Any good documentaries?

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Originally Posted by Eryk

I too would be interested in a good English language documentary.

Funny, but I still remember were I was (parking lot of the Rouge axle plant, hearing it on my car radio), when news broke of the coup in 1991. One of those moments in politics/history.

I can remember in the early 90's Barqes root beer commercials Giving away soviet items like uniforms and flags and what not if you bought X amount of Barqes root beer.

[CtahhR]

Here's a bit of a list of Documentaries I have on the subject of Communism (Soviet or otherwise) or life/war in (Former) Communist nations.

B.B.C. Produced,

Twentieth Century Battlefields Episode 3 "1942 Stalingrad" 2007
A Year In Tibet 5 Episode Series (Based in Gyantse PRC) 2008
Art Of Russia Episode 2 "Roads To Revolution" (The art of Soviet Russia the 2 other episodes of the series are also VERY interesting) 2009
Horizon Episode "Stalin Inside The Terror" 2003
Horse People With Alexander Tolstoy Episode 1 "Mongolia" 2009 (Yes that Tolstoy family)
Joe Building - The Stalin Memorial Lecture 2006 (Jonathan Meades documents the legacy of Stalin's architecture)
Matt Freis's Berlin 3 Episodes 2009
Michael Palin's New Europe 7 Episodes 2007 (Travel through Post-Soviet Eastern Europe)
My Dad Was A Communist 2005 (Communism in Britain)
Nuclear Secrets 5 Episodes 2007 (A series of case studies of espionage during the cold war etc.)
Our World "Inside Cuba" 2010
People's Century Episodes 03, 11, 12, 20, 23 and 25 (The communism focused episodes of the series on the events of the 20th century a very good series in all)
Pole To Pole Episode 1 1992 (The Soviet Union litterally collaspes around Michael Palin as he travels through from Finland to Turkey)
Russia A Journey With Jonathan Dimbleby 5 Episodes 2008 (Life in the 21st Century in what once was the Soviet Union)
Space Race 4 Episodes 2005
Storyville "How The Beatles Rocked The Kremlin" 2008
The Great War Episode 18 "Fat Rodzianko Has Sent Me Some Nonsense" 1964 (Documenting the collapse of the Russian Empire and Rise of the Soviets a truly fantastic 26 episode series with vast amounts of original footage)
The King Of Communism 2001 (About everyone's favourite Romanian Dictator)
The Lost World Of Communism 3 Episodes 2009 (A retrospective of Life in DDR, Czechoslokia and Romania)
This World "Escaping North Korea" 2009 (A MUST SEE)
This World "Stalin's Return" 2010 (How Stalin is now being portrayed in the Russian Federation)
Timewatch "Baiting The Bear" 1996 (M.A.D.)
Timewatch "Battle For Warsaw" 2006 (Warsaw Uprising and Allied/Axis responce)
Timewatch "Stalin And The Betrayal Of Leningrad" 2002 (A must see)
Timewatch "Who Killed Stalin" 2005 (The last few days of Stalin's life)
War Of The Century 4 Episodes 1999 (The GPW)
World War II Behind Close Doors Stalin The Nazis And The West 6 Episodes 2008

Non-B.B.C. documentaries to come.

[deValcourt]

This is a bit early since it's in the planning stages, but the SVR has been backing a lot of "pro-spy" propaganda "documentaries" or histories.

This is the Google translated link, so don't expect the English to be much in the way of legibility. If you want the original Russian, its at www.svr.gov.ru (one of my new favorite sites because it is so uncanny to see a website like this).

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