Joseph Stalin

What makes this film and Stalin’s funeral so fascinating is that we will never know how much of it was real and how much was staged. With the rise of ‘strong’ leaders backed by heavy propaganda all over the world, this docu is a quiet and unbiased look at our past, and a mirror to our future. – VM

Who was Stalin? The man who defeated Nazism? The “Little Father of the Peoples"? Or the greatest criminal of his time? In Apocalypse Stalin, three 52-minute episodes, Isabelle Clarke and Daniel Costelle paint the portrait of one of the fiercest despots of the twentieth century, using archive film of the day.

This documentary explores the experiences that shaped Hitler, from his early struggles in Vienna to his final defeat in the ruins of Berlin.

In the midst of the Cold War the daughter of cruel Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Svetlana Alliluyeva, flees to the USA: its capitalist archenemy. The red tsar's favorite child soon becomes a media star in the US, but she can never truly escape her father's bloody shadow.

The Russian Revolution in 1917 changed the course of history. Two families go to war; Lenin's Ulyanovs and the Tsar's Romanovs.

This documentary goes back to January 1953, when Stalin waged war against Jewish doctors, organizing a violent anti-Semitic campaign.

After six weeks of fighting, German fuel reserves were sapped and Hitler turned his attention to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan.

Using the latest colorization techniques and state-of-the-art graphics, witness the story of World War II as it has never been seen before.

From the attack on Pearl Harbor to D-Day, the most pivotal events of World War II come to life in this documentary series featuring colorized footage.

Ruling with an iron fist requires an aspiring dictator to know the art of absolute power, as history's despots prove in this sardonic documentary series.

George Orwell was one of the most visionary authors of the 20th Century, whose novels, 1984 and Animal Farm, foretold a chilling, authoritarian future. Acclaimed director Raoul Peck (I Am Not Your Negro) interweaves clips, readings from Orwell's diary, cinematic references, and modern-day footage to craft not only a portrait of the writer, but a fresh take on how prophetic his work has become.

As the Red Army approaches from the East and Allied forces advance from France and Belgium, Hitler reflects on the missteps that cost him the war.

During the summer of 2016, a fishing boat off the shores of Iceland made a most curious catch: four reels of 35mm film, seemingly of Soviet provenance. Unlike the film find explored in Bill Morrison’s DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME it turned out this discovery wasn’t a lost work of major importance, but an incomplete print of a popular Soviet comedy from 1969, starring the beloved Russian actor Mikhail Zharov. Does that mean it has no value? Morrison thought not. To him, the heavily water-damaged print, and the way it surfaced, could be seen as a fitting reflection on the film work of Zharov, who re-emerges from the bottom of the sea 50 years later like a Russian Rip Van Winkle, to a world where reels of film are as antiquated as the Soviet Union. But if celluloid film is the only medium that can survive the ocean, how will future generations remember us? Morrison uses the discovery as a jumping-off point for his latest meditation on cinema’s past, offering a journey into Soviet history and film accompanied by a gorgeous score by Pulitzer and Grammy-winning composer David Lang.

Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler: the old lion" against the "German eagle". The "bear of Downing Street" versus "der Wolf". brimming with life plot twists and dramatic turns of events based on meticulously colored and remastered images."