With political activism off-limits, residents of St. Petersburg are finding purpose and community in the “politics of small ...

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Mr Nobody Against Putin”, a documentary that won a BAFTA and is up for an Oscar on March 15th, is ostensibly a study in propaganda and patriotism. Its real power, however, comes from its approach to a ...

As the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion approached, AP’s Ukraine team set out to capture how lives have been permanently altered. Rather than ...

Directors David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin on smuggling footage out of Russia, protecting the people left behind and the ...

This year's Oscar-nominated documentaries include a tale of terminal cancer, dispatches from behind bars in Alabama, and ...

The History Channel has announced a massive new documentary series titled World War II with Tom Hanks. Spanning 20 episodes and launching globally in 200 territories and 40 languages, the series ...

Artificial intelligence’s dystopian specter has spawned a pair of documentaries dissecting a technology that’s depicted as ravenous parasite devouring humanity’s knowledge, creativity and empathy.

Historian John Stow claimed that Henry VIII had around 70,000 people executed (although this is believed to be an exaggerated number), but it was near the thousands, including the execution of 67-year ...

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa will be the Special Guest at the 57th edition of documentary film festival Visions du Réel.

Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin is a dramatic and forensic examination of events that took place in August 2000, after an explosion onboard the Kursk submarine trapped a group of survivors at the ...

The museum had preserved the history of brutality inflicted by the Soviet Union on its people. It will now focus on Nazi war crimes. By Neil MacFarquhar The Gulag History Museum in Moscow, the last ...