KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Chasing the Moon

July 2025 •English

An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the moonshot, revealing a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama.

Space Race

July 2025 •English

The untold true story behind the Cold War race to put man into space.

Хроники видика: легенды эпохи VHS

July 2025 •Russian

Gulag, the Story

July 2025 •French

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

July 2025 •English

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

Крушение СССР

July 2025 •Russian

Apocalypse: Stalin

July 2025 •French

The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.

Iron Curtain: Life Under Soviet Occupation

July 2025 •French

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II? The story of how, from 1945 until the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, these countries were gradually subjected to the totalitarian Soviet yoke.

InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet

July 2025 •Russian

Dashing authors, the first porn sites and the last bastards. How the Russian Internet appeared and how it changed: from complete freedom to the appearance of censorship and the law on isolation.

Stalin

July 2025 •English

Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving witnesses.

The Silent War

July 2025 •English

The story of the underwater war between US, UK and Soviet submarines in the second half of the 20th century.

Kekkonen

July 2025 •Finnish

The whole story of Urho Kekkonen, the most important statesman during Finland's independence.

Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

July 2025 •English

Betray your country, save the world. Spies and traitors play a dangerous game in the 1980s as the Cold War brings two superpowers to the brink of nuclear war.

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

July 2025 •English

With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

July 2025 •English

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age, first broadcast in 1989, is a thirteen-part PBS series on the origins and evolution of nuclear competition between the United States and the former Soviet Union. The series examined the rivalry for power and how it shaped the diplomacy, negotiation, ethical debates, and doctrine of deterrence that ran through the forty-year history of the nuclear age. This collection contains the full interviews and selected stock footage from the series.

Europe in Putin's Hands?

July 2025 •French

328 / 5 000 The Kremlin's strategy consists of infiltrating places of power throughout Europe and securing the services of more or less lucid personalities, more or less aware of what is going on.

Erittäin salainen - Vakoilua Suomessa

July 2025 •Finnish

L'Armée rouge

July 2025 •French

Chernobyl - The New Evidence

July 2025 •English

On April 26, 1986 Reactor 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, releasing clouds of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere. With access to hundreds of declassified KGB documents, Chernobyl: The New Evidence reveals the serious concerns of the KGB, the sacrifices the Soviet leadership were willing to make to keep the story quiet and the bravery that saved the world from an even more deadly disaster.

War of the Century

July 2025 •English

The War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin, is a BBC documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 and the no-holds-barred war on both sides. It not only examines the war but also the terror inside the Soviet Union at the time due to the paranoia of Joseph Stalin - the revenge atrocities, the Great Purge of army officers, the near-lunacy orders, and the paranoia of being upstaged by others, especially Marshal Zhukov. The historical adviser is Ian Kershaw.