Stalin: Inside the Terror (2003)

União Soviética, 1953. Após a inesperada morte do ícone Josef Stalin, o alto escalão do comitê do Partido Comunista se vê em momentos caóticos para decidir quem será o sucessor do líder soviético e quais rumos a nação seguirá a partir de então, uma enorme disputa que envolve até os complexos herdeiros do político.

Thriller de pós-guerra sobre o assassinato em massa de 22.000 poloneses. Após a Segunda Guerra Mundial, o jornalista Stephen Underwood (Alex Pettyfer ) descobre o terrível assassinato de 22.000 poloneses sob as instruções de Stalin, embora durante muitos anos a culpa pelo assassinato foi atribuída aos nazistas. Na época, as informações sobre o Massacre de Katyn, como veio a ser conhecido, foram encobertas por ambos os governos britânico e norte-americano em vista da delicada relação com a Rússia durante e depois da guerra.

Wladyslaw Strzeminski (Boguslaw Linda), é um artista de vanguarda polonês que superou todas as dificuldades impostas pelas suas deficiências físicas - ele não possuía uma perna e um braço - e também o ódio, a indiferença e a crueldade dispensados pelas autoridades de seu país para se tornar um dos artistas mais reverenciados do século vinte, uma verdadeira força da natureza que batalhou com todas as forças para construir seu progressista e genial programa artístico.

Ao longo de três décadas, Stalin assume o poder da Rússia, trata a esposa terrivelmente e ordena atos de agressão contra seu próprio povo. Sem confiar em ninguém, o ditador age cruelmente até sua eventual queda e morte.

This story starts in 1980 in Paris as the memories of Andrei Borodin, a Soviet agent, take the action back to 1943 during the Teheran meetings of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill. A high-ranking Nazi officer developed a plan to assassinate the three world leaders in order to undermine the Allied forces. He commissioned the German agent Max Richard to carry out his plan, but it failed miserably due to the quick action and thinking of Andrei. While in Teheran, Andrei met a French woman, Marie Louni, living in the city and they had a brief but intense affair. Nearly four decades later, the Nazi officer has been captured - but not for long. Freed by terrorists, the officer is hunting down the German agent who failed to carry out the planned assassinations. Max lives at Françoise, a young French woman, who hides him.

A prototype of a new cutting edge tank is being taken on a secret mission to Moscow, to Comrade Stalin. Soon the cross-country run turns into a ruthless race. Followed by Nazis, the tanks' team defeats their pursuers and proves the great ability and vast superiority of the machine that is about to become a legendary T-34.

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.

Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.

A Jewish child deported to Kazakhstan is saved and adopted by Kasym, an old Kazakh railway-man. Kasym gives him a Kazakh name, Sabyr, that in Kazakh language means humble. The child grows up in the small Kazakh village along with other deportees Vera, a traitor's wife, and Ezhik a Polish doctor. The Soviet militia harasses the poor peasants and Vera suffered the harassment of a bully cop: Bulgabi. Finally Vera accepts the marriage proposal of Ezhik but the jealous Bulgabi tries to prevent the marriage. The result is a fight in which Ezhik shoots himself accidentally. The old Kasym decides that Sabyr is now old enough to go to seek his real parents. At the end Sabyr, now an adult, decides to return to the village, but the village no longer exists because it was destroyed by a Soviet nuclear test.

Um homem (Richard Roxburgh) que o governo australiano culpa pelas desgraças políticas dos anos 1990, culpa sua mãe (Judy Davis), uma comunista que Stalin seduziu em 1951.

Through unique and candid interviews the film tells the compelling and tragic stories of the six women – last survivors of the Gulag, the brutal system of repression and terror that devastated the Soviet population during the regime of Stalin.

Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.

Based on investigations by independent journalists, the film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private wealth and subsequent rise to power, demonstrating his ascension to the Russian presidency after an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad’s KGB, and mafia groups.

The building of blast furnaces Magnitogorsk and the Kubas Basin by Komsomol, the Communist Union of youth, as part of Stalin’s first five-year plan.

In former Yugoslavia, following Tito's break-up with Stalin, the rocky island of Goli Otok was the camp site for political prisoners. From that officially non-existant yet dreaded place a young man escapes and seeks refuge on a nearby island. The nuns from the local convent find him unconscious and decide to give him shelter. A relentless secret policeman comes to the island and starts making life miserable for its inhabitants, hoping to find his prey...

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.

Stalin’s statue in the garden of a nunnery provokes discussion – plenty of it – in a small Georgian village. Some of the locals used to know Stalin personally because he visited the village several times when he was young, and they continue to see him as a benign ruler from the good old days rather than the brutal dictator he was. Whenever an episode of purge shook the Soviet Union’s republics, they hid the statue in the woods. The church also plays an important role in people’s lives. All in all, the film reveals a fundamental conflict in Georgian society.

Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals the lead-up to the offensive, its impact on the war and the brinksmanship that resulted from the battle for Moscow. Rare footage from both German and Russian archives and detailed maps illustrate the conflict, while award-winning historian and author John Erickson provides insight into the pivotal maneuvers on the eastern front.