Mikhail Gorbachev

The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become on Russian gas imports for decades and what Vladimir Putin was up to. However, no country needs more gas than Germany. It was only after Russia's invasion of the Ukraine that the German government realized that Russia had long used gas as a weapon to impose its will on states. The instrument created for this purpose is the natural gas production company GAZPROM. So how did Germany become so dependent on Russian gas? The documentary shows how, over several decades and several changes of government, a broad alliance of politicians and business representatives did everything possible to secure Germany's energy supply with cheap Russian gas, while the Kremlin's foreign policy became increasingly aggressive and the warnings of experts went unheeded.

The story of Chernobyl told through a newly discovered hoard of dramatic footage filmed at the nuclear plant during the disaster and deeply personal interviews of those who were there, directed by Emmy Award-winner and Russian-speaker James Jones.

This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the Soviet Union. This period of peaceful protests involving lots of singing came to be known as the "singing revolution."

Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left the majority of Russians dissatisfied with Yeltsin… and willing to vote for the communist leader Gennady Zyuganov. Yet six months later, Yeltsin won the election with nearly 54% of the vote. How did that happen?

An immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect of perestroika and glasnost, who was praised in the West but reviled in his own country, still combative despite his advanced age, loneliness and illness, offers his personal and political testament.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.

Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over the world: someone as the creator of the hydrogen bomb, someone as an outstanding public figure and human rights activist. All his life Andrei Sakharov lived between two fires - science and humanism - and this dualism formed the basis of the film. The picture will show the scientist as he saw himself, through his dialogues with the Conscience.

Descubre cómo este desastre industrial cambió el curso de la Historia, trastocó la geopolítica mundial y, directa o indirectamente, reorganizó los equilibrios y las relaciones de poder del siglo XX.

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.

Ilze Burkovska, una niña obsesionada con las historias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y que será cineasta en un futuro lejano, vive en Letonia bajo la bota totalitaria de los soviéticos y la ominosa sombra de las muchas amenazas y horrores de la Guerra Fría.

Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret clearance and total access to the President.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in 2016, but over time the relationship between the two heads of state has had its ups and downs. Are they friends or enemies? Has their mutual admiration turned into mutual distrust?

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.

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The end product is a documentary containing footage of political events and historical milestones significant to Romania accompanied by a narrator's voice walking the viewer through the events, and also interviews with Romanian politicians and other influential public figures sharing their thoughts and their different views on those events.

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

Matón. Cobarde. Víctima. La historia de Roy Cohn ofrece una mirada inquebrantable al infame abogado que procesó a los abuelos de Ivy Meeropol, Julius y Ethel Rosenberg, y luego argumentó persuasivamente su ejecución en lo que se conoció como el caso de los "espías atómicos". Dirigida por Ivy Meeropol, la película examina la vida de Cohn como asesor principal del senador Joseph McCarthy a fines de la década de 1950 y luego durante la década de 1980, cuando se convirtió en un amante de la Casa Blanca Reagan, un activista anti homosexualidad rabiosa y mentor político de Donald J. Trump antes de morir de SIDA en 1986. La película se basa en un extenso material de archivo recién descubierto, grabado en el apogeo de la carrera de Cohn como corredor de poder en el mundo rudo y caído de los negocios y la política de la ciudad de Nueva York.

The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonstrations were violently and bloodily repressed. Thousands of people died, but the basis for China's future was definitely planted.

A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly pecked the putrid brain of the Communist regime for decades, demanding democracy loudly and fearlessly. Silenced, arrested, convicted, imprisoned, dead. Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2010, alive forever. These are his last words.

Mikhail Gorbachev, ex presidente de la Unión Soviética, se sienta con el cineasta Werner Herzog para hablar sobre sus muchos logros. Los temas incluyen las conversaciones para reducir las armas nucleares, la reunificación de Alemania y la disolución de su país.

How Lyusia Stein - a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow - went to work for Ksenia Sobchak's campaign headquarters.

Federación de Rusia, 31 de diciembre de 1999. Tras la inesperada dimisión del presidente Boris Yeltsin, el primer ministro Vladimir Putin se convierte en presidente interino del país. Desde ese día y durante un año, la cámara de Vitaly Mansky documentó el ascenso al poder de Putin. La historia de un testigo privilegiado. La dura explicación de por qué la política es el arte de la posibilidad de lograr lo mejor con el apoyo de muchos, pero también de dar lo peor a cambio.

1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the Soviets expand their influence in Africa. Soviet filmmakers are sent along to document the glorious advance of socialism on the entire continent. After the fall of the Soviet empire Russia lost political interest in Africa, but thousands of kilometers of footage shot on African soil remain. With the help of filmmakers from back then, OUR AFRICA will recreate the time of the “Great Utopia” and expose the mechanisms behind the creation of propaganda films.

El presidente Mikhail Gorbachov relata el final de la Guerra Fría y la reducción de las armas nucleares.

This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and declare peace to the world. And this is the story of a young boy who grew up in that country, and how he ended up challenging -- and sometimes even convincing -- the greatest powers in the world to follow Costa Rica's example. "Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired" is a Don Quixote-like saga with great historical touchstones -- Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Cold War politics and Communism, Central American War and Peace. It follows a slight, academic, and most unlikely hero over the course of more than fifty years, as he travels the world in a quest to stop the spread of the weapons of war. In the end, it is a story about the triumph of reason, of the sparrow triumphing over the eagle, and how the impossible dream can sometimes come true.

Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western values helped fuel the nonvio- lent implosion of the Soviet regime. FREE TO ROCK features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who reveal how Rock & Roll music was a contributing factor in ending the Cold

The film tells a story about the latest musical revolution in recent history – the early days of the rave scene and the golden age of techno culture. International political changes in the mid-80s and early 90s, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, in a short period of time allowed this cultural phenomenon to become a mass movement which was almost completely independent from the global corporations and which did not fight with the system but created its own system.

Documental sobre una operación de ciberterrorismo diseñada por los servicios de inteligencia estadounidense e israelí para atacar el programa nuclear iraní.

As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it.

In the last 250 years, free-market ideology has played a central role in the development of the logic and rhetoric that have influenced the daily life of populations throughout the world. It was cornered for a few decades during the twentieth century in favor of a social economy for the public interest, and then returned to the limelight in the last thirty years of the century to dominate the logics that drive world economies, doing the favor of the elites at the expense of 99%. Through the testimony of six people informed about the facts, Laissez-faire offers a historical and ideological perspective through which to identify the fundamental problems of the economic mechanism on which societies are based.

An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.

La inestabilidad económica y las intrigas en el Partido Comunista (PCUS) provocaron la caída del mayor imperio del siglo XX. Mijaíl Gorbachov no pudo evitarlo con su "perestroika". Corría noviembre de 1989 y caía el Muro de Berlín. Dos años después, los ciudadanos derribaban las estatuas de Lenin y el gesto confirmó la desintegración de la Unión Soviética. Dos años fatídicos para un debilitado Mijaíl Gorbachov, Secretario General del PCUS desde 1985, que se había empeñado en instaurar reformas arriesgadas y radicales, de consecuencias nefastas para la URSS.En política exterior, Gorbachov levantó el "telón de acero" y en política interior inició la democratización del país, lanzando dos conceptos revolucionarios: glasnost o libertad de expresión y perestroika o reforma económica.

In her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. At age 48 she was assassinated for simply doing her job. This documentary is based on Anna's conversations with filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya, Anna's former university professor and personal friend. Shot over a period of 20 years, this exclusive footage creates an incredible story of a woman who consciously gave her life for her convictions.

Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and giving this freedom to the people.

The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the National Archives of Romania.

A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.

Urban sprawl, extinct species, depletion of natural resources and global warming are all causes of deep anxiety. Here to stay takes an uncompromising look at Planet Earth today, in all its beauty but also its scars and contradictions. Illustrating the intricate relationship and contrasts between the miracles of nature and man's obsession in trying to tame them. Can we turn back the tide? What do we really want for ourselves?

Hace veinte años, en la madrugada del 26 de abril de 1986, el cuarto reactor de la planta de energía nuclear de Chernobyl, explotó en una llamarada de colores que alcanzó los 1.000 metros de altura en el cielo de Ucrania. Es una auténtica batalla en contra del tiempo, que miles de soviéticos jamás podrán olvidar. Durante los ocho meses posteriores a la explosión de la central nuclear, 800.000 jóvenes soldados, mineros, bomberos y civiles procedentes de todas las regiones de la antigua Unión Soviética, trabajaron sin descanso para intentar mitigar los efectos de la radioactividad, construir un sarcófago alrededor del reactor accidentado y en definitiva, salvar al mundo de otra probable tragedia. Todos ellos estaban guiados por el temor a una peligrosa reacción en cadena derivada de la explosión inicial, cien veces superior a los efectos de la bomba de Hiroshima.

Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.

En 2006, coincidiendo con el 50 aniversario de la Revolución Húngara, se realizó este documental sobre la semifinal de waterpolo de los Juegos Olímpicos de 1956 entre Hungría y la URSS, conocido como el "Baño sangriento de Melbourne". Está narrado por Mark Spitz, entrenado de joven por Ervin Zádor, figura central de lo ocurrido. El film fue producido por Lucy Liu y Quentin Tarantino, quien describió los hechos como "la mejor historia jamás contada".

After years of requests, Nardwuar the Human Serviette has finally entered the digital age with a compilation of over 60 of his favourite video interviews. Based around his two MuchMusic Specials, Nard Wars I and Nard Wars II and clocking in at over 5.5 hrs on 2 DVDs, "Doot Doola Doot Doo .... Doot Doo!" encompasses everything from former Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to Snoop Doggy Dogg to your mother!

The film is using episodes filmed mainly at the Kremlin, Soviet Union's headquarters which enable to have a glance to world's most well-known political kitchen.

Documento que muestra como sucedieron los acontecimientos y el porqué del desastre nuclear de Chernobyl.

A detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down, on a local, national and international level.

On Nov. 22, 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The mystery surrounding this history-changing event has led to many unanswered questions.

In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the most controversial. A failed actor, Reagan became a passionate ideologue who preached a simple gospel of lower taxes, less government, and anti-communism.

A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

Dos ángeles de la guarda vuelan sobre Berlín. Son invisibles y están llenos de benevolencia, pero no pueden intervenir en la vida de los hombres. Entonces Cassiel, el ángel de las lágrimas, se convierte en un ser humano para saber cómo sienten y perciben el mundo las personas... Secuela de "El cielo sobre Berlín" (Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987), también dirigida por Wenders.

A realistic satire about the path of the German Democratic Republic from its foundation until its 40th birthday. This eye-opening film tells the history of the German Democratic Republic through East Germany's official newsreels and state films.

Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989, Ceausescu was once a hero to his own people, and in the west. Behr's film reveals the truth behind the myth, in a tale of megalomania, farce, and horror.

Documentary portrait of Andy Warhol.

Durante una tormenta, una plataforma submarina en ultra mar queda incomunicada de la superficie. Dentro de ella, además del equipo técnico de la propia plataforma, se encuentra un grupo de militares, que deben recuperar unas cabezas explosivas. Todo se complica con la aparición de unos extraños seres que vienen de las profundidades abisales.