Moskaus Imperium: Alter Traum von Macht und Stärke

Chasing the Moon

September 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.

Stalin

September 2025 •English

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

InterNYET: A History Of The Russian Internet

September 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.

Iron Curtain: Life Under Soviet Occupation

September 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.

Хроники видика: легенды эпохи VHS

September 2025 •Russian

История русского танка

September 2025 •Russian

Apocalypse: Stalin

September 2025 •French

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

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

September 2025 •English

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

The Last Czars

September 2025 •English

When social upheaval sweeps Russia in the early 20th century, Czar Nicholas II resists change, sparking a revolution and ending a dynasty.

Space Race

September 2025 •English

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

The Silent War

September 2025 •English

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

Gulag, the Story

September 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

September 2025 •Russian

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War

September 2025 •English

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

Russia's History Revealed

September 2025 •English

Explores history through the stories of three major Russian cities: St Petersburg, Volgograd – the former Stalingrad, and Moscow.

War and Peace in the Nuclear Age

September 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.

L'Armée rouge

September 2025 •French

War of the Century

September 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

September 2025 •English

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

A History of Antisemitism

September 2025 •French

A detailed account of the two millennia of intolerance and persecution suffered by the Jews, from antiquity to the present day.