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51. 8 hlav sílenství (2017)
107 min | Animation, Biography, Comedy
Story of the talented Russian poet, Anna Barkova (1906-1976), who spent twenty-two years of her life in the Gulags. She survived thanks to her poems, thanks to hope and her passionate love for a woman named Valentina.
Director: Marta Nováková | Stars: Aneta Langerová, Marie Stípková, Anna Sedlácková, Zuzana Fialová
Votes: 43
52. Odna voyna (2009)
89 min | Drama
May, 8, 1945. Maxim Prokhorov, major of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, arrives at a small northern island. There live eleven people: five young women, five children from one to ... See full summary »
Director: Vera Glagoleva | Stars: Aleksandr Baluev, Michael Khmurov, Fyodor Koposov, Natalya Kudryashova
Votes: 169
53. Gulag Barashevo (2015)
Not Rated | 168 min | Drama
Artists, Poets, Writers, Musicians, and Dissidents, Husbands and Wives, in the Marxist USSR GULAG camps of Barashevo and Vorkuta, suffer in and survive their Gulag death camps. It is a ultimately a spiritual struggle.
Director: Michael Kingsbury | Stars: Tanya Raisa, Haydn Winston, Lana Gulevich, Gunita Jansone Black
Votes: 58
54. Kazus Kukotskogo (2005– )
Drama
The middle of the twentieth century. Hereditary surgeon Pavel Alekseevich Kukotsky is one of the most famous gynecologists of his time. Kukotsky developed an extensive program to combat ... See full summary »
Stars: Chulpan Khamatova, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Tsurilo, Elena Drobysheva
Votes: 86
55. Manuscripts don't burn (1997)
79 min | Documentary
The Movie explores the life of few soviet writers under the dictatorship of comrade Joseph Stalin. Some of these writers under severe censorship include Mikhail Bulgakov the author of The ... See full summary »
Director: Reza Allamehzadeh | Stars: Reza Allamehzadeh, Martin Andersen Nexø, Jean Richard Bloch, Emma Gershtein
Votes: 20
56. #Hommes: True Story of the Thieves' World (2015)
134 min | Documentary
It is a unique project that changes radically our ideas about 'Vory v zakone' - Russian mobsters. Never before had a camera penetrated so deeply in the heart of a transnational criminal organization.
Director: Sa Nia | Stars: Nikolay Chernyshev, Vassia Diamond, Gogi Ishkhneli, Heraclius Ishkhneli
Votes: 9
57. Tovarisch, I Am Not Dead (2007)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography, War
Garri Urban, survivor of Holocaust and Gulag and author of the autobiographical book of the same title, revisits the sites of his horrors and triumphs, 50 years later.
Director: Stuart Urban | Stars: Anne Applebaum, Noka Kapranova, Garri Urban, Josephine Urban
Votes: 98
58. Once My Mother: The Forgotten History (2014 Video)
7 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Sophia Turkiewicz, Wladyslaw Anders, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt
59. Londongrad (2008)
10 min | Short, Drama
A dark character study about politics and succession of power within a wealthy Russian family in London.
Director: Wilf Varvill | Stars: Olegar Fedoro, Marek Oravec, Dragan Micanovic, Tommy Bastow
Votes: 35
60. Unforgotten. Myroslava (2018)
Documentary, Short, Biography
Myroslava, 90-year-old Ukrainian poetess and activist in Estonia known as Miroslava Butshko-Jürissaar, unfolds her turbulent and romantic life in verses, prose and music, resonating in souls and hearts of the young.
Director: Vyacheslav Bihun | Stars: Miroslava Butshko-Jürissaar, Ottniell Jürissaar, Lyra Andra, Marion Andra
Votes: 56
61. Solovetski elämän ja kuoleman luostari (1995 TV Movie)
59 min | Documentary, History
Director: Arvo Ahlroos | Stars: Heikki Kirkinen, Patriarch Alexiy II
62. The National Debt/Riigi võlg (2018)
7 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Marina Koreshkova, Maarja Lõhmus | Stars: Kersti Kaljulaid, Jaan Kaup
63. Once My Mother: Beginnings (2014 Video)
7 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Sophia Turkiewicz, Rod Freedman
64. Narva: katkestatud mälu (2019)
45 min | Documentary
Directors: Marina Koreshkova, Maarja Lõhmus, Sergey Tsvetkov | Stars: Silvia Ilmenskaja, Aleksei Jevgrafov, Kersti Kaljulaid, Irina Kruglova
65. The Last Gulag (1989 TV Movie)
Documentary
The Last Gulag is a documentary which follows a French news crew as the visit the last remaining labor camp for political prisoners in the Soviet Union Perm 35. The crew was the first film ... See full summary »
Director: Gilles Delannoy | Stars: Leonid Luvman, Mikhailov, Nikolai Osin
66. Broken Breath (2005)
30 min | Short, Drama
A retired NKVD officer in late 1970s meets relatives of somebody whom he sentenced to death in 1937.
Director: Ilya Severov | Stars: Boris Leonov, Ekaterina Shvagireva, Galina Saburova, Vsevolod Tsurilo
67. Isini (1992)
142 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Levan Zakareishvili | Stars: Zaza Kolelishvili, Mindia Lortkipanidze, Keti Pantskhava, Matlyuba Alimova
Votes: 26
68. Once My Mother: Behind the Scenes (2014 Video)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Stars: Rod Freedman, Sophia Turkiewicz
69. Gulag Barashevo (2014)
13 min | Short, Drama
A Russian dissident in the USSR is arrested and sent to the Gulags.
Director: Michael Kingsbury | Stars: Yulia Moiseenko, Nick Chandler, Przemek Jaremko, Michael P. Mathis
Votes: 13
70. Golgota Basarabiei (2010)
61 min | Documentary
In the periods 1940-1941 and 1944-1991 Bessarabia was under Soviet occupation. This documentary details the atrocities committed by the communist authorities against the local population.
Directors: Ion Chistruga, Alina Ciutac
Votes: 8
71. Perm-36. Reflexion (2016)
100 min | Documentary, History
3 former prisoners speak of their time in Perm-36 gulag, now a museum. "Pilorama" reflects Russian society haunted by post-Soviet phantom pains. Red-brown activists denounce the existence of Perm-36, attracting support. Dark clouds gather.
Director: Sergei Kachkin | Stars: Sergei Kovalev, Michael Meylac, Viktor Pestov
Votes: 20
72. Isäni jalanjäljillä (2006)
52 min | Documentary, History
Director: Jörn Donner | Stars: Jörn Donner, Carl-Kristian Rundman
73. Gold Lost in Siberia (1994)
72 min | Documentary
Eyewitnesses (i.e. former prisoners, idealists, survivors) accounts of their/or others ordeal during the 40's and 50's of the 20th century, being convicted as 'peoples enemies' by the ... See full summary »
Director: Theo Uittenbogaard | Stars: Stepania Fjodorovna, Vadim Kozin, Olga Lisenko, Ivan Lukin
Votes: 5
74. Stalinin kanava (2012 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Director: Arvo Tuominen | Stars: Arvo Tuominen, Joseph Stalin, Naftaly Frenkel, Vanda Kuznetsova
Votes: 8
75. The Last Knight of the Empire (2014)
80 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
This film is about a man whose works were strictly forbidden in Soviet Russia and even his name was not to be spoken. Ivan Solonevich is a Russian philosopher, political activist and ... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Debizhev | Stars: Vladimir Maslakov, Ivan Solonevich
Votes: 12
76. Frautschi (2008)
49 min | Documentary, Music
FRAUTSCHI is an intimate portrait of one of the most influential (and least known) guitar pedagogues in Russia: Kamill Frautschi (1921-1997). A violinist himself, Kamill taught his son ... See full summary »
Directors: Sabine I. Gölz, Oleg Timofeyev | Stars: Alexander Antonov, Evgeny Finkelstein, Alexander Frautschi, Teodor Gladkov
77. Gulag 113 (2005 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 47 min | Documentary
A documentary film about the Soviet Gulag. An 89 year old Estonian Canadian returns to his former home to retrace a terrifying journey that began in 1941. Traveling by car from Tallinn ... See full summary »
Director: Marcus Kolga
Votes: 23
78. Yes, the Alt-Left Exists: Yes, It Is Violent (2017 Video)
15 min | Short, News
Styx agrees with Donald Trump that an alt-left exists.
Star: Styxhexenhammer666
79. Karaganda (1994)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Christiane Rittner | Stars: Gertrud Platais, Frieda Siebeneicher
80. Turning Back the Waves (2009)
96 min | Documentary, Biography
This ethnographic film focuses on seven women of the intelligentsia who have participated in various key historical events in Russia during the Soviet and post-Soviet eras.
Director: Gregory Gan | Stars: Vladimir Alier, Tatiana Mihaylovna Bahmina, Irina Pavlovna Gavrilova, Svetlana Pavlovna Gavrilova
81. Pjotr - Brieven uit de goelag (2008)
25 min | Documentary, Short
Pyotr Alexeyev disappeared in 1937 from his daughter Era's life. At the height of Stalin's purges, he was arrested and transported to a labor camp where he died during the war. Era and her ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Jaap Kuiper | Stars: Inna Petrovna Aleksejeva, Maxim Shaposhnikov, Era Petrovna Sokolova, Katja Sokolova
Votes: 10
82. Vankileirien Syväri (2010 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Arvo Tuominen | Star: Arvo Tuominen
Votes: 7
84. Gulag Vorkuta (2014)
18 min | Short, Drama, History
Gulag Vorkuta, 1964, USSR. Two dissidents arrive at a Gulag transit camp. They are interrogated and resist the de-humanization of the Marxist USSR Gulag system.
Director: Michael Kingsbury | Stars: Nicolas Toscani Brouhard, Yulia Moiseenko
Votes: 15
85. I Want to Live (2014)
22 min | Short, Drama
Director: Sergey Malyugov | Stars: Andrey Terentyev, Valeriy Salomakhin
87. Involuntary Memory (2014)
4 min | Short
The descendant of a Gulag internee undergoes repressed trauma borne from a history of genocide across generations. He attempts to exorcise the still present collective memory through a disturbing re-enactment.
Director: Monika K. Adler | Star: Aeon Rose
88.
The X-Files (1993–2018)
Episode:
Tunguska
(1996)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A tip from Krycek takes Mulder to a gulag in Tunguska, Russia where prisoners are being used for experiments with the black oil alien virus. Meanwhile, Scully's colleague is infected with the same virus which lay dormant in a meteorite.
Director: Kim Manners | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis
Votes: 4,262
89.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The Love-Girl and the Innocent
(1973)
127 min | Drama
The prisoner Nemov is an honest man serving a term of 10 years for violations of Article 58. Nemov falls in love with Lyuba, who is having sex with the camp doctor Mereshchun, in exchange for better food and living conditions.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: David Leland, Gabrielle Lloyd, Richard Durden, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 45
90.
The Styxhexenhammer666 Channel (2010– )
Episode:
Strong and Weak: Admiration vs Disgust of Power
(2019)
9 min | News
Star: Styxhexenhammer666
91.
Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode:
Origines : 1917-1933
(2020)
54 min | Documentary, History
From experimentation to setting up the forced labour system (1918-1936).
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Louisa Gummer, Florence Pernel, Andrei Roschin, Dmitriy Likhachyov
Votes: 38
92.
Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode:
Prolifération : 1934-1945
(2020)
57 min | Documentary, History
The Gulag in the turmoil of the "Great Terror" and war (1937-1945).
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Alexander Prokhorov, Olga Adamova-Sliozberg
Votes: 31
93.
Gulag: The History (2019– )
Episode:
Apogée et agonie : 1945-1957
(2020)
58 min | Documentary, History
The Gulag's peak and decline (1945-1953).
Director: Patrick Rotman | Stars: Florence Pernel, Louisa Gummer, Yuri Fidelgolts, David Boudennyi
Votes: 34
94.
Tim Pool Daily Show (2018– )
US and China WAR May Be Inevitable, as Economy Collapses and Democrats and GOP Fight, War Approaches
(2020 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Tim Pool
95.
Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997)
Episode:
Alaska/Russia
(1997)
49 min | Adventure, Documentary
From Diomede Island to Alaska then across to Kamchatka peninsula which is one of the scenic highlights of this series. From there to Vladivostok.
Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, Rob Hehnlin
Votes: 80
96.
Geographics (2019– )
Episode:
Kyshtym Mayak: The 2nd Worst Nuclear Disaster in Soviet History
(2021)
21 min | Documentary
In 1957 an explosion destroyed a nuclear waste processing facility in Kyshtym Russian. This was the worst radiation release until the Chernobyl disaster. It was covered up by the Soviet ... See full summary »
Star: Simon Whistler
97.
World War Weird (2017– )
Episode:
Episode #3.2
(2019)
Documentary, History, War
A Japanese secret society's repeated attempts to kill Charlie Chaplin and Hitler's plan in 1942 to use educated dogs to do a soldier's job.
Stars: Guy Walters, Joshua Levine, Alexandra Churchill, Tom Bateman
98.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Cold War: Inside the K.G.B.
(2000)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, History, War
Untold stories behind the headlines in the unseen Cold War battles between Western intelligence agencies and the KGB. Features exclusive interviews and new revelations about the KGB's missions and tactics.
Director: Aleksandr Ivankin | Stars: Charlton Heston, Oleg Gordievsky, Pavel Sudoplatov, Vladimir Grushko
Votes: 20
99.
Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode:
This Has Happened
(2020)
Documentary, History, War
Hitler's War moves to its endgame as the Soviets cross the German border - with a death toll of over 40 million, a new scarred, Europe will emerge.
Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Aliaksandr Kakhanouski, David Stahel, Sergei Kudryashov, Dzmitry Kryvashei
100.
New Discourses (2020– )
21st Century Re-Education, The Digital Gulag
(2022 Podcast Episode)
22 min