentary
Sailing ships, stars, angels and executioners, The Mark of Cain chronicles the vanishing practice and language of Russian Criminal Tattoos. Captured in some of Russia's most notorious ... See full summary »
Director: Alix Lambert
Votes: 398
4. Game Over (2003)
PG | 90 min | Documentary
In 1997, chess champion Garry Kasparov goes head-to-head against IBM's computer, Deep Blue, and accuses IBM of cheating its way to victory. Interviews with Kasparov, his manager and members of the Deep Blue team illuminate the controversy.
Director: Vikram Jayanti | Stars: Marc Ghannoum, Joel Benjamin, Michael Greengard, Anatoli Karpov
Votes: 1,396
5. History Undercover: Terror Strikes Moscow (2003 TV Movie)
Documentary
It was an terrorist attack of breathtaking audacity and daring. 40 Chechen separatists took over a Moscow theater where over 800 people were watching the musical Nord-Ost. 58 hours later, ... See full synopsis »
Director: Deborah Makahra
Votes: 20
6. Stalingrad (2003– )
165 min | Documentary, History, War
The World War 2 Battle of Stalingrad from the initial attack to the repatriation of the survivors after the war.
Stars: Bob van Tol, Albrecht Appelt, Hans Rostewitz, Gerhard Dengler
Votes: 1,021
7. CCCP Hockey (2004 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary, Sport
CCCP-Hockey is a hockeytale about sacrifice and ruthless demands ending up in a revolt against the Soviet-system.
Directors: Malcolm Dixelius, Bengt Löfgren | Stars: Viacheslav Fetisov, Alexei Kasatonov, Vladimir Krutov, Igor Larionov
Votes: 164
8. Children of Beslan (2005 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
On September 1, 2004, a group of heavily armed rebel extremists stormed into School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia. For three days, more than a thousand children and adults were held hostage in a ... See full summary »
Directors: Ewa Ewart, Leslie Woodhead
Votes: 271
9. Beslan: Three Days in September (2006)
TV-14 | 75 min | Documentary
In September 2004, Chechen rebels occupied a school in the small Russian city of Beslan, taking some 1,200 people-most of them children-hostage. At the end of three days, over 330 were dead.
Director: Joe Halderman | Stars: Ruslan Aushev, Shamil Basayev, Dmitry Beliakov, Dariya Fadeeva
Votes: 387
10. Blockade (I) (2006)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary, History, War
The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War. No words. No music. Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city.
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 712
11. Hammer & Tickle (2006)
89 min | Documentary, Comedy, History
George Orwell wrote that in a repressive political system every joke is a "tiny revolution." Jokes were an essential part of the communist experience because the monopoly of state power ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Lewis | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Václav Havel, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Roy Medvedev
Votes: 207
12. Spell Your Name (2006)
PG | 89 min | Documentary
Survivors tell the story of the Babi Yar massacre from WWII, where some 100,000 people were massacred by German forces.
Director: Sergey Bukovsky | Stars: Polina Bel'skaia, Maryna Chaika, Mariia Egorycheva-Glagoleva, Mikhail Fel'berg
Votes: 149
13. Sputnik Fever (2007)
Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary
Documentary looking back at the USSR's Sputnik satellite and its effects at the time and over the last 50 years.
Director: David Hoffman | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Gene Banucci, Jay Barbree, Paul Dickson
Votes: 129 | Gross: $0.01M
14. The Soviet Story (2008)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, History, War
The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale.
Director: Edvins Snore | Stars: Jon Strickland, Vladimir Bukovsky, Vladimir Lenin, Norman Davies
Votes: 3,447
15. World War Two: Behind Closed Doors (2008– )
300 min | Documentary, History, War
A story showing the 3 allied leader's, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin's actions and relationships behind the scenes during World War 2. It isn't as friendly as it seems. Shows how close ... See full summary »
Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Bob Gunton, Paul Humpoletz, Samuel West
Votes: 542
16. Yuri Gagarin Conspiracy: Fallen Idol (2009 Video)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary
Would you be shocked to find out that the greatest moment of our recent history in space may not have happened at all?
Directors: Denny Hooten, Samuel Oldham | Stars: Gordon Feller, Yuri Gagarin, Elliott Gould, Elliott Haimoff
Votes: 24
17. Ganavim Ba Hok (2010)
90 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary film from 2010 tries to give a picture of Russian organized crime not only by describing this system, but also by interviewing some of involved persons, a number of which are currently wanted by Interpol.
Director: Alexander Gentelev | Stars: Leonid Bilunov, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, Vitaly Demochka, Vladimir Ovshinsky
Votes: 424
18. Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A documentary depicting the life and work of the trappers of Bakhtia, a village in the heart of the Siberian Taiga, where daily life has changed little in over a century.
Directors: Werner Herzog, Dmitry Vasyukov | Stars: Werner Herzog, Gennady Soloviev, Anatoly Blumei, Gennady Tiganov
Votes: 8,930 | Gross: $0.34M
19. My Perestroika (2010)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, Family
Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the USSR collapsed, they witnessed the world ... See full summary »
Director: Robin Hessman
Votes: 690 | Gross: $0.24M
20. Putin's Olympic Dream (2013)
79 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Putin's Olympic Dream is about the rapid transformation of the city of Sochi. In just a couple of years it has to be refashioned from a nostalgic Soviet holiday resort, filled with gorgeous... See full summary »
Director: Hans Pool | Stars: Vladimir Putin, Viktor Teplyakov, Alexey Voevodin
Votes: 20
21. Red Army (2014)
PG | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The story of the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.
Director: Gabe Polsky | Stars: Viacheslav Fetisov, Vladislav Tretiak, Scotty Bowman, Vladimir Pozner
Votes: 7,212 | Gross: $0.69M
22. The Event (2015)
Not Rated | 74 min | Documentary, History
In August 1991 a failed coup d'état attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 614
23. The Man Who Was Too Free (2016)
126 min | Documentary
A documentary biopic of Boris Nemtsov, a prominent figure of Russian political opposition and an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin. Boris Nemtsov got murdered in Moscow in February of 2015.
Director: Vera Krichevskaya
Votes: 339
24. I megali outopia (2017)
52 min | Documentary
1917- 2017 One century from the October Revolution. The big dream, the vision shared by millions of people over the world left an indelible mark on the 20th century. It was a utopian dream ... See full summary »
Director: Fotos Lambrinos | Star: Fotos Lambrinos
Votes: 14
25. Icarus (2017)
TV-MA | 120 min | Documentary, Sport
When Bryan sets out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, a chance meeting with a Russian scientist transforms his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller.
Director: Bryan Fogel | Stars: Bryan Fogel, Dave Zabriskie, Don Catlin, Grigory Rodchenkov
Votes: 54,739
26. The Putin Interviews (2017)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary, Biography
Academy Award-winning film-maker Oliver Stone interviews Russian president Vladimir Putin about divisive issues related to U.S.-Russia relations.
Stars: Oliver Stone, Vladimir Putin, Sergei Chudinov, Fernando Sulichin
Votes: 5,271
27. Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin (2018)
85 min | Documentary
Fascinating story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.
Director: Alan Byron | Stars: Michael Adams, Muhammad Ali, Viswanathan Anand, Viktor Baturinskiy
Votes: 201
28. Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Directors: Werner Herzog, André Singer | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, André Singer, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 2,738 | Gross: $0.25M
29. The Russian Five (2018)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Sport
In the late 1980s, the Detroit Red Wings worked to finally break their decades long Stanley Cup drought by extracting players from the Soviet Union, and in the process, changed the way North American hockey is played.
Director: Joshua Riehl | Stars: Scotty Bowman, Don Cherry, Michael Chovich, Jeff Daniels
Votes: 1,423 | Gross: $0.49M
30. Putin's Witnesses (2018)
102 min | Documentary
A rare glimpse at the young Putin and the vast political machine that brought him to power.
Director: Vitaliy Manskiy | Stars: Vladimir Putin, Tony Blair, Anatoliy Chubays, Mikhail Gorbachev
Votes: 1,507
31. Citizen K (2019)
Not Rated | 126 min | Documentary
The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.
Director: Alex Gibney | Stars: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Putin, Leonid Nevzlin, Boris Berezovsky
Votes: 1,609
32. Gorbachev. Heaven (2020)
100 min | Documentary
An interview with former USSR president Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most influential figures of the last century, whose rule heralded the end of the Soviet Union. In an intimate setting, he gives his view of Russia then and now.
Director: Vitaliy Manskiy | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Chulpan Khamatova, Evgeniy Mironov, Vladimir Putin
Votes: 397
33. Putin: A Russian Spy Story (2020)
46 min | Documentary, Biography
A definitive account of Putin's power and how it changed the modern world.
Stars: Vladimir Kara-Murza, Mark Galeotti, Gleb Pavlovsky, Mikhail Fishman
Votes: 685
34. The Man Putin Couldn't Kill (2021 TV Movie)
86 min | Documentary
The incredible story of Alexei Navalny and the Russian plot to kill him.
Director: Jon Blair | Stars: Marcel Theroux, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Putin, Kira Yarmysh
Votes: 697
35. Navalny (2022)
R | 99 min | Documentary, Biography
Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in August 2020. During his months-long recovery he makes shocking discoveries about the attempt on his life and decides to return home.
Director: Daniel Roher | Stars: Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, Christo Grozev, Dasha Navalnaya
Votes: 29,940
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