Central Studio Of Documentary Films Movies

An overview of the history of Moscow from the October Revolution to postwar reconstruction.

An overview of the 75-year history of the Moscow Art Theatre containing unique historical footage, including rare excerpts from various stage...

Propaganda film about Soviet Latvia.Events in Latvia in 1940: the release of political prisoners, demonstrations in the streets of Riga, the Latvian...

Following an introduction by Bing Crosby, the Cinerama screen widens for scenes of landscapes, cities, peoples, and entertainments of the Soviet...

Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign...

A 1943 Soviet war propaganda film by Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko and Yuliya Solntseva. It is Dovzhenko's second World War II documentary,...

The director's reflections on the modern politics of the Reagan administration.

About prostitution in late USSR. Who are they? Why are they doing it? Are they ashamed? What do foreigners feel and want from it?

The Bolshoi Ballet performs the Russian fairy tale of a Queen Maiden (Maya Plisetskaya), a stableboy (Vladimir Vasiliev) and a lucky horse (Alla...

A documentary portrait of Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, revisiting his flight and public life ten years later through training footage,...

The life story of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, hero of the First World War and commander of the Red Army during World War II, as told by actor Mikhail...

Story of psychological pressure which former Soviet Afghan soldiers have to deal with in peaceful life. Through the story of Ruslan we are shown how...

About the work of the Soviet film director S. F. Bondarchuk.

Acclaimed American pianist Van Cliburn comes back to Moscow for another sold-out concert.

Documentary almanac directed by the great cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman about the life of the Soviet capital.

A man is facing a trial for murdering a Latvian union leader, which more likely than not will end with a death sentence. A close-up look at his...

A documentary about the making of Andrei Tarkovsky's ANDREI RUBLEV, and Andrei Konchalovsky's THE STORY OF ASYA KLYACHINA.

Alfred Schnittke, renowned Russian composer of German descent, talks about his life and music.

A Soviet documentary chronicling the final assault on Nazi Germany’s capital. More than forty frontline cameramen from the 1st Belorussian and...

An extraordinary document from one of the Cold War's bitterest conflicts - between the Soviet Union and Communist China - this film spares no quarter...