Babi Yar. Context (2021)
Nazi troops massacre 33,771 Jews in Kyiv over a two-day period in September 1941.
Donbass (2018)
In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs.
The Invasion (2024)
Life in Ukraine under the shadow of war.
The Kiev Trial (2022)
A forensic reconstruction of the trial of 15 people which took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators.
Maidan (2014)
A documentary about the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014.
Revue (2008)
Based on archive propaganda newsreels produced in the USSR in the 1950s and 60s.
State Funeral (2019)
Documentary based on footage from March 5 - 9, 1953, when the USSR mourned and buried Joseph Stalin.
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