Mikhail Gorbachev
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1931-03-02
Place of Birth:Privolnoe, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
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Also Known As:Михаил Горбачев, Mikhail Gorbachyov, Michail Sergejewitsch Gorbatschow, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, Mikhaïl Gorbatchov, Michail Gorbačov , Michail S. Gorbatschow

In the Grip of Gazprom (2023)
The war in the Ukraine has changed the way many European countries view Russian politics. Suddenly it became clear how dependent countries had become...

Mikhaïl Gorbatchev, l'homme qui a changé le monde (2003)

Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! (2021)
Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single...

Here to Stay (2009)
Urban sprawl, extinct species, depletion of natural resources and global warming are all causes of deep anxiety. Here to stay takes an uncompromising...

Laissez-faire (2015)
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so profoundly influences the choices of our...

Mr. Landsbergis (2021)
This film about the Baltic nation of Lithuania from 1989 to 1991, when it broke away from the Soviet Union. This period of peaceful protests...

Der springende Punkt (1987)
Archive footage of bomb detonations during the Second World War combined with abstract graphic elements which show the destructive potential of...

Those Who Dare (2015)
When Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in 1985, his reform policy sparked an independence movement in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. But as cries for...

A Bitter Taste of Freedom (2011)
In her quest to uncover the wrongdoings of the Russian authorities, Anna Politkovskaya inspired awe in some and fear in countless others. At age 48...

The Art of Dissent (2021)
"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The...

30 Years of Democracy (2019)
Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the last 30 years since the fall of communism. The...

Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 2 (1996)
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the map of Eastern Europe and parts of Asia in the...

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (2022)
Thirty-six years after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine, newly uncovered archival footage and recorded interviews with those...

Freedom's Fury (2006)
A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were...

The Long Breakup (2020)
Ukrainian journalist Katya Soldak, currently living in New York City and working for Forbes magazine, chronicles Ukraine's history: its strong ties...

Die Sekretäre (1999)
The film talks about the rise and fall of the two most influential protagonists in GDR-politics. In succession, over long stretches even together,...

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard (2017)
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Abyss (1989)
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself...

When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World (1999)
A detailed reconstruction of the events from Nov. 9th to 11th, 1989, which led to the Berlin wall tumbling down, on a local, national and...

Gorbacheva (2024)
Raisa Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher. Their names have been in the same row for a long time. This film is a bold...

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Hammer & Tickle (2007)
Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book is a 2006 propaganda documentary film about "jokes" under the Soviet Union.

Stasi, un État contre son peuple (2021)
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six...

Zero Days (2016)
Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently...

Day of Revelation (1989)
About the leaders and the nature of the activities of informal groups in Moscow: “Democratic Union” and “People’s...

The Secret KGB JFK Assassination Files (1999)
On Nov. 22, 1963 the world was shocked by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The mystery surrounding this history-changing event has led to many...

Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitarily remaining angel Cassiel is more...

Disaster at Chernobyl (2004)
The explosion at Chernobyl was ten times worse than the Hiroshima bomb and was due to a combination of human error and imperfect technology. An...

Desert Storm: The War Begins (1991)
An historic presentation by CNN documenting the lead up to and the beginning of the war in Iraq.

The Battle of Chernobyl (2007)
On April 26, 1986, a 1,000 feet high flame rises into the sky of the Ukraine. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant just exploded....

Free to Rock (2017)
Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it...

The Russian Woodpecker (2015)
As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether...

But... Seriously (1994)
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.

Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired (2017)
This is the story of a tiny country that made a decision to do something that no other country had ever done -- it decided to abolish its army and...

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
The three-hour-long documentary covers 25 years in the life of Nicolae Ceaușescu and was made using 1,000 hours of original footage from the...

Reagan (1998)
In 1988, after two terms in office, Ronald Reagan left the White House one of the most popular presidents of the twentieth century -- and one of the...

Lusia in Wonderland (2018)
How Lyusia Stein - a graduate of VGIK and a municipal deputy of Moscow - went to work for Ksenia Sobchak's campaign headquarters.

Putin's Witnesses (2018)
Russian Federation, December 31, 1999. After President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin becomes acting president...

Disco and Atomic War (2009)
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers...

Meeting Gorbachev (2019)
Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements. Topics include the...

Tiananmen: The People Versus the Party (2019)
The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonstrations were violently and bloodily repressed....

The Man Who Defied Beijing (2019)
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (1989), a dissident, a woodpecker who tirelessly...

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture....

The Arrow of Time (2017)
President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

41 (2012)
An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.

Solidarność: How Solidarity Changed Europe (2019)
Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union...

Frenemies: Putin and Trump (2020)
Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in...

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre (2020)
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over...

The Collapse of The Soviet Union (2006)
The film is using episodes filmed mainly at the Kremlin, Soviet Union's headquarters which enable to have a glance to world's most well-known...

Ceausescu: Behind the Myth (1991)
Veteran journalist and author Edward Behr spent a year investigating the rise and fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. Executed on Christmas Day 1989,...

Doot Doola Doot Doo ... Doot Doo! (2006)
After years of requests, Nardwuar the Human Serviette has finally entered the digital age with a compilation of over 60 of his favourite video...

He Came to Give Us Freedom (2011)
Biographical documentary about Mikhail Gorbachev and the way he did not waste his inner freedom before becoming General Secretary of the Communist...

Gorbachev. Heaven (2021)
An immersion into the intimacy of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR. The architect of perestroika and glasnost, who was praised in the...

My Favorite War (2020)
Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the...

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
Legendary and controversial attorney Roy Cohn was a power broker in the rough and tumble world of New York City business and politics. Senator Joseph...

The Way I See It (2020)
Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret clearance and total access to the President.

Era Of Dance (2017)
The film tells a story about the latest musical revolution in recent history – the early days of the rave scene and the golden age of techno...

Our Africa (2018)
1960. The USSR starts humanitarian aid programs based on Marxist ideology in several newly independent African countries. For more than 35 years the...

The Last Days of the USSR (2011)
From 1989 to 1991 a string of unpredictable events happened that brought to light the rivalry between two men: Gorbachev, hindered by the economic...

Sakharov. Two Lives (2021)
Avenue, university and even an asteroid bear his name. Academician Sakharov is known all over the world: someone as the creator of the hydrogen bomb,...

Chernobyl: The Last Battle of the USSR (2021)
Three decades after the nuclear explosion, almost everything has been said about this ecological and sanitary disaster that made Pripiat a part of...

Children of the 20th Congress (1988)
In the film, the authors act as researchers of the Thaw era and the generation of the sixties.

The Soviet Story (2008)
“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an...

Palme (2012)
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of...

Faith of the Century: A History of Communism (1999)
Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women...

Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2012)
Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.

The Second Russian Revolution (1991)
The acclaimed documentary series from 1991 that examined political in-fighting in the Soviet Union and the battle for perestroika.

Zero Hour (2004)
Zero Hour dramatizes the hour leading up to some of the most memorable historical events as they unfold minute by minute. Using a real-time clock and...

Comrade: The Making, Glory and Unmaking of a Dictator (2023)
In-depth documentary mini-series presenting the rise, rule and fall of communist Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and the way he shaped both...

Days That Shook the World (2003)
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17 September 2003. The programme features various...

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War (2024)
With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.

Beckmann (1999)
Reinhold Beckmann hosts a weekly talk show.

History 101 (2020)
Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.

Traitors (2024)
A documentary series that explores who brought Vladimir Putin to power, and why. It meticulously reconstructs the sequence of events that have led us...

First Ladies (2020)
Blending in-depth interviews, rare archival footage, and cinematic recreations, this docuseries on the lives of America's most iconic First Ladies is...

Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? (2024)
No easy answers? Decision-makers from Kissinger to Rice revisit how the US responded to conflicts from Rwanda to Iraq. Faced with human suffering -...