Vladimir Lenin
Also Known As: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Lenin, Vladimir I. Ulyanov, Ле́нин, Vladímir Ilich Uliánov, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, V.I. Lenin, Lénine, Владимир Ильич Ульянов, Владимир Ульянов, Владимир Ленин, Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin
Biography: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism. Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in the RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Following Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime. Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations had secured independence from the Russian Empire after 1917, but three were re-united into the new Soviet Union in 1922. His health failing, Lenin died in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vladimir Lenin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Simbirsk
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Birthday: April 21, 1870
Age: 155 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 21, 1924
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Karl Marx und seine Erben
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2018-04-28
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Our Cinema
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1940-07-01
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Laissez-faire
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Release Date: 2015-01-30
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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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When the Century Took Shape (War and Revolution)
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Release Date: 1978-07-10
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The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
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Genres: Documentary History
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Release Date: 1927-03-11
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Human Remains
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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Aurora's Sunrise
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Genres: Animation Documentary History
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 2023-04-21
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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
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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The Soviet Union: A New Look
Overview: This film discusses conditions in the Soviet Union, including party activity and influence, the shortage of consumer goods, the roles of children and women, the status of religion, and the purpose of Soviet realist art.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-24
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Cinema in Russia
Overview: Documentary film about early years of Russian cinema: its first directors, cameramen, producers and actors. Includes rare fragments of pre-revolutionary feature films, newsreels and Starewicz's animation.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1979-08-27
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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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1917 - Jahr der Entscheidung
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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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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The Fight For Peace
Overview: A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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A Nation Denied: Ukraine's Battle for History
Overview: A critical and objective look back at Ukraine's tumultuous and tragic history, from its mythical founding in the 10th century to the Russian invasion in 2022.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2024-02-20
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The Brain of Soviet Russia
Overview: This film shows the leaders of organizations that emerged after the Russian Revolution. It is the fragment of ‘Anniversary of the Revolution’ made by Vertov in 1918.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1919-04-30
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The Guns of August
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-24
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-04-08
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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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Beginning
Overview: Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.
Genres: War Documentary History
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1967-02-01
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The Return of Vertov
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2024-04-19
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Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-12-12
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The Secret Masonic Victory of World War II
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-01-01
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The Russian Revolution
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-15
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Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1925-01-21
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Three Songs About Lenin
Overview: This documentary, made up of 3 episodes, is based on three songs sung by anonymous people in Soviet Russia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1934-11-06
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Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-06-10
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The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Overview: Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event puts an end to the long dynasty that had ruled the country with an iron hand since the coronation of Michael I Romanov in 1613.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2013-09-01
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Rasputin: Murder in the Tsar's Court
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2016-12-10
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Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-10
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The Corporation
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-10
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The Chosen
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Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2016-09-02
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Lenin: Sosyalizmin Kızıl Şafağı
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: tr
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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La Rabbia
Overview: Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their "salvation", and suggesting that their "innocent ferocity" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-13
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Life and Fate by Vassili Grossman
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-24
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Reagan
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-07
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JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
Overview: The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, all the way to 9/11 and the current age of the terrorist. Taken from an historical perspective starting around World War 1 leading to present day.
Genres: Crime Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-19
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Naqoyqatsi
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-02
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The Society of the Spectacle
Overview: Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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A Grin Without a Cat
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-23
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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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USSR (1917-1991)
Overview: Experimental short film that explores the rise and decline of the Soviet Union, from the revolutionary spark of 1917 to the challenges and sacrifices endured during World War II, until its dissolution in 1991.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2024-10-15
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The Man Mayakovsky
Overview: A satire on Soviet propaganda based on Mayakovsky's poems.
Genres: Animation Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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Caudillo
Overview: Caudillo is a documentary film by Spanish film director Basilio Martín Patino. It follows the military and political career of Francisco Franco and the most important moments of the Spanish Civil War. It uses footage from both sides of the war, music from the period and voice-over testimonies of various people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-14
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The Soviet Story
Overview: “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 industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the complete story of Europe’s most murderous regime has never been told. Until now...
Genres: Documentary War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-09
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