Russian History Movies
- 2018
Kursk
Kursk6.6512018HD
Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew...
- 2017
Furious
Furious6.12017HD
A story of a legendary battle, where seventeen fearless warriors defend their land against an army of thousands well-trained soldiers. In 13th-century...
- 1981
Reds
Reds6.91981HD
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical co...
- 2002
Russian Ark
Russian Ark7.32002HD
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
- 1932
Rasputin and the Empress
Rasputin and the Empress5.21932HD
The story of corrupt, power-hungry, manipulative Grigori Rasputin's influence on members of the Russian Imperial family and others, and what resulted.
- 2018
Putin's Witnesses
Putin's Witnesses6.4532018HD
Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president...
- 2013
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars6.22013HD
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event puts...
- 1969
Battle of the Japan Sea
Battle of the Japan Sea61969HD
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a...
- 2021
Russen und Deutsche - Sieben historische Wendepunkte
Russen und Deutsche - Sieben historische Wendepunkte02021HD
- 2004
Disaster at Chernobyl
Disaster at Chernobyl7.52004HD
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 accoun...
- 2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre6.8572020HD
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 t...
- 2017
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution32017HD
Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battl...
- 2017
In the Turmoil of the Russian Revolution
In the Turmoil of the Russian Revolution7.82017HD
2017 marks the centenary of one of the most significant events of the 20th century - the Russian Revolution. Using the private journals of Pierre Gill...
- 1986
Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov5.91986HD
Praised for its fine photography and production design if not its narrative, Sergei Bondarchuk directed this adaptation of the tale by Alexander Pushk...
- 2018
The Tolstoy Defence
The Tolstoy Defence6.92018HD
The shrill and tragic story about an event that involved Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. In an infantry regiment of the military based in the Tula regi...
- 2021
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle42021HD
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Дереве...
- 1918
Anniversary of the Revolution
Anniversary of the Revolution6.71918HD
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the fin...
- 2023
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History
The Gulag Archipelago: The Book That Changed Russian History9.32023HD
The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...
- 2020
The Long Breakup
The Long Breakup5.52020HD
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties to...
- 2018
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman72018HD
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980),a literary masterpiece, a monumental...