Garreth Jones ha 28 anni e lo sguardo pieno di curiosità. Una curiosità che poco prima gli ha permesso di sedersi a intervistare Adolf Hitler, un capo-partito tedesco con grandi mire espansionistiche. Ora, convinto che la politica di Hitler potrebbe portare a un conflitto mondiale, la sua attenzione viene catturata dall’altro lato della medaglia. Stalin sta portando avanti il suo piano quinquennale vantando la produzione di sofisticate armi d’assalto e uno sviluppo industriale mai avvenuto prima nella storia dell’uomo. Ma qualcosa non quadra. Jones è ossessionato da un unico pensiero: com’è possibile che Joseph Stalin stia riuscendo a compiere i miracoli di cui si vanta? Da dove vengono i fondi? L’unico modo per scoprirlo è andare a osservare di persona e, perché no, chiederlo proprio a Stalin. Jones parte per Mosca, ma la situazione storica, politica e sociale che si troverà ad affrontare potrebbe essere più preoccupante di quanto sembri.
Ambientato tra le due guerre mondiali e basato su veri eventi storici, Bitter Harvest trasmette la storia non raccontata dell'Holodomor, la carestia genocida progettata dal tiranno Joseph Stalin. Il film mostra una potente storia d'amore, onore, ribellione e sopravvivenza in un periodo in cui l'Ucraina era costretta ad adattarsi alle orribili ambizioni territoriali della fiorente Unione Sovietica.
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.