Nikita Khrushchev
Nacimiento : 1894-04-15, Kalinovka, Dmitriyev Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire [now Khomutovka Raion, Kursk Oblast, Russia]
Muerte : 1971-09-11
Historia
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) led the Soviet Union as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and as chairman of the country's Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of Stalin's crimes and began de-Stalinization. He sponsored the early Soviet space program, and enactment of relatively liberal reforms in domestic policy. After some false starts, and a narrowly avoided nuclear war over Cuba, he conducted successful negotiations with the United States to reduce Cold War tensions. His proclivity toward recklessness led the Kremlin leadership to strip him of power, replacing him with Leonid Brezhnev as First Secretary and Alexei Kosygin as Premier.
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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.
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Documental que explora el misterio de la muerte del icono del cine Marilyn Monroe a través de entrevistas inéditas con su círculo más cercano.
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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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How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power and silos to house missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.
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Como el escritor ruso Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) considera imposible que su novela «Doctor Zhivago» se publique en la Unión Soviética, porque supuestamente muestra una visión crítica de la Revolución de Octubre, decide sacar de contrabando del país varios ejemplares del manuscrito. Se publica por primera vez en 1957 en Italia y el autor recibe el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1958, lo que tiene consecuencias.
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El enigma del culto a la personalidad se revela en el gran espectáculo del funeral de Stalin. La película se basa en imágenes de archivo únicas, filmadas en la URSS del 5 al 9 de marzo de 1953, cuando el país lamentó y enterró a Joseph Stalin.
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Arrojando nueva luz sobre un punto geopolítico conflictivo, la película, escrita y producida por John Maggio y narrada por el actor coreano-estadounidense John Cho, confronta el mito de la "Guerra olvidada", documentando el conflicto posterior a 1953 y sus consecuencias globales.
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Based on Dr. Ahron Bregman's book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian billionaire and double agent.
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En 1961 el secretario general de Naciones Unidas, Dag Hammarskjöld, murió en un misterioso accidente de avión en Zambia. El director Mads Brügger intenta encontrar nuevas pistas sobre lo que pasó aquel fatídico día en el que murieron 16 personas.
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Musicians inspired by the Moon. Since the Apollo landings, the Moon has entered popular consciousness like never before. A journey through pop music's lunar obsession.
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July 20, 1969. Apollo 11 lands on the surface of the Moon. Such a feat was apparently performed to the greater glory of all mankind, but actually it marked the end of the space race disputed by the two great superpowers of the time in their eagerness to arrive before and the beginning of the spread of the Cold War into space. Nowadays, the struggle continues, but the main competitors and their purposes are others.
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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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Ernesto "Che" Guevara's controversial story told by the Mexican writer Paco Ignacio Taibo II. He revisits places where the guerrilla and revolutionary leader has passed and interviews people who knew Che, making revelations about this important figure in Cuba's political history.
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Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.
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Historian Andrew Cohen discusses Robert Drew's 1963 documentary Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment.
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Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
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Cold War Roadshow tells the story of one of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of modern history — the unprecedented barnstorming across America in the fall of 1959 by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, the world leader of communism and America’s arch nemesis. At the very height of the Cold War, with American schoolchildren practicing duck-and-cover drills, the man who Americans feared could incinerate them in a rain of hydrogen bombs arrived in Washington, D.C. at the invitation of President Eisenhower. For both men, the visit was an opportunity to halt the escalating threats of the Cold War and chart a new course toward peaceful coexistence. For the American press, it was the media blockbuster story of the year.
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The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of World Communism and America's arch nemesis, during 13 sun-filled days in the fall of 1959.
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During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war and total destruction.
Olof Palme fue abatido abiertamente en una noche de febrero de 1986 en las calles de Estocolmo. En una noche, el país de Suecia fue transfigurado. "Palme" es sobre su vida, su tiempo, y sobre la Suecia que había creado. Sobre un hombre que alteró la historia.
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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.
The story of America's rise to power starting with 1959, using archival footage and US pop music to highlight the consequences to the rest of the world and in the peoples' minds.
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An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of La rabbia.
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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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El 22 de noviembre de 1963, mataron de un tiro al presidente John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald, el único detenido por el crimen, también fue asesinado dos días más tarde. Más de 40 años después, su muerte sigue siendo un misterio sin resolverse. El magnicidio de J.F.K. fue uno de los escándalos más sonados y que causó una mayor conmoción en la sociedad del siglo XX, no sólo en los Estados Unidos sino en el mundo entero. Las características del crimen y la intriga que envolvió la posterior investigación, que quedaría sin resolver, favoreció que infinidad de libros, películas y producciones de todo tipo fueran creados partiendo de este suceso.
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Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.
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En julio de 1969, la misión del Apolo XI llegó con total normalidad a la Luna. Dos mil millones de telespectadores pudieron seguir en directo el acontecimiento por televisión. Sin embargo, las imágenes de aquélla hazaña siguen sembrando dudas. ¿Realidad o ficción? Partiendo de una polémica que se ha mantenido a lo largo de los años, este polémico documental -al parecer ideado por Stanley Kubrick- analiza los aspectos más cuestionados de aquel 20 de julio de 1969. (FILMAFFINITY)
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"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of nuclear weapons development and testing between 1945-1963. Narrated by William Shatner and featuring an original score performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, this award-winning documentary reveals previously unreleased and classified government footage from several countries.
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A documentary destined to calmly explain and analyze the facts, myths and rumours about John Kennedy's assassination and the overwhelming use of information in Oliver Stone's epic "JFK" (1991), at the same time it presents a behind the scenes documentary on the controversial film. Features interviews with the cast and director, and the personalities who lived and remember the facts concerning the November 22, 1963, like reporters, eyewitnesses and others, and some of the real characters from the movie, like Jim Garrison, Numa Bertel, Lou Ivon and Perry Russo.
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Con imágenes de archivo de los años 50, dos personalidades (Pier Paolo Pasolini y Giovanni Guareschi) responden a la misma pregunta: ¿Por qué nuestras vidas se han caracterizado siempre por el descontento, la angustia y el miedo? La película está dividida en dos partes claramente diferenciadas. En la primera parte, Pasolini responde con su convicción de hombre de izquierda; en la segunda, Guareschi, sustenta la versión conservadora.
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Película dividida en siete cortos, cada uno de ellos protagonizado por un pecado capital.
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A cut-out of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev sails over newspaper articles as they take place. Combines live photography and collage animation in one film.
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This newsreel presents the one and only visit to Albania by Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. But behind the bear hugs and airport kisses, Enver Hoxha bristled at Khrushchev’s suggestion that the Albanian leader attempt reforms and back off from the demigod status accorded to the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin. Within a year, Albania would create shock waves in the communist universe after Hoxha denounced Khrushchev at a 1960 Moscow party congress.
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.
