KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

November 2024 •English

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

Space Race

November 2024 •English

The untold true story behind the Cold War race to put man into space.

Canada vs USSR 1972

November 2024 •English

It is a moment unlike any other in time. From coast to coast, Canada is united by the game we call our own. The outcome of this historic "Summit Series" is decided in the final minute of the final game. After playing the Soviets in the Forum, Maple Leaf Gardens, Winnipeg and Vancouver, Team Canada leaves for Moscow with only one victory on home ice. Behind the Iron Curtain, they lose the first of the remaining four at the Luzhniki Ice Palace. What follows, is the most dramatic hockey series ever played.

Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

November 2024 •English

Betray your country, save the world. Spies and traitors play a dangerous game in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

Moskaus Imperium: Alter Traum von Macht und Stärke

November 2024 •German

Apocalypse: Stalin

November 2024 •French

The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.

Крушение СССР

November 2024 •Russian

Chasing the Moon

November 2024 •English

An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the moonshot, revealing a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama.

Хроники видика: легенды эпохи VHS

November 2024 •Russian

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

November 2024 •English

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, first broadcast in 1989, is a thirteen-part PBS series on the origins and evolution of nuclear competition between the United States and the former Soviet Union. The series examined the rivalry for power and how it shaped the diplomacy, negotiation, ethical debates, and doctrine of deterrence that ran through the forty-year history of the nuclear age. This collection contains the full interviews and selected stock footage from the series.

InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet

November 2024 •Russian

Dashing authors, the first porn sites and the last bastards. How the Russian Internet appeared and how it changed: from complete freedom to the appearance of censorship and the law on isolation.

Stalin

November 2024 •English

Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving witnesses.

Gulag, the Story

November 2024 •French

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

November 2024 •English

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

Kekkonen

November 2024 •Finnish

The whole story of Urho Kekkonen, the most important statesman during Finland's independence.

L'Armée rouge

November 2024 •French

The Silent War

November 2024 •English

The story of the underwater war between US, UK and Soviet submarines in the second half of the 20th century.

War of the Century

November 2024 •English

The War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin, is a BBC documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and the no-holds-barred war on both sides. It not only examines the war but also the terror inside the Soviet Union at the time due to the paranoia of Joseph Stalin - the revenge atrocities, the Great Purge of army officers, the near-lunacy orders, and the paranoia of being upstaged by others, especially Marshal Zhukov. The historical adviser is Ian Kershaw.

Spaceflight

November 2024 •English

This 4-part documentary miniseries covers the history of manned and unmanned space-flight, from the late 1800s through the mid-1980s.

The Iron Curtain: Tales of Soviet Occupation

November 2024 •French

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on central and eastern Europe after the Second World War? From 1945 until the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, citizens of central and eastern Europe tell their stories of how their countries were occupied and transformed into communist states.