Movies: Leon Trotsky
- 2016
The Chosen (2016)
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Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political riv...
- 2020
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)
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The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the se...
- 2021
The Village Detective: A Song Cycle (2021)
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Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step ...
- 1962
To Arms, We Are Fascists! (1962)
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Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience....
- 1918
Anniversary of the Revolution (1918)
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A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph....
- 1921
The History of the Civil War (1921)
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The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death....
- 2003
Stalin: Man of Steel (2003)
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Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsr...
- 1937
Tsar to Lenin (1937)
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A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage....
- 2018
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution (2018)
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in...
- 1998
Human Remains (1998)
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Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, ...
- 2008
Murnau, Borzage and Fox (2008)
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Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema....
- 1964
The Guns of August (1964)
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Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty....
- 1923
Kino-Pravda No. 14 (1923)
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Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Profintern....
- 1919
The Brain of Soviet Russia (1919)
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This film shows us leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution....
- 2006
Trotsky y México. Dos revoluciones del siglo XX (2006)
Trotsky y México. Dos revoluciones del siglo XX6.52006HD
"Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolutionary asylum by President Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico....
- 1953
Halfway to Hell (1953)
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Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps....
- 2005
The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo (2005)
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Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the full spectrum of the historical and cultural influences that shaped her. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRIDA KAHLO explores the 20th century icon who became...
- 1996
Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1 (1996)
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Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the 20th century. Following the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Russia faces the venom of Naz...
- 2024
The Return of Vertov (2024)
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The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life. It is a documentary about the work of Dziga Vertov, a pr...
- 1934
Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown (1934)
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“A retrospect of European events during the past forty years, composed from early documentary material, and including one of the earliest extant specimens of news-reel film dating from 1897.” - The [London] Film Society, 1936....