Leon Trotsky
Also Known As: Léon Trotski
Biography: Lev Davidovich Bronstein, better known as Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary, politician, journalist and political theorist. He was a central figure in the establishment of Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union. Ideologically a Marxist, Trotsky's writings and thought inspired a major school of the ideology known as Trotskyism. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leon Trotsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ianovka, Ukraine
Birthday: November 07, 1879
Deathday: August 21, 1940
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Gender: Male
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The Guns of August
Overview: Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-24
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To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Overview: Documentary compiled from archives and accompanied by a poet's commentary, shows the sweep of modern Italian history from 1911 to 1961, centering on the conditions leading to Fascism and the post-WWII reaction to the Fascist experience.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-25
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Human Remains
Overview: Human Remains is a haunting documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five of the 20th century's most reviled dictators. The film unveils the personal lives of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Francisco Franco and Mao Tse Tung. We learn the private and mundane details of their everyday lives -- their favorite foods, films, habits and sexual preferences. There is no mention of their public lives or of their place in history. The intentional omission of the horrors for which these men were responsible hovers over the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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Soviet Union: The Rise and Fall - Part 1
Overview: 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 20th century. Following the turmoil of the Bolshevik Revolution, Communist Russia faces the venom of Nazi aggression. 1940's film footage reveals the harsh reality of total war, as the Red Army and Soviet civilians alike confront a brutal and tenacious enemy. The following decades are darkened by tensions between the USSR and foreign powers, and violent measures taken to silence voices of dissent. Finally, the Soviet people's yearning for a freer society leads to accelerating reforms and the ultimate dissolution of the USSR.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-20
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Tsar to Lenin
Overview: A documentary film account of the Russian Revolution, based on archival footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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Anniversary of the Revolution
Overview: A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1918-11-07
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The History of the Civil War
Overview: The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1921-06-01
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Stalin: Man of Steel
Overview: Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Murnau, Borzage and Fox
Overview: Documentary focusing on the film careers F.W. Murnau, Frank Borzage and William Fox and their impact on the history of cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-09
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The Brain of Soviet Russia
Overview: This film shows us leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1919-04-30
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Gentlemen in Storm and Gentlemen in Crown
Overview: “A retrospect of European events during the past forty years, composed from early documentary material, and including one of the earliest extant specimens of news-reel film dating from 1897.” - The [London] Film Society, 1936.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1934-12-12
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The Return of Vertov
Overview: The film deals with intellectual activities which are usually hidden from the human eye. It concerns doing research in film archives, searching for missing films and bringing them back to life. It is a documentary about the work of Dziga Vertov, a prominent soviet director, and the restoration of the director’s original concept of the films Anniversary of the Revolution (1918), The History of the Civil War (1921), Man with a Movie Camera (1929).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-04-19
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Kino-Pravda No. 14
Overview: Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Profintern.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1923-01-29
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The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo
Overview: Never before has the extraordinary life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo been framed in relation to the full spectrum of the historical and cultural influences that shaped her. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FRIDA KAHLO explores the 20th century icon who became an international sensation in the worlds of modern art and radical politics.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-22
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Halfway to Hell
Overview: Documentary of war atrocities with newsreel footage of concentration camps.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-21
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Stalin - Trotsky: A Battle to Death
Overview: For 20 years, theirs was an ideological duel between two visions of Communism; a political duel, a duel for power, and above all, a duel to the death. By having Trotsky exiled and finally assassinated, Stalin gained sole control of Russia and became the unassailable dictator of the country.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-08
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Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
Overview: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-06-10
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Trotsky y México. Dos revoluciones del siglo XX
Overview: "Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolutionary asylum by President Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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The Chosen
Overview: Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
Overview: 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 three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-02-18
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The Village Detective: A Song Cycle
Overview: Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —containing four reels of The Village Detective (Деревенский детектив), a 1969 Soviet film—, caught in the nets of an Icelandic trawler, is the first step in a fascinating journey through the artistic life of film and stage actor Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (1899-1981), icon and star of an entire era of Russian cinema.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-04-27
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1917 - Jahr der Entscheidung
Overview: Four documentary scenes with subtitles document the year 1917 as the beginning of a new era. In addition to the military situation and the supply situation in Germany, the intervention of the USA and the events in Russia are shown in particular.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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