Putin's Obsession: The Fight For Ukraine

Based on years of research into the mass rapes committed by the Red Army at the end of the Second World War. In the first part of the documentary Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 1945. Most women never spoke of their experience to anyone, after 46 years of silence they ta...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Helke Sander

Cast

Hildegard Knef, Lev Kopelev, Inge Deutschkron

The film tells the stories of three protagonists, which are intertwined in one story about the Master: a rural school pupil who dreams of ballroom dancing – Makar, world champion in ballroom dancing – Alex Ivanets, and his first teacher – Petro Horhol, who lives in a small Ukrainian town of Poltava.

Runtime

1h 2m

The strange case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky — once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia — who rocketed to prosperity and prominence in the 1990s, served a decade in prison, and became an unlikely martyr for the anti-Putin movement.

Runtime

2h 6m

Cast

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Leonid Nevzlin, Boris Berezovsky

A chronicle of the civil uprising against the regime of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych that took place in Kyiv in the winter of 2013/14. The film follows the progress of the revolution: from peaceful rallies, half a million strong in the Maidan square, to the bloody street battles between protesters and riot police.

Runtime

2h 10m

Director

Sergei Loznitsa

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Eugene Jarecki

Cast

Chalmers Johnson, Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft