KGB - The Sword and the Shield

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

December 2025 •English

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

InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet

December 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.

Space Race

December 2025 •English

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

Europe in Putin's Hands?

December 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.

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

December 2025 •English

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

Erittäin salainen - Vakoilua Suomessa

December 2025 •Finnish

Gulag, the Story

December 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.

Крушение СССР

December 2025 •Russian

Secrets & Spies: A Nuclear Game

December 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.

The Silent War

December 2025 •English

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

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

December 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.

Apocalypse: Stalin

December 2025 •French

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

Kekkonen

December 2025 •Finnish

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

Canada vs USSR 1972

December 2025 •English

It is a moment unlike any other in time. From coast to coast, Canada is united by the game we call our own. The outcome of this historic "Summit Series" is decided in the final minute of the final game. After playing the Soviets in the Forum, Maple Leaf Gardens, Winnipeg and Vancouver, Team Canada leaves for Moscow with only one victory on home ice. Behind the Iron Curtain, they lose the first of the remaining four at the Luzhniki Ice Palace. What follows, is the most dramatic hockey series ever played.

World War II: Battlefield Europe

December 2025 •English

Designed in partnership with HISTORY and using a distinctly European perspective, this series offers a fresh lens through which to study the European Theater’s major battles, larger-than-life personalities, twists of fate, and tales of intrigue. You’ll uncover the strategic decisions behind Operation Barbarossa, D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, the invasion of Italy, the fall of Berlin, and more.

Russia's War: Blood Upon the Snow

December 2025 •English

An account of the Eastern Front, epic in scale and savagery, as Soviets experienced it and Stalin commanded it.

Chernobyl - The New Evidence

December 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

December 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.

Spaceflight

December 2025 •English

This 4-part documentary miniseries covers the history of manned and unmanned space-flight, from the late 1800s through the mid-1980s.

Chasing the Moon

December 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.