1933. Gareth Jones és un periodista jove i ambiciós que ha adquirit certa fama per haver entrevistat Adolf Hitler. Gràcies a les seves connexions amb Lloyd George, l'antic primer ministre britànic, aconsegueix obtenir un visat per viatjar a la Unió Soviètica. Jones vol entrevistar-se amb Stalin i esbrinar més coses sobre l'expansió econòmica de la Unió Soviètica i el seu aparentment exitós pla de desenvolupament quinquennal. Malgrat que el seu visat no li permet sortir de Moscou obté permís oficial per visitar Ucraïna, però a mig camí burla la seva vigilància, salta del tren i s'endinsa a la Ucraïna que Stalin no vol que el món vegi, la dels pobles buits i la gent que mor a causa de la fam extrema.
A Ucraïna el 1930 Stalin avança mentre Yuri, un jove artista de família de guerrers cosacs, tracta de salvar a la seva amant Natalka.
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.
The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the Katrannyk family of six. It relies more on images than on words shot in black-and-white.
The cartoon's main character is a girl living in the times of the Famine and personally experiencing all the terrors of this major crime against humanity.
A documentary about the history of Ukrainian Cossacks in the Kuban.
In an age when disinformation muddles the truth, a newly discovered voice cuts through the historical haze. She is Rhea Clyman, a young Canadian reporter who traversed the starving Soviet heartland when Stalin’s man made famine was just beginning in Ukraine. Clyman’s newly discovered newspaper articles for Toronto and London newspapers in 1932 show her remarkable resourcefulness and courage. After she was banished from the USSR for writing about the Holodomor and the Gulag, this brave woman went on to cover Hitler’s early lethal years in power.
Via the New York Times: "...a frankly biased, angry recollection of the great, "man-made" famine of 1932-1933 in which up to seven million people starved to death in the Ukraine. It is the film's thesis that Stalin was directly responsible by his ruthless expropriation of virtually all of the grain harvested in the Ukraine over a two-year period."
Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodomor, and one Welshman's attempts to tell the world what was happening.