Movies and TvShows featuring "gulag" theme.

During World War II, Janusz, a young Polish officer, is imprisoned in a Siberian gulag. Along with a group of fellow prisoners, they plan an audacious escape and embark on a perilous journey across thousands of miles to reach India.

In the Siberian prison camp, Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia, rules with an iron fist. She engages in sexual violence, torture, and sadism, showing no mercy to her prisoners. The film explores themes of nihilism, suffering, and sexual perversion.

In the 23rd century, the crew of the USS Enterprise-A, led by Admiral James T. Kirk, embark on a dangerous mission to prevent a coup and establish peace through a peace contract with an alien race. Along the way, they face political assassinations, frame-ups, and sabotage, all while navigating the complex world of intergalactic diplomacy.

When the Muppets embark on a world tour, they find themselves unknowingly involved in an international crime scheme led by an evil Kermit the Frog look-alike. Chaos and hilarity ensue as they try to clear their names and save the day.

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

In Burnt by the Sun 2: Exodus (2010), a soldier must navigate a fantasy world dominated by war and communist crimes. He forms unlikely alliances, faces unimaginable horrors, and searches for salvation and redemption in a world consumed by chaos.

As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me follows the incredible journey of a German soldier who escapes a Siberian labor camp and embarks on an epic trek to return home. Facing numerous obstacles and dangers along the way, he must rely on his resourcefulness and determination to survive.

A Catholic priest from Ukraine and an anthropologist from Siberia work together to bring about world peace amidst political tensions.

In the harsh Siberian winter of 1945, a group of prisoners in a Soviet labor camp must endure hard labor, brutal conditions, and a fierce rivalry. When a German woman is brought to the camp, tensions rise as the Russian and German women clash. Amidst the struggle for survival, a daring escape plan is hatched, leading to a thrilling train race through the snow-covered landscape.

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, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.

The author of The Kolyma Stories and many other works spent 17 years in the terrible GULAG camps on Kolyma. The term that Varlam Tikhonovich received in 1929 was for distributing Lenin's letter to the congress, in which he criticized Stalin. Nowadays, this letter is called the "testament of Lenin"…

In 1946, a Bulgarian family moves to the Soviet Union, where their loyalty and relationships are tested. They face brutal interrogations, exile to the Gulag, and the harsh realities of life under the Soviet government. Amidst this turmoil, they navigate love affairs, family dynamics, and the desire to return home.

Beyond Utopia is a gripping documentary that follows the journey of several families as they try to escape the oppressive regime of North Korea. It provides a rare and eye-opening glimpse into a world that is unknown to most of us.

Within the Whirlwind is a biographical drama film based on the true story of Eugenia Ginzburg, a literature professor and Communist Party member who was arrested and incarcerated in Siberia during the Stalinist era. The film depicts her struggle for survival in the harsh conditions of the gulag and her eventual release.

A story of survival about a woman's first night in a Soviet prison camp. After committing a crime to protect her son, Anastasia is sentenced to 12 years in a Soviet prison camp. Her arrival upsets the balance between the inmates. In a night of backstabbing and shifting alliances, she must find a way to escape and discover the hidden truth of her survival.

In the cold summer of 1953, a former soldier turned ex-convict gets caught up in a dangerous world of violence, revenge, and political intrigue in Moscow, Russia. As he navigates through the ruthless gangster underworld and the oppressive Soviet regime, he must confront his own past and make a fateful decision that will change his life forever.

Khrustalyov, My Car! tells the story of a high-ranking doctor caught in the web of Stalinist paranoia and chaos. As he navigates through absurd situations, he tries to protect his family and his sanity.

The third of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and its aftermath, the Cold War. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.