Im März 1953 steht die Sowjetunion vor einem alles verändernden Ereignis, da Josef Stalin nach einem Schlaganfall im Sterben liegt. Sobald Stalins Tod eingetreten ist, wird seine Position als Generalsekretär der KPdSU frei und noch während der Diktator mit dem Tod ringt, bringen sich hinter den Kulissen seine Gefolgsleute in Stellung, darunter Nikita Chruschtschow, der Sekretär des Zentralkomitees der KPdSU, Geheimdienstchef Lawrenti Beria, Stalins Stellvertreter Georgi Malenkow und Außenminister Wjatscheslaw Molotow. Schnell versinkt das Regime und die gesamte Sowjetunion in einem unüberschaubaren Chaos, weil sich die Politiker um die Parteispitze balgen und sich auch noch Stalins Kinder Swetlana und Wassili einmischen …

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compromise on his art with the doctrines of social realism. Persecuted, expelled from his chair at the University, he's eventually erased from the museums' walls. With the help of some of his students, he starts fighting against the Party and becomes the symbol of an artistic resistance against intellectual tyranny.

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

Berlin im Mai 1945: Noch haben die Deutschen nicht offiziell kapituliert, aber das Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs steht unmittelbar bevor, als bekannt wird, dass Hitler Selbstmord begangen hat. Ein alles andere als disziplinierter Trupp sowjetischer Soldaten unter Leitung der Geheimdienst-Offizierin Brana Vasilyeva (Charlotte Vega) hat die Leiche an sich genommen. Ihr Auftrag ist es, diese über Polen nach Moskau zu schaffen, damit Stalin sie zu Propagandazwecken nutzen kann. Aus Sicherheitsgründen, und um so wenig wie möglich aufzufallen, lässt sie den Sarg jede Nacht im Wald vergraben. Dennoch hat eine erstaunlich schlagkräftige Gruppe von im Untergrund weiterkämpfender Nazi-Partisanen Wind von der Mission bekommen. Immer wieder werden die Soldaten von ihnen aus dem Hinterhalt angegriffen und mehr und mehr dezimiert. Die polnische Zivilbevölkerung ist ihnen keine Hilfe, da diese die Rote Armee ebenso verabscheut wie die Deutschen. ...

A prototype of a new cutting edge tank is being taken on a secret mission to Moscow, to Comrade Stalin. Soon the cross-country run turns into a ruthless race. Followed by Nazis, the tanks' team defeats their pursuers and proves the great ability and vast superiority of the machine that is about to become a legendary T-34.

An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many years.

Convinced that his subtenant is a spy and an enemy of the state, Ilija Čvorović falls into deep paranoia which leads to absurd and destructive chain of events.

The lives of many people in one Serbian town are changed after Tito's breakup with Stalin.

A man (Richard Roxburgh) the Australian government blames for 1990s political woes blames his mother (Judy Davis), a communist Stalin seduced in 1951.

Vor 35 Jahren sollte Max Richard für die Nazis Stalin, Churchill und Roosevelt ermorden. Im heutigen Paris hält er sich bei der jungen Françoise versteckt. Max' Veröffentlichung seiner Memoiren ruft das Terroristen auf den Plan.

Idealistic young man supports the party and the new Yugoslavia's communist regime, but soon gets involved in various political and criminal machinations becoming more and more confused about what's right and what's wrong.

Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.

In former Yugoslavia, following Tito's break-up with Stalin, the rocky island of Goli Otok was the camp site for political prisoners. From that officially non-existant yet dreaded place a young man escapes and seeks refuge on a nearby island. The nuns from the local convent find him unconscious and decide to give him shelter. A relentless secret policeman comes to the island and starts making life miserable for its inhabitants, hoping to find his prey...

Sie begegneten einander nie und blieben doch dauernd aufeinander fixiert: Hitler und Stalin. Die Todfeindschaft ihrer Systeme riss alles Bestehende aus den Fugen. Sie stiegen auf zu Führern von Diktaturen, die an blutiger Gewalt alles übertrafen, was menschlicher Wille zur Macht bis dahin an Grausamkeit hervorgebracht hatte.

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.

In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, with antisemitic overtones. His lackeys, including Khrushchev, Molotov and Beria, fear it will spread to the Politburo, and plan to strike first.

Der Hitler-Stalin-Pakt vom 23. August 1939 war die unsägliche Folge eines kollektiven Versagens. Der Dokumentarfilm zeichnet die komplexen historischen Entwicklungen und politischen Verflechtungen nach, die letztlich die Besetzung Polens durch Hitler und somit den Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs herbeiführten.

This program is an overview of the life and career of Joseph Stalin. It concentrates on describing and attempting to explain the origins of the policy of “terror” instigated by Stalin as leader of the USSR. There are interviews with surviving family members and experts all of whom attempt some sort of personality “analysis” of the dictator to explain his behaviour and policies. Another question that is examined is, given his record of “terror”, why was he so popular? Why did so many Russians mourn his death in 1953? This could be an overview and introduction to a study of both Stalin and USSR in the post revolution period.

A dance troupe from the autonomous region of Abkhazia in western Georgia perform for Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria, Abkhaz leader Nestor Lakoba, and other high-ranking party officials in the Black Sea coastal town of Gagra.