A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely punitive Soviet concentration camp system, remains largely unknown.
Enthusiasm is a documentary film that showcases the enthusiasm and industrialization taking place in the Soviet Union in 1930. It focuses on the Komsomol youth organization and their efforts in the steel factory, highlighting the achievements of the 5-year plan and the progress of socialism. The film also explores the coal mining industry in Donbas, Ukraine, and the impact of planned economy on the working class.
Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.
The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to solve the country's nutritional problem, but only one succeeded.
Set in the Soviet Union in the 70's. The plot is based on real industrial conflicts in the life of the country's largest metallurgical plant, where there are many acute problems. Modernization of Soviet metallurgical industry causes a clash between old style Communist bosses and the new generation of engineers and managers.
A series of documentaries exploring life in the Soviet Union during the glasnost era of the late 1980s.
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