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Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1943.
Language
English
Description
Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War. Winner of Best Documentary at the **Academy Awards.** Selected for the National Film Registry by the **National Film Preservation Board.**
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It's a country of contradictions, where love and sex clash with customs and patriarchy. Where traditional values and large families are glorified but 40% of children grow up without a father and domestic abuse isn't a crime. Welcome to Putin's Russia.
Publisher
Icarus Films
Language
Russian
Formats
Description
A fascinating look at Putin in the earliest days of his presidency, when the seeds of his authoritarianism were already being sown. It also raises difficult questions about the role of Mansky himself. As a filmmaker who witnessed and in some cases shaped these events, is he in some way complicit?
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
The life of the ruthless Mongol conqueror of the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Traces his military successes from northern China through Russia and Eastern Europe. His conquests created one of the largest empires the world has ever known.
8) Wounded Land
Publisher
MulticomTV
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
During the Fall of 2021, Ukraine was slowly emerging from a global pandemic. Around this time, a film crew began shooting a documentary focused on the country's wine-making regions. Then, in 2022, things took a sharp turn when Russia escalated a war against Ukraine. This film tells the stories of hard-working people who, against all odds, remain engaged in continuing in business.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The fall of 2021 marked the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof. Narrated by Jeff Goldblum, FIDDLER'S JOURNEY TO THE BIG SCREEN captures the humor and drama of director Norman Jewison's quest to recreate the lost world of Jewish life in Tsarist Russia and re-envision the beloved stage hit as a wide-screen epic. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim puts us in the director's chair and in Jewison's heart and mind, drawing on behind-the-scenes footage...
10) Episode 5
Publisher
DogWoof
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
12 ADULT/CHILD: The famous movie genres - war pictures, westerns, etc - are about adults, but in this chapter Jane Fonda narrates the story of 18 films about children in film, from Germany, Belgium, Mongolia, Sweden, Russia, Canada, Senegal, Argentina and Scotland. 13 ECONOMY: We've all seen overblown films, but what are the visual and story lessons we can learn from Claire Denis, Maria Louisa Memberg, Kinuyo Tanaka, Agnes Varda, Valeska Grisbach...
11) Episode 14
Publisher
DogWoof
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
38 DEATH: The biggest subject in life, the most universal subject -no wonder that Japan's Kinuyo Tanaka, Canada's Caroline Leaf, Spain's Ana Mariscal, Holland's Paula Van der Oest and other great filmmakers in this chapter embrace it. 39 ENDINGS: We begin to end our epic road movie withfilms from Sonja Heiss, Larisa Shepitko, Ida Lupino, Lizzie Borden, Claire Denis and Maya Deren. 40 SONG AND DANCE: End with a song, they say, so our story does. Huang...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A bold and exciting documentary that encapsulates a momentous period in the history of Russia and the Russian Avant-Garde. Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich--pioneers...
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
This captivating exploration of Alvar Aalto, the defining figure in Scandic design and one of Europe's greatest modern architects, focuses on his remarkable and loving partnership with wife, Aino. Theirs was a profoundly humanist vision that put people at the centre of design, and ranged from work in furniture design through to huge architectural projects. They mixed with, and influenced, major figures of modernist art and design including Le Corbusier,...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Although the war in Ukraine continues to dominate all the headlines, many have forgotten that a war had already been raging in Donbas for the past eight years. UKRAINE: THE ROAD TO WAR traces that geopolitical history of the Ukrainian conflict from 2014 onward, uncovering its roots in history. Mingling geopolitical and intimate narratives, this documentary brings to new light the origins of this war at Europe's gates. With access to top officials...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
1991. Glasnost. Perestroika. The Soviet Union opens its doors to the West. A troupe of young American actors from La Mama Theater in NY travels to Kyiv to participate in the first US/Ukrainian cultural exchange theater project in Soviet history. The play they are to perform is based on the life of Kurbas, a revolutionary Ukrainian theatre director, murdered in one of Stalin's purges. As rehearsals progress, Gorbachev is kidnapped, a military coup...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of twelve essential documents. Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly-from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma-nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism...
17) GPS
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
GPS mapping is standard equipment in many new cars and geolocation services are embedded in smart phones. GPS makes Uber and Lyft possible; driverless cars won't be able to drive without it. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Paul Ceruzzi offers a concise history of GPS, explaining how a once-obscure space technology became an invisible piece of our infrastructure, as essential to modern life as electric power or clean water....
Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
Description
An in-depth investigation into the working process of Konstantin Stanislavski, who managed to maintain his inner freedom and true artistry within the harsh boundaries of the Soviet system, all thanks to the power of his prodigious talent. The best and brightest of Russian and British theatre, from Kirill Serebrennikov to Yury Butusov to Marina Brusnikina, Declan Donnellan, Katie Mitchell and Lev Dodin express their inexhaustible admiration for Stanislavski...
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