Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Born: December 18, 1878
Died: March 5, 1953
in Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Caucasus Viceroyalty, Russian Empire [now Georgia]
Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) was born in Gori, Tiflis province, Russian Empire - a Soviet political, statesman, military and party figure, a Russian revolutionary. Actual leader of the USSR. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1922-1953). Marshal of the Soviet Union (1943), Generalissimo of the Soviet Union (1945). People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (since July 19, 1941), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Chairman of the USSR State Defense Committee. He also held the following positions: From April 3, 1922 to February 10, 1934 - Secretary General, then - Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (from 1952 - CPSU), from December 19, 1930, after Vyacheslav Molotov took the post of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR instead of Alexey Rykov. In 1912, at the suggestion of V.I. Lenin was included in the Central Committee of the RSDLP. At the same time, Joseph Dzhugashvili finally chose the pseudonym "Stalin" for himself. During the October Revolution, the Second All-Russian Congress was elected a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars. In 1922, at the Plenum of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), he was elected a member of the Orgburo and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the RCP (b), as well as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) (when Lenin was Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR). In 1930, after the weakening and death of Lenin, Stalin finally emerged victorious from the internal party struggle, becoming the leader of the state. Stalin was the actual founder of the totalitarian dictatorship in the USSR. In 1928-1929 he was the initiator of the transition from the course of the New Economic Policy (NEP) to the course of industrialization, collectivization and building a planned economy, and intensified the policy of the cultural revolution in the USSR.

Movies for Joseph Stalin...

The Bloody Hundredth
Title: The Bloody Hundredth
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 14, 2024
Type: Movie
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transformative events of the 100th Bomb Group.
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Title: Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 12, 2024
Type: TV
With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.
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Ukraine: A Battle for History
Title: Ukraine: A Battle for History
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 20, 2024
Type: Movie
"Vladimir versus Volodymyr" or: the ancient battle between Russian and Ukrainian historical narratives, in which a medieval prince serves as justification for Putin's war of aggression. The documentary goes in search of key moments in Ukrainian historiography and reveals how one of the bloodiest wars in Europe since 1945 came about. It traces the long struggle of Ukrainians against a Russian oppressive culture and deciphers how their struggle for freedom and independence is above all a battle for their own history that has been waged for generations. A story of daring Vikings, of the flourishing Middle Ages as a bridge between Europe and Asia, of Polish foreign rule, of knightly Cossacks, and of a ambitious Russian tsarina, Catherine the Great, who subjugated the south of today's Ukraine and thus became the brutal pioneer of events in the 20th century, where Millions of people have died, been murdered or deported as a result of wars, revolutions, pogroms and starvation.
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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Title: Filmmakers for the Prosecution
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: January 27, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.
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Title: Three Wars
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: TV
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Title: Le Siècle des icônes
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 27, 2022
Type: TV
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A Compassionate Spy
Title: A Compassionate Spy
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
Physicist Ted Hall is recruited to join the Manhattan Project as a teenager and goes to Los Alamos with no idea what he'll be working on. When he learns the true nature of the weapon being designed, he fears the post-war risk of a nuclear holocaust and begins to pass significant information to the Soviet Union.
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Title: A History of Antisemitism
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: April 12, 2022
Type: TV
A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.
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Matruska - Rusya & Ukrayna Belgeseli
Title: Matruska - Rusya & Ukrayna Belgeseli
Released: March 4, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Apocalypse: Hitler Takes on The East (1941-1943)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 18, 2021
Type: TV
June 1941, Hitler attacks the USSR: he wants to conquer this "Living space" which he dreams of for his Reich. It comes up against enemy realities: the vastness of the territory, the polar cold and the determination of a people with inexhaustible human resources. How far will Hitler take Germany?
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Title: How to Become a Tyrant
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 9, 2021
Type: TV
The documentary series explores different political figures throughout history.
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Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
Title: Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Based on Worldwide Defeat by Salvador Borrego, it exposes the forbidden side of history and reveals Adolf Hitler's hamartia.
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Title: The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: April 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.
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Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
Title: Congrès de Tours 1920: The Birth of the French Communist Party
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 12, 2020
Type: Movie
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Big Data, Big Brother
Title: Big Data, Big Brother
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: November 11, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of the cross destiny of George Orwell (1903-50) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the genius authors of the two most groundbreaking novels of anticipation of the 20th century: 1984 and Brave New World; two lucid witnesses of the maledictions of the modern world whose novels have found a considerable echo with our time.
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The Long Breakup
Title: The Long Breakup
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: October 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties to Russia for centuries; how it broke away from the USSR and began to walk alone; the Orange Revolution, the Maidan Revolution, the Crimea annexation, the Donbass War; all through the eyes of her family and friends settled in Kharkiv, a large Ukrainian city located just eighteen miles from the Russian border.
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#UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump
Title: #UNFIT: The Psychology of Donald Trump
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Medical doctors and mental health professionals go on camera, on the record, for the record, for a discussion, analysis, and science-based examination of the behavior, psyche, condition, and stability of President Donald Trump. Also examines Trump's effect on our citizenry, culture, and institutions.
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Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Title: Korea, A Hundred Years of War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2020
Type: Movie
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of both South and North Korea in a single narrative.
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Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid
Title: Money, Fascism, and Some Sort of Acid
Character: Himself
Released: March 5, 2020
Type: Movie
A collection of five short films tackling the military industrial complex, the rise of fascism, political polarization and various issues in modern society.
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Title: Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 18, 2020
Type: Movie
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 three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
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Laboratory Greece
Title: Laboratory Greece
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 8, 2019
Type: Movie
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts
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I Invite You to My Execution
Title: I Invite You to My Execution
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: October 30, 2019
Type: Movie
As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it supposedly shows a critical view of the October Revolution, he decides to smuggle several copies of the manuscript out of the country. It is first published in 1957 in Italia and the author receives the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958, which has consequences.
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State Funeral
Title: State Funeral
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 22, 2019
Type: Movie
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film is based on unique archive footage, shot in the USSR on March 5 - 9, 1953, when the country mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Title: Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s top counsel during investigations into Communist activities in the 1950s, Cohn is also known for being Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, fixer and mentor.
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Title: The UnXplained
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 19, 2019
Type: TV
Explore the world’s most fascinating, strange and inexplicable mysteries. Each episode features compelling contributions from scientists, historians, witnesses and experiencers—each seeking to shed light on how the seemingly impossible actually can happen.
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Title: Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 12, 2019
Type: TV
Using highly advanced colourisation techniques, critical moments from World War II, from Stalingrad to The Battle of Britain, are shown in a whole new light.
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Storm Front in Mayo
Title: Storm Front in Mayo
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: May 28, 2019
Type: Movie
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day comes to depend on the readings taken by Maureen Flavin, a young girl who works at a post office, used as a weather station, in Blacksod, in County Mayo, the westernmost promontory of Europe, far from the many lands devastated by the iron storms of World War II.
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Korea: The Never-Ending War
Title: Korea: The Never-Ending War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 29, 2019
Type: Movie
Shedding new light on a geopolitical hot spot, the film — written and produced by John Maggio and narrated by Korean-American actor John Cho — confronts the myth of the “Forgotten War,” documenting the post-1953 conflict and global consequences.
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Title: Brecht
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: March 22, 2019
Type: TV
East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I; his romantic adventures during the twenties; the escape of the Nazi regime; the return from exile. The life of a timeless classic, a class fighter, an indefatigable free spirit, a committed artist.
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The Hitler–Stalin Pact
Title: The Hitler–Stalin Pact
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 2019
Type: Movie
How could Hitler and Stalin, sworn ideological enemies, come to a secret pact in 1939? The captivating and detailed story of the diplomatic fiasco that led to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact and its devastating consequences.
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Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Title: Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: June 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…
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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Title: Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: January 24, 2018
Type: Movie
The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.
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Stalin's James Bond
Title: Stalin's James Bond
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: December 30, 2017
Type: Movie
An account of the troubled life of Richard Sorge (1895-1944), a Soviet spy of German origin who played a decisive role in the outcome of World War II.
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The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Title: The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: September 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.
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Title: The Vietnam War
Character: Self - Politician (archive footage)
Released: September 17, 2017
Type: TV
An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
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The Russian Revolution
Title: The Russian Revolution
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Romanovs that eventually led to the Russian revolution.
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Title: Tucker Carlson Tonight
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 14, 2016
Type: TV
Veteran political journalist Tucker Carlson hosts this nightly series that bears his name. Fox News describes the show as an "hour of spirited debate and powerful reporting," with Carlson taking on issues that viewers care about. He is joined by guests to help him discuss issues that don't seem to get much coverage in other parts of the media. Regular segments include Carlson calling out political correctness that goes too far and putting overblown social-media outrage in its place, all done in what the network calls "his signature style."
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The Chosen
Title: The Chosen
Character: Himself - Politician (archive footage)
Released: September 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
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CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin
Title: CIA vs KGB: Battleground Berlin
Character: Joseph Stalin
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
For 50 years, Berlin was the symbol of the Cold War. The city at the heart of the intelligence war between the US and the Soviet bloc. Thousands of KGB or CIA, agents observed each other, cogs in the biggest information war in history.
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I Betrayed Hitler
Title: I Betrayed Hitler
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 27, 2016
Type: Movie
During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to unravel the mysteries of the German Enigma encryption machine, an impossible task to accomplish without the invaluable information that Hans-Thilo Schmidt, a disenchanted but greedy German citizen, had been handing over to the French secret services since 1931.
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Title: Apocalypse: Stalin
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 3, 2015
Type: TV
The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.
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Stalin's Daughter
Title: Stalin's Daughter
Character: (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 2015
Type: Movie
A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her childhood, she remained at the center of power and was her father's favorite child. However, her life was overshadowed by death and violence. Her mother and brother died, family members were murdered, and her partner was exiled by Stalin. The Iron Curtain was an obstacle in her family dream. This documentary shows for the first time interviews with friends and relatives, exclusive photos and documentation, as well as the last and never broadcast interview with Alliloejeva.
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Imminent Threat
Title: Imminent Threat
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 4, 2015
Type: Movie
A look at the War on Terror and the threat it's causing to our civil liberties and political discourse. Academy Award nominee James Cromwell presents Janek Ambros' directorial debut. The feature doc tackles the War on Terror's impact on civil liberties and the strange coalition it's creating between the progressive left and libertarian right. The doc examines the NSA, drones, the war on journalism and other encroachments on civil liberties started by the Bush era and expanded by the Democratic establishment.
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Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
Title: Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 6, 2015
Type: Movie
On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this surprised the world. What nobody knew was that it was the result of espionage. At the centre of the operation was a very unusual female spy, Elizabeth Zaroubin, in a story worthy of the best spy novels ever written.
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1945: The Savage Peace
Title: 1945: The Savage Peace
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 24, 2015
Type: Movie
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in Germany's neighboring countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. A heartbreaking story of revenge against innocent civilians, the story of acts as cruel as the Nazi occupation during the war years.
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Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
Title: Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 4, 2015
Type: Movie
This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow. The very rich oil deposits of the region aroused the covetousness of Hitler who needed the oil from Baku to carry out his program of world domination. His entire campaign of 1942-1943 was aimed at seizing them. But the Soviets and the Allies were determined to prevent him from doing so, by all means, including the most radical, even if it meant wiping the city off the map.
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Laissez-faire
Title: Laissez-faire
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 30, 2015
Type: Movie
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our governments and our lives.
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Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death
Title: Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death
Character: Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
For 20 years, theirs was an ideological duel between two visions of Communism; a political duel, a duel for power, and above all, a duel to the death. By having Trotsky exiled and finally assassinated, Stalin gained sole control of Russia and became the unassailable dictator of the country.
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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
Title: Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 20, 2014
Type: Movie
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of Europe: Winston Churchill (1874-1965), soldier, politician, writer, painter, leader of his country in the darkest hours, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, a myth, a giant of the 20th century.
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Stalin In Color
Title: Stalin In Color
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 22, 2014
Type: Movie
March 9th, 1953, 5 million people attend Stalin’s funeral. A revolutionary lacking in both charisma and stature, Stalin came to power almost by chance, and his 30-year reign saw him become the most Machiavellian and bloodthirsty of dictators. The man who insisted on being called “The Father of the People” massacred his own countrymen, and was responsible for the death of some 20 million people. Soon forgetting his former ideological stance, he mercilessly crushed anyone who opposed him, in both word and deed. His camps for reform through hard labor – known as “gulags” – turned 18 million Russians into slaves. He not only murdered his opponents but his best friends too, and even sometimes members of his own family. His cruelty knew no bounds. Through colorized archive material rich in previously unseen footage, and many accounts from the period including some from Stalin himself, this documentary tells the story of a man who turned a dream into a nightmare.
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How we built the Moscow metro
Title: How we built the Moscow metro
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: March 18, 2014
Type: Movie
In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write in real time "the history of the Moscow Metro". Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the purges of 1937-38.
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Reza Shah
Title: Reza Shah
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: July 10, 2013
Type: Movie
The documentary "Reza Shah" begins with the rise of Reza Khan to power and looks at his reign from beginning to the end.
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The Untold History Of The United States
Title: The Untold History Of The United States
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present.
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Title: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 12, 2012
Type: TV
Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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Title: Mentiras verdaderas
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: TV
Daily interviews discussing the guest's personal lives and national contingency.
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Stalin's Last Plot
Title: Stalin's Last Plot
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 26, 2011
Type: Movie
January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.
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World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel
Title: World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel
Character: Joseph Stalin
Released: June 13, 2011
Type: Movie
This is an interesting documentary about Stalin, his rise to power, and the invasion of the USSR by Germany in WWII. It's split into two parts, the first a general overview of the early history. The second part is the details of WWII and after. David Reynolds does an excellent job of explaining what happened with snippets from diaries, letters and other contemporaneous accounts. Well-assembled historical work.
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Reagan
Title: Reagan
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 7, 2011
Type: Movie
Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world - icon, screen star, and two-term president, Ronald Reagan.
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Title: Korea: The Forgotten War in Colour
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: TV
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A War in Hollywood
Title: A War in Hollywood
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 16, 2009
Type: Movie
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.
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Title: Apocalypse: The Second World War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 8, 2009
Type: TV
A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters and private citizens. The series is shown in color, with the black and white footage being fully colorized, save for some original color footage. The only exception to the treatment are most Holocaust scenes, which are presented in the original black and white.
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Capitalism: A Love Story
Title: Capitalism: A Love Story
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 6, 2009
Type: Movie
Michael Moore comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career: the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
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Title: World War II in HD Colour
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 4, 2009
Type: TV
World War II In HD Colour is a 13-episode television documentary miniseries recounting the events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. The show covers the Western Front, Eastern Front, and the Pacific War. It is on syndication in America on the Military Channel. This series is in full color, combining both original and colorized footage.
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Title: Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 8, 2009
Type: Movie
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.
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Iran: The Hundred Year War
Title: Iran: The Hundred Year War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 11, 2009
Type: Movie
What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?
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Svetlana About Svetlana
Title: Svetlana About Svetlana
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 24, 2008
Type: Movie
Svetlana Parshina was deeply moved by her childhood reading of Twenty Letters to a Friend by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin's daughter. Years later, learning that the now 82-year-old was living incognito in a Madison, Wisconsin retirement home, Parshina phones and requests an interview. After repeated denials, and only after insisting upon certain conditions, the now-82-year-old Alliluyeva finally consents to a rare filmed interview in which she discusses her education, marriages, her children, the development of her own humanistic philosophy, her CIA-assisted defection to the U.S., and her skeptical views on the competing Cold War ideologies. In more intimate moments, she discusses her childhood, her nanny, the suicide of her mother, her brothers Vasily and Yakov (who died in a Nazi concentration camp) and, of course, her famous father, who most Soviets saw as "a living God."
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Sputnik Mania
Title: Sputnik Mania
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 2007
Type: Movie
Fifty years ago, at the height of the Cold War, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit the earth, bringing America to its knees in awe - then fear. Initially thrilling as a marvel of science, Sputnik was soon viewed by America a weapon of mass destruction.
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Title: Warlords
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 7, 2007
Type: TV
4 part TV documentary series about the 4 leaders in World War 2. Original aired by Channel Four in 2005. Part 1: Hitler v Stalin August 1939 - June 1941 Part 2: Churchill v Roosevelt May 1948 - April 1942 Part 3: Churchill v Stalin June 1941 - June 1944 Part 4: Roosevelt v Stalin July 1944 - April 1945
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Stalin's Wife
Title: Stalin's Wife
Released: April 29, 2005
Type: Movie
At the tender age of sixteen Nadezhda Alliluyev married Joseph Stalin, twenty three years her senior. Throughout their fourteen years of family life, Nadezhda stood by as Stalin transformed from the ordinary revolutionary into the unlimited dictator of Russia - a semi-god, whose portraits replaced Christian orthodox icons in the corners of peasant's huts. One morning she was found dead in her bed, revolver by her side. Up to this day, historians continue the heated debate as to whether she had killed herself or was murdered by Stalin. Tsukerman's film is an attempt to solve the riddles of the not-so-distant past, weaving stories within stories and blending commentary from remaining relatives, friends, and historians with rare archival footage. The film provides a fascinating overview of the early history of the USSR while simultaneously exploring the myriad questions surrounding this complex relationship.
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Letters from Karelia
Title: Letters from Karelia
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Story of Aate Pitkänen, a idealistic Canadian-Finn who went to Soviet Karelia.
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Hitler & Stalin: Roots of Evil
Title: Hitler & Stalin: Roots of Evil
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 27, 2004
Type: Movie
An examination of the paranoia, cold-bloodedness, and sadism of two of the 20th century's most brutal dictators and mass murderers: Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin.
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Title: Days That Shook the World
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: November 1, 2003
Type: TV
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various milestones throughout history. It has been broadcast on the BBC, Discovery Channel UK, The History Channel and Viasat History. The series was also released on DVD by the Polish edition of Newsweek in 2007.
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The Corporation
Title: The Corporation
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe. This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of "person" typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience. Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
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Stalin: Man of Steel
Title: Stalin: Man of Steel
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
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:03 from Gold
Title: :03 from Gold
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 18, 2002
Type: Movie
The 1972 Olympic men's basketball final, in which Team USA was accorded their first ever loss since the sport was adopted in competition, was one of the most controversial events in history the history of the Games.
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Title: WWII: The Lost Color Archives
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 5, 2000
Type: TV
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Title: Faith of the Century: A History of Communism
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 6, 1999
Type: TV
Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women were affected by this political system, one of the most unjust and bloodiest in history. Using newly discovered propaganda films and archival photos, these four episodes explore the mysteries of this totalitarian political machine that lured its share of important followers into the fold. Known as the red church, communism seduced its ardent followers like some earthly religion.
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War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin
Title: War of the Century - When Hitler Fought Stalin
Character: Self (Archive)
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In June 1941, Hitler broke the golden rule of warfare never to fight on opposite fronts and marched into the Soviet Union. What would drive him to make the most catastrophic mistake of World War II? This acclaimed four-part series investigates what led to the largest military operation in history - and the bloodiest. Assisted by leading historians and granted unique access to Eastern film archives and to both Soviet and German participants, War of the Century is the definitive series on a war that shaped the borders and attitudes of Europe for the second half of the 20th Century.
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Human Remains
Title: Human Remains
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 21, 1998
Type: Movie
Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
Title: Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the 20th century. Following the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Russia faces the venom of Nazi aggression. 1940's film footage reveals the harsh reality of total war, as the Red Army and Soviet civilians alike confront a brutal and tenacious enemy. The following decades are darkened by tensions between the USSR and foreign powers, and violent measures taken to silence voices of dissent. Finally, the Soviet people's yearning for a freer society leads to accelerating reforms and the ultimate dissolution of the USSR.
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Title: Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the 20th century. Following the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Russia faces the venom of Nazi aggression. 1940's film footage reveals the harsh reality of total war, as the Red Army and Soviet civilians alike confront a brutal and tenacious enemy. The following decades are darkened by tensions between the USSR and foreign powers, and violent measures taken to silence voices of dissent. Finally, the Soviet people's yearning for a freer society leads to accelerating reforms and the ultimate dissolution of the USSR.
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A Web of War
Title: A Web of War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The stories of the battles that brought together a Polish cavalry officer, a Canadian captain, and a Polish underground member are told by the very same Canadians who survived them.
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Executions 2
Title: Executions 2
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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The Russian German War
Title: The Russian German War
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
This is a rare look at one of the worst horror stories in the long infamous history of warfare. This series features captured German and Russian film footage, much of which has never been seen before. For decades the Cold War prevented us from looking closely at what really happened between the Russians and the Germans on the Eastern Front during World War II. More than a struggle between nations, it pitted maniacal tyrant against maniacal tyrant, evil ideology against evil ideology. The lives of tens of millions of human beings were consumed by its raging hatreds and appalling indignities. One in every ten Russians died. One in every four Poles died. Whole divisions of Italians, Romanians, Hungarians disappeared with barely a trace. An average of 17,800 people died on every single day and this, the war on the Russian German Front, lasted for 1,400 days. This series features captured German and Russian film footage, much of which has never been seen before.
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In Search of Dr. Seuss
Title: In Search of Dr. Seuss
Character: Self - at Potsdam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 6, 1994
Type: Movie
A nosy reporter wants to find out all she can about Dr. Seuss, aka Ted Geisel, and gets told the real facts by several of his characters, with large snippets of his stories and songs interspersed.
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Island of the Dead
Title: Island of the Dead
Released: September 15, 1993
Type: Movie
The Island of the Dead is a film about the demise of the Russian Epocha Modern. The symbol of this culture was the legendary Russian film star Vera Kholodnaya, who evoked a poetic image of the young urban woman on the silver screen. Her death in 1919, shrouded in tragedy and mystery, put a symbolic end to the pre-Revolutionary period. The Island of the Dead is composed of fragments from numerous films from this period, juxtaposed with other contemporary artistic expressions such as music and painting. Kovalov shows convincingly how the fragile beauty of the Russian Epocha Modern had to make way for the pressure of Futurism, Constructivism and other 'progressive trends', and how these '-isms' were then also relegated to the melting pot to be remoulded by totalitarian norms.
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Condom
Title: Condom
Character: archive footage
Released: September 7, 1990
Type: Movie
About the history of the contraceptive tool and reminds us of the importance of using a condom in combating sexually transmitted diseases.
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I Was Stalin's Bodyguard
Title: I Was Stalin's Bodyguard
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This controversial documentary created a storm in Russia by taking the cloak off a violent, repressive period of Soviet history. Filmmaker Semyon Aranovich found the last surviving personal bodyguard of Joseph Stalin, Alexey Robin, who began working for the dictator in the 1930s.
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T.V. Sphincter
Title: T.V. Sphincter
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 5, 1987
Type: Movie
The sequel to Film Threat founder Chris Gore's video mixtape Cathode Fuck, T.V. Sphincter focuses more on death, sex, and the bizarre, similar in style to a Mondo/Death film.
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When the Wind Blows
Title: When the Wind Blows
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: October 24, 1986
Type: Movie
With the help of government-issued pamphlets, an elderly British couple build a shelter and prepare for an impending nuclear attack, unaware that times and the nature of war have changed from their romantic memories of World War II.
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High Voltage
Title: High Voltage
Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1981
Type: Movie
After WW II many young people arrive to Zagreb, among them a young worker Sonja Kacar. She is supposed to participate in the construction of the first generator in the Rade Koncar factory. Because there aren't enough experts and materials in Yugoslavia, the factory counts on help from fellow communist countries, Czechoslovakia and Soviet Union. However, after the Inform Bureau's resolution this help is no longer available. Sonja experiences a great intimate disappointment because Stjepan, who she is in love with, supports Stalin.
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When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
Title: When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
Character: Himself
Released: July 10, 1978
Type: Movie
In 1978, just after Le fond de l'Air Est Rouge, which mercilessly analyzed the previous ten years of the revolutionary left's momentum until its collapse, Chris Marker made this complementary piece entitled Quand le Siècle a Pris Forme (Guerre et Révolution).
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The Soviet Union: A New Look
Title: The Soviet Union: A New Look
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
This film discusses conditions in the Soviet Union, including party activity and influence, the shortage of consumer goods, the roles of children and women, the status of religion, and the purpose of Soviet realist art.
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A Grin Without a Cat
Title: A Grin Without a Cat
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1977
Type: Movie
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
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The Society of the Spectacle
Title: The Society of the Spectacle
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
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Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Title: Mao Tse-Tung and the Cultural Revolution
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Nagisa Oshima's documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party's struggle and cultural upheaval. Made in 1969 for NTV station, this TV documentary also questions Mao's dictator tendency during the cultural revolution.
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The Girls
Title: The Girls
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 16, 1968
Type: Movie
A theater company rehearses Aristophanes play "Lysistrata" in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace. The three leading female actresses, Liz, Marianne and Gunilla, all live in humiliating circumstances to their men.
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Rita the Field Marshal
Title: Rita the Field Marshal
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
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Beginning
Title: Beginning
Released: February 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.
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The Battle of France
Title: The Battle of France
Released: June 3, 1964
Type: Movie
A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.
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To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Title: To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience.
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Velikoye proshchaniye
Title: Velikoye proshchaniye
Released: August 5, 1953
Type: Movie
March 9th, 1953. A gray, sad day. Clouds float low over the Kremlin towers. A city that unrecognizably grew, prettier and matured - this Moscow froze in solemn grief. The country escorts its father and leader, Joseph Stalin.
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The Oath of the Albanian People Before the Great Stalin
Title: The Oath of the Albanian People Before the Great Stalin
Character: himself
Released: March 5, 1953
Type: Movie
The Albanian people mourn the death of Stalin.
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Life Begins Tomorrow
Title: Life Begins Tomorrow
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain. The film made it to the U.S. in 1952 as Life Begins Tomorrow. Made in cooperation with UNESCO, the film speculates on the future of mankind after the advent of Atomic Energy. Many prominent French artists and intellects contribute to the narration: Jean-Pierre Aumont plays The Man of Today, Andre Labarthe is the Man of Tomorrow, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Daniel Agache, Jean Rostand, Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso and Andre Gide are respectively seen as "The Existentialist," "The Psychiatrist,' "The Biologist," "The Architect," "The Artist" and "The Author". Film clips of hospitals, schoolrooms, scientific laboratories, and even nightclubs are woven into Védrès' fascinating tapestry.
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Herrliche Zeiten
Title: Herrliche Zeiten
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 4, 1950
Type: Movie
Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century.
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Title: Crusade in Europe
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 1949
Type: TV
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Berlin Conference
Title: Berlin Conference
Character: Himself
Released: August 8, 1945
Type: Movie
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Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Joseph Stalin (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
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The Mask of Nippon
Title: The Mask of Nippon
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: October 18, 1942
Type: Movie
An anti-Japanese propaganda film produced during World War II.
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Our Cinema
Title: Our Cinema
Character: (archive footage)
Released: July 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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The Fight For Peace
Title: The Fight For Peace
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.
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In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Title: In Memory of Sergo Ordzhonikidze
Character: Himself
Released: December 25, 1937
Type: Movie
The film is about the life and work of Grigory Ordzhonikidze Konstantinoviche, an important personality in both the Communist Party and the Soviet state. The film includes speeches by his bereaved friends who attended his funeral. In 1937, after the unexpected death of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Vertov received an urgent order from the government to produce a film about the life of Ordzhonikidze. He was ordered to work together with Yakov Bliohom and the director of the film "Battleship Potemkin" distributed by Goskino (Soviet State Committee for Cinematography).
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Three Songs About Lenin
Title: Three Songs About Lenin
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: November 6, 1934
Type: Movie
This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
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Kino-Pravda No. 21
Title: Kino-Pravda No. 21
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: January 21, 1925
Type: Movie
Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel made to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilich Lenin (21st January 1924 - 1925) drawn from 'The Final Journey', a Pravda feuilleton written on the occasion of Lenin's funeral by the man who had introduced Vertov to cinema, Mikhail Koltsov. Contains: First anniversary of Lenin's death: 1. Assassination attempt on Lenin and Soviet Russia's progress under his leadership / 2. Lenin's illness, death and funeral / 3. The year after Lenin's death