The Temple in Salina will take a look back in time for one night this week as it shows a 1920s-era silent film Friday. Released just two years after construction was completed on the historic Masonic ...

Gar O'Rourke's doc will premiere at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen: "I pretty much fell in love with the place after a week of mud baths, and hydro massages, electro massages, and salt pool therapies." By ...

“Podnieks on Podnieks” is the story of a phenomenally influential Latvian documentarian who is remembered by relatively few today – but whose work was once seen by over 40 million people in the former ...

This episode examines whether the Soviet Union fits the political definition of an empire. It analyzes the USSR as a multiethnic, centralized state exercising authority over diverse nationalities. The ...

This documentary traces the collapse of stability in Tajikistan as the Soviet Union unraveled. Long-standing regional patronage networks fractured under economic strain and political reform. Poverty ...

On 22 June 1941, the German Wehrmacht launched a war of aggression against the Soviet Union. Under the code name ‘Operation Barbarossa’, the campaign aimed to bring the vast country in the east to its ...

For this retrospective, we made a selection of feature films by Georgian director Levan Tutberidze, and documentaries representing works by ...

Russian opposition media outlet Meduza has released a documentary about the first Soviet sexologist, sociologist, psychologist, and doctor of philosophical sciences Igor Kon on Meduza’s YouTube ...

It’s rare that we look to Soviet-era cinema to find positive queer representation, but surprisingly enough, one overlooked silent masterpiece is being reassessed for just this reason. Subscribe to our ...