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Revolution That Wasn’t, The (2010)

aka: Revolutsioon, Mida Polnud

Director

Aliona Polunina

Subject

History; Politics & government

In Russia 2007, the opposition to Putin’s regime is gathering forces for the next presidential elections. The film follows a father and his son in the National Bolshevik Party: a dream of crime and...

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Pride and Propaganda: Lgbt Rights in Russia Today (2014)

Subject

Law; Social Studies

On the eve of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, a panel discusses the ongoing threats to LGBT rights in Russia, from the recent ‘homosexual propaganda’ law to the banning of gay pride parades. [94 minutes]

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Good Heart Attack, The (2010)

Director

Uli Hesse; Sean Davidson

Subject

Medical sciences

This short film threads together the history of cardiac arrest treatment with the paradoxical discovery that stopping the heart can make it stronger. Shows how the resurrection of dead dogs in Russia in the...

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Russia’s Open Book: Writing in the Age of Putin (2014)

Director

Paul Mitchell

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 60 minutes), $19.99

This documentary, narrated by Stephen Fry, tells the story of America and Europe’s love of Russian literature and introduces audiences to a new generation of Russian writers. With readings by host Stephen...

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Terror in Moscow (2003)

Subject

Geography; Politics & government

Documentary about the siege in a Moscow theatre in October 2002 when Chechen rebels held the terrified audience hostage for 57 hours. It all ended in controversial circumstances when Putin ordered in his...

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Black Ice (2014)

Subject

Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 53 minutes), £39.00

This film documents the non-violent attempts by Greenpeace activists to stop the Russians drilling for oil in the Arctic. As the sheet ice melts around the northernmost region of the world, oil companies see...

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Vladimir Nabokov - BBC Radio Interviews (2003)

Subject

Literature

Distribution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/ Online

Extracts from a BBC radio interview with Vladimir Nabakov originally broadcast on Radio 4’s REVIEW on 4/10/1969. Vladimir Nabokov talks to James Mossman about: his view of other writers and the difference...

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Collectivisation of Soviet Agriculture, The (1995)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 46 minutes), £60.00

The film uses the substantial documentary film studies on the collectivisation in parts of European Russia by Ilya Kopalin between 1929 and 1931, including the first experimental sound documentary on the...

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Images of the Soviet Union at War 1941-1945 (1990)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 55 minutes), £60.00

Explores the role played by the British newsreels in creating and reflecting the growth of pro-Russian feeling in Britain during the second world war. When the Soviet Union was attacked by the Germans in...

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Germany’s Sense of Itself and the World’s Sense of Germany (2015)

Subject

History; Politics & government

A video podcast from the London Review of Books. Franziska Augstein, Süddeutsche Zeitung; Norbert Röttgen, Chairman of the Bundestag Committee on Foreign Affairs; Neal Ascherson, the Observer’s Central...

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