A young Russian girl whose father is sent to Siberia and whose sister is killed by the chief of police, escapes to England where she becomes a member of the Russian Imperial Ballet. When she returns home with the ballet troupe, she lashes the chief of police with a cossack whip and escapes with the ballet master to the United States

Set in the Imperial Court of eighteenth century Russia, this movie is a dashing and romantic adventure in which Rudolph Valentino gives what many consider to be his finest screen performance. Here is a role tailor-made for the legendary Valentino.

Ever since their brutal murders one hundred years ago, Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Empress Alexandra, have fascinated the world. Through the couple's politically damning, sexually intimate, and personally revealing letters, this two-part docudrama, presented by historian Dr. Suzannah Lipscomb, explores Nicholas and Alexandra's complex love story and the couple's role in the lead-up to the Russian Revolution of 1917, which led to their eventual brutal and tragic executions.

A titanic, awe-inspiring adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's classic tome in which the fates of three souls: the blundering, good-hearted Pierre; the heroically tragic Prince Andrei; and the radiant, tempestuous Natasha, collide amid the tumult of the Napoleonic Wars. Employing a cast of thousands and an array of innovative camera techniques, the director conjures a sweeping vision of grand balls that glitter with rococo beauty and breathtaking battles that overwhelm with their expressionistic power.

Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. Appearing here in the director's preferred 185-min cut as well as the version that was originally suppressed by Soviet authorities, the masterwork Andrei Rublev is an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance.

• [Disc 1]. Andrei Rublev
• [Disc 2]. The passion according to Andrei
• [Disc 3]. Supplements.

Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, Andrei Tarkovsky's second feature conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. The film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes, gradually emerging as a man struggling to preserve his creative and religious integrity.

"The story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. Horrifying and hilarious, this satirical portrait of Russian meddling in the 2016 election reveals a fake news empire and the tactics of information warfare"--container.

A documentary comprised entirely of footage from dashboard cameras from Russian cars.

Aging actress Irina visits the country estate where her brother Sorin and her son Konstantin reside. She brings her lover Boris, a successful novelist. The estate teems with desire, jealousy and angst. The estate manager's daughter Masha is in love with Konstantin, who is in love with the sweet neighbor Nina, who is in love with Boris. Boris casually uses and discards Nina while Irina continuously treats Konstantin with similar disdain. Emotions run high and things come to a head against the beautiful and idyllic backdrop of the countryside.

"This courageous, urgent documentary provides a rare investigative chronicle of Vladimir Putin's ruthless human censorship machine, as evident in the case of Oleg Sentsov--the Ukrainian filmmaker, AutoMaidan activists, and Crimea native sentenced to 20 years imprisonment after an infamous show trial."--Container

Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film about the ties between sex and death.

A thrilling, award-winning investigation into whether the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown was an inside job.

Triggered by the suicide of a worker unjustly accused of theft, a strike is called by the laborers of a Moscow factory. The managers, owner, and Czarist government dispatch infiltrators in an attempt to break the workers' unity. Unsuccessful, they hire the police and, in the film's most harrowing and powerful sequences, the unarmed strikers are slaughtered in a brutal confrontation.

"A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country."--Container.

An engineer living in Moscow dreams of the Queen of Mars and builds a spaceship to take him to her.

"The story of an innocent young Jewish woman from a Polish shtetl who is constrained by anti-Semitic restrictions to lead a double life in a brothel while attempting to study medicine in Tsarist Russia. The film includes precious footage of the former Jewish quarter of Warsaw and the people who once lived there."--Edited from container.

Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.

Kolya lives in a small fishing town near the stunning Barents Sea in Northern Russia. He owns an auto-repair shop that stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son Roma. The town's corrupt mayor is determined to take away his business, his house, and his land.

"Like North America before the turn of the 1900s, South America was a land of opportunity-- a magnet of immigration from Europe and Asia. Many of these immigrants were directly related to Germans from Russia in the United States and Canada. They were a mixture of Black Sea Germans, Volga Germans, Volhynian Germans, Bessarabian Germans, and Mennonites. This documentary examines the history, language, music, religion, foodways, and culture of this ethnic group and chronicles how these traditions are flourishing across generations."--Container.

• Special features: Photo gallery
• Campaign of hate trailer
• Breaking Glass trailers.

As most of the world moves forward toward gay equality, Russia is seemingly heading backward. In 2013, the Russian parliament passed a ban on so-called 'gay propaganda' that effectively makes nearly any public discussion of gay equality a crime. Violent attacks against Russian gays or suspected gays are more and more common. Videos of young LGBT people being taunted and tortured have been widely distributed on the internet.