Soviet Union Movies

The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.

In 1955, Albert Maysles traveled by motorcycle throughout Russia. During this trip, he shot what was to become his first film, 'Psychiatry in...

Albert Maysles' visual diary of the faces and places encountered along a cross country motorscooter ride through the Soviet Union in the late 1950s.

A short animated telling of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania, a place of pilgrimage consisting of a formidable accumulation of crosses that was often...

Filmmaker Binevsa Bêrîvan travels to Armenia to capture the daily life, customs, and history of the country's Yazidi Kurdish community.

Leon Trotsky is considered one of the most controversial revolutionary figures of his time. Was he a practical revolutionary or a naive idealist? On...

Historical drama depicting the events leading up to the 1917 October Revolution produced to celebrate the 40th anniversary.

Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working on it.

A cleaning employee discovers that he's the only survivor of a catastrophe in the Soviet Union in the near future.

Documentary telling the inside story of Communist hardliners' failed attempts to seize power from Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, which resulted...

In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry...

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented by many tv reportages of removals of monumental...

A documentary about forbidden Estonian rock bands in the Soviet Union.