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Showing 1 - 10 of 71 titles with a criteria of Subject is Russia and the former Soviet Union
Afghanistan 1979: The War That Changed the World
The Soviet troops' intervention in Afghanistan was a pivotal event in the history of the 20th century. It launched Bin Laden and Al Qaeda.
Icarus Films | 2014 | 52 minutes
All Different, All Equal
Examines progress in women's rights globally.
Bullfrog Films | 2000 | 24 minutes
Amateur Photographer
The story of a German soldier and the photographs that he took, while serving on the Eastern Front during WWII.
Icarus Films | 2004 | 26 minutes
Art and Oligarchs
Newly-minted Russian art collectors have many reasons for investing in fine art, some more sleazy than others.
Icarus Films | 2010 | 52 minutes
Artists & Love: Gabriele Münter and Vassily Kandinsky
Münter and Kandinsky's idyll is the story of a romance between two artists linked to the avant-garde of modern German painting.
Icarus Films | 2020 | 26 minutes
Before Flying Back to the Earth
Building on the long earned trust of the children towards the camera, the filmmaker skilfully applies a simple but highly effective narrative and thus manages to create an extraordinary film that avoids sentimentality but stays deeply moving.
First Hand Films | 2005 | 52 minutes
Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan
The first film about the Kyrgyz tradition of bride kidnapping takes viewers inside families, to talk with kidnapped brides who have managed to escape as well as those who are making homes with their new husbands.
Icarus Films | 2004 | 51 minutes
Close Relations (Rodnye)
Russian citizen and Soviet-born Ukrainian native Vitaly Mansky crisscrosses Ukraine to explore country’s society after the Maidan revolution.
Icarus Films | 2016 | 114 minutes
The Coal Miner's Day
Every day hundreds of men risk life and limb going down into the Buzhanska mine in the Ukraine to mine coal with rusty old tools from the Soviet era.
Icarus Films | 2014 | 80 minutes
The Democratic Revolutionary Handbook
A how-to manual to the democratic (but definitely not spontaneous) revolutions in Serbia, Georgia, and the Ukraine in 2000, 2003, and 2004.
Icarus Films | 2007 | 52 minutes