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1. The Death of Stalin (2017)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 114,020 | Gross: $8.05M
2. By Dawn's Early Light (1990 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A non-NATO nuclear missile is fired from Turkey at USSR, where it detonates. Soviet response is automatic as it's seen as a NATO missile. Can continued escalation be avoided? We follow the US president and a bomber crew.
Director: Jack Sholder | Stars: Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, Martin Landau
Votes: 4,111
3. Stalin (1992 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 172 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 2,797
4. Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Directors: Werner Herzog, André Singer | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, André Singer, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 2,748 | Gross: $0.25M
5. Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
R | 93 min | Comedy
A British satire on the beginning of WWIII.
Director: Tom Bussmann | Stars: Stuart Saunders, Graeme Garden, Marc Smith, Loretta Swit
Votes: 1,022
6. Cold War (1998– )
47 min | Documentary, History
A 24-part series which deals with the relations between the United States, the Soviet Union and their respective allies between the end of World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Anatoli Dobrynin, Robert McNamara, Vladimir Yerofeyev
Votes: 1,041
7. Vasiliy Stalin (2013)
53 min | Biography, Drama, History
This is the story about the son of one of the greatest tyrants of the Twentieth Century- Joseph Stalin's flesh and blood, Vasily.
Stars: Gela Meskhi, Vasiliy Prokopev, Anatoliy Dzivaev, Sergey Gazarov
Votes: 139
8. Red Monarch (1983 TV Movie)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
About Stalin's inner circle who he starts seeing as untrustworthy.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Colin Blakely, David Suchet, Carroll Baker, Ian Hogg
Votes: 331
9. Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
157 min | Documentary, History, War
The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand
Votes: 1,125
10. World War Two: Behind Closed Doors (2008– )
300 min | Documentary, History, War
A story showing the 3 allied leader's, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin's actions and relationships behind the scenes during World War 2. It isn't as friendly as it seems. Shows how close ... See full summary »
Stars: Aleksey Petrenko, Bob Gunton, Paul Humpoletz, Samuel West
Votes: 543
11. JFK: A President Betrayed (2013)
90 min | Documentary, Drama, History
Narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, "JFK: A President Betrayed" uncovers new evidence that reveals how JFK embarked on secret back channel peace efforts with Nikita Khrushchev ... See full summary »
Director: Cory Taylor | Stars: Alex Akalovsky, Günter Bischof, Andrea Cousins, Candis Cousins
Votes: 273
12. Brezhnev (2005– )
208 min | Drama
The Film depicts last month of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev as the head of USSR and also how he became the man he was.
Stars: Sergey Vorobyov, Natalya Orlova, Boris Sokolov, Valeriy Ivchenko
Votes: 260
13. Three Songs About Lenin (1934)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Dolores Ibárruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 889
14. Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020 TV Movie)
97 min | Documentary, History
The Soviet Union commanded the killing of 22 000 Polish prisoners in 1940. 4500 of them were killed in the Katyn forest, in Russia. This sheds light on the paranoid and cruel Soviet top ranks that made it happen.
Director: Cédric Tourbe | Stars: Lavrenti Beria, Wassili Michailowitsch Blochin, Winston Churchill, Józef Czapski
Votes: 116
15. Premier Khrushchev in the USA (1959)
60 min | Documentary
Footage of Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev in the USA during his 1960 visit. Which includes meeting Frank Sinatra on the set of his film Can-Can.
Stars: June Allyson, Fred Astaire, Jack Benny, Maurice Chevalier
Votes: 38
16. Soviets (1991– )
Documentary
A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.
Votes: 25
17. Ya sluzhil v okhrane Stalina, ili Opyt dokumentalnoy mifologii (1989)
90 min | Documentary
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... See full summary »
Director: Semyon Aranovich | Stars: Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Fyodor Fedorovsky, Alexey Rybin
Votes: 62
18. Czechoslovakia 1918-1968 (1969)
13 min | Documentary, Short, History
Short documentary about 50 years of history of Czechoslovakia, with archive images.
Directors: Robert M. Fresco, Denis Sanders | Stars: Leonid Brezhnev, Neville Chamberlain, Alexander Dubcek, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 235
19. Strana Sovetov. Zabytye vozhdi (2017–2019)
Documentary, History
This is a project that tells about the key figures in the leadership of the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1953.
Stars: Lyubov Germanova, Ilya Isaev, Sergey Chonishvili, Zurab Miminoshvili
Votes: 16
20. Stalin: Man of Steel (2003 TV Movie)
Documentary
Directors: Peter Adler, Alexander Berkel, Stefan Brauburger, Oliver Halmburger, Ralf Piechowiak | Stars: Edward Herrmann, David Brandenberger, Jonathan Brent, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 7
21. The Red Button (2011)
Not Rated | 52 min | Documentary
Tells the dramatic story of Stanislav Petrov, the Russian officer who, in 1983, saved the world from atomic war.
Directors: Miroslaw Grubek, Ewa Pieta | Star: Stanislav Petrov
22. Le pacte Hitler-Staline (2019 TV Movie)
102 min | Documentary, History
Chronicle of the diplomatic fiasco that lead to the pact between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR
Director: Cédric Tourbe | Stars: Louis Barthou, Józef Beck, Eduard Benes, Georges Bonnet
Votes: 50
23. Vlasik (2015– )
Biography
The 14-episodes TV series tells the story of Nikolai Vlasik (May 22, 1896 - June 18, 1967), a Soviet security official and General, best known as a head of Joseph Stalin's personal security.
Stars: Konstantin Milovanov, Levan Mskhiladze, Olga Pogodina, Marina Vasileva
Votes: 65
24. Parad Pobedy (1945)
19 min | Documentary, Short
Color documentary film about the victory parade held on June 24, 1945, in Moscow, Red Square.
Director: Nikolay Solovyev | Stars: Lavrenti Beria, Semyon Budyonny, Mikhail Kalinin, Leonid Khmara
Votes: 29
25. Krymskaya konferentsiya (1945)
46 min | Documentary
Directors: Sergey Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin | Stars: Aleksei Antonov, Alan Brooke, Alexander Cadogan, Sarah Churchill
Votes: 7
26. Hitler & Stalin - Portrait of Hostility (2009 TV Movie)
89 min | Documentary
Ullrich Kasten draws parallels between the trajectories of the two 20th century dictators, who never met each other but had in common their anti-Semitism and a form of paranoia. The ... See full summary »
Director: Ullrich Kasten | Stars: Frank Arnold, Winston Churchill, Joseph Goebbels, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Votes: 58
27. Khrushchev Does America (2013)
59 min | Documentary, History
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.
Director: Tim Toidze | Stars: Geoffrey Bateman, Tim Toidze, J. Edgar Hoover, Nikita Khrushchev
Votes: 145
28. Berlinskaya konferentsiya (1945)
21 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Sergey Gerasimov, Ilya Kopalin | Stars: Leonid Khmara, Aleksei Antonov, Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin
Votes: 12
29. Stalins Tod - Das Ende einer Ära (2013 TV Movie)
43 min | Documentary, History
March 5, 1953. Stalin is dead. One day later, he is lying in state in an open coffin as more than 1.5 million mourners make their way through the streets of Moscow to pay their last respects.
Directors: Jürgen Ast, Martin Hübner | Stars: Joseph Stalin, Sergei Khrushchev, Igor Prelin, Oleg Chlevniuk
30. Saunaliittolaiset Kekkonen ja Hrushtshov (2010 TV Movie)
47 min | Documentary
Director: Arvo Tuominen | Stars: Ville Haapasalo, Sergey Shnurov, Aleksander Rupasov, Juhani Suomi
Votes: 9
31. The Scientist, the Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People (2018)
55 min | Documentary
Director: Gulya Mirzoeva | Stars: Hester Wilcox, Vladimir Lenin, Trofim Lysenko, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 27
32. Molotov: The Man Behind the Cocktail (2010 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary
Director: Ullrich Kasten | Star: Vyacheslav Molotov
Votes: 18
33. Svoboda po russki (2006)
260 min | Documentary
Documentary covering 100 years of Russian history.
Directors: Irina Bessasrabova, Aleksandr Guryanov, Slava Padalka, Andrey Smirnov | Stars: Yuriy Shevchuk, Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, Aleksandr Yakovlev
34. Monster: A Portrait of Stalin in Blood (1992)
270 min | Documentary
Stalin was born Joseph Dzhugashvili in the Georgian town of Gori in 1879. He was an early activist in the Bolshevik movement, where he first assumed the pseudonym Stalin (which means "man of steel").
Stars: Carl Hixon, Leonid Raikhman, Kamil Artuzov, Tamaa Kosiolevskaya
Votes: 17
35. Nikita Khrushchev. Golos iz Proshlogo (2011– )
208 min | Documentary
In the autumn of 1964, as a result of a government coup, Nikita Khrushchev, from the almighty master of the largest country in the world, suddenly turned into a pensioner forgotten by ... See full summary »
Star: Sergey Chonishvili
37. Amkhanag Stalinis mogzauroba aprikashi (1991)
80 min | Comedy
This mock documentary mixes actual private footage of Stalin with reconstructed dramatic sequences with doubles.
Director: Irakli Kvirikadze | Stars: Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Janri Lolashvili, Zura Kipshidze, Soso Lagidze
Votes: 22
38. Statsminister Nikita Khrustsjov kommer til Norge (1964 TV Special)
40 min | News
Prime minister from the Soviet Union, Nikita Chroesjtsjov, comes to visit in Norway.
Stars: Nikita Sergejevitsj Chroesjtsjov, Nikita Khrushchev, Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva, Einar Gerhardsen
39. Khrushchev's American Journey (1960)
33 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Nikita Khrushchev, Maurice Chevalier, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Andrei Gromyko
40. Nikita Chruschtschow - Versuch eines Porträts (1959 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary
Stars: Nikita Khrushchev, Gerd Ruge
41.
Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode:
Cold War: Brezhnev's Kremlin
(2001)
TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary, History, War
Before Leonid Brezhnev signed nuclear arms reduction agreements with the West, he led the Soviets into one conflict after another - from Soviet involvement in Vietnam and its role in ... See full summary »
Stars: Charlton Heston, Vladimir Semichastny, Andrei Gratchev, James Schlesinger
Votes: 19
42.
Docs interdits (2011– )
Episode:
Les derniers jours de l'U.R.S.S.
(2011)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History
From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic results of his perestroika, and Yeltsin, ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Charles Deniau | Stars: Guennadi Bourboulis, Noam Chomsky, Stéphane Cohen, Roland Dumas
Votes: 32
43.
Portraits of Power (1957–1958)
Episode:
Khrushchev
(1958)
30 min | Family
Director: Huw Wheldon | Stars: Robert McKenzie, Nikita Khrushchev, Marshall MacDuffie, Cyril Osborne