Alexander Nevsky
Eisenstein’s silent classic dramatizes a 1905 sailor mutiny; its Odessa-Steps massacre redefined montage.
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Straightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne.
A dramatized account of the 1905 mutiny aboard the Russian battleship Potemkin, described through groundbreaking montage techniques.
Legendary fantasy filmmaker Aleksandr Ptushko's sweeping, visual F/X-filled epic is one of his most enchanting achievements: a stunning Cinemascope ballad of heroic medieval knights, ruthless Tugar in…
Part Kafka, part Agatha Christie and part Monty Python, Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov's surreal satire of Communism follows an Everyman engineer named Varakin (Leonid Filatov) who arrives in a r…
The history of the Russian Space Program from being the first to send a satellite into space through its downward spiral due to the demise of the Soviet Union.
Silent film adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's novel about an expedition to a South American plateau where dinosaurs still live, notable for pioneering stop-motion special effects by Willis O'Brien.
Just prior to the Russian Revolution a mysterious 40 megaton explosion lays to waste nearly 200 square kilometers of Earth in the desolate northlands of Siberia.
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky was thrown into the global spotlight and became the face of resistance and the perseverance of democracy. Not even Zelensky himself imagined that in 201…
At the height of the Cold War, a CIA officer and a beautiful Russian double agent must stop the Soviet Union from launching a surprise missile attack on the United States.
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949) stars Charles Laughton as Inspector Maigret, investigating a Paris murder. Directed by Burgess Meredith, this suspenseful crime thriller unfolds against the iconic b…
Rezso Kasztner, known as the Jewish Schindler, negotiated face to face with Adolf Eichmann, rescuing 1700 Jews on a train to Switzerland. Yet Kasztner was condemned in a trial in Israel as a collabor…
It remains the least-known story of the twentieth century - A president and a pope; an unlikely pair who combine deep faith with political acumen and high-octane star power. A plot that involves two a…
Hungarian Cardinal Josef Mindszenty opposed both Nazi and Communist regimes, enduring arrest and torture. Later persecuted, he took long-term refuge in the US Embassy in Budapest, continuing to speak …
From imprisonment in both Iraq and Iran, to the honor killing of a Turkish infidel, to arson in a fight with the mafia, this is the true story of how an Armenian born into abject poverty made his to H…
An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.
The communist system first gained ground during the French Revolution and was carried on through various systems by François-Noël "Gracchus" Babeuf, who is considered the first revolutionary communist…
The Russian Revolution in 1917 changed the course of history. Two families go to war; Lenin’s Ulyanovs and the Tsar’s Romanovs. The battle would feature assassinations, executions and a daring seizure…
Society melodrama about a wealthy father who purchases an island to prove to his son that communism won't work.
Estonian director Grigori Kromanov's dazzling, paranoid mixture of locked-room mystery, 1970s Euro giallo, classic noir whodunit, and (unbelievably) alien sci-fi ala THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, based o…
Iranium is a timely documentary presenting the dangerous scenarios posed to the free world by a nuclear Iran. The film exposes the dangerous ideology guiding the Iranian regime, and the devastation ca…
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson must protect a Swiss inventor of an advanced bomb sight from falling into German hands.
Together with five Soviet avant-garde artists, hero of the Russian revolution Polina Schneider travels to Siberia to 'civilize' the native Khanty and Nenets tribes, for whom interaction with foreigner…