History of Russia — Comprehensive

Shows a canonical screen version of resistance to Teutonic knights in the thirteenth century.

Introduces the Time of Troubles and legitimacy crises preceding Romanov rule.

Recreates court intrigue and Russo-Swedish warfare during the early eighteenth century.

Examines imperial power, elite relations and the reign of Catherine II.

Uses Napoleon’s invasion to explore war, society and elite life in imperial Russia.

Portrays class, morality, gender and family in late imperial society.

Covers the Romanov monarchy amid the crises leading to revolution.

Offers a dramatized account of late Romanov collapse and 1917.

Provides an outsider-journalist perspective on the Russian Revolution.

Illustrates revolutionary upheaval through personal choices and dislocation.

Shows the Soviet social order through the confined life of a former aristocrat.

Highlights investigations into the 1932–33 famine in Soviet Ukraine and suppression of information.

Uses an escape from a Soviet labor camp to open discussion of forced labor and coercion.

Offers an accessible but stylized account of Stalingrad’s wartime experience.

Shows Soviet popular memory of intelligence work at the end of World War II.

Exposes the violence and absurdity of elite succession politics through political satire.

Places Soviet power alongside the international confrontation with the United States.

Illustrates a late Soviet crisis of secrecy, institutions and technical risk.